Birmingham Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Birmingham region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	9
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	37	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.093 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	27.76 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£267
Average daily rate	£294	£300
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£323
% change on same period last year	+9.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.63	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£33.63	£19.43
% change on same period last year	+73.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.63	£20.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.78	£23.61
% change on same period last year	+9.21 %
General Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	259	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.332 %	0.336 %
Daily rates quoted	67	57
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£317
Average daily rate	£381	£344
% change on same period last year	+10.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.09	£24.50
Average hourly rate	£20.07	£25.43
% change on same period last year	-21.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.06	£26.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£26.00
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Telecoms West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Birmingham region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Birmingham region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Birmingham region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 7 (12.96 %) Microsoft 2 6 (11.11 %) SNMP 3 5 (9.259 %) VoIP 3 5 (9.259 %) Java 3 5 (9.259 %) JavaScript 3 5 (9.259 %) Solaris 3 5 (9.259 %) ISDN 3 5 (9.259 %) PSTN 4 4 (7.407 %) ObjectStore 4 4 (7.407 %) OO 4 4 (7.407 %) Perl 4 4 (7.407 %) C 4 4 (7.407 %) C++ 4 4 (7.407 %) HTML 4 4 (7.407 %) MS Office

4 4 (7.407 %) Unix 4 4 (7.407 %) CGI 4 4 (7.407 %) Internet 5 3 (5.556 %) Finance 5 3 (5.556 %) MPLS 5 3 (5.556 %) DSL 5 3 (5.556 %) Active Directory 5 3 (5.556 %) Windows 5 3 (5.556 %) MS Excel 6 2 (3.704 %) Broadband 6 2 (3.704 %) MS Visio 6 2 (3.704 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (3.704 %) LAN 6 2 (3.704 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.704 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (7.407 %) HTML 1 4 (7.407 %) CGI 2 1 (1.852 %) Hibernate 2 1 (1.852 %) .NET 2 1 (1.852 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.852 %) ASP 2 1 (1.852 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.852 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.704 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.852 %) CMS 2 1 (1.852 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (1.852 %) IIS 2 1 (1.852 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 4 (7.407 %) MS Office 2 3 (5.556 %) MS Excel 3 2 (3.704 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 6 (11.11 %) SNMP 2 5 (9.259 %) ISDN 2 5 (9.259 %) PSTN 2 5 (9.259 %) VoIP 3 4 (7.407 %) Internet 4 3 (5.556 %) MPLS 4 3 (5.556 %) DSL 5 2 (3.704 %) WAN 5 2 (3.704 %) LAN 5 2 (3.704 %) Broadband 6 1 (1.852 %) DNS 6 1 (1.852 %) SDH 6 1 (1.852 %) SMTP 6 1 (1.852 %) Ethernet 6 1 (1.852 %) RIP 6 1 (1.852 %) EIGRP 6 1 (1.852 %) Nortel Norstar 6 1 (1.852 %) NGN 6 1 (1.852 %) OSPF 6 1 (1.852 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (7.407 %) ObjectStore 2 2 (3.704 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.852 %) Oracle Reports
General 1 3 (5.556 %) Finance 2 2 (3.704 %) Construction 2 2 (3.704 %) Electronics 2 2 (3.704 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.852 %) Electric 3 1 (1.852 %) Government 3 1 (1.852 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 6 (11.11 %) Consultant 2 4 (7.407 %) Coordinator 2 4 (7.407 %) Software Engineer 2 4 (7.407 %) Analyst 2 4 (7.407 %) Procurement Consultant 3 3 (5.556 %) Project Manager 3 3 (5.556 %) Product Manager 4 2 (3.704 %) Project Coordinator 4 2 (3.704 %) 2nd Line Support 4 2 (3.704 %) Administrator 4 2 (3.704 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (3.704 %) Architect 4 2 (3.704 %) Network Engineer 4 2 (3.704 %) Data Analyst 4 2 (3.704 %) Telecoms Project Manager 5 1 (1.852 %) Microwave Engineer 5 1 (1.852 %) SOA Architect 5 1 (1.852 %) Implementation Engineer 5 1 (1.852 %) Avaya Engineer 5 1 (1.852 %) Data Integrity Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.852 %) Smartcard 1 1 (1.852 %) Italian Language 1 1 (1.852 %) Portuguese Language 1 1 (1.852 %) Spanish Language	Operating Systems 1 5 (9.259 %) Solaris 2 4 (7.407 %) Unix 3 3 (5.556 %) Windows 4 1 (1.852 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (7.407 %) OO 2 1 (1.852 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (1.852 %) SOA 2 1 (1.852 %) Project Management 2 1 (1.852 %) GAP Analysis 2 1 (1.852 %) Risk Management 2 1 (1.852 %) E-Procurement 2 1 (1.852 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (1.852 %) Document Management 2 1 (1.852 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (1.852 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (1.852 %) ITIL 2 1 (1.852 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 5 (9.259 %) Java 1 5 (9.259 %) JavaScript 2 4 (7.407 %) Perl 2 4 (7.407 %) C 2 4 (7.407 %) C++ 3 1 (1.852 %) C#
Qualifications 1 2 (3.704 %) Degree 2 1 (1.852 %) CCNP 2 1 (1.852 %) CCNA 2 1 (1.852 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.852 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.852 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.852 %) Avaya Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.852 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (5.556 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (12.96 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.704 %) Nortel 2 2 (3.704 %) Avaya 2 2 (3.704 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.704 %) Cisco 3 1 (1.852 %) Lotus 3 1 (1.852 %) webMethods 3 1 (1.852 %) Fujitsu 3 1 (1.852 %) Sun 3 1 (1.852 %) HP 3 1 (1.852 %) Compaq 3 1 (1.852 %) Dell