Birmingham VoIP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Stirling Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	37	51
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	5	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	6.849 %	10.75 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£333
Average daily rate	£292	£342
% change on same period last year	-14.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£302	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£346
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£19.33
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£21.83
% change on same period last year	+106.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£24.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.89	£23.53
% change on same period last year	+14.27 %
Communications & Networking Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	73	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.146 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	19	25
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£340
Average daily rate	£298	£395
% change on same period last year	-24.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£344
% change on same period last year	-2.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.15	£22.05
Average hourly rate	£29.96	£23.39
% change on same period last year	+28.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.78	£24.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.65	£26.99
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
VoIP 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VoIP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VoIP 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 VoIP across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VoIP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VoIP.

1 7 (87.50 %) Cisco 2 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 2 (25.00 %) LAN 3 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 3 2 (25.00 %) VLAN 3 2 (25.00 %) CCNA 3 2 (25.00 %) Nortel 4 1 (12.50 %) CCDA 4 1 (12.50 %) Statistics 4 1 (12.50 %) Symposium 4 1 (12.50 %) BT 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 4 1 (12.50 %) IPCC 4 1 (12.50 %) WAN 4 1 (12.50 %) Ethernet

4 1 (12.50 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) CCNP 4 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 4 1 (12.50 %) ISDN 4 1 (12.50 %) Avaya 4 1 (12.50 %) Nokia 4 1 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (12.50 %) MPLS 4 1 (12.50 %) OSPF 4 1 (12.50 %) BGP-4 4 1 (12.50 %) EIGRP 4 1 (12.50 %) MGCP 4 1 (12.50 %) H.323

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VoIP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) LAN 1 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 1 2 (25.00 %) VLAN 2 1 (12.50 %) ISDN 2 1 (12.50 %) IPCC 2 1 (12.50 %) Symposium 2 1 (12.50 %) WAN 2 1 (12.50 %) Ethernet 2 1 (12.50 %) MPLS 2 1 (12.50 %) OSPF 2 1 (12.50 %) BGP-4 2 1 (12.50 %) EIGRP 2 1 (12.50 %) MGCP 2 1 (12.50 %) H.323	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Engineer 1 2 (25.00 %) VoIP Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco IPT Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Deployment Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Support 2 1 (12.50 %) NOC Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Senior Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (25.00 %) CCNA 3 1 (12.50 %) CCDA 3 1 (12.50 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA
Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Cisco 2 2 (25.00 %) Nortel 3 1 (12.50 %) Avaya 3 1 (12.50 %) Nokia 3 1 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (12.50 %) BT