The first table below looks at the demand for xDSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited xDSL over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
xDSL
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing xDSL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £388
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
48 66 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 10.93% 10.63% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 33
Average daily rate £375 £250 £254
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
xDSL
West Midlands

xDSL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing xDSL across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Birmingham xDSL Jobs Demand Trend

xDSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham xDSL Hourly Rate Trend

xDSL
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing xDSL 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 xDSL.

1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) DSLAM
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Cramer
1 1 (100.00%) LLU
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Softswitch

xDSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing xDSL 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 xDSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) ADSL
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
1 1 (100.00%) ISDN
1 1 (100.00%) PSTN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) DSLAM
1 1 (100.00%) DSL
1 1 (100.00%) LLU
1 1 (100.00%) Softswitch
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Provisioning Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) BT
1 1 (100.00%) Cramer