The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our General category for the Brighton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 22 - 22
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 5 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 3.497% - 2.308%
As % of the General category 9.804% - 5.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £358 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £334 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.62% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £23.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
-11.29% -3.12%
All of the General Category
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
51 46 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 35.66% 17.83% 40.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 39
Average daily rate £400 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £300 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £23.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
East Sussex

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Brighton Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Brighton Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 4 (44.44%) Finance
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (22.22%) CCNA
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) MS Project
3 2 (22.22%) MS Office
3 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Clustering
4 1 (11.11%) Backup Exec
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) TDD
4 1 (11.11%) NUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Billing
4 1 (11.11%) Subversion
4 1 (11.11%) Altiris
4 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) WSUS
4 1 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) FitNesse
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 1 (11.11%) soapUI
1 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Project
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) NUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) FitNesse
1 1 (11.11%) Fiddler
1 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
1 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
1 1 (11.11%) StyleCop
1 1 (11.11%) MSTest
1 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Junior
2 2 (22.22%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Sales Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) Open Source
1 1 (11.11%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (11.11%) Social Media
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) TDD
2 1 (11.11%) Use Case
2 1 (11.11%) Release Management
2 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
2 1 (11.11%) BDD
2 1 (11.11%) ATDD
2 1 (11.11%) User Stories
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
2 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNP
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Backup Exec
1 1 (11.11%) WSUS
1 1 (11.11%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) NetApp
2 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Altiris
2 1 (11.11%) ProCurve
2 1 (11.11%) F5