The first table below looks at the demand for IP Telephony skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IP Telephony 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Bristol 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
IP Telephony
Rank 47 - 48
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 3 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.562% - 0.155%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.348% - 1.639%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £378 £410
% change year-on-year
-27.15% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+9.99% +6.38%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 119 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 12.92% 14.00% 9.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 71 18
Average daily rate £300 £403 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.46% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £461 £476 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 9
Average hourly rate £20.50 £21.25 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -39.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £16.50 £7.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
IP Telephony
South West

IP Telephony
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol IP Telephony Jobs Demand Trend

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol IP Telephony Daily Rate Trend

IP Telephony
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol IP Telephony Hourly Rate Trend

IP Telephony
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony.

1 6 (100.00%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) Nokia
2 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (83.33%) IronPort
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
2 5 (83.33%) FWSM
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 4 (66.67%) HP
3 4 (66.67%) CiscoWorks
3 4 (66.67%) CA
3 4 (66.67%) OSPF
3 4 (66.67%) BGP
3 4 (66.67%) IBM
3 4 (66.67%) Network Management
4 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (50.00%) Blue Coat
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
6 1 (16.67%) Legal
6 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
6 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft

IP Telephony
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) VPN
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (83.33%) Unified Communications
2 5 (83.33%) FWSM
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (66.67%) OSPF
3 4 (66.67%) BGP
4 3 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (16.67%) LAN
5 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Network Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Network Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Assistant
2 1 (16.67%) Help Desk Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Network Management
2 3 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Nokia
1 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
1 5 (83.33%) IronPort
2 4 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) CA
3 3 (50.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft