The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms 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 terms in our General category for the Cambridgeshire 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
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 20 43 38
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -5
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 32 19 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 5.850% 2.770% 2.457%
As % of the General category 19.63% 10.98% 9.630%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 6
Average daily rate £310 £350 £219
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.42% +60.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £257 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £465 £303
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £329 £340
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
Average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -1.58%
All of the General Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
163 173 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 29.80% 25.22% 25.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 87 69
Average daily rate £375 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £288 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 19
Average hourly rate £37.00 £37.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £11.60 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £48.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
East of England

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Telecoms Daily Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Telecoms Hourly Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +20 26 £360 +2.85%
Peterborough +4 2 - -
Telecoms
East of England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
2 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.82%) Python
4 7 (12.73%) VPN
4 7 (12.73%) C
4 7 (12.73%) Wireless
5 6 (10.91%) Change Management
5 6 (10.91%) Knowledge Management
5 6 (10.91%) Incident Management
5 6 (10.91%) Degree
5 6 (10.91%) Windows
5 6 (10.91%) Problem Management
6 5 (9.091%) MS Office
6 5 (9.091%) Cisco
6 5 (9.091%) Citrix
7 4 (7.273%) Embedded C
7 4 (7.273%) Mac OS X
7 4 (7.273%) CSS
7 4 (7.273%) Linux
8 3 (5.455%) C++
8 3 (5.455%) Java
8 3 (5.455%) VoIP
8 3 (5.455%) Internet
8 3 (5.455%) Asset Management
8 3 (5.455%) Management Information System
8 3 (5.455%) Finance
9 2 (3.636%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.636%) HSRP
9 2 (3.636%) High Availability
9 2 (3.636%) FWSM

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 4 (7.273%) CSS
2 2 (3.636%) HTML
3 1 (1.818%) .NET
3 1 (1.818%) Web Services
3 1 (1.818%) XML
3 1 (1.818%) WPF
3 1 (1.818%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (1.818%) WinForms
3 1 (1.818%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.636%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.818%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.818%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (9.091%) MS Office
2 2 (3.636%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.818%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) VPN
1 7 (12.73%) Wireless
2 3 (5.455%) VoIP
2 3 (5.455%) Internet
3 2 (3.636%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (3.636%) HSRP
3 2 (3.636%) FWSM
3 2 (3.636%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (3.636%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (3.636%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (3.636%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.636%) Firewall
3 2 (3.636%) IPsec
3 2 (3.636%) VLAN
3 2 (3.636%) OSPF
3 2 (3.636%) Intranet
3 2 (3.636%) BGP
3 2 (3.636%) VRRP
3 2 (3.636%) NetScreen
3 2 (3.636%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.636%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.818%) MSI
1 1 (1.818%) InstallShield
1 1 (1.818%) AdminStudio
1 1 (1.818%) JIRA
General
1 3 (5.455%) Finance
2 2 (3.636%) Manufacturing
2 2 (3.636%) Publishing
2 2 (3.636%) Games
2 2 (3.636%) Banking
2 2 (3.636%) Investment Banking
2 2 (3.636%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Analyst
2 15 (27.27%) Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Support Analyst
4 5 (9.091%) IT Support
4 5 (9.091%) Web Developer
4 5 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (9.091%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (7.273%) Test Engineer
5 4 (7.273%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (7.273%) C Developer
5 4 (7.273%) Consultant
6 3 (5.455%) Graduate
6 3 (5.455%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (5.455%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Embedded C Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
7 2 (3.636%) Desktop Team Leader
7 2 (3.636%) Support Specialist
7 2 (3.636%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.636%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.455%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.636%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (3.636%) iPad
2 2 (3.636%) SaaS
2 2 (3.636%) iPhone
2 2 (3.636%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.818%) ASIC
3 1 (1.818%) Streaming Media
3 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.818%) PKI
3 1 (1.818%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Windows
2 4 (7.273%) Mac OS X
2 4 (7.273%) Linux
3 2 (3.636%) Windows 7
3 2 (3.636%) Android
3 2 (3.636%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (3.636%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.818%) UNIX
4 1 (1.818%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (10.91%) Change Management
1 6 (10.91%) Knowledge Management
1 6 (10.91%) Incident Management
1 6 (10.91%) Problem Management
2 3 (5.455%) Asset Management
3 2 (3.636%) High Availability
3 2 (3.636%) Network Management
3 2 (3.636%) Game Development
3 2 (3.636%) Test Automation
3 2 (3.636%) Regression Testing
3 2 (3.636%) Benchmarking
3 2 (3.636%) E-Commerce
3 2 (3.636%) ERP
4 1 (1.818%) OO
4 1 (1.818%) ITIL
4 1 (1.818%) CRM
4 1 (1.818%) Software Testing
4 1 (1.818%) TDD
4 1 (1.818%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (1.818%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) C
3 4 (7.273%) Embedded C
4 3 (5.455%) C++
4 3 (5.455%) Java
5 2 (3.636%) Objective-C
5 2 (3.636%) C#
6 1 (1.818%) PHP
6 1 (1.818%) SQL
6 1 (1.818%) VB
6 1 (1.818%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.818%) Ruby
6 1 (1.818%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) Degree
2 2 (3.636%) CCNP
2 2 (3.636%) CCNA
2 2 (3.636%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.636%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.636%) MCSE
3 1 (1.818%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (1.818%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.818%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.818%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.818%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.818%) XenApp
2 1 (1.818%) XenDesktop
2 1 (1.818%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.818%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.818%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.818%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.091%) Cisco
2 5 (9.091%) Citrix
3 2 (3.636%) CheckPoint
3 2 (3.636%) Nokia
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle
4 1 (1.818%) Siebel
4 1 (1.818%) Genesys
4 1 (1.818%) Remedy
4 1 (1.818%) Perforce
4 1 (1.818%) AppSense
4 1 (1.818%) VMware
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