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This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Cheltenham region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkTelecommunications (Telecomms)
Location
3 months to 18 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank1315
Rank change on same period last yearUp+2
Matching contract IT job ads2017
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.027 %0.017 %
As % of the category below21.74 %24.64 %
Daily rates quoted1912
Average minimum daily rate£350£433
Average daily rate£355£433
% change on same period last year-17.93 %
Average maximum daily rate£361£433
UK excluding London average daily rate£340£344
% change on same period last year-1.32 %
Hourly rates quoted01
Average minimum hourly rate-£25.00
Average hourly rate-£27.50
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate-£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.70£24.78
% change on same period last year+3.74 %
General CheltenhamGeneral
Cheltenham
Matching contract IT job ads9269
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.122 %0.071 %
Daily rates quoted4028
Average minimum daily rate£356£393
Average daily rate£366£399
% change on same period last year-8.36 %
Average maximum daily rate£375£405
UK excluding London average daily rate£383£373
% change on same period last year+2.88 %
Hourly rates quoted412
Average minimum hourly rate£30.71£29.92
Average hourly rate£31.93£31.23
% change on same period last year+2.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate£33.14£32.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.62£27.27
% change on same period last year-2.40 %
Telecoms GloucestershireTelecoms
Gloucestershire

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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Cheltenham region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Cheltenham Telecoms Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheltenham Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Cheltenham region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

Cheltenham Telecoms Daily Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheltenham Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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.

127 (96.43 %)Security Cleared
224 (85.71 %)DV Cleared
310 (35.71 %)Solaris
48 (28.57 %)Perl
48 (28.57 %)UNIX
48 (28.57 %)Active Directory
48 (28.57 %)Korn
55 (17.86 %)Windows
64 (14.29 %)HPUX
64 (14.29 %)SC Cleared
64 (14.29 %)Shell Script
64 (14.29 %)Service Management
64 (14.29 %)Government
73 (10.71 %)MS PowerPoint
73 (10.71 %)Degree
73 (10.71 %)Microsoft
73 (10.71 %)PRINCE2
82 (7.143 %)HTML
82 (7.143 %)ITIL
82 (7.143 %)HND
82 (7.143 %)Linux
82 (7.143 %)MS Excel
82 (7.143 %)MS Visio
82 (7.143 %)Documentum
82 (7.143 %)C
82 (7.143 %)MS Project
82 (7.143 %)PVCS
82 (7.143 %)Adobe
82 (7.143 %)SAN
82 (7.143 %)RoboHelp

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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
12 (7.143 %)HTML
21 (3.571 %).NET
21 (3.571 %)ASP
21 (3.571 %)ASP.NET
Application Platforms
12 (7.143 %)Documentum
12 (7.143 %)Exchange Server 2007
Applications
13 (10.71 %)MS PowerPoint
22 (7.143 %)MS Project
22 (7.143 %)MS Excel
22 (7.143 %)MS Visio
22 (7.143 %)RoboHelp
22 (7.143 %)FrameMaker
31 (3.571 %)MS Office
Communications & Networking
12 (7.143 %)DNS
12 (7.143 %)SAN
12 (7.143 %)DHCP
12 (7.143 %)TCP/IP
21 (3.571 %)VPN
21 (3.571 %)LAN
21 (3.571 %)WAN
21 (3.571 %)Internet
21 (3.571 %)MPLS
21 (3.571 %)TACACS
21 (3.571 %)Firewall
21 (3.571 %)VLAN
21 (3.571 %)Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
11 (3.571 %)SQL Server
Development Applications
12 (7.143 %)PVCS
12 (7.143 %)Dreamweaver
12 (7.143 %)GoLive
12 (7.143 %)FrontPage
General
14 (14.29 %)Government
22 (7.143 %)Education
31 (3.571 %)Construction
31 (3.571 %)Insurance
Job Titles
19 (32.14 %)Consultant
19 (32.14 %)Administrator
26 (21.43 %)Solaris Administrator
34 (14.29 %)Systems Administrator
43 (10.71 %)Project Manager
52 (7.143 %)Author
52 (7.143 %)Technical Author
52 (7.143 %)Analyst
52 (7.143 %)Security Analyst
52 (7.143 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
52 (7.143 %)UNIX Administrator
52 (7.143 %)Technical Writer
52 (7.143 %)Solaris Systems Administrator
52 (7.143 %)UNIX Consultant
52 (7.143 %)Messaging Consultant
52 (7.143 %)Infrastructure Analyst
61 (3.571 %)Systems Architect
61 (3.571 %)Project Administrator
61 (3.571 %)ASP.NET Developer
61 (3.571 %).NET Developer
Miscellaneous
12 (7.143 %)Clustering
Operating Systems
110 (35.71 %)Solaris
28 (28.57 %)UNIX
35 (17.86 %)Windows
44 (14.29 %)HPUX
52 (7.143 %)Linux
52 (7.143 %)Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
127 (96.43 %)Security Cleared
224 (85.71 %)DV Cleared
34 (14.29 %)SC Cleared
34 (14.29 %)Service Management
43 (10.71 %)PRINCE2
52 (7.143 %)ITIL
52 (7.143 %)Incident Management
61 (3.571 %)Data Security
61 (3.571 %)Risk Management
Programming Languages
18 (28.57 %)Perl
18 (28.57 %)Korn
24 (14.29 %)Shell Script
32 (7.143 %)C
41 (3.571 %)C#
Qualifications
13 (10.71 %)Degree
22 (7.143 %)HND
31 (3.571 %)PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
12 (7.143 %)QA
System Software
18 (28.57 %)Active Directory
22 (7.143 %)ISA Server
22 (7.143 %)NFS
Systems Management
11 (3.571 %)CiscoWorks
Vendors
13 (10.71 %)Microsoft
22 (7.143 %)Adobe
22 (7.143 %)HP
22 (7.143 %)Cisco
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