The first table below looks at the demand for ADSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADSL 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 City of London 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
Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
Rank 195 216 243
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +27
Contract jobs citing ADSL 8 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.125% 0.025% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.970% 0.198% 0.201%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
Average daily rate £244 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.94% -3.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £210 £245 £405
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -39.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £14.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+10.71% -30.00%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
825 1008 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.93% 12.82% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 686 637
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £256 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 76
Average hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.86% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
ADSL
London

ADSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London ADSL Jobs Demand Trend

ADSL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ADSL across the City of London region.

City of London ADSL Daily Rate Trend

ADSL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London ADSL Daily Rate Histogram

ADSL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ADSL across the City of London region.

City of London ADSL Hourly Rate Trend

ADSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ADSL 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 ADSL.

1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) LAN
2 6 (42.86%) VPN
3 5 (35.71%) DNS
3 5 (35.71%) DHCP
3 5 (35.71%) Cisco
3 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (35.71%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) MS Exchange
4 4 (28.57%) MS Office
4 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) CCNA
4 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (28.57%) Wireless
4 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
5 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Vista
5 3 (21.43%) WSUS
5 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (21.43%) Firewall
5 3 (21.43%) Terminal Services
5 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (21.43%) Symantec
5 3 (21.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

ADSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ADSL 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 ADSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (21.43%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (7.143%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Office
1 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.143%) Office 365
2 1 (7.143%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) LAN
1 6 (42.86%) VPN
2 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) WAN
3 4 (28.57%) Wireless
4 3 (21.43%) Firewall
5 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
5 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (14.29%) Broadband
5 2 (14.29%) MPLS
5 2 (14.29%) OSPF
5 2 (14.29%) BGP
5 2 (14.29%) Internet
5 2 (14.29%) IP Telephony
6 1 (7.143%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (7.143%) Network Security
6 1 (7.143%) ADSL2+
6 1 (7.143%) VLAN
6 1 (7.143%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Law
2 1 (7.143%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Testing Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Service Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Build Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Provisioning Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.143%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.143%) CMDB
2 1 (7.143%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Vista
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (14.29%) Mac OS X
5 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
5 1 (7.143%) Linux
5 1 (7.143%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Service Management
2 2 (14.29%) Agile Testing
2 2 (14.29%) User Stories
2 2 (14.29%) Scrum
2 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.143%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.143%) Network Management
3 1 (7.143%) Business Continuity
3 1 (7.143%) Service Desk Management
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.143%) Project Management
3 1 (7.143%) B2B
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CCNA
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.143%) MCDST
2 1 (7.143%) MCTS
2 1 (7.143%) MCITP
2 1 (7.143%) MCP
2 1 (7.143%) MCSE
2 1 (7.143%) MCSA
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.143%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (21.43%) Terminal Services
3 1 (7.143%) XenApp
3 1 (7.143%) vSphere
3 1 (7.143%) NDS
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) WSUS
2 1 (7.143%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Symantec
3 3 (21.43%) Citrix
4 2 (14.29%) Remedy
4 2 (14.29%) Juniper
4 2 (14.29%) Apple
5 1 (7.143%) Riverbed
5 1 (7.143%) NetApp
5 1 (7.143%) Lotus
5 1 (7.143%) EMC
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Posted: 20 May 2013