The first table below looks at the demand for Broadband 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 Broadband 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Broadband
Rank 187 201 229
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +28
Contract jobs citing Broadband 14 12 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.222% 0.154% 0.173%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.665% 1.185% 1.722%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 12
Average daily rate £200 £395 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-49.36% +26.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £160 £121
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £478 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £396 £293 £380
% change year-on-year
+35.47% -23.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.69 £27.50 £11.88
% change year-on-year
-61.12% +131.57%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
841 1013 987
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.36% 13.02% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 689 644
Average daily rate £393 £413 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.84% +6.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 42 69
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +6.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.30 £17.75 £13.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Broadband
London

Broadband
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Broadband Jobs Demand Trend

Broadband
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Broadband Daily Rate Trend

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Broadband across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Broadband Daily Rate Histogram

Broadband
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Broadband Hourly Rate Trend

Broadband
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 14 (51.85%) MS Office
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
1 14 (51.85%) VPN
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
1 14 (51.85%) Active Directory
1 14 (51.85%) Dell
1 14 (51.85%) 3G
1 14 (51.85%) Blackberry
1 14 (51.85%) Banking
2 12 (44.44%) MS Visio
3 11 (40.74%) Finance
4 5 (18.52%) Marketing
4 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
5 4 (14.81%) Logistics
5 4 (14.81%) SCCM
6 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
6 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (11.11%) MS Exchange
6 3 (11.11%) Citrix
6 3 (11.11%) ITIL
6 3 (11.11%) MCSE
6 3 (11.11%) HTML
7 2 (7.407%) PHP
7 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
7 2 (7.407%) SAS
7 2 (7.407%) Project Management
7 2 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (7.407%) Analytics
7 2 (7.407%) QlikView

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (3.704%) CSS
2 1 (3.704%) XML
2 1 (3.704%) Flash
2 1 (3.704%) Velocity
2 1 (3.704%) HTML5
2 1 (3.704%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 2 (7.407%) SAS
3 1 (3.704%) CMS
3 1 (3.704%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (3.704%) Apache
Applications
1 14 (51.85%) MS Office
2 12 (44.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.704%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) VPN
1 14 (51.85%) 3G
2 1 (3.704%) MPLS
2 1 (3.704%) OSPF
2 1 (3.704%) BGP
2 1 (3.704%) BSS
2 1 (3.704%) LTE
2 1 (3.704%) 4G
2 1 (3.704%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.407%) QlikView
2 1 (3.704%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) Selenium
General
1 14 (51.85%) Banking
2 11 (40.74%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Telecoms
3 5 (18.52%) Marketing
4 1 (3.704%) Back Office
4 1 (3.704%) Legal
4 1 (3.704%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Analyst
2 8 (29.63%) Desktop Support
2 8 (29.63%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 8 (29.63%) Desktop Analyst
2 8 (29.63%) Support Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Build Engineer
4 2 (7.407%) Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Author
5 1 (3.704%) Programme Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Author
5 1 (3.704%) Commercial Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Web Producer
5 1 (3.704%) Telecoms Project Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Project Leader
5 1 (3.704%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (3.704%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Testing Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 14 (51.85%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
2 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.704%) CentOS
3 1 (3.704%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.704%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.81%) Logistics
2 3 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (7.407%) Project Management
3 2 (7.407%) Analytics
3 2 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.704%) User Stories
4 1 (3.704%) Matrix Management
4 1 (3.704%) Agile Testing
4 1 (3.704%) Scrum
4 1 (3.704%) Web Design
4 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.704%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.407%) PHP
2 1 (3.704%) Java
2 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) MCSE
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.704%) CIMA
2 1 (3.704%) Degree
2 1 (3.704%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.704%) CCNP
2 1 (3.704%) CCIP
2 1 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft
1 14 (51.85%) Dell
2 3 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (3.704%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.704%) Adobe
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle