The first table below looks at the demand for IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IP Telephony
Rank 195 204 217
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +13
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 8 13 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.124% 0.165% 0.196%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.954% 1.278% 1.951%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 14
Average daily rate £375 £346 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.30% -4.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £153 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £544 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £380 £410
% change year-on-year
-27.63% -7.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
+9.99% +6.38%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
839 1017 974
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.06% 12.94% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 692 637
Average daily rate £388 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.06% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 39 71
Average hourly rate £54.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+145.45% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
IP Telephony
London

IP Telephony
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London IP Telephony Daily Rate Trend

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IP Telephony across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London IP Telephony Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London IP Telephony Hourly Rate Trend

IP Telephony
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 13 (76.47%) Cisco
2 9 (52.94%) WAN
3 8 (47.06%) LAN
3 8 (47.06%) Firewall
4 7 (41.18%) Finance
4 7 (41.18%) VMware
4 7 (41.18%) MPLS
4 7 (41.18%) CCIE
4 7 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (41.18%) Juniper
5 6 (35.29%) HP
5 6 (35.29%) Ethernet
5 6 (35.29%) OSPF
5 6 (35.29%) BGP
5 6 (35.29%) Wireless
5 6 (35.29%) Sourcefire
5 6 (35.29%) VLAN
5 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
5 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (35.29%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
5 6 (35.29%) Junos
5 6 (35.29%) F5
5 6 (35.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (35.29%) FortiGate
6 5 (29.41%) Network Management
6 5 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (29.41%) Cisco IPT
6 5 (29.41%) Migration
6 5 (29.41%) DNS

IP Telephony
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 2 (11.76%) Lync
2 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) WAN
2 8 (47.06%) LAN
2 8 (47.06%) Firewall
3 7 (41.18%) MPLS
4 6 (35.29%) Ethernet
4 6 (35.29%) OSPF
4 6 (35.29%) BGP
4 6 (35.29%) Wireless
4 6 (35.29%) VLAN
4 6 (35.29%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (35.29%) Junos
4 6 (35.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (29.41%) Cisco IPT
5 5 (29.41%) DNS
5 5 (29.41%) DHCP
6 4 (23.53%) VoIP
6 4 (23.53%) SNMP
7 2 (11.76%) ADSL
7 2 (11.76%) Network Security
8 1 (5.882%) BT 21CN
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Financial Institution
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 1 (5.882%) Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Telephony Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Build Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Avaya Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.882%) Replication
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Network Architecture
2 5 (29.41%) Network Management
2 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Project Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Network Design
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
5 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.882%) Project Management
5 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.882%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) CCIE
1 7 (41.18%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) JNCIE
3 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
3 1 (5.882%) MCDST
3 1 (5.882%) CCVP
3 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.882%) MCP
3 1 (5.882%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.882%) XenApp
3 1 (5.882%) vSphere
3 1 (5.882%) NDS
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
2 7 (41.18%) Juniper
3 6 (35.29%) HP
3 6 (35.29%) Sourcefire
3 6 (35.29%) Fortinet
3 6 (35.29%) F5
4 4 (23.53%) Polycom
4 4 (23.53%) Aruba
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) Avaya
7 1 (5.882%) Riverbed
7 1 (5.882%) BT
7 1 (5.882%) EMC
7 1 (5.882%) NetApp
7 1 (5.882%) Siemens