The first table below looks at the demand for PBX 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 PBX 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
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
Rank 193 209 242
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +33
Contract jobs citing PBX 10 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.157% 0.114% 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.212% 0.893% 0.301%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 0
Average daily rate £463 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £256 £388 £350
% change year-on-year
-33.87% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £41.50 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-9.63% +147.76%
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%
PBX
London

PBX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London PBX Jobs Demand Trend

PBX
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London PBX Daily Rate Trend

PBX
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London PBX Daily Rate Histogram

PBX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London PBX Hourly Rate Trend

PBX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (50.00%) WAN
1 5 (50.00%) Avaya
2 4 (40.00%) LAN
2 4 (40.00%) VoIP
2 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (30.00%) Genesys
3 3 (30.00%) Law
3 3 (30.00%) MCSE
3 3 (30.00%) MCSA
3 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (30.00%) CTI
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Change Control
4 2 (20.00%) NetScaler
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) CISSP
4 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) MS Office
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) MCP
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) IVR
4 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008

PBX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) MS Office
3 1 (10.00%) MS Project
3 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (40.00%) LAN
2 4 (40.00%) VoIP
3 3 (30.00%) CTI
4 2 (20.00%) NetScaler
4 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
5 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) IVR
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
1 3 (30.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Service Management
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) WFM
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) MCSE
1 3 (30.00%) MCSA
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (10.00%) MCITP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Avaya
2 3 (30.00%) Genesys
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) CommVault
4 1 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) HP
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