The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video Conferencing 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 Video Conferencing 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
Videoconferencing
Rank 182 195 226
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +31
Contract jobs citing Video Conferencing 19 18 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.302% 0.231% 0.203%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.954% 0.698% 0.504%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 11
Average daily rate £433 £400 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.12% -3.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £195 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £598 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £263
% change year-on-year
- +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £21.00 £21.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +44.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.20 £21.00 £11.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £21.00 £17.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.00 £16.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year
-39.39% +22.22%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1991 2580 3971
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.63% 33.16% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1475 1982 3065
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £298 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 69 51
Average hourly rate £25.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.27% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Video Conferencing
London

Video Conferencing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Video Conferencing across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London Video Conferencing Jobs Demand Trend

Video Conferencing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Video Conferencing Daily Rate Trend

Video Conferencing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Video Conferencing Daily Rate Histogram

Video Conferencing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Video Conferencing Hourly Rate Trend

Video Conferencing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (44.44%) Cisco
2 14 (38.89%) WAN
3 13 (36.11%) LAN
4 11 (30.56%) Finance
5 10 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (22.22%) Firewall
6 8 (22.22%) Wireless
6 8 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (19.44%) Project Management
7 7 (19.44%) OSPF
7 7 (19.44%) Windows
8 6 (16.67%) MS Office
8 6 (16.67%) VoIP
8 6 (16.67%) VPN
8 6 (16.67%) CCIE
8 6 (16.67%) Network Management
8 6 (16.67%) Polycom
8 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
9 5 (13.89%) IP Telephony
9 5 (13.89%) Aruba
9 5 (13.89%) HP
9 5 (13.89%) DNS
9 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
9 5 (13.89%) BGP
9 5 (13.89%) Blackberry
9 5 (13.89%) MPLS
10 4 (11.11%) Juniper
10 4 (11.11%) CCNA
10 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
10 4 (11.11%) DHCP

Video Conferencing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (2.778%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.778%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (2.778%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.778%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (2.778%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (16.67%) MS Office
2 2 (5.556%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (38.89%) WAN
2 13 (36.11%) LAN
3 8 (22.22%) Firewall
3 8 (22.22%) Wireless
3 8 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (19.44%) OSPF
5 6 (16.67%) VoIP
5 6 (16.67%) VPN
6 5 (13.89%) DNS
6 5 (13.89%) BGP
6 5 (13.89%) TCP/IP
6 5 (13.89%) MPLS
6 5 (13.89%) IP Telephony
7 4 (11.11%) VLAN
7 4 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
7 4 (11.11%) Junos
7 4 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (11.11%) DHCP
7 4 (11.11%) Ethernet
7 4 (11.11%) SNMP
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.556%) Legal
3 2 (5.556%) Banking
4 1 (2.778%) Retail
4 1 (2.778%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.778%) Marketing
4 1 (2.778%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Project Manager
2 5 (13.89%) Desktop Support
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Network Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) NOC Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (8.333%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.333%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.556%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.556%) Consultant
5 2 (5.556%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.556%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.556%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (5.556%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (5.556%) Business Project Manager
5 2 (5.556%) IT Support
5 2 (5.556%) Business Manager
6 1 (2.778%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.778%) Chief Technology Officer
6 1 (2.778%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.556%) Streaming Video
2 2 (5.556%) iPhone
2 2 (5.556%) iPad
3 1 (2.778%) Video on Demand
3 1 (2.778%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.778%) Equities
3 1 (2.778%) IPTV
3 1 (2.778%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 3 (8.333%) Windows XP
3 3 (8.333%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.778%) Windows 8
4 1 (2.778%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (19.44%) Project Management
2 6 (16.67%) Network Management
3 4 (11.11%) Project Planning
3 4 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 3 (8.333%) Incident Management
4 3 (8.333%) Change Management
4 3 (8.333%) Migration
4 3 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (5.556%) Software Engineering
6 1 (2.778%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
6 1 (2.778%) Load Balancing
6 1 (2.778%) Product Marketing
6 1 (2.778%) Investment Management
6 1 (2.778%) Scrum
6 1 (2.778%) Service Management
6 1 (2.778%) B2B
6 1 (2.778%) PRINCE
6 1 (2.778%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.778%) Java
1 1 (2.778%) SQL
1 1 (2.778%) ActionScript
1 1 (2.778%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (16.67%) CCIE
3 4 (11.11%) CCNA
3 4 (11.11%) JNCIE
4 2 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.778%) Degree
5 1 (2.778%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.778%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.778%) MCP
5 1 (2.778%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 4 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.778%) DameWare
2 1 (2.778%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) Cisco
2 6 (16.67%) Polycom
3 5 (13.89%) HP
3 5 (13.89%) Aruba
4 4 (11.11%) F5
4 4 (11.11%) Juniper
4 4 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 4 (11.11%) VMware
4 4 (11.11%) Sourcefire
5 3 (8.333%) Tandberg
5 3 (8.333%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.556%) Citrix
6 2 (5.556%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.556%) BT
6 2 (5.556%) OPNET
7 1 (2.778%) Brocade
7 1 (2.778%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.778%) Avaya
7 1 (2.778%) Siemens
7 1 (2.778%) Symantec
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