City of London VoIP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Feltham Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Pontefract Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	182	139
Rank change on same period last year	-43
Matching contract IT job ads	37	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.063 %
As % of the category below	3.787 %	7.977 %
Daily rates quoted	14	22
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£423
Average daily rate	£407	£443
% change on same period last year	-8.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£463
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£371
% change on same period last year	-9.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£65.00
Average hourly rate	£23.50	£67.50
% change on same period last year	-65.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£70.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.41	£27.93
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	977	702
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.254 %	0.789 %
Daily rates quoted	445	300
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£385
Average daily rate	£393	£405
% change on same period last year	-2.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£334
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	71	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.20	£29.17
Average hourly rate	£26.45	£29.87
% change on same period last year	-11.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.70	£30.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.63	£27.52
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
VoIP London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing VoIP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing VoIP across the City of London region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing VoIP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VoIP.

1 48 (53.33 %) Cisco 2 27 (30.00 %) Cisco Certification 3 25 (27.78 %) WAN 4 20 (22.22 %) Firewall 5 19 (21.11 %) LAN 6 18 (20.00 %) VPN 7 17 (18.89 %) PBX 8 16 (17.78 %) Finance 9 15 (16.67 %) Windows 9 15 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 9 15 (16.67 %) Speakerbus 10 14 (15.56 %) CCNP 10 14 (15.56 %) Telecoms 11 13 (14.44 %) CCIE 11 13 (14.44 %) Banking

12 11 (12.22 %) CCNA 12 11 (12.22 %) Bloomberg 13 10 (11.11 %) Nokia 13 10 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 13 10 (11.11 %) MS Office 13 10 (11.11 %) BGP 13 10 (11.11 %) BIG-IP 14 9 (10.00 %) MPLS 14 9 (10.00 %) OSPF 14 9 (10.00 %) MS Excel 15 8 (8.889 %) MS Exchange 15 8 (8.889 %) Active Directory 15 8 (8.889 %) Nortel 15 8 (8.889 %) Reuters 15 8 (8.889 %) Blackberry

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the City of London region citing VoIP also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.111 %) SVG 1 1 (1.111 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 8 (8.889 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (2.222 %) CMS 2 2 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (1.111 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.111 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (1.111 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 10 (11.11 %) MS Office 2 9 (10.00 %) MS Excel 3 4 (4.444 %) DeltaView	Business Applications 1 2 (2.222 %) RMDS
Communications & Networking 1 25 (27.78 %) WAN 2 20 (22.22 %) Firewall 3 19 (21.11 %) LAN 4 18 (20.00 %) VPN 5 17 (18.89 %) PBX 6 10 (11.11 %) TCP/IP 6 10 (11.11 %) BGP 6 10 (11.11 %) BIG-IP 7 9 (10.00 %) MPLS 7 9 (10.00 %) OSPF 8 7 (7.778 %) EIGRP 9 6 (6.667 %) DNS 10 5 (5.556 %) Nortel Meridian 10 5 (5.556 %) Network Security 11 4 (4.444 %) Frame Relay 12 3 (3.333 %) Ethernet 12 3 (3.333 %) Symposium 13 2 (2.222 %) IP Telephony 13 2 (2.222 %) DSL 13 2 (2.222 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.111 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (1.111 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (1.111 %) RDBMS
General 1 16 (17.78 %) Finance 2 14 (15.56 %) Telecoms 3 13 (14.44 %) Banking 4 6 (6.667 %) Multimedia 4 6 (6.667 %) Investment Banking 5 4 (4.444 %) Insurance 5 4 (4.444 %) Law 5 4 (4.444 %) Legal 5 4 (4.444 %) Back Office 6 3 (3.333 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (2.222 %) Government 7 2 (2.222 %) Pensions 8 1 (1.111 %) Private Banking 8 1 (1.111 %) Health 8 1 (1.111 %) Electric 8 1 (1.111 %) Front Office	Job Titles 1 22 (24.44 %) Network Engineer 2 15 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 13 (14.44 %) Support Analyst 3 13 (14.44 %) Support Engineer 4 10 (11.11 %) Voice Engineer 5 6 (6.667 %) Project Manager 5 6 (6.667 %) Desktop Support 5 6 (6.667 %) Cisco Engineer 6 5 (5.556 %) Design Engineer 6 5 (5.556 %) Network Design Engineer 7 4 (4.444 %) Firewall Engineer 7 4 (4.444 %) Voice Analyst 7 4 (4.444 %) 2nd Line Support 7 4 (4.444 %) Legal Analyst 7 4 (4.444 %) Senior Network Engineer 7 4 (4.444 %) Cisco Network Engineer 8 3 (3.333 %) IT Support Analyst 8 3 (3.333 %) Systems Engineer 8 3 (3.333 %) Senior Manager 8 3 (3.333 %) Systems Support
Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.889 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.111 %) IVR 2 1 (1.111 %) Asset Management 2 1 (1.111 %) IPTV 2 1 (1.111 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 15 (16.67 %) Windows 2 4 (4.444 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (4.444 %) Unix 3 3 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (3.333 %) Windows XP 3 3 (3.333 %) Linux 4 1 (1.111 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (8.889 %) Network Design 2 5 (5.556 %) ITIL 2 5 (5.556 %) Project Management 3 4 (4.444 %) Service Delivery 3 4 (4.444 %) Document Management 4 3 (3.333 %) Migration 5 2 (2.222 %) Load Balancing 5 2 (2.222 %) Release Management 5 2 (2.222 %) Change Management 5 2 (2.222 %) PRINCE 5 2 (2.222 %) Risk Management 6 1 (1.111 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (1.111 %) Service Management 6 1 (1.111 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (1.111 %) Performance Management 6 1 (1.111 %) Supplier Management 6 1 (1.111 %) Operations Management 6 1 (1.111 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (1.111 %) Risk Assessment 6 1 (1.111 %) PDM	Programming Languages 1 1 (1.111 %) Java 1 1 (1.111 %) Perl 1 1 (1.111 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 27 (30.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 14 (15.56 %) CCNP 3 13 (14.44 %) CCIE 4 11 (12.22 %) CCNA 5 3 (3.333 %) CCIP 5 3 (3.333 %) MCSE 5 3 (3.333 %) Degree 5 3 (3.333 %) Microsoft Certification 6 2 (2.222 %) CCVP 6 2 (2.222 %) MCP 6 2 (2.222 %) CCDP 7 1 (1.111 %) ISEB 7 1 (1.111 %) HNC 7 1 (1.111 %) MCSA 7 1 (1.111 %) CCSE 7 1 (1.111 %) JNCIA 7 1 (1.111 %) CNA 7 1 (1.111 %) CNE 7 1 (1.111 %) Novell Certification 7 1 (1.111 %) CCSA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.111 %) SLA
System Software 1 8 (8.889 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.222 %) VMware Server 3 1 (1.111 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (1.111 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.111 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 48 (53.33 %) Cisco 2 15 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 2 15 (16.67 %) Speakerbus 3 11 (12.22 %) Bloomberg 4 10 (11.11 %) Nokia 5 8 (8.889 %) Reuters 5 8 (8.889 %) Nortel 6 6 (6.667 %) Microsoft 6 6 (6.667 %) Avaya 6 6 (6.667 %) BT 7 5 (5.556 %) VMware 8 4 (4.444 %) Interwoven 8 4 (4.444 %) HP 9 3 (3.333 %) Juniper 9 3 (3.333 %) Remedy 10 2 (2.222 %) Mitel 10 2 (2.222 %) Proquote 10 2 (2.222 %) Syntegra 11 1 (1.111 %) Polycom 11 1 (1.111 %) Altiris