The first table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VoIP 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 Colchester 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
Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Rank 14 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing VoIP 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 9.259% 2.500% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.41% 11.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
-10.79% -32.82%
All Communications & Networking
Colchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
17 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 31.48% 22.50% 7.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 1
Average daily rate £413 £450 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
VoIP
Essex

VoIP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester VoIP Jobs Demand Trend

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VoIP across the Colchester region.

Colchester VoIP Daily Rate Trend

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 5 (100.00%) ProxySG
1 5 (100.00%) CCSE
1 5 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 5 (100.00%) Imperva

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 5 (100.00%) DMVPN
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Security Specialist
1 5 (100.00%) Network Specialist
1 5 (100.00%) Network Security Specialist
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 5 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) CCSE
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) ProxySG
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) HP
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
1 5 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 5 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 5 (100.00%) Imperva
1 5 (100.00%) F5