East Midlands LLU Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LLU over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Local Loop Unbundling (LLU)
Location Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London East Midlands England London Luton Midlands Milton Keynes Northampton Northamptonshire South East South West Thames Valley UK Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.429 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£510
% change on same period last year	-38.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£6.25
% change on same period last year	-
Communications & Networking East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	210	304
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	41	69
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£274
Average daily rate	£316	£280
% change on same period last year	+12.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£286
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.29	£18.85
Average hourly rate	£20.11	£19.88
% change on same period last year	+1.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.92	£20.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
LLU England

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.

LLU
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LLU across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

LLU
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LLU within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northamptonshire	-	3	-	-

LLU England

LLU
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing LLU 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 LLU.

1 3 (100.00 %) Perl 1 3 (100.00 %) DSLAM 1 3 (100.00 %) Huawei 2 2 (66.67 %) Alcatel 3 1 (33.33 %) DSL

LLU
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing LLU 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 LLU. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) DSLAM 2 1 (33.33 %) DSL	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Support
Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) Perl	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Huawei 2 2 (66.67 %) Alcatel