The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms 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 General category for the East Midlands 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
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 54 64 62
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 30 22 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.379% 1.612% 0.950%
As % of the General category 7.772% 4.427% 2.544%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 5
Average daily rate £400 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £86 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £520 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £334 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.62% -4.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 1
Average hourly rate £26.50 £10.86 £10.31
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+144.12% +5.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
-11.29% -3.12%
All of the General Category
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
386 497 511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 30.61% 36.41% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 307 266
Average daily rate £425 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £521
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 16 27
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.10 £9.50 £10.26
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £32.50 £112.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

East Midlands Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands Telecoms Daily Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands Telecoms Hourly Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire +13 16 £400 -
Leicestershire -1 7 £550 +148.58%
Lincolnshire +3 4 £263 -50.58%
Derbyshire +11 3 £425 +378.17%
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 22 (31.88%) Windows
2 17 (24.64%) Linux
2 17 (24.64%) Cisco
3 16 (23.19%) UNIX
4 13 (18.84%) CheckPoint
4 13 (18.84%) Firewall
5 12 (17.39%) Validation
5 12 (17.39%) IBM
6 11 (15.94%) VMware
6 11 (15.94%) VMware Infrastructure
7 10 (14.49%) Blue Coat
8 9 (13.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 9 (13.04%) Finance
8 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
8 9 (13.04%) Tivoli
8 9 (13.04%) Juniper
9 8 (11.59%) Citrix
10 7 (10.14%) VoIP
10 7 (10.14%) Web Services
10 7 (10.14%) Service Delivery
11 6 (8.696%) Project Management
11 6 (8.696%) SQL Server
11 6 (8.696%) IIS
11 6 (8.696%) Apache
11 6 (8.696%) MetaFrame
11 6 (8.696%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (8.696%) CCNP
11 6 (8.696%) TCP/IP
11 6 (8.696%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (7.246%) F5

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (10.14%) Web Services
2 1 (1.449%) XML
2 1 (1.449%) XSD
2 1 (1.449%) XSLT
2 1 (1.449%) WSDL
2 1 (1.449%) XML Schema
2 1 (1.449%) Middleware
2 1 (1.449%) LAMP
2 1 (1.449%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.449%) Symfony
2 1 (1.449%) HTML
2 1 (1.449%) COM
2 1 (1.449%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.696%) IIS
1 6 (8.696%) Apache
2 2 (2.899%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.449%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.449%) CMS
3 1 (1.449%) WordPress
3 1 (1.449%) Magento
Applications
1 5 (7.246%) MS Office
2 4 (5.797%) MS Project
3 2 (2.899%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.449%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.449%) SAP PM
1 1 (1.449%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (1.449%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.84%) Firewall
2 7 (10.14%) VoIP
3 6 (8.696%) TCP/IP
3 6 (8.696%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (7.246%) Network Security
4 5 (7.246%) LAN
4 5 (7.246%) Internet
5 4 (5.797%) PBX
5 4 (5.797%) WAN
5 4 (5.797%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (4.348%) SSL
7 2 (2.899%) VPN
7 2 (2.899%) UMTS
7 2 (2.899%) 3G
7 2 (2.899%) 2G
7 2 (2.899%) FWSM
7 2 (2.899%) GSM
7 2 (2.899%) Cisco PIX
8 1 (1.449%) IP Telephony
8 1 (1.449%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.449%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.449%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.449%) LSMW
General
1 9 (13.04%) Finance
2 4 (5.797%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.899%) Banking
3 2 (2.899%) Marketing
3 2 (2.899%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.449%) Electronics
4 1 (1.449%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (17.39%) Systems Engineer
2 11 (15.94%) Analyst
3 10 (14.49%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.696%) Project Manager
5 5 (7.246%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.246%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (7.246%) Network Support
5 5 (7.246%) Security Engineer
6 4 (5.797%) Telephony Engineer
7 3 (4.348%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.348%) Process Analyst
7 3 (4.348%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.348%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (4.348%) Cisco Support
7 3 (4.348%) Firewall Engineer
8 2 (2.899%) SAP Manager
8 2 (2.899%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (2.899%) Telecoms Engineer
8 2 (2.899%) Avaya Engineer
8 2 (2.899%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.797%) SaaS
2 3 (4.348%) IVR
3 1 (1.449%) Statistics
3 1 (1.449%) Life Science
3 1 (1.449%) DataPower
3 1 (1.449%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.449%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.449%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.88%) Windows
2 17 (24.64%) Linux
3 16 (23.19%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.39%) Validation
2 7 (10.14%) Service Delivery
3 6 (8.696%) Project Management
4 4 (5.797%) ERP
5 3 (4.348%) PRINCE2
5 3 (4.348%) Change Control
6 2 (2.899%) Network Security Management
6 2 (2.899%) Security Management
6 2 (2.899%) CRM
6 2 (2.899%) Migration
6 2 (2.899%) Information Security
7 1 (1.449%) Workflow Management
7 1 (1.449%) Automated Testing
7 1 (1.449%) Software Engineering
7 1 (1.449%) Supplier Management
7 1 (1.449%) Incident Management
7 1 (1.449%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (1.449%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.449%) Release Management
7 1 (1.449%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.348%) SQL
2 1 (1.449%) ABAP
2 1 (1.449%) Embedded C
2 1 (1.449%) Tcl
2 1 (1.449%) XPath
2 1 (1.449%) PHP5
2 1 (1.449%) PHP4
2 1 (1.449%) C
2 1 (1.449%) C#
2 1 (1.449%) C++
2 1 (1.449%) Java
2 1 (1.449%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (8.696%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (8.696%) CCNP
2 5 (7.246%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.246%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.899%) CCNA
3 2 (2.899%) PMP
3 2 (2.899%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.899%) CCSA
3 2 (2.899%) CCSE
3 2 (2.899%) CCSP
4 1 (1.449%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.449%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.449%) SLA
1 1 (1.449%) QA
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.696%) MetaFrame
3 3 (4.348%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Tivoli
1 9 (13.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (4.348%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 17 (24.64%) Cisco
2 13 (18.84%) CheckPoint
3 12 (17.39%) IBM
4 11 (15.94%) VMware
5 10 (14.49%) Blue Coat
6 9 (13.04%) Microsoft
6 9 (13.04%) Juniper
7 8 (11.59%) Citrix
8 5 (7.246%) Nokia
8 5 (7.246%) SAP
8 5 (7.246%) Siemens
8 5 (7.246%) F5
9 4 (5.797%) Sourcefire
9 4 (5.797%) McAfee
9 4 (5.797%) Clearswift
9 4 (5.797%) Oracle
10 3 (4.348%) Business Objects
10 3 (4.348%) Novell
11 2 (2.899%) NetApp
11 2 (2.899%) Avaya
Nottingham, East Midlands
This is a business critical and fast paced piece of work so experience of multi-department process investigations is necessary. You will also be part of a project...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013