East Midlands Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the East Midlands region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	49
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	28	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	3.846 %	6.203 %
Daily rates quoted	4	14
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£296
Average daily rate	£348	£307
% change on same period last year	+13.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£368
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.83	£20.73
Average hourly rate	£23.17	£22.70
% change on same period last year	+2.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.50	£24.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.45	£24.47
% change on same period last year	-4.14 %
General East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	728	790
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.970 %	0.788 %
Daily rates quoted	297	189
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£373
Average daily rate	£424	£399
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£446	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.75	£22.46
Average hourly rate	£31.46	£23.68
% change on same period last year	+32.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.17	£24.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.03	£27.25
% change on same period last year	+2.86 %
Telecoms 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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Telecoms
Contract Locations

This section 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 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
Lincolnshire	-	10	£220	-
Nottinghamshire	-5	10	£500	+30.77 %
Derbyshire	-5	3	-	-
Leicestershire	-4	1	-	-

Telecoms England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 16 (35.56 %) Cisco 2 13 (28.89 %) LAN 2 13 (28.89 %) Security Cleared 3 12 (26.67 %) SC Cleared 3 12 (26.67 %) VoIP 4 9 (20.00 %) Microsoft 4 9 (20.00 %) ITIL 4 9 (20.00 %) Firewall 4 9 (20.00 %) ISO27001 4 9 (20.00 %) COBIT 4 9 (20.00 %) Video Conferencing 5 8 (17.78 %) Siemens 6 7 (15.56 %) Active Directory 6 7 (15.56 %) Tandberg 6 7 (15.56 %) Load Balancing

7 6 (13.33 %) MS Exchange 7 6 (13.33 %) UNIX 7 6 (13.33 %) Windows 8 5 (11.11 %) Government 8 5 (11.11 %) Linux 8 5 (11.11 %) C++ 9 4 (8.889 %) Java 9 4 (8.889 %) WAN 10 3 (6.667 %) Project Management 10 3 (6.667 %) SAS 10 3 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 10 3 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 3 (6.667 %) SQL 10 3 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 11 2 (4.444 %) OLAP

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere 1 1 (2.222 %) Hibernate 1 1 (2.222 %) J2ME 1 1 (2.222 %) EJB 1 1 (2.222 %) JDBC 1 1 (2.222 %) WebServices 1 1 (2.222 %) XML 1 1 (2.222 %) J2EE 1 1 (2.222 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 6 (13.33 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (6.667 %) SAS 3 2 (4.444 %) Apache 4 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (2.222 %) Oracle HTTP Server 4 1 (2.222 %) JBoss
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Office 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.222 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) Infinys 2 1 (2.222 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 13 (28.89 %) LAN 2 12 (26.67 %) VoIP 3 9 (20.00 %) Firewall 4 4 (8.889 %) WAN 5 1 (2.222 %) VLAN 5 1 (2.222 %) Network Security 5 1 (2.222 %) Wireless Security 5 1 (2.222 %) Wireless 5 1 (2.222 %) SS7 5 1 (2.222 %) NetScreen 5 1 (2.222 %) Q.931 5 1 (2.222 %) IP Telephony 5 1 (2.222 %) SDH 5 1 (2.222 %) SMS 5 1 (2.222 %) HTTP 5 1 (2.222 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (2.222 %) VPN 5 1 (2.222 %) DNS 5 1 (2.222 %) Internet 5 1 (2.222 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.444 %) OLAP 1 2 (4.444 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (2.222 %) PostgreSQL 2 1 (2.222 %) TOAD 2 1 (2.222 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (2.222 %) MS Access 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (2.222 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) Eclipse	General 1 5 (11.11 %) Government 2 2 (4.444 %) Billing 2 2 (4.444 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (4.444 %) Criminal Justice 2 2 (4.444 %) Finance 3 1 (2.222 %) Back Office 3 1 (2.222 %) Police 3 1 (2.222 %) Law 3 1 (2.222 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 6 (13.33 %) Project Manager 2 5 (11.11 %) Analyst 2 5 (11.11 %) Network Specialist 3 4 (8.889 %) Telecoms Engineer 3 4 (8.889 %) 2nd Line Support 3 4 (8.889 %) Consultant 4 3 (6.667 %) Network Consultant 4 3 (6.667 %) Network Support 5 2 (4.444 %) Test Analyst 5 2 (4.444 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (4.444 %) Developer 5 2 (4.444 %) Programmer 5 2 (4.444 %) Administrator 5 2 (4.444 %) Technical Lead 6 1 (2.222 %) Platform Manager 6 1 (2.222 %) Network Security Analyst 6 1 (2.222 %) Senior J2EE Software Engineer 6 1 (2.222 %) Senior Java Software Engineer 6 1 (2.222 %) C Developer 6 1 (2.222 %) MI Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (20.00 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (4.444 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.222 %) IPTV 3 1 (2.222 %) Speech Recognition
Operating Systems 1 6 (13.33 %) UNIX 1 6 (13.33 %) Windows 2 5 (11.11 %) Linux 3 1 (2.222 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (2.222 %) FreeBSD 3 1 (2.222 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (2.222 %) AIX 3 1 (2.222 %) HPUX 3 1 (2.222 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (28.89 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (26.67 %) SC Cleared 3 9 (20.00 %) ITIL 4 7 (15.56 %) Load Balancing 5 3 (6.667 %) Project Management 5 3 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (4.444 %) CRM 6 2 (4.444 %) Data Management 6 2 (4.444 %) PDM 6 2 (4.444 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (4.444 %) CAD 6 2 (4.444 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (4.444 %) DV Cleared 7 1 (2.222 %) Continuous Integration 7 1 (2.222 %) Risk Management 7 1 (2.222 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.222 %) Migration 7 1 (2.222 %) Document Management 7 1 (2.222 %) ERP 7 1 (2.222 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 5 (11.11 %) C++ 2 4 (8.889 %) Java 3 3 (6.667 %) SQL 4 1 (2.222 %) SAS Macro 4 1 (2.222 %) C 4 1 (2.222 %) Jython 4 1 (2.222 %) VBA 4 1 (2.222 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 1 3 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (4.444 %) CCNP 2 2 (4.444 %) CCNA 3 1 (2.222 %) SSCP 3 1 (2.222 %) CISSP 3 1 (2.222 %) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (20.00 %) ISO27001 1 9 (20.00 %) COBIT 2 1 (2.222 %) QA	System Software 1 7 (15.56 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.222 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 16 (35.56 %) Cisco 2 9 (20.00 %) Microsoft 3 8 (17.78 %) Siemens 4 7 (15.56 %) Tandberg 5 2 (4.444 %) Business Objects 5 2 (4.444 %) Nortel 5 2 (4.444 %) Teradata 5 2 (4.444 %) Convergys 6 1 (2.222 %) Ensim 6 1 (2.222 %) Sun 6 1 (2.222 %) Avaya 6 1 (2.222 %) Juniper 6 1 (2.222 %) Alcatel 6 1 (2.222 %) Ericsson 6 1 (2.222 %) VERITAS 6 1 (2.222 %) Red Hat 6 1 (2.222 %) Cognos 6 1 (2.222 %) Oracle