East of England ADSL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ADSL over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Berkshire Carterton Chelmsford Crawley East Grinstead East Midlands East of England England Essex Guildford Hampshire Ipswich Kettering London Merseyside Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Scotland Slough South East Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear UK West Sussex Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	140
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching contract IT job ads	2	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.335 %	1.882 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£153
Average daily rate	£250	£153
% change on same period last year	+63.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£153
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£302
% change on same period last year	+0.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	10
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.11
Average hourly rate	-	£16.53
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£16.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.46	£17.43
% change on same period last year	+28.89 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	597	850
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.940 %	0.911 %
Daily rates quoted	137	224
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£289
Average daily rate	£309	£308
% change on same period last year	+0.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	121	185
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.99	£28.13
Average hourly rate	£29.73	£29.96
% change on same period last year	-0.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.47	£31.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
ADSL 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.

ADSL
Demand Trend

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

ADSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

ADSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ADSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADSL within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Essex	+8	1	£150	-2.17 %
Suffolk	+6	1	£350	-

ADSL England

ADSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ADSL 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 ADSL.

1 4 (57.14 %) MS Office 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 1 4 (57.14 %) WAN 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 1 4 (57.14 %) Firewall 2 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows NT 2 3 (42.86 %) VoIP 2 3 (42.86 %) Cisco 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (42.86 %) ISDN 2 3 (42.86 %) LAN

3 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (28.57 %) MPLS 3 2 (28.57 %) OpenView 3 2 (28.57 %) HP 3 2 (28.57 %) Dell 3 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (28.57 %) Intrusion Detection 3 2 (28.57 %) 3Com 3 2 (28.57 %) McAfee Security 4 1 (14.29 %) BGP 4 1 (14.29 %) EIGRP 4 1 (14.29 %) VRRP 4 1 (14.29 %) BT 4 1 (14.29 %) DameWare 4 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms

ADSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing ADSL 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 ADSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 4 (57.14 %) WAN 1 4 (57.14 %) Firewall 2 3 (42.86 %) VoIP 2 3 (42.86 %) ISDN 2 3 (42.86 %) LAN 3 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (28.57 %) Intrusion Detection 3 2 (28.57 %) MPLS 4 1 (14.29 %) OSPF 4 1 (14.29 %) BGP 4 1 (14.29 %) EIGRP 4 1 (14.29 %) VRRP 4 1 (14.29 %) VPN 4 1 (14.29 %) DNS 4 1 (14.29 %) DHCP 4 1 (14.29 %) PSTN 4 1 (14.29 %) SDH	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Engineer 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Support 1 3 (42.86 %) Support Engineer 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Senior Network Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Senior Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Network Architect 2 1 (14.29 %) Senior Network Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Senior Network Support Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Architect 2 1 (14.29 %) Analyst	Operating Systems 1 4 (57.14 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows NT 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) Project Planning	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) MCP 1 1 (14.29 %) MCSE 1 1 (14.29 %) CCIE 1 1 (14.29 %) CCSP 1 1 (14.29 %) CCNP 1 1 (14.29 %) CCNA 1 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (28.57 %) OpenView 2 1 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (14.29 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 3 (42.86 %) Cisco 3 2 (28.57 %) 3Com 3 2 (28.57 %) McAfee Security 3 2 (28.57 %) HP 3 2 (28.57 %) Dell 4 1 (14.29 %) Nokia 4 1 (14.29 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (14.29 %) BT