East of England ISDN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN) 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 ISDN over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset East of England Ely England Essex Exeter Greenford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties London Milton Keynes North East North West Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Solihull South East South West Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	129	155
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	9	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.264 %	0.733 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£300
Average daily rate	£375	£350
% change on same period last year	+7.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£320
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.67	-
Average hourly rate	£20.67	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.58	£32.69
% change on same period last year	-3.37 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	712	819
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.940 %	0.816 %
Daily rates quoted	231	209
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£322
Average daily rate	£313	£343
% change on same period last year	-8.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	100	158
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.52	£25.60
Average hourly rate	£26.87	£27.53
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.21	£29.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
ISDN 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISDN within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire	-	4	-	-
Essex	+3	3	-	-
Suffolk	+4	3	-	-
Hertfordshire	+10	1	£375	+7.14 %
Bedfordshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (79.17 %) Firewall 2 16 (66.67 %) LAN 2 16 (66.67 %) Cisco 3 14 (58.33 %) Windows 4 13 (54.17 %) Microsoft 5 11 (45.83 %) Active Directory 5 11 (45.83 %) TCP/IP 5 11 (45.83 %) VoIP 5 11 (45.83 %) MS Exchange 6 10 (41.67 %) MS Office 6 10 (41.67 %) WAN 6 10 (41.67 %) Windows Server 2003 7 9 (37.50 %) OSPF 7 9 (37.50 %) BGP 7 9 (37.50 %) ADSL

7 9 (37.50 %) Windows NT 7 9 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 7 9 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 8 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 8 8 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 8 (33.33 %) Dell 9 7 (29.17 %) DNS 9 7 (29.17 %) MPLS 9 7 (29.17 %) VPN 10 6 (25.00 %) OpenView 10 6 (25.00 %) HP 10 6 (25.00 %) McAfee Security 10 6 (25.00 %) Frame Relay 10 6 (25.00 %) Telecoms 10 6 (25.00 %) 3Com

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 11 (45.83 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 10 (41.67 %) MS Office 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.167 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 19 (79.17 %) Firewall 2 16 (66.67 %) LAN 3 11 (45.83 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (45.83 %) VoIP 4 10 (41.67 %) WAN 5 9 (37.50 %) OSPF 5 9 (37.50 %) BGP 5 9 (37.50 %) ADSL 6 8 (33.33 %) Intrusion Detection 7 7 (29.17 %) DNS 7 7 (29.17 %) MPLS 7 7 (29.17 %) VPN 8 6 (25.00 %) Frame Relay 9 5 (20.83 %) BGP-4 9 5 (20.83 %) Internet 9 5 (20.83 %) Ethernet 10 4 (16.67 %) DHCP 10 4 (16.67 %) Gigabit Ethernet 10 4 (16.67 %) VLAN 11 3 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server
General 1 6 (25.00 %) Telecoms 2 2 (8.333 %) Finance 3 1 (4.167 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 9 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 1 9 (37.50 %) Network Engineer 1 9 (37.50 %) Network Support Engineer 1 9 (37.50 %) Network Support 2 5 (20.83 %) Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Architect 4 3 (12.50 %) Senior Network Support 4 3 (12.50 %) Senior Network Support Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Network Architect 4 3 (12.50 %) Senior Support Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Senior Network Engineer 4 3 (12.50 %) Network Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Systems Administrator 5 2 (8.333 %) Administrator 5 2 (8.333 %) IT Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Systems Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 2 (8.333 %) IT Administrator 6 1 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Designer 6 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (4.167 %) Handset	Operating Systems 1 14 (58.33 %) Windows 2 10 (41.67 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (37.50 %) Windows NT 3 9 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (16.67 %) UNIX 5 2 (8.333 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (4.167 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (4.167 %) AIX 6 1 (4.167 %) Solaris 6 1 (4.167 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (16.67 %) CCNP 1 4 (16.67 %) CCNA 1 4 (16.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (12.50 %) MCSE 2 3 (12.50 %) MCP	System Software 1 11 (45.83 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 6 (25.00 %) OpenView 2 3 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 16 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 13 (54.17 %) Microsoft 3 8 (33.33 %) Dell 4 6 (25.00 %) HP 4 6 (25.00 %) McAfee Security 4 6 (25.00 %) 3Com 5 2 (8.333 %) BT 5 2 (8.333 %) Symantec 5 2 (8.333 %) Sophos 5 2 (8.333 %) VERITAS 5 2 (8.333 %) Red Hat 5 2 (8.333 %) Tandberg 6 1 (4.167 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (4.167 %) Avaya 6 1 (4.167 %) Oracle 6 1 (4.167 %) IBM