The first table below looks at the demand for ATM skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATM over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Rank 371 269 374
Rank change year-on-year
-102 +105
Contract jobs citing ATM 148 348 209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.356% 0.652% 0.366%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.425% 4.146% 2.792%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 88 47
Average daily rate £285 £368 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.44% +13.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £220 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £469 £475 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-18.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
Average hourly rate £8.13 £12.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.29% +9.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- +34.14%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6103 8393 7485
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.70% 15.72% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3062 3926 3458
Average daily rate £350 £366 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.29% +4.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 565 757
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
ATM
UK

ATM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ATM across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England ATM Jobs Demand Trend

ATM
Daily Rate Trend

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

England ATM Daily Rate Trend

ATM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ATM across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England ATM Daily Rate Histogram

ATM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ATM Hourly Rate Trend

ATM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATM within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
South East -56 87 £285 +3.63%
London +20 32 £300 -25.00%
North West +10 8 £220 -24.13%
South West +7 6 £85 -80.00%
West Midlands -9 4 £90 -47.05%
Yorkshire -21 4 £505 +18.82%
North East - 2 - -
East of England +7 1 - -
ATM
UK

ATM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ATM 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 ATM.

1 183 (57.19%) Telecoms
2 120 (37.50%) SDH
3 116 (36.25%) 3G
4 115 (35.94%) Ethernet
5 84 (26.25%) 2G
6 79 (24.69%) Project Management
7 74 (23.13%) Ericsson
8 70 (21.88%) Nokia Siemens Networks
9 69 (21.56%) LTE
10 66 (20.63%) MPLS
11 64 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
12 43 (13.44%) Huawei
13 42 (13.13%) Finance
14 35 (10.94%) Cisco
15 29 (9.063%) SLA
15 29 (9.063%) Banking
16 28 (8.750%) DWDM
17 26 (8.125%) Resource Management
18 25 (7.813%) NEC
18 25 (7.813%) LAN
19 24 (7.500%) WAN
19 24 (7.500%) Linux
19 24 (7.500%) ITIL
19 24 (7.500%) Network Design
19 24 (7.500%) RNC
20 23 (7.188%) UMTS
21 21 (6.563%) BGP
21 21 (6.563%) Cisco Certification
21 21 (6.563%) OSPF
22 20 (6.250%) TCP/IP

ATM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ATM 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 ATM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (2.813%) .NET
2 8 (2.500%) ASP.NET
3 4 (1.250%) XML
4 3 (0.938%) CSS
4 3 (0.938%) HTML5
4 3 (0.938%) CSS3
5 2 (0.625%) ASP
5 2 (0.625%) HTML
6 1 (0.313%) Middleware
6 1 (0.313%) COM
6 1 (0.313%) JSP
6 1 (0.313%) jQuery
6 1 (0.313%) LINQ
6 1 (0.313%) Dojo
6 1 (0.313%) Sass
6 1 (0.313%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.313%) SAS
1 1 (0.313%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.813%) MS Excel
2 8 (2.500%) MS Office
3 4 (1.250%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (1.250%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.625%) OmniGraffle
4 2 (0.625%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.625%) Open Workbench
4 2 (0.625%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.625%) MS Project
4 2 (0.625%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (1.875%) BASE24
2 5 (1.563%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.313%) Minerva
3 1 (0.313%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 120 (37.50%) SDH
2 116 (36.25%) 3G
3 115 (35.94%) Ethernet
4 84 (26.25%) 2G
5 69 (21.56%) LTE
6 66 (20.63%) MPLS
7 64 (20.00%) Radio Access Network
8 28 (8.750%) DWDM
9 25 (7.813%) LAN
10 24 (7.500%) WAN
10 24 (7.500%) RNC
11 23 (7.188%) UMTS
12 21 (6.563%) BGP
12 21 (6.563%) OSPF
13 20 (6.250%) TCP/IP
13 20 (6.250%) VPN
13 20 (6.250%) 3GPP
13 20 (6.250%) GSM
14 19 (5.938%) UTRAN
15 15 (4.688%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.500%) NoSQL
1 8 (2.500%) Big Data
2 6 (1.875%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.563%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (1.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (1.250%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (1.250%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (1.250%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.625%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.625%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.625%) MS Access
6 1 (0.313%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.313%) DB2
6 1 (0.313%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.563%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (0.625%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.313%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.313%) WinRunner
General
1 183 (57.19%) Telecoms
2 42 (13.13%) Finance
3 29 (9.063%) Banking
4 15 (4.688%) Front Office
5 11 (3.438%) Retail
5 11 (3.438%) Back Office
6 10 (3.125%) Military
7 5 (1.563%) Electronics
7 5 (1.563%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.250%) Advertising
9 2 (0.625%) French Language
9 2 (0.625%) German Language
9 2 (0.625%) Polish Language
10 1 (0.313%) Marketing
10 1 (0.313%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.313%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 71 (22.19%) Design Engineer
2 70 (21.88%) Transmission Engineer
3 26 (8.125%) Project Manager
4 23 (7.188%) RAN Engineer
5 22 (6.875%) Analyst
6 18 (5.625%) Field Engineer
7 16 (5.000%) Consultant
8 15 (4.688%) Architect
9 14 (4.375%) Network Engineer
10 13 (4.063%) ATM Engineer
11 12 (3.750%) Technical Leader
12 11 (3.438%) Test Engineer
13 10 (3.125%) Back Office Engineer
13 10 (3.125%) Administrator
14 8 (2.500%) Transmission Planner
14 8 (2.500%) Service Analyst
15 7 (2.188%) Service Desk Analyst
15 7 (2.188%) Network Architect
16 6 (1.875%) Access Transmission Engineer
16 6 (1.875%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.250%) Management Information System
2 18 (5.625%) EPoS
3 17 (5.313%) Handset
4 8 (2.500%) EMV
5 7 (2.188%) PMI
5 7 (2.188%) Open Source
6 5 (1.563%) Chip and PIN
6 5 (1.563%) EFT
6 5 (1.563%) EFTPOS
6 5 (1.563%) Online Banking
7 4 (1.250%) Smartcard
8 3 (0.938%) Data Integration
8 3 (0.938%) CMDB
9 2 (0.625%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.313%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.313%) Device Driver
10 1 (0.313%) APACS
10 1 (0.313%) CESG
10 1 (0.313%) CESG CLAS
10 1 (0.313%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.500%) Linux
2 20 (6.250%) Windows
3 15 (4.688%) UNIX
4 8 (2.500%) Solaris
5 5 (1.563%) AIX
6 4 (1.250%) Oracle Linux
6 4 (1.250%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (1.250%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (0.938%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.938%) Android
7 3 (0.938%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.625%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.625%) SUSE
9 1 (0.313%) MVS
9 1 (0.313%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (24.69%) Project Management
2 26 (8.125%) Resource Management
3 24 (7.500%) ITIL
3 24 (7.500%) Network Design
4 20 (6.250%) PRINCE2
5 18 (5.625%) Network Management
6 16 (5.000%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (4.688%) Capacity Planning
7 15 (4.688%) Migration
8 14 (4.375%) Validation
9 13 (4.063%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (3.750%) E-Commerce
10 12 (3.750%) ETL
11 11 (3.438%) Configuration Management
11 11 (3.438%) Fault Management
12 10 (3.125%) Change Management
12 10 (3.125%) Risk Management
13 9 (2.813%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (2.813%) eTOM
13 9 (2.813%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (4.688%) C
2 13 (4.063%) Perl
3 10 (3.125%) SQL
4 9 (2.813%) Java
5 5 (1.563%) C++
6 3 (0.938%) Korn
7 2 (0.625%) VB
7 2 (0.625%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.313%) PHP
8 1 (0.313%) C#
8 1 (0.313%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (6.563%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (5.625%) Security Cleared
3 15 (4.688%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.375%) CCNA
5 13 (4.063%) CCNP
5 13 (4.063%) Degree
6 8 (2.500%) PMI Certification
7 7 (2.188%) HNC
7 7 (2.188%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.563%) HND
9 4 (1.250%) BC Cleared
9 4 (1.250%) CCIE
10 2 (0.625%) JNCIS
10 2 (0.625%) ISEB
10 2 (0.625%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.625%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.313%) PMP
11 1 (0.313%) CISSP
11 1 (0.313%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.313%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.063%) SLA
2 7 (2.188%) ISO 8583
2 7 (2.188%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.875%) QA
4 4 (1.250%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.938%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.625%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (2.500%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.250%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (1.250%) Xen
2 4 (1.250%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.250%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.625%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (1.563%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (0.938%) Control-M
2 3 (0.938%) Cisco IPCC
2 3 (0.938%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (0.313%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 74 (23.13%) Ericsson
2 70 (21.88%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 43 (13.44%) Huawei
4 35 (10.94%) Cisco
5 25 (7.813%) NEC
6 19 (5.938%) Cramer
7 18 (5.625%) BT
8 16 (5.000%) Nokia
9 15 (4.688%) Microsoft
10 13 (4.063%) Juniper
11 11 (3.438%) Oracle
12 10 (3.125%) HP
13 8 (2.500%) VMware
13 8 (2.500%) Remedy
13 8 (2.500%) Citrix
14 7 (2.188%) IBM
14 7 (2.188%) Nortel
14 7 (2.188%) Niku
15 6 (1.875%) Greenplum
15 6 (1.875%) Business Objects
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