SDH Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SDH 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 SDH over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 409 404 434
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +30
Contract jobs citing SDH 94 163 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.225% 0.305% 0.245%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.536% 1.948% 1.879%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 12
Average daily rate £273 £380 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.28% -11.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £247
10% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £425 £969
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
-17.64% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
- +61.76%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6120 8366 7238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.67% 15.67% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3067 3924 3355
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
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 £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 560 719
Average hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SDH
UK

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Daily Rate Trend

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

England SDH Daily Rate Trend

SDH
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SDH across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England SDH Daily Rate Histogram

SDH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England SDH Hourly Rate Trend

SDH
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDH within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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 -12 50 £225 -19.64%
London +17 33 £288 -30.30%
North West +16 3 - -
West Midlands +1 3 - -
East of England +12 1 - -
SDH
UK

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing SDH 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 SDH.

1 159 (87.36%) Telecoms
2 126 (69.23%) ATM
3 111 (60.99%) Ethernet
4 59 (32.42%) 3G
5 57 (31.32%) Ericsson
6 56 (30.77%) Huawei
7 52 (28.57%) DWDM
8 51 (28.02%) 2G
9 46 (25.27%) MPLS
10 44 (24.18%) Nokia Siemens Networks
11 39 (21.43%) Project Management
12 29 (15.93%) LTE
13 26 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
14 25 (13.74%) Cisco
15 23 (12.64%) SLA
15 23 (12.64%) NEC
16 20 (10.99%) BT
17 19 (10.44%) UMTS
18 18 (9.890%) GSM
19 16 (8.791%) Security Cleared
20 15 (8.242%) SC Cleared
20 15 (8.242%) Front Office
21 14 (7.692%) OSPF
22 13 (7.143%) Nortel
22 13 (7.143%) WAN
23 12 (6.593%) Cisco Certification
23 12 (6.593%) CCNA
23 12 (6.593%) Nokia
23 12 (6.593%) Juniper
23 12 (6.593%) Alcatel-Lucent

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (0.549%) ASP
Applications
1 3 (1.648%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.099%) MS Project
3 1 (0.549%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 126 (69.23%) ATM
2 111 (60.99%) Ethernet
3 59 (32.42%) 3G
4 52 (28.57%) DWDM
5 51 (28.02%) 2G
6 46 (25.27%) MPLS
7 29 (15.93%) LTE
8 26 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
9 19 (10.44%) UMTS
10 18 (9.890%) GSM
11 14 (7.692%) OSPF
12 13 (7.143%) WAN
13 10 (5.495%) LAN
14 9 (4.945%) Internet
14 9 (4.945%) TCP/IP
14 9 (4.945%) BGP
15 8 (4.396%) EIGRP
15 8 (4.396%) VPN
16 7 (3.846%) RIP
16 7 (3.846%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.099%) MS Access
General
1 159 (87.36%) Telecoms
2 15 (8.242%) Front Office
3 4 (2.198%) Advertising
4 1 (0.549%) Banking
4 1 (0.549%) German Language
4 1 (0.549%) Back Office
4 1 (0.549%) Electronics
4 1 (0.549%) Finance
Job Titles
1 71 (39.01%) Transmission Engineer
2 45 (24.73%) Design Engineer
3 14 (7.692%) Field Engineer
4 13 (7.143%) Provisioning Engineer
5 11 (6.044%) Test Engineer
5 11 (6.044%) Network Engineer
6 10 (5.495%) Transmission Planner
7 7 (3.846%) Commissioning Engineer
7 7 (3.846%) Project Manager
8 6 (3.297%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (2.747%) Test Leader
9 5 (2.747%) Circuiting Engineer
10 4 (2.198%) NOC Engineer
10 4 (2.198%) Technical Leader
10 4 (2.198%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.198%) Architect
11 3 (1.648%) Security Consultant
11 3 (1.648%) Support Engineer
11 3 (1.648%) Consultant
11 3 (1.648%) Installations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.099%) BBC
2 1 (0.549%) CMDB
2 1 (0.549%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.846%) UNIX
2 5 (2.747%) Linux
3 1 (0.549%) Windows
3 1 (0.549%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (21.43%) Project Management
2 11 (6.044%) Network Planning
3 10 (5.495%) Migration
4 9 (4.945%) Network Design
5 6 (3.297%) B2B
6 5 (2.747%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (2.747%) Risk Management
6 5 (2.747%) Business Continuity
6 5 (2.747%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (2.747%) Network Management
7 4 (2.198%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (2.198%) Information Security
7 4 (2.198%) Service Delivery
8 3 (1.648%) PRINCE2
8 3 (1.648%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (1.648%) Network Architecture
9 2 (1.099%) Load Balancing
9 2 (1.099%) Use Case
9 2 (1.099%) Change Management
9 2 (1.099%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.747%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (8.791%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.242%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.593%) CCNA
3 12 (6.593%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (3.846%) CCNP
5 4 (2.198%) JNCIA
6 3 (1.648%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.099%) Degree
7 2 (1.099%) PMP
7 2 (1.099%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.549%) HND
8 1 (0.549%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.64%) SLA
2 5 (2.747%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 57 (31.32%) Ericsson
2 56 (30.77%) Huawei
3 44 (24.18%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 25 (13.74%) Cisco
5 23 (12.64%) NEC
6 20 (10.99%) BT
7 13 (7.143%) Nortel
8 12 (6.593%) Juniper
8 12 (6.593%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 12 (6.593%) Nokia
9 10 (5.495%) Cramer
10 4 (2.198%) Telcordia
11 2 (1.099%) Brocade
11 2 (1.099%) Mapinfo
12 1 (0.549%) Remedy
12 1 (0.549%) Siemens
12 1 (0.549%) Microsoft
12 1 (0.549%) Sun
12 1 (0.549%) Sonus
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