The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Gloucestershire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecoms)
Rank 30 49 44
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -5
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 5 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 2.008% 1.934% 1.348%
As % of the General category 9.434% 6.623% 4.196%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
Average daily rate £311 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.31% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £335 £345
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
All of the General Category
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
53 151 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 21.29% 29.21% 32.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 101 47
Average daily rate £375 £380 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% +20.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £300 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 47
Average hourly rate £29.00 £31.25 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.20% -10.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Telecoms
South West

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Gloucestershire Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cheltenham +9 4 £311 - 3
Gloucester +8 1 - -
Tewkesbury - - - -
Cirencester - - - -
Telecoms
South West

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 13 (61.90%) Finance
1 13 (61.90%) DV Cleared
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) Windows
3 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 6 (28.57%) XenApp
4 5 (23.81%) Citrix
5 4 (19.05%) HNC
5 4 (19.05%) VMware
5 4 (19.05%) Degree
6 3 (14.29%) Software Packaging
6 3 (14.29%) VMware ESX
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (14.29%) Client/Server
6 3 (14.29%) MSI
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (14.29%) Windows 7
7 2 (9.524%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (9.524%) SC Cleared
7 2 (9.524%) Sun
7 2 (9.524%) MATLAB
7 2 (9.524%) Simulink
7 2 (9.524%) Project Management
7 2 (9.524%) Service Management
7 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
7 2 (9.524%) SQL
7 2 (9.524%) ITIL
7 2 (9.524%) IBM

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 3 (14.29%) Software Packaging
2 2 (9.524%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Simulink
2 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) Network Security
2 1 (4.762%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.762%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Aerospace
2 2 (9.524%) Automotive
3 1 (4.762%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Citrix Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Citrix Support
2 3 (14.29%) Applications Packager
2 3 (14.29%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) FPGA Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Project Manager
3 2 (9.524%) Desktop Support
3 2 (9.524%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.762%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.762%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.762%) Server Support
4 1 (4.762%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 2 (9.524%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (4.762%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.762%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (9.524%) Project Management
1 2 (9.524%) Service Management
1 2 (9.524%) ITIL
1 2 (9.524%) Time Management
1 2 (9.524%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
2 1 (4.762%) OO
2 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
2 1 (4.762%) Migration
2 1 (4.762%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (4.762%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.524%) MATLAB
2 2 (9.524%) SQL
3 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.762%) Embedded C
3 1 (4.762%) Embedded C++
3 1 (4.762%) C
3 1 (4.762%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) DV Cleared
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) HNC
2 4 (19.05%) Degree
3 2 (9.524%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 6 (28.57%) XenApp
2 3 (14.29%) VMware ESX
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Citrix
2 4 (19.05%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.524%) Sun
4 2 (9.524%) IBM
5 1 (4.762%) Oracle
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco