The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Hemel Hempstead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our General category for the Hemel Hempstead 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 4 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
-3 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 7 37 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 15.56% 37.37% 28.57%
As % of the General category 50.00% 74.00% 52.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £350 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £329 £340
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -1.58%
All of the General Category
Hemel Hempstead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
14 50 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 31.11% 50.51% 53.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 10
Average daily rate £85 £275 £120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-69.09% +129.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +242.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
Hertfordshire

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (27.50%) Windows
4 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (20.00%) SQL
4 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 8 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 8 (20.00%) .NET
4 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
5 7 (17.50%) Data Management
5 7 (17.50%) 2G
6 6 (15.00%) Business Analysis
6 6 (15.00%) Symantec
6 6 (15.00%) MS Excel
7 5 (12.50%) DTS
7 5 (12.50%) ATM
7 5 (12.50%) ADO.NET
7 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET
7 5 (12.50%) Web Services
7 5 (12.50%) DHTML
7 5 (12.50%) HTML
7 5 (12.50%) VBScript
7 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
7 5 (12.50%) FTP
7 5 (12.50%) Ajax
7 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (12.50%) jQuery

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 8 (20.00%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) ADO.NET
2 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 5 (12.50%) Web Services
2 5 (12.50%) DHTML
2 5 (12.50%) HTML
2 5 (12.50%) Ajax
2 5 (12.50%) jQuery
2 5 (12.50%) WinForms
3 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (5.000%) MS Exchange
1 2 (5.000%) IIS
1 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.500%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (2.500%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) 2G
2 5 (12.50%) ATM
2 5 (12.50%) FTP
3 4 (10.00%) Firewall
3 4 (10.00%) LTE
3 4 (10.00%) DHCP
3 4 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 4 (10.00%) DNS
4 3 (7.500%) SDH
4 3 (7.500%) 3G
5 2 (5.000%) NAS
5 2 (5.000%) SAN
6 1 (2.500%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (2.500%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.500%) UMTS
6 1 (2.500%) WAN
6 1 (2.500%) GSM
6 1 (2.500%) LAN
6 1 (2.500%) VPN
6 1 (2.500%) Nokia NetAct
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.50%) DTS
2 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (2.500%) OLAP
4 1 (2.500%) MS Access
4 1 (2.500%) GIS
General
1 1 (2.500%) Marketing
1 1 (2.500%) Electronics
1 1 (2.500%) Finance
1 1 (2.500%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
1 9 (22.50%) Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 7 (17.50%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Technical Leader
5 3 (7.500%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.000%) Design Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Designer
6 2 (5.000%) Circuiting Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Storage Architect
7 1 (2.500%) Transmission Planner
7 1 (2.500%) Transmission Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Transmission Planning Engineer
7 1 (2.500%) Architect
7 1 (2.500%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.000%) Clustering
1 2 (5.000%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.000%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.500%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.500%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.500%) DTV
2 1 (2.500%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (5.000%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) Data Management
2 6 (15.00%) Business Analysis
3 5 (12.50%) Change Management
3 5 (12.50%) Change Control
3 5 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (7.500%) Web Development
4 3 (7.500%) Data Analysis
5 2 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.000%) Service Delivery
5 2 (5.000%) Logistics
5 2 (5.000%) Project Management
6 1 (2.500%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (2.500%) Network Management
6 1 (2.500%) ITIL
6 1 (2.500%) ETL
6 1 (2.500%) ERP
6 1 (2.500%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (2.500%) B2B
6 1 (2.500%) Digital Marketing
6 1 (2.500%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
1 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
1 8 (20.00%) VB.NET
2 5 (12.50%) VBScript
3 1 (2.500%) C#
3 1 (2.500%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.500%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.000%) VMware ESX
2 2 (5.000%) vSphere
3 1 (2.500%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.500%) MetaFrame
3 1 (2.500%) XenApp
3 1 (2.500%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) NetBackup
1 4 (10.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (5.000%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (2.500%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Symantec
3 4 (10.00%) IBM
3 4 (10.00%) Ericsson
3 4 (10.00%) Sophos
4 3 (7.500%) Citrix
4 3 (7.500%) Cisco
4 3 (7.500%) VMware
5 2 (5.000%) HP
5 2 (5.000%) McAfee
5 2 (5.000%) Lotus
5 2 (5.000%) Acronis
5 2 (5.000%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 1 (2.500%) Oracle
6 1 (2.500%) SAP
6 1 (2.500%) Cognos
6 1 (2.500%) JD Edwards
6 1 (2.500%) Mapinfo
6 1 (2.500%) Nokia
6 1 (2.500%) i-GRasp