Hertfordshire Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Hertfordshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	10
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	188	188
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.248 %	0.197 %
As % of the category below	21.66 %	21.39 %
Daily rates quoted	77	118
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£320
Average daily rate	£364	£349
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£338
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£13.00	£22.13
% change on same period last year	-41.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.82	£24.40
% change on same period last year	+5.80 %
General Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	868	879
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.144 %	0.919 %
Daily rates quoted	344	402
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£322
Average daily rate	£390	£344
% change on same period last year	+13.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.55	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£25.58	£22.71
% change on same period last year	+12.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.61	£24.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.46	£26.98
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Telecoms East of 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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Telecoms within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
Watford	+2	12	£453	-4.60 %
St Albans	-5	3	£450	+24.13 %
Stevenage	-9	3	£470	+54.34 %
Welwyn Garden City	-2	1	-	-

Telecoms East of England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 67 (17.36 %) Java 2 59 (15.28 %) Oracle 3 54 (13.99 %) Project Management 4 52 (13.47 %) J2EE 5 47 (12.18 %) PRINCE2 6 46 (11.92 %) Datawarehouse 7 34 (8.808 %) Unix 8 33 (8.549 %) Billing 9 30 (7.772 %) Finance 9 30 (7.772 %) WebLogic 9 30 (7.772 %) Data Modelling 10 27 (6.995 %) GSM 10 27 (6.995 %) Ab Initio 11 25 (6.477 %) CRM 12 24 (6.218 %) 3G

13 23 (5.959 %) Spring 14 22 (5.699 %) Education 14 22 (5.699 %) GPRS 15 21 (5.440 %) Web Development 16 20 (5.181 %) SAP 17 18 (4.663 %) SQL 17 18 (4.663 %) LAN 17 18 (4.663 %) Degree 17 18 (4.663 %) Netezza 18 17 (4.404 %) Marketing 18 17 (4.404 %) SLA 18 17 (4.404 %) Change Management 18 17 (4.404 %) Ericsson 19 16 (4.145 %) Photoshop 19 16 (4.145 %) Flash

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 52 (13.47 %) J2EE 2 23 (5.959 %) Spring 3 15 (3.886 %) Hibernate 3 15 (3.886 %) AJAX 3 15 (3.886 %) WebServices 4 14 (3.627 %) XML 5 13 (3.368 %) J2ME 6 12 (3.109 %) HTML 6 12 (3.109 %) .NET 7 11 (2.850 %) JSP 8 10 (2.591 %) MIDP 9 9 (2.332 %) CSS 10 8 (2.073 %) EJB 11 7 (1.813 %) XHTML 12 6 (1.554 %) Struts 13 5 (1.295 %) MVC 13 5 (1.295 %) UIQ 13 5 (1.295 %) Series 60 13 5 (1.295 %) Servlets 13 5 (1.295 %) Spring MVC	Application Platforms 1 30 (7.772 %) WebLogic 2 12 (3.109 %) JBoss 3 8 (2.073 %) Apache 3 8 (2.073 %) Tomcat 4 4 (1.036 %) SAS 5 3 (0.777 %) CMS 5 3 (0.777 %) SharePoint 5 3 (0.777 %) Tuxedo 5 3 (0.777 %) MTS 5 3 (0.777 %) Resin 5 3 (0.777 %) Mambo 5 3 (0.777 %) Joomla! 5 3 (0.777 %) CoreMedia CMS 6 2 (0.518 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (0.259 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 16 (4.145 %) Photoshop 2 15 (3.886 %) MS Office 3 7 (1.813 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 6 (1.554 %) MS Excel 5 5 (1.295 %) MS Project 6 3 (0.777 %) NASTRAN 7 2 (0.518 %) MS Visio 8 1 (0.259 %) MATLAB 8 1 (0.259 %) SPSS 8 1 (0.259 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 4 (1.036 %) Oracle CRM 2 2 (0.518 %) SAP CRM 3 1 (0.259 %) BASE24 3 1 (0.259 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 27 (6.995 %) GSM 2 24 (6.218 %) 3G 3 22 (5.699 %) GPRS 4 18 (4.663 %) LAN 5 15 (3.886 %) VoIP 5 15 (3.886 %) Internet 6 12 (3.109 %) UMTS 7 11 (2.850 %) WAN 8 10 (2.591 %) SDH 8 10 (2.591 %) 2G 9 8 (2.073 %) WiMAX 9 8 (2.073 %) Firewall 10 7 (1.813 %) HSDPA 10 7 (1.813 %) Broadband 11 6 (1.554 %) C7 11 6 (1.554 %) UWB 11 6 (1.554 %) WLAN 12 5 (1.295 %) SMPP 12 5 (1.295 %) INAP 12 5 (1.295 %) PBX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (11.92 %) Datawarehouse 2 8 (2.073 %) MySQL 3 5 (1.295 %) ETL 4 4 (1.036 %) SQL Server 4 4 (1.036 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (0.777 %) TOAD 6 2 (0.518 %) Reference Data 6 2 (0.518 %) DB2 6 2 (0.518 %) MS Access 6 2 (0.518 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.259 %) DTS 7 1 (0.259 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.259 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 7 1 (0.259 %) SAS Enterprise Miner 7 1 (0.259 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 16 (4.145 %) Flash 2 11 (2.850 %) ERwin 3 4 (1.036 %) Ant 3 4 (1.036 %) JUnit 4 2 (0.518 %) JBuilder 4 2 (0.518 %) Eclipse 4 2 (0.518 %) IntelliJ 5 1 (0.259 %) Log4j 5 1 (0.259 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (0.259 %) JIRA	General 1 33 (8.549 %) Billing 2 30 (7.772 %) Finance 3 22 (5.699 %) Education 4 17 (4.404 %) Marketing 5 15 (3.886 %) Retail 6 8 (2.073 %) Electronics 7 7 (1.813 %) Front Office 8 4 (1.036 %) Mobile Games 8 4 (1.036 %) Games 8 4 (1.036 %) Government 9 3 (0.777 %) Health 9 3 (0.777 %) Aerospace 10 2 (0.518 %) Multimedia 10 2 (0.518 %) Banking 10 2 (0.518 %) General Ledger 11 1 (0.259 %) Financial Institution 11 1 (0.259 %) Construction 11 1 (0.259 %) Electric 11 1 (0.259 %) Law 11 1 (0.259 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 99 (25.65 %) Analyst 2 64 (16.58 %) Developer 3 33 (8.549 %) Project Manager 4 28 (7.254 %) Java Developer 5 26 (6.736 %) Delivery Manager 6 22 (5.699 %) J2EE Developer 7 20 (5.181 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 17 (4.404 %) Architect 9 16 (4.145 %) Datawarehouse Analyst 10 15 (3.886 %) Business Analyst 11 14 (3.627 %) Network Engineer 12 12 (3.109 %) Consultant 12 12 (3.109 %) Senior Analyst 13 11 (2.850 %) Senior Manager 14 10 (2.591 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 14 10 (2.591 %) Test Analyst 14 10 (2.591 %) Design Engineer 15 9 (2.332 %) Web Developer 16 8 (2.073 %) Data Analyst 16 8 (2.073 %) Telecoms Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 13 (3.368 %) German Language 2 12 (3.109 %) Handset 3 5 (1.295 %) IPTV 3 5 (1.295 %) Web 2.0 4 4 (1.036 %) CMDB 4 4 (1.036 %) Multithreading 4 4 (1.036 %) Management Information System 5 3 (0.777 %) DTV 5 3 (0.777 %) IVR 6 2 (0.518 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 2 (0.518 %) N-Tier 6 2 (0.518 %) VHDL 7 1 (0.259 %) PMI 7 1 (0.259 %) Firmware 7 1 (0.259 %) Wiki 7 1 (0.259 %) Data Extraction 7 1 (0.259 %) Mathematics 7 1 (0.259 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 34 (8.808 %) Unix 2 14 (3.627 %) Windows 3 10 (2.591 %) Linux 4 9 (2.332 %) Solaris 5 6 (1.554 %) Windows Mobile 6 5 (1.295 %) Windows NT 7 2 (0.518 %) HPUX 7 2 (0.518 %) VxWorks 8 1 (0.259 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (0.259 %) AIX 8 1 (0.259 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 54 (13.99 %) Project Management 2 47 (12.18 %) PRINCE2 3 30 (7.772 %) Data Modelling 4 25 (6.477 %) CRM 5 21 (5.440 %) Web Development 6 17 (4.404 %) Change Management 7 15 (3.886 %) Security Cleared 7 15 (3.886 %) UML 7 15 (3.886 %) Web Design 8 12 (3.109 %) Migration 9 11 (2.850 %) Network Design 10 10 (2.591 %) Project Planning 10 10 (2.591 %) Service Management 11 9 (2.332 %) ITIL 11 9 (2.332 %) Risk Analysis 11 9 (2.332 %) Matrix Management 11 9 (2.332 %) Business Analysis 11 9 (2.332 %) Agile Software Development 12 8 (2.073 %) Fault Management 12 8 (2.073 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 67 (17.36 %) Java 2 18 (4.663 %) SQL 3 10 (2.591 %) PHP 4 8 (2.073 %) C 5 7 (1.813 %) JavaScript 6 6 (1.554 %) C++ 7 5 (1.295 %) Shell Script 8 4 (1.036 %) Perl 9 2 (0.518 %) Erlang 9 2 (0.518 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (0.518 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (0.518 %) VC++ 9 2 (0.518 %) Embedded C 9 2 (0.518 %) Embedded C++ 10 1 (0.259 %) DHTML 10 1 (0.259 %) C# 10 1 (0.259 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 18 (4.663 %) Degree 2 12 (3.109 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 9 (2.332 %) Cisco Certification 4 8 (2.073 %) ISEB 5 5 (1.295 %) CCNA 6 4 (1.036 %) Chartered Engineer 6 4 (1.036 %) CISSP 7 3 (0.777 %) CISA 7 3 (0.777 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (0.777 %) CCIP 7 3 (0.777 %) CIPD 8 2 (0.518 %) MCSE 8 2 (0.518 %) CCDP 8 2 (0.518 %) CCIE 9 1 (0.259 %) CCSA 9 1 (0.259 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.259 %) PMP 9 1 (0.259 %) PMI Certification 9 1 (0.259 %) CCNP 9 1 (0.259 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (4.404 %) SLA 2 6 (1.554 %) WAI 3 4 (1.036 %) PCI DSS 4 1 (0.259 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 1 (0.259 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.259 %) Oracle RMAN 1 1 (0.259 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (1.036 %) Netcool 2 1 (0.259 %) HP Data Protector 2 1 (0.259 %) Netcool/Proviso	Vendors 1 59 (15.28 %) Oracle 2 27 (6.995 %) Ab Initio 3 20 (5.181 %) SAP 4 18 (4.663 %) Netezza 5 17 (4.404 %) Ericsson 6 15 (3.886 %) Nortel 7 14 (3.627 %) Cisco 8 11 (2.850 %) BT 8 11 (2.850 %) Nokia 9 9 (2.332 %) Amdocs 9 9 (2.332 %) BEA 10 8 (2.073 %) Microsoft 11 6 (1.554 %) Sun 12 5 (1.295 %) CheckPoint 13 4 (1.036 %) Business Objects 13 4 (1.036 %) Symbian 13 4 (1.036 %) Siebel 13 4 (1.036 %) Siemens 13 4 (1.036 %) Avaya 14 3 (0.777 %) Mapinfo