The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe 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 8 7 8
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 9 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in High Wycombe 19.57% 12.50% 3.774%
As % of the General category 69.23% 31.58% 6.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
Average daily rate £375 £425 £228
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +86.81%
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
High Wycombe
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
13 19 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in High Wycombe 28.26% 39.58% 54.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 13
Average daily rate £375 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £159 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £430 £469
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +172.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Telecoms
Buckinghamshire

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe region.

High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe region.

High Wycombe Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe 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 7 (50.00%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) LAN
2 5 (35.71%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) Programme Management
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
3 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) HTTP
4 3 (21.43%) SLA
4 3 (21.43%) Facebook
5 2 (14.29%) Firewall
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco
5 2 (14.29%) CCNP
5 2 (14.29%) CCNA
5 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (14.29%) VPN
5 2 (14.29%) MPLS
5 2 (14.29%) UNIX
5 2 (14.29%) Linux
6 1 (7.143%) CRM
6 1 (7.143%) ADSL
6 1 (7.143%) ISDN
6 1 (7.143%) ITIL
6 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
6 1 (7.143%) Windows
6 1 (7.143%) VoIP
6 1 (7.143%) NFS

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the High Wycombe 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 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 1 (7.143%) MAPI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) WAN
2 5 (35.71%) LAN
3 4 (28.57%) HTTP
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 2 (14.29%) VPN
4 2 (14.29%) MPLS
4 2 (14.29%) Firewall
5 1 (7.143%) IP Telephony
5 1 (7.143%) BSS
5 1 (7.143%) VLAN
5 1 (7.143%) Ethereal
5 1 (7.143%) Wireshark
5 1 (7.143%) xDSL
5 1 (7.143%) HSRP
5 1 (7.143%) OSPF
5 1 (7.143%) BGP
5 1 (7.143%) DSL
5 1 (7.143%) EIGRP
5 1 (7.143%) L2TP
5 1 (7.143%) SSL
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Project Coordinator
2 4 (28.57%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Network Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) UNIX
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Programme Management
2 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.143%) ITIL
4 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.143%) CRM
4 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.143%) Fault Management
4 1 (7.143%) Network Management
4 1 (7.143%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
1 5 (35.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) CCNP
1 2 (14.29%) CCNA
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) NFS
1 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Facebook
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Juniper
3 1 (7.143%) VMware
3 1 (7.143%) Mitel
3 1 (7.143%) Riverbed
3 1 (7.143%) Foundry
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