Kent SS7 Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Signaling System 7 (SS7) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SS7 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Signaling System 7 (SS7)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Dorchester Dorset East of England East Sussex England Guildford Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent London Milton Keynes Reading Slough South East South West Suffolk Surrey UK	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	52
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£385
% change on same period last year	+5.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.25	£38.75
% change on same period last year	-6.45 %
Communications & Networking Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	102	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.144 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	34	4
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£342
Average daily rate	£339	£359
% change on same period last year	-5.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.81	£19.55
Average hourly rate	£23.01	£20.61
% change on same period last year	+11.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.21	£21.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
SS7 South East

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.

SS7
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SS7 across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SS7
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SS7 across the Kent region.