Lancashire VoIP Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Lancashire region.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chesterfield Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire London Luton Manchester Middlesex Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redditch Scotland South East South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	20	18	31
Rank change year-on-year	-2 +13
Matching contract IT job ads	1	12	10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire	0.667 %	4.461 %	2.114 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category	12.50 %	40.00 %	15.63 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0	3
Average daily rate	-	-	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£344	£325
% change year-on-year	+3.630 % +5.760 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8	0
Average hourly rate	-	£32.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.50	£22.50	£25.00
% change year-on-year	-22.22 % -10.00 %
All Communications & Networking Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	8	30	64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire	5.333 %	11.15 %	13.53 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0	16
Average daily rate	£240	-	£290
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£237	-	£205
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£245	-	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£338	£325
% change year-on-year	-3.700 % +3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	13	3
Average hourly rate	£14.13	£32.50	£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-56.53 % -
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£24.00	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+4.160 % -12.72 %
VoIP North West

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.

VoIP
Demand Trend

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

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VoIP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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	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
Preston	+5	1	-	-
Blackburn	0	1	-	-
Burnley	-	1	-	-
Chorley	-	1	-	-

VoIP North West

VoIP
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 2 (100.00 %) C 1 2 (100.00 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (100.00 %) Embedded C 1 2 (100.00 %) Validation 1 2 (100.00 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (50.00 %) Military

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) TCP/IP	General 1 1 (50.00 %) Military
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Software Engineer 1 2 (100.00 %) Embedded Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (100.00 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) C 1 2 (100.00 %) Embedded C
Qualifications 1 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared