Leeds Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Leeds region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	13
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	40	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.116 %
As % of the category below	8.639 %	24.35 %
Daily rates quoted	21	47
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£247
Average daily rate	£297	£252
% change on same period last year	+18.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£256
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£325
% change on same period last year	+9.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£21.75
% change on same period last year	-49.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.22	£23.76
% change on same period last year	+10.33 %
General Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	463	423
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.600 %	0.475 %
Daily rates quoted	126	105
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£276
Average daily rate	£336	£287
% change on same period last year	+17.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.36	£23.19
Average hourly rate	£17.36	£24.47
% change on same period last year	-29.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.36	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.73	£26.46
% change on same period last year	-2.78 %
Telecoms West Yorkshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Leeds region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 16 (20.51 %) Active Directory 2 15 (19.23 %) Oracle 2 15 (19.23 %) Unix 3 12 (15.38 %) ITIL 4 11 (14.10 %) HPUX 5 9 (11.54 %) SQL 5 9 (11.54 %) Internet 6 8 (10.26 %) .NET 7 7 (8.974 %) Windows 7 7 (8.974 %) Citrix 7 7 (8.974 %) Cisco Certification 7 7 (8.974 %) VERITAS 7 7 (8.974 %) IVR 8 6 (7.692 %) OpenView 8 6 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i

8 6 (7.692 %) Broadband 8 6 (7.692 %) Cisco 8 6 (7.692 %) Microsoft 8 6 (7.692 %) Perl 8 6 (7.692 %) OVSD 8 6 (7.692 %) CMDB 8 6 (7.692 %) AssetCenter 9 5 (6.410 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 5 (6.410 %) VB 9 5 (6.410 %) Java 9 5 (6.410 %) IIS 9 5 (6.410 %) Visual Studio 9 5 (6.410 %) ASP.NET 9 5 (6.410 %) MS Exchange 9 5 (6.410 %) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Leeds region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (10.26 %) .NET 2 5 (6.410 %) ASP.NET 2.0 2 5 (6.410 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (3.846 %) CSS 4 2 (2.564 %) J2EE 4 2 (2.564 %) XML 4 2 (2.564 %) XSL 4 2 (2.564 %) WebSphere 5 1 (1.282 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (1.282 %) AJAX 5 1 (1.282 %) NHibernate 5 1 (1.282 %) MonoRail 5 1 (1.282 %) XHTML 5 1 (1.282 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.410 %) IIS 1 5 (6.410 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (3.846 %) WorkSite 3 2 (2.564 %) Apache 3 2 (2.564 %) Tomcat 4 1 (1.282 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 4 (5.128 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.282 %) MS Project 2 1 (1.282 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (3.846 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (1.282 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 9 (11.54 %) Internet 2 6 (7.692 %) Broadband 3 5 (6.410 %) DNS 3 5 (6.410 %) Firewall 4 3 (3.846 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (2.564 %) SAN 5 2 (2.564 %) VoIP 6 1 (1.282 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (1.282 %) LAN 6 1 (1.282 %) PBX 6 1 (1.282 %) LDAP 6 1 (1.282 %) WAN 6 1 (1.282 %) HTTP 6 1 (1.282 %) IPCC	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2 3 (3.846 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (2.564 %) MS Access 3 2 (2.564 %) MySQL 4 1 (1.282 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (1.282 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (1.282 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (1.282 %) Oracle OWB
Development Applications 1 5 (6.410 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (1.282 %) Subversion 2 1 (1.282 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (1.282 %) TestDirector	General 1 5 (6.410 %) Finance 2 4 (5.128 %) Legal 3 3 (3.846 %) Banking 3 3 (3.846 %) Insurance 3 3 (3.846 %) Pharmaceutical 3 3 (3.846 %) Health 4 2 (2.564 %) Government 5 1 (1.282 %) Billing 5 1 (1.282 %) Education
Job Titles 1 19 (24.36 %) Developer 2 9 (11.54 %) Analyst 3 7 (8.974 %) Network Engineer 4 6 (7.692 %) Project Manager 5 5 (6.410 %) UNIX Engineer 5 5 (6.410 %) Senior Developer 5 5 (6.410 %) Solutions Designer 6 4 (5.128 %) Service Manager 6 4 (5.128 %) Coordinator 6 4 (5.128 %) Consultant 6 4 (5.128 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 4 (5.128 %) Cisco Engineer 7 3 (3.846 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 3 (3.846 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (3.846 %) Service Analyst 8 2 (2.564 %) Web Developer 8 2 (2.564 %) .NET Developer 8 2 (2.564 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (2.564 %) Commercial Manager 8 2 (2.564 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 7 (8.974 %) IVR 2 6 (7.692 %) CMDB 3 5 (6.410 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.282 %) Data Conversion 4 1 (1.282 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 15 (19.23 %) Unix 2 11 (14.10 %) HPUX 3 7 (8.974 %) Windows 4 5 (6.410 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (5.128 %) Solaris 6 3 (3.846 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.38 %) ITIL 2 4 (5.128 %) Service Management 2 4 (5.128 %) Project Management 3 3 (3.846 %) Problem Management 3 3 (3.846 %) Validation 4 2 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (2.564 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.282 %) TDD 5 1 (1.282 %) Web Development 5 1 (1.282 %) Resource Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Document Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Network Design 5 1 (1.282 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (1.282 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Incident Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (1.282 %) Release Management 5 1 (1.282 %) Data Migration 5 1 (1.282 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (1.282 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 9 (11.54 %) SQL 2 6 (7.692 %) Perl 3 5 (6.410 %) VB 3 5 (6.410 %) Java 4 4 (5.128 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (3.846 %) C 5 3 (3.846 %) Shell Script 6 2 (2.564 %) C# 6 2 (2.564 %) VB.NET 6 2 (2.564 %) PHP 7 1 (1.282 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 7 (8.974 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (5.128 %) CCNA 3 3 (3.846 %) CCNP 4 2 (2.564 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (1.282 %) MCP 5 1 (1.282 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (1.282 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (1.282 %) CCDP 5 1 (1.282 %) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (6.410 %) SLA 2 1 (1.282 %) BS15000	System Software 1 16 (20.51 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.282 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 6 (7.692 %) OpenView 1 6 (7.692 %) OVSD 1 6 (7.692 %) AssetCenter 2 5 (6.410 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 15 (19.23 %) Oracle 2 7 (8.974 %) Citrix 2 7 (8.974 %) VERITAS 3 6 (7.692 %) Cisco 3 6 (7.692 %) Microsoft 4 5 (6.410 %) HP 4 5 (6.410 %) Genesys 4 5 (6.410 %) Nortel 4 5 (6.410 %) Open Text 5 3 (3.846 %) Business Objects 5 3 (3.846 %) Empirix 6 2 (2.564 %) ATG 6 2 (2.564 %) KANA 7 1 (1.282 %) Mitel 7 1 (1.282 %) SAP 7 1 (1.282 %) Sun