The first table below looks at the demand for Broadband skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Broadband over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the London 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Broadband
Rank 328 336 353
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +17
Contract jobs citing Broadband 53 66 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.244% 0.246% 0.264%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.856% 1.799% 2.436%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 56
Average daily rate £388 £388 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +14.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £242 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £300 £390
% change year-on-year
+30.83% -23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £17.50 £13.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.61% -10.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.69 £27.50 £11.88
% change year-on-year
-61.12% +131.57%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2856 3668 3325
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.16% 13.66% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1745 2236 1921
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £241 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 146 208
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £19.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +16.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Broadband
England

Broadband
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Broadband across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

London Broadband Jobs Demand Trend

Broadband
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Broadband across the London region.

London Broadband Daily Rate Trend

Broadband
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Broadband across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Broadband Daily Rate Histogram

Broadband
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Broadband across the London region.

London Broadband Hourly Rate Trend

Broadband
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Broadband within the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
City of London +20 13 £250 -36.70%
Isleworth - 6 - -
Hammersmith +2 1 £400 -2.43%
Croydon - 1 £215 -
Broadband
England

Broadband
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 39 (43.33%) Telecoms
2 36 (40.00%) MS Office
3 31 (34.44%) Windows
4 30 (33.33%) VPN
4 30 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 29 (32.22%) Blackberry
6 26 (28.89%) 3G
6 26 (28.89%) Active Directory
7 25 (27.78%) MS Visio
7 25 (27.78%) Finance
8 24 (26.67%) Banking
9 16 (17.78%) Dell
10 11 (12.22%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (12.22%) Degree
10 11 (12.22%) Windows 7
10 11 (12.22%) Root Cause Analysis
11 9 (10.00%) Windows XP
11 9 (10.00%) Citrix
11 9 (10.00%) SQL
12 8 (8.889%) Oracle
12 8 (8.889%) MS Excel
12 8 (8.889%) Statistical Analysis
12 8 (8.889%) Data Analysis
13 7 (7.778%) Marketing
13 7 (7.778%) SharePoint
13 7 (7.778%) ITIL
13 7 (7.778%) ADSL
14 6 (6.667%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (6.667%) Business Objects
14 6 (6.667%) SAP

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (3.333%) HTML
2 2 (2.222%) XML
3 1 (1.111%) Flash
3 1 (1.111%) Velocity
3 1 (1.111%) WCF
3 1 (1.111%) WF
3 1 (1.111%) Symfony
3 1 (1.111%) RESTful
3 1 (1.111%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.111%) HTML5
3 1 (1.111%) CSS3
3 1 (1.111%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (1.111%) .NET
3 1 (1.111%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.111%) CSS
3 1 (1.111%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (7.778%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (5.556%) MS Exchange
4 3 (3.333%) Apache
5 2 (2.222%) SAS
6 1 (1.111%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.111%) CMS
6 1 (1.111%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (1.111%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 36 (40.00%) MS Office
2 25 (27.78%) MS Visio
3 8 (8.889%) MS Excel
4 3 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.111%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 30 (33.33%) VPN
2 26 (28.89%) 3G
3 11 (12.22%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (7.778%) ADSL
5 5 (5.556%) Internet
6 4 (4.444%) LAN
6 4 (4.444%) LLU
7 3 (3.333%) LTE
7 3 (3.333%) 4G
7 3 (3.333%) Wireless
8 2 (2.222%) BSS
8 2 (2.222%) HTTP
9 1 (1.111%) SNMP
9 1 (1.111%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.111%) DNS
9 1 (1.111%) UMTS
9 1 (1.111%) GSM
9 1 (1.111%) MPLS
9 1 (1.111%) OSPF
9 1 (1.111%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.667%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (4.444%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.222%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.222%) QlikView
3 2 (2.222%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.333%) Selenium
2 2 (2.222%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.111%) Git (software)
General
1 39 (43.33%) Telecoms
2 25 (27.78%) Finance
3 24 (26.67%) Banking
4 7 (7.778%) Marketing
5 3 (3.333%) Billing
5 3 (3.333%) Legal
6 2 (2.222%) Back Office
7 1 (1.111%) Electronics
7 1 (1.111%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.111%) Publishing
7 1 (1.111%) Portuguese Language
7 1 (1.111%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (42.22%) Analyst
2 19 (21.11%) Support Analyst
3 17 (18.89%) Desktop Support
3 17 (18.89%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 17 (18.89%) Desktop Analyst
4 6 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (6.667%) Insight Analyst
4 6 (6.667%) Senior Insight Analyst
5 4 (4.444%) Build Engineer
5 4 (4.444%) Technical Leader
5 4 (4.444%) Senior Product Manager
5 4 (4.444%) Telecoms Business Analyst
5 4 (4.444%) Product Manager
5 4 (4.444%) Developer
5 4 (4.444%) Senior Manager
5 4 (4.444%) Project Manager
5 4 (4.444%) Business Analyst
6 3 (3.333%) Author
6 3 (3.333%) Technical Author
6 3 (3.333%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 29 (32.22%) Blackberry
2 4 (4.444%) iPhone
2 4 (4.444%) iPad
3 3 (3.333%) Digital Media
3 3 (3.333%) IPTV
4 2 (2.222%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.222%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.111%) Handset
5 1 (1.111%) Open Source
5 1 (1.111%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.44%) Windows
2 11 (12.22%) Windows 7
3 9 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (3.333%) Linux
5 2 (2.222%) UNIX
5 2 (2.222%) CentOS
6 1 (1.111%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.111%) NetWare
6 1 (1.111%) Android
6 1 (1.111%) Solaris
6 1 (1.111%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (12.22%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (8.889%) Statistical Analysis
2 8 (8.889%) Data Analysis
3 7 (7.778%) ITIL
4 6 (6.667%) Project Management
4 6 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (5.556%) PRINCE2
6 4 (4.444%) Logistics
6 4 (4.444%) Business Analysis
6 4 (4.444%) Product Management
7 3 (3.333%) Process Improvement
7 3 (3.333%) Matrix Management
8 2 (2.222%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (2.222%) TDD
8 2 (2.222%) Content Management
8 2 (2.222%) Performance Improvement
8 2 (2.222%) Analytics
8 2 (2.222%) Process Management
8 2 (2.222%) Change Management
8 2 (2.222%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.00%) SQL
2 6 (6.667%) VB
3 3 (3.333%) PHP
4 2 (2.222%) Java
5 1 (1.111%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.111%) C
5 1 (1.111%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Degree
2 5 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (4.444%) MCSE
4 3 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (3.333%) ACCA
5 2 (2.222%) CIMA
5 2 (2.222%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 2 (2.222%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.222%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.222%) PMP
5 2 (2.222%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.111%) CCNP
6 1 (1.111%) CCIP
6 1 (1.111%) ISEB
6 1 (1.111%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.111%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.333%) SLA
1 3 (3.333%) QA
2 2 (2.222%) GAAP
System Software
1 26 (28.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.333%) Terminal Server
3 1 (1.111%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (4.444%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.78%) Dell
3 9 (10.00%) Citrix
4 8 (8.889%) Oracle
5 6 (6.667%) Business Objects
5 6 (6.667%) SAP
5 6 (6.667%) BT
6 3 (3.333%) Apple
7 2 (2.222%) Minitab
7 2 (2.222%) Cisco
8 1 (1.111%) Avaya
8 1 (1.111%) Juniper
8 1 (1.111%) Lotus
8 1 (1.111%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.111%) VMware
8 1 (1.111%) Adobe
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