The first table below looks at the demand for DWDM 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 DWDM over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Rank 344 382 389
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +7
Contract jobs citing DWDM 33 33 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.152% 0.122% 0.171%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.172% 0.894% 1.567%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 16
Average daily rate £280 £320 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -24.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £250 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £350 £240
% change year-on-year
-50.00% +45.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DWDM
England

DWDM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DWDM Jobs Demand Trend

DWDM
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DWDM Daily Rate Trend

DWDM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DWDM across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London DWDM Daily Rate Histogram

DWDM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London DWDM Hourly Rate Trend

DWDM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DWDM within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +9 4 £280 -27.74%
Docklands, London - 3 £315 -
DWDM
England

DWDM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DWDM 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 DWDM.

1 34 (91.89%) SDH
2 33 (89.19%) Telecoms
3 28 (75.68%) Huawei
4 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
4 10 (27.03%) Cisco
5 8 (21.62%) OSPF
5 8 (21.62%) Network Design
5 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
6 6 (16.22%) Project Management
6 6 (16.22%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (16.22%) Juniper
6 6 (16.22%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 6 (16.22%) Ethernet
7 5 (13.51%) ATM
7 5 (13.51%) CCNA
8 4 (10.81%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (10.81%) JNCIA
8 4 (10.81%) Telcordia
9 3 (8.108%) Brocade
9 3 (8.108%) Migration
9 3 (8.108%) Nortel
9 3 (8.108%) SNMP
9 3 (8.108%) EIGRP
9 3 (8.108%) C
10 2 (5.405%) xDSL
10 2 (5.405%) Junos
10 2 (5.405%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (5.405%) VoIP
10 2 (5.405%) DHCP
10 2 (5.405%) RIP

DWDM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DWDM 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 DWDM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.703%) CSS
1 1 (2.703%) XML
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Office
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 34 (91.89%) SDH
2 8 (21.62%) OSPF
3 6 (16.22%) Ethernet
4 5 (13.51%) ATM
5 4 (10.81%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (8.108%) SNMP
6 3 (8.108%) EIGRP
7 2 (5.405%) xDSL
7 2 (5.405%) Junos
7 2 (5.405%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (5.405%) VoIP
7 2 (5.405%) DHCP
7 2 (5.405%) RIP
7 2 (5.405%) BGP
7 2 (5.405%) Internet
7 2 (5.405%) DNS
7 2 (5.405%) Wireless
8 1 (2.703%) VLAN
8 1 (2.703%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.703%) Wi-Fi
General
1 33 (89.19%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.405%) Banking
3 1 (2.703%) Finance
3 1 (2.703%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.703%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Provisioning Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Commissioning Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Deployment Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Test Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.108%) Transmission Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Installations Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Technical Leader
5 1 (2.703%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.703%) Field Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.703%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (2.703%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.703%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.703%) Device Driver
1 1 (2.703%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.703%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (21.62%) Network Design
2 6 (16.22%) Project Management
3 3 (8.108%) Migration
4 2 (5.405%) Service Delivery
4 2 (5.405%) Workflow
5 1 (2.703%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (2.703%) Change Management
5 1 (2.703%) Security Management
5 1 (2.703%) PLM
5 1 (2.703%) ITIL
5 1 (2.703%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.703%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.703%) Performance Testing
5 1 (2.703%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.108%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (13.51%) CCNA
5 4 (10.81%) JNCIA
6 2 (5.405%) CCNP
7 1 (2.703%) Degree
7 1 (2.703%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) SLA
Vendors
1 28 (75.68%) Huawei
2 10 (27.03%) Cisco
3 6 (16.22%) Juniper
3 6 (16.22%) Alcatel-Lucent
4 4 (10.81%) Telcordia
5 3 (8.108%) Brocade
5 3 (8.108%) Nortel
6 2 (5.405%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.703%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.703%) BT
7 1 (2.703%) Microsoft
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