London Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the London 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 16 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 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 Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham 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 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	66
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	706	953
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.906 %	1.071 %
As % of the category below	3.737 %	4.042 %
Daily rates quoted	234	255
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£329
Average daily rate	£397	£346
% change on same period last year	+14.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£422	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£324
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.27	£25.11
Average hourly rate	£30.59	£26.25
% change on same period last year	+16.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.91	£27.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+8.37 %
General London
Matching contract IT job ads	18891	23576
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	24.24 %	26.49 %
Daily rates quoted	8397	9478
Average minimum daily rate	£447	£449
Average daily rate	£482	£481
% change on same period last year	+0.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£518	£513
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	705	839
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.96	£24.14
Average hourly rate	£25.95	£25.75
% change on same period last year	+0.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.94	£27.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.74	£26.10
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Telecoms England

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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Telecoms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the London region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	City of London	+31	131	£418	+19.80 %
2	Docklands, London	-12	13	£428	+22.93 %
3	Uxbridge	-8	9	£409	-
4	Hammersmith	+1	7	£374	-
5	Luton	-	4	£333	-
6	Canary Wharf	-1	3	£315	-
7	Hayes	+3	2	-	-
8	Ilford	-	1	-	-
8	Bromley	-	1	-	-
8	Feltham	-	1	£350	-
8	Romford	-	1	-	-

Telecoms England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the London 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.

1 184 (12.03 %) Finance 2 148 (9.673 %) Java 3 145 (9.477 %) Oracle 4 132 (8.627 %) Cisco 5 124 (8.105 %) Windows 6 121 (7.908 %) Project Management 7 104 (6.797 %) PRINCE2 8 101 (6.601 %) SQL 9 99 (6.471 %) LAN 10 98 (6.405 %) Billing 11 96 (6.275 %) J2EE 12 95 (6.209 %) Banking 13 93 (6.078 %) Unix 14 92 (6.013 %) VoIP 15 86 (5.621 %) Internet

16 79 (5.163 %) WAN 17 78 (5.098 %) Microsoft 18 76 (4.967 %) ITIL 18 76 (4.967 %) JSP 19 74 (4.837 %) CRM 20 73 (4.771 %) Cisco Certification 21 70 (4.575 %) Firewall 22 64 (4.183 %) Migration 22 64 (4.183 %) Agile Software Development 23 61 (3.987 %) Active Directory 24 60 (3.922 %) MPLS 25 57 (3.725 %) SQL Server 26 56 (3.660 %) Struts 26 56 (3.660 %) Linux 27 55 (3.595 %) HTML

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the London 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 96 (6.275 %) J2EE 2 76 (4.967 %) JSP 3 56 (3.660 %) Struts 4 55 (3.595 %) HTML 5 54 (3.529 %) CSS 6 53 (3.464 %) Spring 7 50 (3.268 %) .NET 8 46 (3.007 %) XML 9 44 (2.876 %) Hibernate 10 28 (1.830 %) AJAX 11 27 (1.765 %) EJB 12 26 (1.699 %) XHTML 13 24 (1.569 %) ASP.NET 13 24 (1.569 %) WebServices 13 24 (1.569 %) Servlets 14 20 (1.307 %) JMS 15 18 (1.176 %) WebSphere 16 16 (1.046 %) Adobe Flex 17 11 (0.719 %) XSLT 17 11 (0.719 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 44 (2.876 %) WebLogic 2 42 (2.745 %) JBoss 3 27 (1.765 %) Apache 3 27 (1.765 %) MS Exchange 4 18 (1.176 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 17 (1.111 %) IIS 6 14 (0.915 %) CMS 7 13 (0.850 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 11 (0.719 %) Tomcat 9 10 (0.654 %) SharePoint 10 9 (0.588 %) Lotus Notes 11 8 (0.523 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 5 (0.327 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 5 (0.327 %) Rendezvous 12 5 (0.327 %) TeamSite 13 4 (0.261 %) BizTalk Server 13 4 (0.261 %) SAS 13 4 (0.261 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 4 (0.261 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 3 (0.196 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 47 (3.072 %) MS Office 2 42 (2.745 %) MS Excel 3 32 (2.092 %) MS Project 4 23 (1.503 %) MS Visio 5 16 (1.046 %) MS PowerPoint 6 9 (0.588 %) CA Clarity 7 4 (0.261 %) DeltaView 8 2 (0.131 %) SPSS 9 1 (0.065 %) AutoCAD 9 1 (0.065 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 1 (0.065 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 19 (1.242 %) Singl.eView 2 15 (0.980 %) BusinessWorks 3 14 (0.915 %) TIBCO iProcess 4 3 (0.196 %) Siebel Analytics 4 3 (0.196 %) SAP Oil and Gas 5 2 (0.131 %) SAP Bank Analyzer 5 2 (0.131 %) SAP CRM 5 2 (0.131 %) RMDS 5 2 (0.131 %) Oracle Financials 5 2 (0.131 %) Oracle 11i 6 1 (0.065 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 6 1 (0.065 %) Microsoft CRM 6 1 (0.065 %) Navision 6 1 (0.065 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (0.065 %) Remedy AR System 6 1 (0.065 %) SalesLogix 6 1 (0.065 %) Dynamics AX 6 1 (0.065 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 99 (6.471 %) LAN 2 92 (6.013 %) VoIP 3 86 (5.621 %) Internet 4 79 (5.163 %) WAN 5 70 (4.575 %) Firewall 6 60 (3.922 %) MPLS 7 44 (2.876 %) VPN 8 43 (2.810 %) TCP/IP 9 42 (2.745 %) BGP 10 40 (2.614 %) SDH 11 37 (2.418 %) OSPF 12 32 (2.092 %) BSS 13 31 (2.026 %) Broadband 14 29 (1.895 %) DNS 15 27 (1.765 %) Ethernet 15 27 (1.765 %) Wireless 16 25 (1.634 %) PBX 17 24 (1.569 %) 3G 17 24 (1.569 %) DWDM 18 23 (1.503 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 57 (3.725 %) SQL Server 2 41 (2.680 %) MySQL 3 20 (1.307 %) Datawarehouse 4 15 (0.980 %) RDBMS 4 15 (0.980 %) BusinessObjects 4 15 (0.980 %) Oracle Reports 5 13 (0.850 %) MS Access 6 12 (0.784 %) Crystal Reports 7 11 (0.719 %) Oracle 9i 7 11 (0.719 %) ETL 8 9 (0.588 %) SQL Server 2005 9 8 (0.523 %) Oracle 10g 10 7 (0.458 %) BusinessObjects XI 11 6 (0.392 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 12 4 (0.261 %) DataStage 12 4 (0.261 %) SQL Server 2000 13 3 (0.196 %) SQL Server 7 13 3 (0.196 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 3 (0.196 %) DB2 14 2 (0.131 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 47 (3.072 %) Eclipse 2 34 (2.222 %) Ant 3 23 (1.503 %) TestDirector 4 11 (0.719 %) QuickTest Pro 4 11 (0.719 %) Visual Studio 5 8 (0.523 %) Flash 6 7 (0.458 %) JUnit 7 6 (0.392 %) Oracle Forms 7 6 (0.392 %) Rational Rose 7 6 (0.392 %) WinRunner 8 4 (0.261 %) ProC 8 4 (0.261 %) MSI 8 4 (0.261 %) ClearCase 8 4 (0.261 %) FrontPage 9 3 (0.196 %) InstallShield 10 2 (0.131 %) ClearQuest 10 2 (0.131 %) Subversion 10 2 (0.131 %) Selenium 11 1 (0.065 %) XDoclet 11 1 (0.065 %) Cactus	General 1 184 (12.03 %) Finance 2 98 (6.405 %) Billing 3 95 (6.209 %) Banking 4 55 (3.595 %) Retail 5 47 (3.072 %) Investment Banking 6 41 (2.680 %) Government 7 37 (2.418 %) Marketing 8 24 (1.569 %) Health 9 19 (1.242 %) Legal 10 18 (1.176 %) Education 11 17 (1.111 %) Multimedia 12 14 (0.915 %) Financial Institution 13 12 (0.784 %) Pharmaceutical 13 12 (0.784 %) Publishing 14 11 (0.719 %) Construction 14 11 (0.719 %) Advertising 14 11 (0.719 %) Insurance 15 10 (0.654 %) Auditing 15 10 (0.654 %) Electric 15 10 (0.654 %) Law
Job Titles 1 225 (14.71 %) Developer 2 221 (14.44 %) Analyst 3 208 (13.59 %) Project Manager 4 99 (6.471 %) Consultant 5 81 (5.294 %) Java Developer 6 79 (5.163 %) Business Analyst 7 65 (4.248 %) Architect 8 59 (3.856 %) Administrator 9 56 (3.660 %) Network Engineer 10 53 (3.464 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 49 (3.203 %) J2EE Developer 12 45 (2.941 %) Support Engineer 13 39 (2.549 %) Test Analyst 14 38 (2.484 %) Programme Manager 15 37 (2.418 %) Senior Developer 15 37 (2.418 %) Telecoms Project Manager 16 32 (2.092 %) Support Analyst 17 29 (1.895 %) Senior Java Developer 18 28 (1.830 %) Cisco Engineer 19 26 (1.699 %) Senior Manager	Miscellaneous 1 40 (2.614 %) Handset 2 28 (1.830 %) Blackberry 3 17 (1.111 %) PMI 4 15 (0.980 %) Spanish Language 4 15 (0.980 %) Video Conferencing 5 14 (0.915 %) French Language 6 13 (0.850 %) Asset Management 7 10 (0.654 %) German Language 7 10 (0.654 %) Italian Language 8 9 (0.588 %) ASIC 9 8 (0.523 %) NHS 10 7 (0.458 %) Japanese Language 11 6 (0.392 %) IPTV 11 6 (0.392 %) Web 2.0 11 6 (0.392 %) CCTV 11 6 (0.392 %) Derivative 12 5 (0.327 %) CESG 12 5 (0.327 %) Clustering 12 5 (0.327 %) Portuguese Language 13 4 (0.261 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 124 (8.105 %) Windows 2 93 (6.078 %) Unix 3 56 (3.660 %) Linux 4 39 (2.549 %) Solaris 5 29 (1.895 %) Windows Server 2003 6 24 (1.569 %) Windows 2000 7 19 (1.242 %) Windows XP 8 14 (0.915 %) Windows NT 8 14 (0.915 %) Symbian OS 9 6 (0.392 %) Mac OS X 10 5 (0.327 %) Mac OS X Server 10 5 (0.327 %) Windows Mobile 11 4 (0.261 %) Windows Vista 12 3 (0.196 %) AIX 13 1 (0.065 %) HPUX 13 1 (0.065 %) NetWare 13 1 (0.065 %) OS/2	Processes & Methodologies 1 121 (7.908 %) Project Management 2 104 (6.797 %) PRINCE2 3 76 (4.967 %) ITIL 4 74 (4.837 %) CRM 5 64 (4.183 %) Migration 5 64 (4.183 %) Agile Software Development 6 48 (3.137 %) Service Delivery 7 37 (2.418 %) UML 8 35 (2.288 %) Change Management 9 32 (2.092 %) Service Management 10 31 (2.026 %) OO 11 29 (1.895 %) Stakeholder Management 11 29 (1.895 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 25 (1.634 %) Programme Management 13 24 (1.569 %) Business Analysis 14 23 (1.503 %) Data Migration 15 21 (1.373 %) Problem Management 15 21 (1.373 %) Business Intelligence 16 20 (1.307 %) Supplier Management 17 18 (1.176 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 148 (9.673 %) Java 2 101 (6.601 %) SQL 3 43 (2.810 %) C 4 40 (2.614 %) JavaScript 5 35 (2.288 %) C# 6 29 (1.895 %) Perl 7 27 (1.765 %) C++ 8 24 (1.569 %) PL/SQL 9 11 (0.719 %) Shell Script 10 9 (0.588 %) PHP 11 8 (0.523 %) Embedded C 12 7 (0.458 %) Transact-SQL 13 6 (0.392 %) VB.NET 13 6 (0.392 %) ActionScript 14 4 (0.261 %) VBScript 14 4 (0.261 %) VB 14 4 (0.261 %) DHTML 14 4 (0.261 %) Korn 15 3 (0.196 %) XPath 15 3 (0.196 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 73 (4.771 %) Cisco Certification 2 48 (3.137 %) Degree 3 43 (2.810 %) CCNP 4 36 (2.353 %) CCNA 5 27 (1.765 %) Microsoft Certification 6 22 (1.438 %) MCSE 7 19 (1.242 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 19 (1.242 %) PMI Certification 8 17 (1.111 %) CCIE 9 16 (1.046 %) ISEB 9 16 (1.046 %) PMP 10 10 (0.654 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 10 10 (0.654 %) CCSP 11 9 (0.588 %) ITIL Certification 12 8 (0.523 %) HNC 12 8 (0.523 %) CISSP 13 6 (0.392 %) CCIP 13 6 (0.392 %) MCP 14 5 (0.327 %) CCVP 14 5 (0.327 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (1.699 %) SLA 2 11 (0.719 %) QA 3 4 (0.261 %) ISO9000 4 2 (0.131 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 1 (0.065 %) ISO27001 5 1 (0.065 %) COBIT 5 1 (0.065 %) JSP 440 5 1 (0.065 %) ISO9001 5 1 (0.065 %) BS7799 5 1 (0.065 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 61 (3.987 %) Active Directory 2 13 (0.850 %) VMware ESX 3 5 (0.327 %) PowerConvert 4 3 (0.196 %) ISA Server 5 2 (0.131 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.065 %) Oracle RMAN 6 1 (0.065 %) MSMQ 6 1 (0.065 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 15 (0.980 %) Netcool 2 12 (0.784 %) AssetCenter 3 8 (0.523 %) OpenView 4 7 (0.458 %) MAILsweeper 5 4 (0.261 %) MOM 5 4 (0.261 %) TeMIP 5 4 (0.261 %) Tivoli 6 3 (0.196 %) MIIS 6 3 (0.196 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 3 (0.196 %) WSUS 7 2 (0.131 %) DameWare 7 2 (0.131 %) AppDetective 8 1 (0.065 %) RepliStor 8 1 (0.065 %) OVSD 8 1 (0.065 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 1 (0.065 %) Legato 8 1 (0.065 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 8 1 (0.065 %) BMC PATROL 8 1 (0.065 %) TIBCO InConcert 8 1 (0.065 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 145 (9.477 %) Oracle 2 132 (8.627 %) Cisco 3 78 (5.098 %) Microsoft 4 47 (3.072 %) Remedy 5 43 (2.810 %) HP 6 38 (2.484 %) Nortel 7 34 (2.222 %) Chordiant 8 30 (1.961 %) Ericsson 9 25 (1.634 %) TIBCO 10 23 (1.503 %) IBM 11 21 (1.373 %) Symbian 11 21 (1.373 %) Siebel 12 20 (1.307 %) Avaya 12 20 (1.307 %) Lucent 13 19 (1.242 %) VMware 14 18 (1.176 %) SAP 15 17 (1.111 %) Red Hat 16 15 (0.980 %) CheckPoint 16 15 (0.980 %) Business Objects 17 14 (0.915 %) Juniper