Maidenhead Broadband Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Broadband skills within the Maidenhead region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Broadband over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Broadband
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Falkirk Glasgow Guildford Gwent Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Milton Keynes Newbury North West Northern Ireland Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	37
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.389 %	5.310 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£350
Average daily rate	£401	£403
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£456
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£337
% change on same period last year	+11.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.52	£20.74
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Communications & Networking Maidenhead
Matching contract IT job ads	72	113
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.113 %
Daily rates quoted	3	53
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£409
Average daily rate	£408	£426
% change on same period last year	-4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£444
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.29	£9.53
Average hourly rate	£10.93	£10.57
% change on same period last year	+3.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.57	£11.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
Broadband Berkshire

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.

Broadband
Demand Trend

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

Broadband
Daily Rate Trend

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

Broadband
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Broadband
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 3 (42.86 %) Perl 1 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 1 3 (42.86 %) Solaris 1 3 (42.86 %) Linux 1 3 (42.86 %) Apache 1 3 (42.86 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (42.86 %) B2B 1 3 (42.86 %) CGI 1 3 (42.86 %) Internet 1 3 (42.86 %) Project Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Wireless 1 3 (42.86 %) Multimedia 1 3 (42.86 %) Marketing 1 3 (42.86 %) Auditing 1 3 (42.86 %) Direct Marketing

1 3 (42.86 %) Problem Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Security 2 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Maidenhead 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 (42.86 %) CGI	Application Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) Apache
Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (42.86 %) Internet 1 3 (42.86 %) Wireless 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Security	General 1 3 (42.86 %) Multimedia 1 3 (42.86 %) Marketing 1 3 (42.86 %) Auditing 2 1 (14.29 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) UNIX Engineer 1 3 (42.86 %) Marketing Manager 1 3 (42.86 %) Marketing Campaign Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Design Engineer	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 1 3 (42.86 %) Solaris 1 3 (42.86 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) B2B 1 3 (42.86 %) Project Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Direct Marketing 1 3 (42.86 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) Perl