Manchester IP Telephony Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IP Telephony skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IP Telephony over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Cleethorpes Coventry Cumbria Derbyshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Feltham Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Pontefract Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sevenoaks South East South Wales South West Stockport Surbiton Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	57
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	9	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	4.762 %	6.395 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£367
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£270	£373
% change on same period last year	-27.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£55.00	£21.50
% change on same period last year	+155.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£60.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.52	£21.63
% change on same period last year	+31.82 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	189	172
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.252 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	27	27
Average minimum daily rate	£465	£264
Average daily rate	£483	£278
% change on same period last year	+73.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£501	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.92	£19.63
Average hourly rate	£31.52	£21.73
% change on same period last year	+45.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.11	£23.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
IP Telephony North West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IP Telephony across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IP Telephony within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Stockport	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony.

1 14 (82.35 %) Cisco 2 9 (52.94 %) WAN 2 9 (52.94 %) LAN 3 7 (41.18 %) Cisco Certification 4 6 (35.29 %) CCNA 5 5 (29.41 %) Telecoms 5 5 (29.41 %) VoIP 5 5 (29.41 %) VPN 6 4 (23.53 %) Construction 6 4 (23.53 %) CCIE 6 4 (23.53 %) MCSE 6 4 (23.53 %) Windows 6 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (17.65 %) Active Directory 8 2 (11.76 %) Nortel

8 2 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 8 2 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 8 2 (11.76 %) DNS 8 2 (11.76 %) DHCP 8 2 (11.76 %) TCP/IP 8 2 (11.76 %) Symposium 9 1 (5.882 %) Mitel 9 1 (5.882 %) Northgate 9 1 (5.882 %) CCTV 9 1 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 1 (5.882 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 1 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 9 1 (5.882 %) VMware 9 1 (5.882 %) Business Continuity

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (5.882 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 9 (52.94 %) LAN 1 9 (52.94 %) WAN 2 5 (29.41 %) VoIP 2 5 (29.41 %) VPN 3 2 (11.76 %) DNS 3 2 (11.76 %) Symposium 3 2 (11.76 %) DHCP 3 2 (11.76 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (5.882 %) SAN
General 1 5 (29.41 %) Telecoms 2 4 (23.53 %) Construction 3 1 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (5.882 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (41.18 %) Network Support 2 5 (29.41 %) Technical Project Leader 2 5 (29.41 %) Project Leader 3 2 (11.76 %) Project Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Technical Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (5.882 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Administrator 4 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Citrix Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Citrix Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) Blackberry 1 1 (5.882 %) Tandem 1 1 (5.882 %) CCTV	Operating Systems 1 4 (23.53 %) Windows 2 2 (11.76 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (5.882 %) Windows XP 3 1 (5.882 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (5.882 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 2 1 (5.882 %) Business Continuity	Programming Languages 1 1 (5.882 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 7 (41.18 %) Cisco Certification 2 6 (35.29 %) CCNA 3 4 (23.53 %) Microsoft Certification 3 4 (23.53 %) MCSE 3 4 (23.53 %) CCIE 4 1 (5.882 %) CCNP	System Software 1 3 (17.65 %) Active Directory 2 1 (5.882 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (5.882 %) ISA Server 2 1 (5.882 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors 1 14 (82.35 %) Cisco 2 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 2 2 (11.76 %) Nortel 3 1 (5.882 %) Citrix 3 1 (5.882 %) VMware 3 1 (5.882 %) Mitel 3 1 (5.882 %) Northgate