Manchester Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Manchester 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 15 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 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 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	35
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	79	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	15.55 %	10.77 %
Daily rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£310
Average daily rate	£338	£348
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£323
% change on same period last year	+9.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£44.29	£11.93
Average hourly rate	£48.21	£12.71
% change on same period last year	+279.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£52.14	£13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.78	£23.61
% change on same period last year	+9.21 %
General Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	508	297
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.652 %	0.334 %
Daily rates quoted	157	78
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£326
Average daily rate	£361	£344
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.58	£17.48
Average hourly rate	£23.34	£18.73
% change on same period last year	+24.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.10	£19.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£26.00
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Telecoms 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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Manchester 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 Manchester 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	Bury	-1	1	£350	-

Telecoms North West

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester 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 19 (16.10 %) 3G 1 19 (16.10 %) SLA 2 17 (14.41 %) Datawarehouse 3 16 (13.56 %) Business Intelligence 4 14 (11.86 %) Knowledge Management 4 14 (11.86 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 14 (11.86 %) Data Modelling 4 14 (11.86 %) MS Visio 4 14 (11.86 %) Risk Assessment 5 11 (9.322 %) Oracle 5 11 (9.322 %) VoIP 6 10 (8.475 %) WAN 6 10 (8.475 %) Finance 7 9 (7.627 %) SQL 7 9 (7.627 %) MS Excel

7 9 (7.627 %) Mitel 8 8 (6.780 %) RNC 8 8 (6.780 %) Java 8 8 (6.780 %) PBX 8 8 (6.780 %) Project Management 9 7 (5.932 %) Ericsson 9 7 (5.932 %) Cramer 9 7 (5.932 %) Cisco 9 7 (5.932 %) Microsoft 9 7 (5.932 %) J2EE 9 7 (5.932 %) Unix 10 6 (5.085 %) ITIL 10 6 (5.085 %) HTML 10 6 (5.085 %) LAN 11 5 (4.237 %) PL/SQL

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (5.932 %) J2EE 2 6 (5.085 %) HTML 3 4 (3.390 %) JSP 4 3 (2.542 %) XML 5 2 (1.695 %) .NET 5 2 (1.695 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (1.695 %) Spring 5 2 (1.695 %) AJAX 5 2 (1.695 %) CSS 5 2 (1.695 %) LINQ 6 1 (0.847 %) Ruby on Rails 6 1 (0.847 %) EJB 6 1 (0.847 %) Middleware 6 1 (0.847 %) Hibernate 6 1 (0.847 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.847 %) JBoss 1 1 (0.847 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (0.847 %) Portal Infranet 1 1 (0.847 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 14 (11.86 %) MS Visio 2 9 (7.627 %) MS Excel 3 3 (2.542 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.695 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 19 (16.10 %) 3G 2 11 (9.322 %) VoIP 3 10 (8.475 %) WAN 4 8 (6.780 %) PBX 4 8 (6.780 %) RNC 5 6 (5.085 %) LAN 6 4 (3.390 %) Wi-Fi 6 4 (3.390 %) IP Telephony 7 3 (2.542 %) VPN 8 2 (1.695 %) GSM 8 2 (1.695 %) ATM 8 2 (1.695 %) SDH 8 2 (1.695 %) UMTS 9 1 (0.847 %) SMS 9 1 (0.847 %) WLAN 9 1 (0.847 %) GPRS 9 1 (0.847 %) CTI 9 1 (0.847 %) Internet 9 1 (0.847 %) Ethernet 9 1 (0.847 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (14.41 %) Datawarehouse 2 3 (2.542 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (1.695 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (1.695 %) SQL Server 3 2 (1.695 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (0.847 %) ETL 4 1 (0.847 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (0.847 %) Rational Rose 1 1 (0.847 %) Eclipse	General 1 10 (8.475 %) Finance 2 4 (3.390 %) Billing 3 3 (2.542 %) Construction 3 3 (2.542 %) Legal 4 1 (0.847 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (0.847 %) Retail 4 1 (0.847 %) Government 4 1 (0.847 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 20 (16.95 %) Analyst 2 15 (12.71 %) Technical Lead 2 15 (12.71 %) Data Centre Engineer 3 13 (11.02 %) Developer 4 10 (8.475 %) Project Manager 5 7 (5.932 %) Telecoms Analyst 6 5 (4.237 %) Business Analyst 6 5 (4.237 %) Coordinator 6 5 (4.237 %) Project Leader 6 5 (4.237 %) Java Developer 6 5 (4.237 %) Technical Project Leader 7 4 (3.390 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 4 (3.390 %) Programme Manager 7 4 (3.390 %) J2EE Developer 7 4 (3.390 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 7 4 (3.390 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 4 (3.390 %) Telecoms Project Manager 7 4 (3.390 %) Process Analyst 8 3 (2.542 %) Consultant 8 3 (2.542 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 1 (0.847 %) Chip and PIN 1 1 (0.847 %) Management Information System 1 1 (0.847 %) IVR 1 1 (0.847 %) CCTV
Operating Systems 1 7 (5.932 %) Unix 2 3 (2.542 %) Windows 2 3 (2.542 %) Linux 2 3 (2.542 %) Windows NT 3 1 (0.847 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.847 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (0.847 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (13.56 %) Business Intelligence 2 14 (11.86 %) Risk Assessment 2 14 (11.86 %) Knowledge Management 2 14 (11.86 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 14 (11.86 %) Data Modelling 3 8 (6.780 %) Project Management 4 6 (5.085 %) ITIL 5 5 (4.237 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (3.390 %) Incident Management 7 2 (1.695 %) Network Planning 7 2 (1.695 %) PRINCE 7 2 (1.695 %) Change Management 7 2 (1.695 %) Migration 7 2 (1.695 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (0.847 %) Time Management 8 1 (0.847 %) ISMS 8 1 (0.847 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (0.847 %) Service Management 8 1 (0.847 %) UML 8 1 (0.847 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 9 (7.627 %) SQL 2 8 (6.780 %) Java 3 5 (4.237 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (1.695 %) C# 4 2 (1.695 %) Korn 5 1 (0.847 %) Smalltalk 5 1 (0.847 %) Ruby 5 1 (0.847 %) C	Qualifications 1 4 (3.390 %) CCIE 1 4 (3.390 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (2.542 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (2.542 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 3 (2.542 %) CCNA 2 3 (2.542 %) Degree 2 3 (2.542 %) MCSE 3 2 (1.695 %) PMP 3 2 (1.695 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (0.847 %) CCDP 4 1 (0.847 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.847 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 19 (16.10 %) SLA 2 1 (0.847 %) BS7799 2 1 (0.847 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (2.542 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 11 (9.322 %) Oracle 2 9 (7.627 %) Mitel 3 7 (5.932 %) Cisco 3 7 (5.932 %) Microsoft 3 7 (5.932 %) Ericsson 3 7 (5.932 %) Cramer 4 3 (2.542 %) Ab Initio 4 3 (2.542 %) Brio 4 3 (2.542 %) Hyperion 4 3 (2.542 %) Business Objects 4 3 (2.542 %) SAP 4 3 (2.542 %) BT 5 2 (1.695 %) Nortel 5 2 (1.695 %) Nokia 6 1 (0.847 %) Mapinfo 6 1 (0.847 %) Teradata 6 1 (0.847 %) VMware 6 1 (0.847 %) Citrix 6 1 (0.847 %) Genesys 6 1 (0.847 %) IBM