The first table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 23 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 Manchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Rank 70 60 63
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +3
Contract jobs citing VoIP 3 25 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.321% 1.932% 0.566%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.804% 10.37% 5.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 4
Average daily rate £313 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -10.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 £56.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-52.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £22.00 £32.25
% change year-on-year
-10.79% -31.78%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
107 241 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 11.44% 18.62% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 84 36
Average daily rate £292 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £441 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £32.50 £17.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
VoIP
North West

VoIP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester VoIP Jobs Demand Trend

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester VoIP Daily Rate Trend

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester VoIP Hourly Rate Trend

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) CCNA
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) NHS
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
4 1 (11.11%) Maximo
4 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 1 (11.11%) IVR
4 1 (11.11%) Frame Relay
4 1 (11.11%) Foglight
4 1 (11.11%) DameWare
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Mitel
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Data Management
4 1 (11.11%) VSAM
4 1 (11.11%) CMDB

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (11.11%) CICS
2 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (11.11%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) LAN
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) MPLS
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Frame Relay
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (11.11%) CTI
4 1 (11.11%) 3G
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
4 1 (11.11%) X.25
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Network Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Telephony Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Network Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) ICT Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Design Leader
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) IVR
2 1 (11.11%) VSAM
2 1 (11.11%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
2 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Data Management
2 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (11.11%) Network Management
2 1 (11.11%) High Availability
2 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
2 1 (11.11%) ITSM
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCNA
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Foglight
1 1 (11.11%) DameWare
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Mitel
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix
3 1 (11.11%) CA
3 1 (11.11%) Nokia
3 1 (11.11%) Siemens
3 1 (11.11%) Lotus
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya
Manchester, Lancashire
Our client is about to undertake a VOIP project that will run for approx... They require an IT contractor with the following experience: - Strong project management/co-ordination...
Solutions Recruitment
Rate: From £15 to £25 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013