Norfolk Telecoms Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Norfolk 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 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carterton Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Witney Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	33
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	21	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	8.203 %	5.882 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£275
Average daily rate	£385	£275
% change on same period last year	+40.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£360
% change on same period last year	+5.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£7.30	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£7.90	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-60.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£8.50	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.32	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
General Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	256	153
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.368 %	0.156 %
Daily rates quoted	88	79
Average minimum daily rate	£417	£405
Average daily rate	£442	£424
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.85	£18.60
Average hourly rate	£15.13	£21.00
% change on same period last year	-27.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.40	£23.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.03	£26.68
% change on same period last year	+5.05 %
Telecoms East of 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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Norfolk 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 IT contract jobs citing Telecoms across the Norfolk region.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 14 October 2008.

Telecoms
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 14 October 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
Norwich	+9	17	£385	+40.00 %
King's Lynn	-	1	-	-

Telecoms East of England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 11 (47.83 %) Government 2 7 (30.43 %) Marketing 3 5 (21.74 %) Finance 4 4 (17.39 %) Games 4 4 (17.39 %) MS Office 4 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft 4 4 (17.39 %) Electronics 4 4 (17.39 %) Retail 4 4 (17.39 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (13.04 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (13.04 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (4.348 %) C 6 1 (4.348 %) C++ 6 1 (4.348 %) Java 6 1 (4.348 %) Embedded C

6 1 (4.348 %) Embedded C++ 6 1 (4.348 %) Active Directory 6 1 (4.348 %) HP 6 1 (4.348 %) Dell 6 1 (4.348 %) Citrix 6 1 (4.348 %) Siemens 6 1 (4.348 %) Firmware 6 1 (4.348 %) Thin Client 6 1 (4.348 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (4.348 %) Project Management 6 1 (4.348 %) Windows 6 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel 6 1 (4.348 %) Windows XP 6 1 (4.348 %) MS Exchange

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 4 (17.39 %) MS Office 1 4 (17.39 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.348 %) GSM 1 1 (4.348 %) VPN	General 1 11 (47.83 %) Government 2 7 (30.43 %) Marketing 3 5 (21.74 %) Finance 4 4 (17.39 %) Electronics 4 4 (17.39 %) Games 4 4 (17.39 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 5 (21.74 %) Consultant 2 3 (13.04 %) Technical Support 2 3 (13.04 %) Communications Manager 3 2 (8.696 %) Project Manager 3 2 (8.696 %) Procurement Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Procurement Consultant 4 1 (4.348 %) Hardware Engineer 4 1 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Technical Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Telecoms Engineer 4 1 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Technical Project Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Senior Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Head Of IT	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) Firmware 1 1 (4.348 %) Thin Client 1 1 (4.348 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (13.04 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (13.04 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (4.348 %) Project Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (4.348 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.348 %) C 1 1 (4.348 %) C++ 1 1 (4.348 %) Java 1 1 (4.348 %) Embedded C 1 1 (4.348 %) Embedded C++	System Software 1 1 (4.348 %) Active Directory 1 1 (4.348 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 4 (17.39 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.348 %) HP 2 1 (4.348 %) Dell 2 1 (4.348 %) Citrix 2 1 (4.348 %) Siemens 2 1 (4.348 %) Kaspersky 2 1 (4.348 %) Cisco