North East Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the North East region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	13
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	58	80
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	22.66 %	25.24 %
Daily rates quoted	33	28
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£277
Average daily rate	£276	£277
% change on same period last year	-0.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£277
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£338
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£25.50	£18.00
% change on same period last year	+41.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.00	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.82	£24.40
% change on same period last year	+5.80 %
General North East
Matching contract IT job ads	256	317
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.337 %	0.331 %
Daily rates quoted	76	92
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£312
Average daily rate	£357	£319
% change on same period last year	+11.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.71	£24.33
Average hourly rate	£27.93	£26.38
% change on same period last year	+5.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.16	£28.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.46	£26.98
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Telecoms 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 North East 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 North East region.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the North East region over the 3 months to 8 July 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 North East region.

Telecoms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Telecoms within the North East region over the 3 months to 8 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
Tyne and Wear	+1	55	£274	-1.22 %
Northumberland	-	1	£300	-

Telecoms England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 22 (24.44 %) Government 2 19 (21.11 %) Security Cleared 3 16 (17.78 %) Genesys 4 13 (14.44 %) Oracle 4 13 (14.44 %) Cisco 5 12 (13.33 %) VoIP 5 12 (13.33 %) ITIL 5 12 (13.33 %) SC Cleared 6 9 (10.00 %) MS Excel 6 9 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 7 8 (8.889 %) Microsoft 7 8 (8.889 %) Nortel 7 8 (8.889 %) Cisco Certification 8 7 (7.778 %) DNS 8 7 (7.778 %) WAN

8 7 (7.778 %) SQL 9 6 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 9 6 (6.667 %) Windows 9 6 (6.667 %) Solaris 9 6 (6.667 %) Firewall 9 6 (6.667 %) IP Telephony 10 5 (5.556 %) IPCC 10 5 (5.556 %) WFM 10 5 (5.556 %) Service Management 10 5 (5.556 %) Java 10 5 (5.556 %) SAS 11 4 (4.444 %) CRM 11 4 (4.444 %) Unix 11 4 (4.444 %) ADSL 11 4 (4.444 %) LAN

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 Development 1 3 (3.333 %) Hibernate 1 3 (3.333 %) Spring 1 3 (3.333 %) Struts 1 3 (3.333 %) XML 1 3 (3.333 %) J2EE 2 2 (2.222 %) EJB 3 1 (1.111 %) Java EE 3 1 (1.111 %) JDBC 3 1 (1.111 %) JSP 3 1 (1.111 %) XSLT 3 1 (1.111 %) HTML 3 1 (1.111 %) .NET 3 1 (1.111 %) WAP 3 1 (1.111 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 5 (5.556 %) SAS 2 3 (3.333 %) WebLogic 2 3 (3.333 %) Tomcat 3 1 (1.111 %) IIS 3 1 (1.111 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 9 (10.00 %) MS Excel 2 4 (4.444 %) MS Office 2 4 (4.444 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (3.333 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.111 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.111 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 12 (13.33 %) VoIP 2 9 (10.00 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (7.778 %) DNS 3 7 (7.778 %) WAN 4 6 (6.667 %) Firewall 4 6 (6.667 %) IP Telephony 5 5 (5.556 %) IPCC 6 4 (4.444 %) ADSL 6 4 (4.444 %) LAN 6 4 (4.444 %) DHCP 6 4 (4.444 %) CTI 7 3 (3.333 %) Cisco PIX 7 3 (3.333 %) Wi-Fi 7 3 (3.333 %) Intrusion Detection 7 3 (3.333 %) ICMP 7 3 (3.333 %) GSM 8 2 (2.222 %) IMAP4 8 2 (2.222 %) VPN 8 2 (2.222 %) VLAN 8 2 (2.222 %) Ethereal	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (2.222 %) MS Access 1 2 (2.222 %) Datawarehouse 1 2 (2.222 %) Oracle 10g 1 2 (2.222 %) BusinessObjects 1 2 (2.222 %) Oracle OWB 2 1 (1.111 %) SQL Server Integration Services 2 1 (1.111 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (1.111 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.111 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 1 (1.111 %) LabVIEW 1 1 (1.111 %) TestDirector 1 1 (1.111 %) ClearQuest 1 1 (1.111 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (1.111 %) Ant 1 1 (1.111 %) JUnit 1 1 (1.111 %) ClearCase 1 1 (1.111 %) Rational Rose 1 1 (1.111 %) Eclipse	General 1 22 (24.44 %) Government 2 3 (3.333 %) Law 2 3 (3.333 %) Legal 3 2 (2.222 %) Retail 3 2 (2.222 %) Finance 3 2 (2.222 %) Marketing 4 1 (1.111 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.111 %) Construction 4 1 (1.111 %) Electronics 4 1 (1.111 %) Billing 4 1 (1.111 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 13 (14.44 %) Developer 2 8 (8.889 %) Analyst 3 6 (6.667 %) Commercial Manager 4 5 (5.556 %) Network Support 4 5 (5.556 %) Consultant 4 5 (5.556 %) Solutions Designer 4 5 (5.556 %) Software Developer 5 4 (4.444 %) Architect 5 4 (4.444 %) Project Manager 5 4 (4.444 %) 3rd Line Support 5 4 (4.444 %) Solutions Architect 5 4 (4.444 %) Support Engineer 6 3 (3.333 %) Service Manager 6 3 (3.333 %) Network Technician 6 3 (3.333 %) Java Developer 6 3 (3.333 %) Oracle Developer 6 3 (3.333 %) Test Engineer 6 3 (3.333 %) Telecoms Engineer 6 3 (3.333 %) Contracts Manager 6 3 (3.333 %) Network Support Technician	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.222 %) IVR 2 1 (1.111 %) IPTV 2 1 (1.111 %) SecurID 2 1 (1.111 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.111 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 6 (6.667 %) Windows 1 6 (6.667 %) Solaris 2 4 (4.444 %) Unix 3 2 (2.222 %) Linux 3 2 (2.222 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (1.111 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (1.111 %) NetWare 4 1 (1.111 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (21.11 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (13.33 %) ITIL 2 12 (13.33 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (5.556 %) WFM 3 5 (5.556 %) Service Management 4 4 (4.444 %) CRM 5 3 (3.333 %) Six Sigma 5 3 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (2.222 %) UML 6 2 (2.222 %) Project Management 6 2 (2.222 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (2.222 %) Change Management 6 2 (2.222 %) PRINCE 6 2 (2.222 %) Penetration Testing 6 2 (2.222 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (2.222 %) Information Management 6 2 (2.222 %) Network Design 6 2 (2.222 %) Data Management 6 2 (2.222 %) Risk Management 6 2 (2.222 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 7 (7.778 %) SQL 2 6 (6.667 %) PL/SQL 3 5 (5.556 %) Java 4 2 (2.222 %) C++ 5 1 (1.111 %) JavaScript 5 1 (1.111 %) VBScript 5 1 (1.111 %) VB 5 1 (1.111 %) C#	Qualifications 1 8 (8.889 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (4.444 %) CCNA 3 3 (3.333 %) CCNP 4 2 (2.222 %) ISEB 4 2 (2.222 %) ITIL Certification 4 2 (2.222 %) Degree 5 1 (1.111 %) CCSE 5 1 (1.111 %) MOS 5 1 (1.111 %) SAS Certification 5 1 (1.111 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (1.111 %) Sun Certification 5 1 (1.111 %) CCDP 5 1 (1.111 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.222 %) QA 2 1 (1.111 %) COBIT 2 1 (1.111 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 4 (4.444 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.111 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (1.111 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (1.111 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (1.111 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (1.111 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (1.111 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 16 (17.78 %) Genesys 2 13 (14.44 %) Oracle 2 13 (14.44 %) Cisco 3 8 (8.889 %) Microsoft 3 8 (8.889 %) Nortel 4 3 (3.333 %) Siemens 5 2 (2.222 %) Business Objects 5 2 (2.222 %) CheckPoint 5 2 (2.222 %) BEA 5 2 (2.222 %) Nokia 5 2 (2.222 %) Finjan 6 1 (1.111 %) NetScout 6 1 (1.111 %) OPNET 6 1 (1.111 %) Metastorm 6 1 (1.111 %) webMethods 6 1 (1.111 %) Novell 6 1 (1.111 %) Peregrine 6 1 (1.111 %) McAfee Security 6 1 (1.111 %) Avaya 6 1 (1.111 %) Juniper