The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 22 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 terms in our General category for the North East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 30 20 19
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -1
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 6 30 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 2.247% 6.036% 5.882%
As % of the General category 10.53% 24.79% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 12
Average daily rate £305 £325 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% -1.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £245 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £341 £620 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £329 £345
% change year-on-year
-1.14% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
-11.29% -3.12%
All of the General Category
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
57 121 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 21.35% 24.35% 25.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 68 50
Average daily rate £425 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £263 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £531 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
Average hourly rate £11.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.11% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

North East Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

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 North East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear -1 4 £260 -49.01%
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
1 3 (15.79%) Risk Analysis
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) RDF
2 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) Broadband
2 2 (10.53%) CRM
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix
2 2 (10.53%) Firewall
3 1 (5.263%) Identity Management
3 1 (5.263%) Wireless
3 1 (5.263%) Finance
3 1 (5.263%) Avaya
3 1 (5.263%) Genesys
3 1 (5.263%) Informatica
3 1 (5.263%) Siebel
3 1 (5.263%) SAS
3 1 (5.263%) Symposium
3 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.263%) Billing
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
3 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.263%) Nortel Meridian
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.263%) ISDN

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (5.263%) .NET
1 1 (5.263%) Web Services
1 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) SAS
1 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.263%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Broadband
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.263%) Wireless
2 1 (5.263%) Symposium
2 1 (5.263%) Nortel Meridian
2 1 (5.263%) ISDN
2 1 (5.263%) PSTN
2 1 (5.263%) VoIP
2 1 (5.263%) DHCP
2 1 (5.263%) VPN
2 1 (5.263%) DNS
2 1 (5.263%) Intranet
2 1 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (5.263%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (5.263%) MySQL
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.263%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (5.263%) Base SAS
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
1 1 (5.263%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Service Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Commercial Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.263%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) SAS Programmer
4 1 (5.263%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.263%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) AIX
2 1 (5.263%) CentOS
2 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
1 3 (15.79%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (10.53%) RDF
2 2 (10.53%) CRM
3 1 (5.263%) Identity Management
3 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
3 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.263%) ITIL
3 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
3 1 (5.263%) Project Management
3 1 (5.263%) UML
3 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.263%) Analytics
3 1 (5.263%) Service Management
3 1 (5.263%) Change Management
3 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) C#
1 1 (5.263%) SQL
1 1 (5.263%) VBA
1 1 (5.263%) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix
3 1 (5.263%) Avaya
3 1 (5.263%) Genesys
3 1 (5.263%) Informatica
3 1 (5.263%) Siebel
3 1 (5.263%) Cisco
3 1 (5.263%) IBM
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle
3 1 (5.263%) JBoss
3 1 (5.263%) HP
3 1 (5.263%) Nortel
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