North East VoIP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Crawley Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Stirling Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	57
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	7	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	9.091 %	5.051 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£180
Average daily rate	£262	£188
% change on same period last year	+39.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£292	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£370
% change on same period last year	-11.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-27.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.35	£28.25
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching contract IT job ads	77	99
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.106 %
Daily rates quoted	15	30
Average minimum daily rate	£215	£260
Average daily rate	£231	£264
% change on same period last year	-12.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£248	£268
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.63	£19.43
Average hourly rate	£15.95	£20.04
% change on same period last year	-20.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.26	£20.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.82	£28.43
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
VoIP 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.

VoIP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VoIP across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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	+15	5	£262	+39.99 %
Durham	-	1	-	-

VoIP England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 8 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 6 (50.00 %) Telecoms 3 3 (25.00 %) Firewall 3 3 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (25.00 %) Nortel 3 3 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (16.67 %) Genesys 4 2 (16.67 %) TestDirector 4 2 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (16.67 %) CTI 4 2 (16.67 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (16.67 %) WAN 4 2 (16.67 %) ITIL 4 2 (16.67 %) LAN 4 2 (16.67 %) Windows

4 2 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (16.67 %) CRM 4 2 (16.67 %) Windows XP 4 2 (16.67 %) WFM 4 2 (16.67 %) Risk Analysis 4 2 (16.67 %) Test Management 4 2 (16.67 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (16.67 %) Project Planning 4 2 (16.67 %) CCNP 4 2 (16.67 %) Service Management 5 1 (8.333 %) CCNA 5 1 (8.333 %) HP 5 1 (8.333 %) Government 5 1 (8.333 %) CCVP 5 1 (8.333 %) Supplier Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (25.00 %) Firewall 2 2 (16.67 %) Cisco PIX 2 2 (16.67 %) CTI 2 2 (16.67 %) LAN 2 2 (16.67 %) WAN 3 1 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (8.333 %) UMTS 3 1 (8.333 %) ADSL 3 1 (8.333 %) Broadband 3 1 (8.333 %) GPRS 3 1 (8.333 %) GSM 3 1 (8.333 %) Cisco ASA 3 1 (8.333 %) Wireless 3 1 (8.333 %) Cisco IPT
Development Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) TestDirector	General 1 6 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (8.333 %) Government
Job Titles 1 2 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support 1 2 (16.67 %) Telecoms Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Network Specialist 2 1 (8.333 %) Network Support Specialist 2 1 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Telephony Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Senior Network Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Network Support 2 1 (8.333 %) Project Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Tester 2 1 (8.333 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Support 2 1 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Support Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 2 (16.67 %) Windows 1 2 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (16.67 %) Windows XP 2 1 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (16.67 %) Service Management 2 2 (16.67 %) ITIL 2 2 (16.67 %) CRM 2 2 (16.67 %) Configuration Management 2 2 (16.67 %) Project Planning 2 2 (16.67 %) WFM 2 2 (16.67 %) Risk Analysis 2 2 (16.67 %) Test Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Communications Security 3 1 (8.333 %) Project Management 3 1 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (8.333 %) Supplier Management
Qualifications 1 3 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (16.67 %) CCNP 3 1 (8.333 %) CCNA 3 1 (8.333 %) PMP 3 1 (8.333 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (8.333 %) CCVP	Vendors 1 8 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 3 (25.00 %) Nortel 3 2 (16.67 %) Genesys 3 2 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 1 (8.333 %) HP