North West VoIP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the North West 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Devon Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	98
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	24	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	5.229 %	8.033 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£363
Average daily rate	£421	£376
% change on same period last year	+11.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£359
% change on same period last year	-8.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.21	£36.00
Average hourly rate	£25.85	£38.60
% change on same period last year	-33.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£41.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.16	£29.54
% change on same period last year	-11.45 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	459	610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.646 %	0.616 %
Daily rates quoted	101	113
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£325
Average daily rate	£327	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.02	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£26.89	£24.38
% change on same period last year	+10.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.77	£25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
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 West 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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 West region over the 3 months to 10 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
Manchester	-9	8	£500	+31.14 %
Cumbria	-	5	£388	-
Merseyside	-8	2	-	-
Lancashire	-1	2	-	-

VoIP England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 18 (47.37 %) Cisco 2 13 (34.21 %) Cisco Certification 3 12 (31.58 %) LAN 4 11 (28.95 %) WAN 5 9 (23.68 %) Security Cleared 6 8 (21.05 %) VPN 6 8 (21.05 %) Windows 6 8 (21.05 %) CCNA 6 8 (21.05 %) Firewall 7 7 (18.42 %) Telecoms 7 7 (18.42 %) MATLAB 7 7 (18.42 %) CCNP 7 7 (18.42 %) Assembly Language 7 7 (18.42 %) C 7 7 (18.42 %) VLAN

8 6 (15.79 %) IP Telephony 8 6 (15.79 %) SC Cleared 9 5 (13.16 %) Cisco PIX 9 5 (13.16 %) VSAT 9 5 (13.16 %) MCSE 9 5 (13.16 %) Citrix 9 5 (13.16 %) Microsoft Certification 9 5 (13.16 %) CCIE 9 5 (13.16 %) Windows Server 2003 9 5 (13.16 %) Wireless 9 5 (13.16 %) Construction 10 3 (7.895 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 3 (7.895 %) MPLS 10 3 (7.895 %) Disaster Recovery 10 3 (7.895 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 1 (2.632 %) IIS 1 1 (2.632 %) SharePoint 1 1 (2.632 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 7 (18.42 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 12 (31.58 %) LAN 2 11 (28.95 %) WAN 3 8 (21.05 %) Firewall 3 8 (21.05 %) VPN 4 7 (18.42 %) VLAN 5 6 (15.79 %) IP Telephony 6 5 (13.16 %) Cisco PIX 6 5 (13.16 %) VSAT 6 5 (13.16 %) Wireless 7 3 (7.895 %) Cisco ASA 7 3 (7.895 %) MPLS 8 2 (5.263 %) TCP/IP 9 1 (2.632 %) GSM 9 1 (2.632 %) FTP 9 1 (2.632 %) Frame Relay 9 1 (2.632 %) IPCC 9 1 (2.632 %) DNS 9 1 (2.632 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.632 %) RDBMS
General 1 7 (18.42 %) Telecoms 2 5 (13.16 %) Construction 3 2 (5.263 %) Government 4 1 (2.632 %) Health 4 1 (2.632 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (18.42 %) Software Engineer 1 7 (18.42 %) Network Engineer 1 7 (18.42 %) DSP Engineer 1 7 (18.42 %) DSP Software Engineer 2 5 (13.16 %) Technical Project Leader 2 5 (13.16 %) Project Leader 2 5 (13.16 %) Cisco Engineer 3 4 (10.53 %) Analyst 3 4 (10.53 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (7.895 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (7.895 %) Project Manager 5 2 (5.263 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 5 2 (5.263 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (5.263 %) Consultant 5 2 (5.263 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 2 (5.263 %) Senior Network Engineer 6 1 (2.632 %) Network Administrator 6 1 (2.632 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 1 (2.632 %) Cisco Specialist 6 1 (2.632 %) Presales Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.895 %) PDA 1 3 (7.895 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (5.263 %) Handset 3 1 (2.632 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.632 %) NHS 3 1 (2.632 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 8 (21.05 %) Windows 2 5 (13.16 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (7.895 %) Linux 4 2 (5.263 %) UNIX 5 1 (2.632 %) HPUX 5 1 (2.632 %) Windows Mobile 5 1 (2.632 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (23.68 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (15.79 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (7.895 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (5.263 %) BC Cleared 4 2 (5.263 %) Communications Security 5 1 (2.632 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.632 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Migration 5 1 (2.632 %) Risk Assessment 5 1 (2.632 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (2.632 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (18.42 %) C 1 7 (18.42 %) Assembly Language 2 2 (5.263 %) SQL 3 1 (2.632 %) Embedded C
Qualifications 1 13 (34.21 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (21.05 %) CCNA 3 7 (18.42 %) CCNP 4 5 (13.16 %) MCSE 4 5 (13.16 %) CCIE 4 5 (13.16 %) Microsoft Certification 5 1 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 3 (7.895 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.263 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.632 %) ISA Server 3 1 (2.632 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 3 (7.895 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 18 (47.37 %) Cisco 2 5 (13.16 %) Citrix 3 3 (7.895 %) Novell 3 3 (7.895 %) HP 4 2 (5.263 %) Avaya 4 2 (5.263 %) VMware 5 1 (2.632 %) VERITAS 5 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 5 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft 5 1 (2.632 %) Sun