The first table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the Nottingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Rank 31 30 28
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -2
Contract jobs citing VoIP 5 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.748% 0.897% 0.426%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.259% 8.333% 2.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.63 £22.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
-10.79% -32.82%
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
54 24 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.88% 10.76% 20.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 14
Average daily rate £335 £238 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.05% -9.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
VoIP
Nottinghamshire

VoIP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VoIP across the Nottingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Nottingham VoIP Jobs Demand Trend

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottingham VoIP Daily Rate Trend

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Nottingham VoIP Daily Rate Histogram

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham VoIP Hourly Rate Trend

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
3 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (30.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) DHCP
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) PMP
4 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (20.00%) Office 365
4 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (20.00%) SCCM
5 1 (10.00%) Retail
5 1 (10.00%) MCITP

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Office 365
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) VLE
1 1 (10.00%) IVR
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (30.00%) UNIX
2 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Project Management
1 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) Resource Management
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) MCITP
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (10.00%) ISA Server
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
1 3 (30.00%) HP
1 3 (30.00%) Citrix
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) Hitachi