Reading Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Reading region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	11
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	65	86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.097 %
As % of the category below	20.38 %	21.88 %
Daily rates quoted	39	18
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£295
Average daily rate	£358	£320
% change on same period last year	+11.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£324
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£23.11
% change on same period last year	+51.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£24.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+8.37 %
General Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	319	393
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.409 %	0.442 %
Daily rates quoted	120	86
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£356
Average daily rate	£341	£383
% change on same period last year	-10.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£411
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.43	£28.51
Average hourly rate	£31.07	£29.63
% change on same period last year	+4.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.70	£30.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.74	£26.10
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Telecoms Berkshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Reading region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Reading region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 21 (17.36 %) Cisco 1 21 (17.36 %) Finance 2 17 (14.05 %) SAP 3 12 (9.917 %) MS Excel 3 12 (9.917 %) Project Management 3 12 (9.917 %) Billing 4 10 (8.264 %) SQL Server 5 9 (7.438 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 8 (6.612 %) SQL 6 8 (6.612 %) Windows 6 8 (6.612 %) Microsoft 6 8 (6.612 %) Cisco Certification 7 7 (5.785 %) Datawarehouse 7 7 (5.785 %) C# 7 7 (5.785 %) Java

7 7 (5.785 %) .NET 8 6 (4.959 %) Migration 8 6 (4.959 %) Test Scripting 8 6 (4.959 %) Marketing 8 6 (4.959 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 6 (4.959 %) MPLS 9 5 (4.132 %) CSS 9 5 (4.132 %) ITIL 9 5 (4.132 %) VoIP 9 5 (4.132 %) CCIE 9 5 (4.132 %) MS Access 9 5 (4.132 %) CRM 9 5 (4.132 %) WebSphere 9 5 (4.132 %) Government 9 5 (4.132 %) Network Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Reading region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (5.785 %) .NET 2 5 (4.132 %) CSS 2 5 (4.132 %) WebSphere 3 4 (3.306 %) AJAX 3 4 (3.306 %) J2EE 3 4 (3.306 %) XHTML 4 3 (2.479 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (1.653 %) MHP 5 2 (1.653 %) XML 6 1 (0.826 %) Spring 6 1 (0.826 %) J2ME 6 1 (0.826 %) JSP 6 1 (0.826 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.306 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (0.826 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 12 (9.917 %) MS Excel 2 4 (3.306 %) MS Office 3 3 (2.479 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.826 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.826 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 4 (3.306 %) SAP CRM 2 3 (2.479 %) Singl.eView 3 1 (0.826 %) SAP FI
Communications & Networking 1 6 (4.959 %) MPLS 2 5 (4.132 %) VoIP 3 4 (3.306 %) CTI 4 2 (1.653 %) WAN 4 2 (1.653 %) LAN 4 2 (1.653 %) SDH 4 2 (1.653 %) OSPF 4 2 (1.653 %) BGP 4 2 (1.653 %) DVB 4 2 (1.653 %) IPCC 4 2 (1.653 %) IP Telephony 4 2 (1.653 %) BSS 5 1 (0.826 %) Nortel Meridian 5 1 (0.826 %) EIGRP 5 1 (0.826 %) X.500 5 1 (0.826 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.826 %) Frame Relay 5 1 (0.826 %) ATM 5 1 (0.826 %) Broadband 5 1 (0.826 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (8.264 %) SQL Server 2 7 (5.785 %) Datawarehouse 3 5 (4.132 %) MS Access 4 2 (1.653 %) ETL 4 2 (1.653 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (0.826 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (0.826 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.826 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (0.826 %) DTS 5 1 (0.826 %) DB2 5 1 (0.826 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 4 (3.306 %) TestDirector 2 1 (0.826 %) ERwin 2 1 (0.826 %) JUnit 2 1 (0.826 %) Visual Studio	General 1 21 (17.36 %) Finance 2 12 (9.917 %) Billing 3 6 (4.959 %) Marketing 4 5 (4.132 %) Government 5 4 (3.306 %) Military 6 3 (2.479 %) Education 7 2 (1.653 %) Banking 7 2 (1.653 %) Retail 7 2 (1.653 %) Telemarketing 7 2 (1.653 %) Legal 8 1 (0.826 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.826 %) Pensions 8 1 (0.826 %) Multimedia 8 1 (0.826 %) Health
Job Titles 1 30 (24.79 %) Analyst 2 12 (9.917 %) Project Manager 2 12 (9.917 %) Developer 2 12 (9.917 %) Consultant 3 7 (5.785 %) Network Designer 3 7 (5.785 %) .NET Developer 4 6 (4.959 %) Network Engineer 4 6 (4.959 %) Test Manager 5 5 (4.132 %) Coordinator 5 5 (4.132 %) Project Coordinator 5 5 (4.132 %) Test Engineer 5 5 (4.132 %) Financial Analyst 6 4 (3.306 %) SAP Consultant 6 4 (3.306 %) Integration Consultant 6 4 (3.306 %) Test Analyst 6 4 (3.306 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 3 (2.479 %) Design Engineer 7 3 (2.479 %) Business Analyst 7 3 (2.479 %) Web Developer 7 3 (2.479 %) Lead Designer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.306 %) Blackberry 2 3 (2.479 %) DTV 2 3 (2.479 %) STB 3 2 (1.653 %) MediaHighway 3 2 (1.653 %) IVR 3 2 (1.653 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.826 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.826 %) CMDB 4 1 (0.826 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 8 (6.612 %) Windows 2 4 (3.306 %) Windows XP 3 3 (2.479 %) Unix 4 1 (0.826 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (9.917 %) Project Management 2 9 (7.438 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 6 (4.959 %) Test Scripting 3 6 (4.959 %) Migration 4 5 (4.132 %) ITIL 4 5 (4.132 %) CRM 4 5 (4.132 %) Network Design 4 5 (4.132 %) Data Analysis 5 3 (2.479 %) System Testing 5 3 (2.479 %) Performance Testing 5 3 (2.479 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (2.479 %) Web Design 5 3 (2.479 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (2.479 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (1.653 %) UML 6 2 (1.653 %) Test Management 6 2 (1.653 %) WFM 6 2 (1.653 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (1.653 %) eTOM 6 2 (1.653 %) Competitor Analysis
Programming Languages 1 8 (6.612 %) SQL 2 7 (5.785 %) C# 2 7 (5.785 %) Java 3 4 (3.306 %) JavaScript 4 3 (2.479 %) PHP 4 3 (2.479 %) VB.NET 5 2 (1.653 %) VB 6 1 (0.826 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 8 (6.612 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (4.132 %) CCIE 3 4 (3.306 %) CCNP 3 4 (3.306 %) Degree 4 3 (2.479 %) ISEB 5 2 (1.653 %) HND 5 2 (1.653 %) ACCA 5 2 (1.653 %) CIMA 6 1 (0.826 %) HNC 6 1 (0.826 %) CCIP 6 1 (0.826 %) CCDP 6 1 (0.826 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.826 %) PMP 6 1 (0.826 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (4.959 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 4 (3.306 %) SLA 3 3 (2.479 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (1.653 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (2.479 %) OpenView 2 1 (0.826 %) MIIS	Vendors 1 21 (17.36 %) Cisco 2 17 (14.05 %) SAP 3 8 (6.612 %) Microsoft 4 4 (3.306 %) Nortel 4 4 (3.306 %) Oracle 4 4 (3.306 %) Lotus 5 3 (2.479 %) Juniper 5 3 (2.479 %) HP 6 2 (1.653 %) Business Objects 6 2 (1.653 %) Remedy 6 2 (1.653 %) OpenTV 7 1 (0.826 %) Ab Initio 7 1 (0.826 %) Alcatel 7 1 (0.826 %) MicroStrategy 7 1 (0.826 %) PeopleSoft 7 1 (0.826 %) IBM 7 1 (0.826 %) Citrix 7 1 (0.826 %) Avaya