The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Slough 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecoms)
Rank 2 2 2
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 64 46 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 26.12% 24.21% 23.89%
As % of the General category 55.17% 41.82% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 46
Average daily rate £365 £300 £278
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.66% +8.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £335 £345
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £34.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.47% +6.92%
All of the General Category
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
116 110 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 47.35% 57.89% 46.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 76 82
Average daily rate £375 £450 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +55.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £280 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £22.50 £11.95 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.28% -38.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Telecoms
Berkshire

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Slough region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Slough Telecoms Daily Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Slough Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 23 (14.74%) Project Management
1 23 (14.74%) Migration
2 21 (13.46%) 3G
2 21 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (13.46%) 2G
3 18 (11.54%) Degree
3 18 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (11.54%) Ericsson
4 16 (10.26%) Finance
4 16 (10.26%) Teradata
5 15 (9.615%) SQL
6 14 (8.974%) UNIX
6 14 (8.974%) Ab Initio
6 14 (8.974%) RNC
6 14 (8.974%) Business Analysis
6 14 (8.974%) LTE
7 12 (7.692%) Linux
7 12 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (7.051%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (6.410%) 4G
9 10 (6.410%) Computer Science
10 9 (5.769%) Wireshark
10 9 (5.769%) Data Mapping
10 9 (5.769%) ERwin
10 9 (5.769%) Solaris
10 9 (5.769%) Oracle
10 9 (5.769%) GSM
11 8 (5.128%) Data Modelling
11 8 (5.128%) Service Management
11 8 (5.128%) Requirements Analysis

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 5 (3.205%) WAP
1 5 (3.205%) Web Services
2 3 (1.923%) XML
3 2 (1.282%) WML
3 2 (1.282%) SOAP
3 2 (1.282%) Middleware
3 2 (1.282%) Velocity
4 1 (0.641%) HTML5
4 1 (0.641%) REST
4 1 (0.641%) Lucene
4 1 (0.641%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.641%) Spring
4 1 (0.641%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.641%) JPA
4 1 (0.641%) Drools
4 1 (0.641%) WSH
4 1 (0.641%) JMS
4 1 (0.641%) XSL
4 1 (0.641%) JDBC
4 1 (0.641%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.846%) CMS
2 5 (3.205%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.923%) Apache
4 2 (1.282%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.641%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.564%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.923%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.282%) MS Project
3 2 (1.282%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.641%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (1.282%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.641%) Minerva
2 1 (0.641%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.641%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.46%) 3G
1 21 (13.46%) 2G
2 14 (8.974%) RNC
2 14 (8.974%) LTE
3 11 (7.051%) Radio Access Network
4 10 (6.410%) 4G
5 9 (5.769%) Wireshark
5 9 (5.769%) GSM
6 7 (4.487%) RANAP
6 7 (4.487%) Internet
6 7 (4.487%) 3GPP
7 6 (3.846%) WCDMA
8 5 (3.205%) LLU
9 4 (2.564%) UMTS
9 4 (2.564%) HTTP
9 4 (2.564%) TCP/IP
9 4 (2.564%) DNS
10 3 (1.923%) FTP
10 3 (1.923%) SDH
10 3 (1.923%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.846%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.564%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.282%) DataStage
5 1 (0.641%) MS Access
5 1 (0.641%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 9 (5.769%) ERwin
2 2 (1.282%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.641%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.641%) TestPartner
3 1 (0.641%) Maven
3 1 (0.641%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.641%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.641%) Ant
General
1 16 (10.26%) Finance
2 8 (5.128%) Marketing
3 7 (4.487%) Advertising
4 6 (3.846%) Billing
5 3 (1.923%) Legal
6 2 (1.282%) Military
6 2 (1.282%) Electronics
7 1 (0.641%) Banking
7 1 (0.641%) Law
7 1 (0.641%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.641%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 29 (18.59%) Analyst
2 23 (14.74%) Designer
3 22 (14.10%) Project Manager
3 22 (14.10%) Business Analyst
4 12 (7.692%) Solutions Designer
5 11 (7.051%) Test Engineer
6 8 (5.128%) Architect
6 8 (5.128%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (4.487%) Process Analyst
8 6 (3.846%) Test Leader
8 6 (3.846%) Senior Manager
8 6 (3.846%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (3.205%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.205%) 3G Engineer
9 5 (3.205%) Telecoms Business Analyst
9 5 (3.205%) Developer
9 5 (3.205%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (3.205%) Support Engineer
10 4 (2.564%) Systems Designer
10 4 (2.564%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.410%) Computer Science
2 7 (4.487%) Smart Meter
3 6 (3.846%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.564%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.923%) iPad
5 3 (1.923%) Visualisation
6 2 (1.282%) Economics
7 1 (0.641%) SaaS
7 1 (0.641%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.641%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.641%) STB
7 1 (0.641%) Handset
7 1 (0.641%) CMDB
7 1 (0.641%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.641%) iPhone
7 1 (0.641%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.974%) UNIX
2 12 (7.692%) Linux
3 9 (5.769%) Solaris
4 6 (3.846%) HPUX
5 1 (0.641%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.641%) Nucleus RTOS
5 1 (0.641%) Android
5 1 (0.641%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (14.74%) Project Management
1 23 (14.74%) Migration
2 21 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (8.974%) Business Analysis
4 9 (5.769%) Data Mapping
5 8 (5.128%) Data Modelling
5 8 (5.128%) Service Management
5 8 (5.128%) Requirements Analysis
5 8 (5.128%) Scrum
6 7 (4.487%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (3.846%) Service Delivery
7 6 (3.846%) Test Scripting
7 6 (3.846%) Supplier Management
7 6 (3.846%) Programme Management
7 6 (3.846%) Logistics
8 5 (3.205%) Data Migration
8 5 (3.205%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (2.564%) ITIL
9 4 (2.564%) B2B
9 4 (2.564%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.615%) SQL
2 7 (4.487%) Java
3 5 (3.205%) Perl
4 4 (2.564%) PHP
4 4 (2.564%) VBA
5 3 (1.923%) Bash shell
5 3 (1.923%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.923%) C
6 2 (1.282%) RPG
7 1 (0.641%) XPath
7 1 (0.641%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.641%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.641%) C#
7 1 (0.641%) C++
7 1 (0.641%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (11.54%) Degree
2 12 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (4.487%) CCNA
3 7 (4.487%) ISEB
4 3 (1.923%) CCNP
5 2 (1.282%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.641%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.205%) SLA
2 2 (1.282%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.282%) QA
3 1 (0.641%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 7 (4.487%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.923%) Control-M
3 2 (1.282%) Netcool
3 2 (1.282%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.641%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (11.54%) Ericsson
2 16 (10.26%) Teradata
3 14 (8.974%) Ab Initio
4 9 (5.769%) Oracle
5 7 (4.487%) NetHawk
6 6 (3.846%) Cisco
7 4 (2.564%) HP
7 4 (2.564%) Redknee
8 3 (1.923%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.923%) SAP
9 2 (1.282%) Sun
9 2 (1.282%) Symantec
9 2 (1.282%) Citrix
9 2 (1.282%) BMC
9 2 (1.282%) Huawei
9 2 (1.282%) BT
9 2 (1.282%) 3PAR
10 1 (0.641%) Nokia Siemens Networks
10 1 (0.641%) F5
10 1 (0.641%) NetCracker
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