Slough Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Slough 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)
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Rank	3	19
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	44	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	57.89 %	20.51 %
Daily rates quoted	11	2
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£258
Average daily rate	£386	£276
% change on same period last year	+39.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£324
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.64	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£10.41	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-65.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.18	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+8.37 %
General Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	76	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.098 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	20	24
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£332
Average daily rate	£405	£372
% change on same period last year	+8.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£427	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	32	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.88	£27.14
Average hourly rate	£16.52	£27.59
% change on same period last year	-40.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.16	£28.05
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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Slough 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 Slough 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 Slough 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 Slough region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Slough 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 34 (41.98 %) French Language 2 33 (40.74 %) SLA 2 33 (40.74 %) Extranet 3 24 (29.63 %) German Language 3 24 (29.63 %) Italian Language 4 13 (16.05 %) Unix 4 13 (16.05 %) Datawarehouse 5 12 (14.81 %) Oracle 6 10 (12.35 %) SQL 7 9 (11.11 %) Project Management 7 9 (11.11 %) Spanish Language 8 8 (9.877 %) ETL 9 7 (8.642 %) Ab Initio 10 5 (6.173 %) Oracle 10g 11 4 (4.938 %) Korn

11 4 (4.938 %) PRINCE2 11 4 (4.938 %) LAN 11 4 (4.938 %) WAN 11 4 (4.938 %) Windows 12 3 (3.704 %) MS Project 12 3 (3.704 %) MS Office 12 3 (3.704 %) ITIL 12 3 (3.704 %) MS Excel 12 3 (3.704 %) DB2 12 3 (3.704 %) Business Intelligence 12 3 (3.704 %) HP 12 3 (3.704 %) Six Sigma 12 3 (3.704 %) ITIL Certification 12 3 (3.704 %) Hyperion 12 3 (3.704 %) Lotus

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Slough 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 2 (2.469 %) XML 2 1 (1.235 %) XSLT 2 1 (1.235 %) XHTML 2 1 (1.235 %) AJAX 2 1 (1.235 %) HTML 2 1 (1.235 %) CSS 2 1 (1.235 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.235 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (1.235 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.235 %) SAS 1 1 (1.235 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 3 (3.704 %) MS Project 1 3 (3.704 %) MS Office 1 3 (3.704 %) MS Excel 1 3 (3.704 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 33 (40.74 %) Extranet 2 4 (4.938 %) LAN 2 4 (4.938 %) WAN 3 1 (1.235 %) SMTP 3 1 (1.235 %) VPN 3 1 (1.235 %) MPLS 3 1 (1.235 %) BGP 3 1 (1.235 %) RNC 3 1 (1.235 %) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (16.05 %) Datawarehouse 2 8 (9.877 %) ETL 3 5 (6.173 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (3.704 %) DB2 5 2 (2.469 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (1.235 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 2 (2.469 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 3 (3.704 %) Finance 2 1 (1.235 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 33 (40.74 %) Analyst 2 26 (32.10 %) Support Analyst 3 10 (12.35 %) Developer 4 9 (11.11 %) Project Manager 5 7 (8.642 %) Consultant 6 6 (7.407 %) Coordinator 6 6 (7.407 %) Project Coordinator 6 6 (7.407 %) Project Administrator 6 6 (7.407 %) Administrator 7 5 (6.173 %) Project Analyst 7 5 (6.173 %) Ab Initio Developer 7 5 (6.173 %) Support Consultant 8 3 (3.704 %) Programme Manager 9 2 (2.469 %) Business Analyst 9 2 (2.469 %) Test Manager 9 2 (2.469 %) Oracle Developer 9 2 (2.469 %) Ab Initio Consultant 10 1 (1.235 %) ETL Specialist 10 1 (1.235 %) Chief Information Officer 10 1 (1.235 %) Telecoms Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 34 (41.98 %) French Language 2 24 (29.63 %) German Language 2 24 (29.63 %) Italian Language 3 9 (11.11 %) Spanish Language 4 1 (1.235 %) Replication 4 1 (1.235 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 13 (16.05 %) Unix 2 4 (4.938 %) Windows 3 2 (2.469 %) HPUX 3 2 (2.469 %) Solaris 4 1 (1.235 %) Linux 4 1 (1.235 %) Windows XP 4 1 (1.235 %) VMS 4 1 (1.235 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (11.11 %) Project Management 2 4 (4.938 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (3.704 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (3.704 %) Six Sigma 3 3 (3.704 %) Risk Management 3 3 (3.704 %) ITIL 4 2 (2.469 %) Change Management 4 2 (2.469 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (1.235 %) Strategic Management 5 1 (1.235 %) Statistical Analysis 5 1 (1.235 %) Matrix Management 5 1 (1.235 %) Information Management 5 1 (1.235 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 10 (12.35 %) SQL 2 4 (4.938 %) Korn 3 2 (2.469 %) Perl 4 1 (1.235 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (1.235 %) Shell Script 4 1 (1.235 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (3.704 %) ITIL Certification 1 3 (3.704 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 33 (40.74 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (1.235 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.235 %) Oracle RMAN 1 1 (1.235 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 12 (14.81 %) Oracle 2 7 (8.642 %) Ab Initio 3 3 (3.704 %) Brio 3 3 (3.704 %) HP 3 3 (3.704 %) Hyperion 3 3 (3.704 %) Lotus 4 2 (2.469 %) Business Objects 4 2 (2.469 %) VMware 5 1 (1.235 %) ION Trading 5 1 (1.235 %) GigaSpaces 5 1 (1.235 %) Cognos 5 1 (1.235 %) Cisco 5 1 (1.235 %) IBM 5 1 (1.235 %) Accenture 5 1 (1.235 %) Novell