The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 19 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 Somerset 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecoms)
Rank 30 26 14
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -12
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 4 5 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.186% 2.890% 12.44%
As % of the General category 6.780% 11.36% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 20
Average daily rate - £313 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £335 £343
% change year-on-year
+1.11% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £16.50 £27.50 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +161.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £34.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year
-5.79% +13.11%
All of the General Category
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
59 44 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 32.24% 25.43% 32.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 40
Average daily rate £313 £365 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.38% +8.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £184 £295 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £424 £453 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
Average hourly rate £16.50 £22.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +72.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £19.20 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £24.10 £15.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Telecoms
South West

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Bath -1 2 - - 9
Shepton Mallet - 1 - -
Taunton - - - -
Templecombe - - - -
Clevedon - - - -
Telecoms
South West

Telecoms
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) 3G
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Media
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) ATM
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) 2G
2 1 (16.67%) Content Management
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) RNC
2 1 (16.67%) XPath
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) 4G

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (16.67%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) 3G
2 1 (16.67%) ATM
2 1 (16.67%) DWDM
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) 2G
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) RNC
2 1 (16.67%) 4G
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Configuration Analyst
1 1 (16.67%) IT Operations Manager
1 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ERP
1 1 (16.67%) ETL
1 1 (16.67%) Content Management
1 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
1 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) C++
1 1 (16.67%) XPath
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
Bath, South West
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Posted: 10 June 2013