The first table below looks at the demand for ATM skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATM 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 South East 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
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Rank 138 77 143
Rank change year-on-year
-61 +66
Contract jobs citing ATM 87 209 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 1.116% 2.060% 1.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.851% 9.753% 5.781%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 28 24
Average daily rate £285 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.63% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £219 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £386 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £370 £325
% change year-on-year
-22.97% +13.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +27.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.12%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1487 2143 1920
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.08% 21.12% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 627 668
Average daily rate £320 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £188 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 187 236
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
ATM
England

ATM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East ATM Jobs Demand Trend

ATM
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East ATM Daily Rate Trend

ATM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

South East ATM Daily Rate Histogram

ATM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East ATM Hourly Rate Trend

ATM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATM within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Berkshire -44 60 £283 +4.62%
Hampshire -3 15 £490 +30.53%
Surrey +16 6 £288 -
Buckinghamshire +8 4 - -
ATM
England

ATM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing ATM 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 ATM.

1 136 (69.04%) Telecoms
2 99 (50.25%) 3G
3 90 (45.69%) Ethernet
4 86 (43.65%) SDH
5 71 (36.04%) 2G
6 68 (34.52%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 67 (34.01%) LTE
8 63 (31.98%) Project Management
9 60 (30.46%) Ericsson
10 51 (25.89%) Radio Access Network
11 48 (24.37%) MPLS
12 38 (19.29%) Huawei
13 25 (12.69%) NEC
13 25 (12.69%) ITIL
14 24 (12.18%) Resource Management
15 20 (10.15%) Network Design
16 19 (9.645%) Finance
16 19 (9.645%) 3GPP
16 19 (9.645%) UTRAN
17 18 (9.137%) Windows
17 18 (9.137%) Linux
18 17 (8.629%) Handset
18 17 (8.629%) BT
18 17 (8.629%) Continuous Improvement
19 16 (8.122%) SLA
19 16 (8.122%) DWDM
19 16 (8.122%) Management Information System
20 15 (7.614%) Cramer
21 14 (7.107%) Front Office
21 14 (7.107%) RNC

ATM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing ATM 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 ATM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (4.061%) .NET
1 8 (4.061%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.523%) XML
3 1 (0.508%) COM
Applications
1 6 (3.046%) MS Office
2 5 (2.538%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.030%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.508%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.508%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (3.046%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.523%) BASE24
3 1 (0.508%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 99 (50.25%) 3G
2 90 (45.69%) Ethernet
3 86 (43.65%) SDH
4 71 (36.04%) 2G
5 67 (34.01%) LTE
6 51 (25.89%) Radio Access Network
7 48 (24.37%) MPLS
8 19 (9.645%) 3GPP
8 19 (9.645%) UTRAN
9 16 (8.122%) DWDM
10 14 (7.107%) RNC
11 13 (6.599%) WAN
11 13 (6.599%) LAN
12 12 (6.091%) TCP/IP
13 11 (5.584%) IPv4
14 10 (5.076%) VPN
15 9 (4.569%) BGP
15 9 (4.569%) DNS
15 9 (4.569%) UMTS
16 8 (4.061%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.061%) NoSQL
1 8 (4.061%) Big Data
2 6 (3.046%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.538%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (2.030%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.030%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (2.030%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.030%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.015%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.508%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (0.508%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.508%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (2.538%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 136 (69.04%) Telecoms
2 19 (9.645%) Finance
3 14 (7.107%) Front Office
4 9 (4.569%) Back Office
5 5 (2.538%) Banking
6 4 (2.030%) Military
6 4 (2.030%) Electronics
7 2 (1.015%) Retail
8 1 (0.508%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.508%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 71 (36.04%) Design Engineer
2 68 (34.52%) Transmission Engineer
3 20 (10.15%) RAN Engineer
4 16 (8.122%) Analyst
5 11 (5.584%) Consultant
6 10 (5.076%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.569%) Administrator
8 8 (4.061%) Service Analyst
8 8 (4.061%) Architect
8 8 (4.061%) Network Engineer
8 8 (4.061%) Technical Leader
8 8 (4.061%) Back Office Engineer
9 7 (3.553%) Service Desk Analyst
10 6 (3.046%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.046%) Access Transmission Engineer
11 5 (2.538%) Test Leader
11 5 (2.538%) Field Engineer
12 4 (2.030%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.030%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.030%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.629%) Handset
2 16 (8.122%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.030%) Smartcard
3 4 (2.030%) EPoS
3 4 (2.030%) EFT
3 4 (2.030%) EFTPOS
3 4 (2.030%) Open Source
4 2 (1.015%) EMV
4 2 (1.015%) CMDB
5 1 (0.508%) APACS
5 1 (0.508%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (0.508%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.137%) Windows
1 18 (9.137%) Linux
2 8 (4.061%) UNIX
3 7 (3.553%) Solaris
4 6 (3.046%) AIX
5 4 (2.030%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.030%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (2.030%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.523%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.015%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.98%) Project Management
2 25 (12.69%) ITIL
3 24 (12.18%) Resource Management
4 20 (10.15%) Network Design
5 17 (8.629%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (6.599%) Migration
7 11 (5.584%) Fault Management
8 10 (5.076%) PRINCE2
8 10 (5.076%) Configuration Management
8 10 (5.076%) Capacity Planning
8 10 (5.076%) Network Management
8 10 (5.076%) Validation
9 9 (4.569%) eTOM
10 8 (4.061%) ETL
10 8 (4.061%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (3.553%) Incident Management
11 7 (3.553%) B2B
12 5 (2.538%) Change Control
13 4 (2.030%) E-Commerce
13 4 (2.030%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.599%) Perl
2 12 (6.091%) C
3 9 (4.569%) SQL
4 8 (4.061%) Java
5 4 (2.030%) Korn
6 2 (1.015%) C++
7 1 (0.508%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (6.091%) SC Cleared
1 12 (6.091%) Security Cleared
2 9 (4.569%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (4.061%) CCNA
4 7 (3.553%) Degree
4 7 (3.553%) CCNP
5 5 (2.538%) HNC
5 5 (2.538%) HND
6 3 (1.523%) BC Cleared
6 3 (1.523%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.015%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.508%) PMP
8 1 (0.508%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.508%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.508%) ISEB
8 1 (0.508%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.122%) SLA
2 6 (3.046%) ISO 8583
3 3 (1.523%) QA
4 2 (1.015%) JSP 440
System Software
1 8 (4.061%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.030%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (2.030%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.030%) Xen
2 4 (2.030%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.015%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (2.030%) Control-M
1 4 (2.030%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.508%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 68 (34.52%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 60 (30.46%) Ericsson
3 38 (19.29%) Huawei
4 25 (12.69%) NEC
5 17 (8.629%) BT
6 15 (7.614%) Cramer
7 13 (6.599%) Cisco
8 12 (6.091%) Nokia
9 11 (5.584%) Oracle
10 10 (5.076%) Microsoft
11 9 (4.569%) Remedy
12 8 (4.061%) Citrix
12 8 (4.061%) VMware
13 6 (3.046%) Business Objects
13 6 (3.046%) BMC
13 6 (3.046%) Red Hat
13 6 (3.046%) Greenplum
14 5 (2.538%) Niku
14 5 (2.538%) IBM
14 5 (2.538%) HP