South East ATM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ATM over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Dartford East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Knutsford Leeds London Manchester Mid Wales Midlands Milton Keynes New Quay Newcastle Newquay North East North West North Yorkshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	188	228
Rank change on same period last year	+40
Matching contract IT job ads	78	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.103 %	0.074 %
As % of the category below	3.198 %	2.155 %
Daily rates quoted	11	13
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£409
Average daily rate	£398	£443
% change on same period last year	-10.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£477
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£398
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£24.45
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£24.55
% change on same period last year	-34.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	£24.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.08	£23.63
% change on same period last year	+14.59 %
Communications & Networking South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2439	3248
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.216 %	3.445 %
Daily rates quoted	426	688
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£328
Average daily rate	£341	£347
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	402	518
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.67	£27.39
Average hourly rate	£25.18	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-12.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.69	£30.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
ATM England

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.

ATM
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ATM across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

ATM
Daily Rate Trend

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

ATM
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ATM across the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

ATM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ATM
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ATM within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hampshire	+41	32	£377	+14.39 %
Berkshire	+20	28	£450	-4.25 %
Buckinghamshire	+16	14	£375	-
Kent	+10	1	£388	-
East Sussex	-	1	-	-
Thames Valley	+20	1	-	-

ATM England

ATM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 34 (28.33 %) Telecoms 2 31 (25.83 %) VPN 2 31 (25.83 %) Cisco 2 31 (25.83 %) MPLS 3 26 (21.67 %) Frame Relay 4 25 (20.83 %) WAN 5 24 (20.00 %) LAN 6 21 (17.50 %) Firewall 7 20 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 8 19 (15.83 %) SDH 9 17 (14.17 %) Security Cleared 10 16 (13.33 %) VoIP 10 16 (13.33 %) Ethernet 11 15 (12.50 %) ISDN 12 14 (11.67 %) Broadband

12 14 (11.67 %) BGP 12 14 (11.67 %) Network Design 13 13 (10.83 %) Finance 13 13 (10.83 %) Internet 13 13 (10.83 %) Perl 13 13 (10.83 %) Cisco Certification 13 13 (10.83 %) SAN 14 12 (10.00 %) OSPF 15 11 (9.167 %) VLAN 15 11 (9.167 %) Government 15 11 (9.167 %) Nokia 15 11 (9.167 %) Java 15 11 (9.167 %) ITIL 15 11 (9.167 %) GSM 16 10 (8.333 %) C

ATM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 2 (1.667 %) X-Windows 2 1 (0.833 %) HTML 2 1 (0.833 %) XML	Applications 1 4 (3.333 %) MS Office 2 3 (2.500 %) MS Excel 2 3 (2.500 %) MS Project 3 2 (1.667 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.833 %) MATLAB 4 1 (0.833 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 3 (2.500 %) BASE24 2 2 (1.667 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 31 (25.83 %) VPN 1 31 (25.83 %) MPLS 2 26 (21.67 %) Frame Relay 3 25 (20.83 %) WAN 4 24 (20.00 %) LAN 5 21 (17.50 %) Firewall 6 20 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 7 19 (15.83 %) SDH 8 16 (13.33 %) Ethernet 8 16 (13.33 %) VoIP 9 15 (12.50 %) ISDN 10 14 (11.67 %) Broadband 10 14 (11.67 %) BGP 11 13 (10.83 %) SAN 11 13 (10.83 %) Internet 12 12 (10.00 %) OSPF 13 11 (9.167 %) GSM 13 11 (9.167 %) VLAN 14 10 (8.333 %) iSCSI 15 9 (7.500 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.667 %) MS Access 1 2 (1.667 %) ETL	Development Applications 1 2 (1.667 %) TestDirector
General 1 34 (28.33 %) Telecoms 2 13 (10.83 %) Finance 3 11 (9.167 %) Government 4 7 (5.833 %) Banking 5 5 (4.167 %) Retail 5 5 (4.167 %) Military 6 4 (3.333 %) Electric 6 4 (3.333 %) Financial Institution 6 4 (3.333 %) Retail Banking 7 2 (1.667 %) Investment Banking 7 2 (1.667 %) Construction 8 1 (0.833 %) Electronics 8 1 (0.833 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.833 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 14 (11.67 %) Consultant 2 13 (10.83 %) Network Consultant 3 12 (10.00 %) ATM Engineer 4 11 (9.167 %) Network Engineer 4 11 (9.167 %) Architect 5 10 (8.333 %) Systems Engineer 5 10 (8.333 %) Technical Architect 5 10 (8.333 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 6 8 (6.667 %) Test Engineer 7 6 (5.000 %) Support Engineer 7 6 (5.000 %) Project Manager 7 6 (5.000 %) Analyst 8 5 (4.167 %) Tester 9 4 (3.333 %) Test Analyst 9 4 (3.333 %) Design Engineer 10 3 (2.500 %) Senior Systems Engineer 10 3 (2.500 %) Helpdesk Support 10 3 (2.500 %) Network Support 10 3 (2.500 %) Cisco Support 10 3 (2.500 %) RNC Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.500 %) PMI 1 3 (2.500 %) EPoS 1 3 (2.500 %) EFT 2 2 (1.667 %) DTV 2 2 (1.667 %) PKI 2 2 (1.667 %) IPTV 2 2 (1.667 %) Physics 3 1 (0.833 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.833 %) Fat Client 3 1 (0.833 %) Mathematics 3 1 (0.833 %) CESG 3 1 (0.833 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 8 (6.667 %) Unix 2 3 (2.500 %) Windows 2 3 (2.500 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (14.17 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (11.67 %) Network Design 3 11 (9.167 %) ITIL 4 8 (6.667 %) Project Management 5 7 (5.833 %) Software Testing 5 7 (5.833 %) SC Cleared 6 6 (5.000 %) E-business 6 6 (5.000 %) Service Delivery 6 6 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 6 6 (5.000 %) UML 7 5 (4.167 %) SSADM 7 5 (4.167 %) DSDM 7 5 (4.167 %) ERP 8 4 (3.333 %) Service Management 9 3 (2.500 %) Incident Management 9 3 (2.500 %) Test Scripting 10 2 (1.667 %) Project Planning 10 2 (1.667 %) Validation 10 2 (1.667 %) Migration 10 2 (1.667 %) Data Management	Programming Languages 1 13 (10.83 %) Perl 2 11 (9.167 %) Java 3 10 (8.333 %) C 3 10 (8.333 %) C++ 4 9 (7.500 %) Korn 5 4 (3.333 %) SQL 6 2 (1.667 %) VB 7 1 (0.833 %) Fortran 7 1 (0.833 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (0.833 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 13 (10.83 %) Cisco Certification 2 9 (7.500 %) ISEB 3 6 (5.000 %) CCNA 3 6 (5.000 %) CCNP 4 5 (4.167 %) Degree 5 2 (1.667 %) ITIL Certification 5 2 (1.667 %) HND 5 2 (1.667 %) CCIE 6 1 (0.833 %) CCDP 6 1 (0.833 %) PhD 6 1 (0.833 %) CCIP 6 1 (0.833 %) PMP 6 1 (0.833 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (4.167 %) SLA 2 2 (1.667 %) ISO8583 2 2 (1.667 %) ISO27001 3 1 (0.833 %) TickIT
Systems Management 1 6 (5.000 %) Netcool 2 2 (1.667 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.833 %) CiscoWorks 3 1 (0.833 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 31 (25.83 %) Cisco 2 11 (9.167 %) Nokia 3 7 (5.833 %) Microsoft 3 7 (5.833 %) Nortel 4 6 (5.000 %) NCR 5 5 (4.167 %) Huawei 5 5 (4.167 %) Oracle 6 4 (3.333 %) IBM 7 3 (2.500 %) HP 7 3 (2.500 %) CheckPoint 8 2 (1.667 %) Ericsson 8 2 (1.667 %) Sun 8 2 (1.667 %) Progress 8 2 (1.667 %) Juniper 8 2 (1.667 %) Fujitsu 8 2 (1.667 %) Finjan 9 1 (0.833 %) Lucent 9 1 (0.833 %) Alcatel 9 1 (0.833 %) NEC 9 1 (0.833 %) Siemens