South East Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the South East region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	8
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1225	1679
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.615 %	1.781 %
As % of the category below	22.21 %	24.09 %
Daily rates quoted	233	357
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£330
Average daily rate	£364	£349
% change on same period last year	+4.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	74	119
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.40	£23.39
Average hourly rate	£25.14	£24.44
% change on same period last year	+2.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.88	£25.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.80	£24.09
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
General South East
Matching contract IT job ads	5516	6969
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	7.274 %	7.392 %
Daily rates quoted	1393	1767
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£355
Average daily rate	£376	£376
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	579	543
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.34	£27.23
Average hourly rate	£27.10	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.87	£30.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.47	£27.20
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Telecoms 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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Telecoms 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
Berkshire	0	660	£360	-4.12 %
Hampshire	+8	250	£351	+23.38 %
Surrey	-5	113	£307	+0.72 %
Buckinghamshire	+2	64	£398	+4.06 %
Thames Valley	-2	29	£316	-11.68 %
M4 Corridor	-3	13	£560	+4.10 %
Middlesex	-6	12	£254	-8.40 %
Oxfordshire	-3	8	£375	-
Home Counties	-2	8	£204	-
Kent	+11	8	-	-
West Sussex	+10	5	£540	+129.78 %
East Sussex	-3	5	£325	+48.24 %

Telecoms England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 266 (9.669 %) 3G 2 254 (9.233 %) Finance 3 245 (8.906 %) Project Management 4 228 (8.288 %) Security Cleared 5 198 (7.197 %) Marketing 6 177 (6.434 %) Migration 7 170 (6.180 %) SQL 8 158 (5.743 %) Unix 8 158 (5.743 %) Cisco 9 157 (5.707 %) C 10 156 (5.671 %) Windows 11 143 (5.198 %) SC Cleared 12 142 (5.162 %) Oracle 13 134 (4.871 %) Ericsson 14 124 (4.507 %) PRINCE2

14 124 (4.507 %) Linux 15 114 (4.144 %) Microsoft 15 114 (4.144 %) Billing 16 112 (4.071 %) MS Excel 16 112 (4.071 %) 2G 17 106 (3.853 %) ITIL 18 95 (3.453 %) SAP 19 94 (3.417 %) Datawarehouse 20 90 (3.272 %) MS Office 21 88 (3.199 %) Configuration Management 22 87 (3.162 %) SLA 23 84 (3.053 %) Business Intelligence 24 80 (2.908 %) BusinessObjects 24 80 (2.908 %) Business Objects 25 79 (2.872 %) TCP/IP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 56 (2.036 %) XML 2 48 (1.745 %) .NET 3 40 (1.454 %) J2EE 4 23 (0.836 %) HTML 4 23 (0.836 %) WebSphere 5 22 (0.800 %) CSS 6 20 (0.727 %) WebServices 7 19 (0.691 %) ASP.NET 8 14 (0.509 %) WAP 9 13 (0.473 %) XHTML 10 11 (0.400 %) ASP 11 9 (0.327 %) JSP 12 8 (0.291 %) J2SE 12 8 (0.291 %) Hibernate 12 8 (0.291 %) Spring 13 7 (0.254 %) AJAX 13 7 (0.254 %) Struts 14 6 (0.218 %) Middleware 14 6 (0.218 %) VXML 15 5 (0.182 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 41 (1.490 %) SAS 2 24 (0.872 %) MS Exchange 3 20 (0.727 %) WebLogic 4 16 (0.582 %) Apache 5 9 (0.327 %) Lotus Notes 6 8 (0.291 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 8 (0.291 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 7 (0.254 %) WebSphere Message Broker 7 7 (0.254 %) CMS 7 7 (0.254 %) LiveLink 7 7 (0.254 %) WebSphere MQ 7 7 (0.254 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 6 (0.218 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 5 (0.182 %) SharePoint 9 5 (0.182 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 4 (0.145 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 4 (0.145 %) IIS 10 4 (0.145 %) Tomcat 11 3 (0.109 %) ArcGIS 11 3 (0.109 %) Live Communications Server
Applications 1 112 (4.071 %) MS Excel 2 90 (3.272 %) MS Office 3 62 (2.254 %) MS PowerPoint 4 61 (2.217 %) MS Visio 5 52 (1.890 %) MS Project 6 17 (0.618 %) Photoshop 7 15 (0.545 %) AutoCAD 8 4 (0.145 %) Pro/ENGINEER 9 2 (0.073 %) MATLAB 9 2 (0.073 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 1 (0.036 %) S-PLUS 10 1 (0.036 %) FrameMaker 10 1 (0.036 %) 3ds Max 10 1 (0.036 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 5 (0.182 %) SAP HR 2 4 (0.145 %) SAP FI 2 4 (0.145 %) Singl.eView 3 3 (0.109 %) SAP FI/CO 3 3 (0.109 %) SAP CO 3 3 (0.109 %) Oracle EBS 3 3 (0.109 %) WebTrends 3 3 (0.109 %) SAP ERP 3 3 (0.109 %) AWD 3 3 (0.109 %) Google Analytics 4 2 (0.073 %) Cognos Planning 4 2 (0.073 %) Microsoft CRM 4 2 (0.073 %) ResourceLink 4 2 (0.073 %) SAP CRM 5 1 (0.036 %) Oracle 11i 5 1 (0.036 %) SAP R/3 5 1 (0.036 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 5 1 (0.036 %) Great Plains 5 1 (0.036 %) BusinessWorks 5 1 (0.036 %) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking 1 266 (9.669 %) 3G 2 112 (4.071 %) 2G 3 79 (2.872 %) TCP/IP 4 76 (2.763 %) VoIP 4 76 (2.763 %) Internet 5 70 (2.545 %) WAN 6 69 (2.508 %) GSM 7 64 (2.326 %) LAN 8 49 (1.781 %) Broadband 9 46 (1.672 %) UMTS 9 46 (1.672 %) RNC 10 41 (1.490 %) SGSN 11 39 (1.418 %) GPRS 11 39 (1.418 %) Firewall 12 38 (1.381 %) Wireless 13 37 (1.345 %) MPLS 14 35 (1.272 %) 3GPP 14 35 (1.272 %) SDH 15 34 (1.236 %) ATM 15 34 (1.236 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 94 (3.417 %) Datawarehouse 2 80 (2.908 %) BusinessObjects 3 73 (2.654 %) SQL Server 4 33 (1.200 %) MS Access 5 32 (1.163 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 28 (1.018 %) Oracle 10g 7 17 (0.618 %) MySQL 8 15 (0.545 %) ETL 8 15 (0.545 %) SQL Server 2005 9 14 (0.509 %) Oracle 9i 10 11 (0.400 %) OLAP 11 9 (0.327 %) DTS 12 8 (0.291 %) DB2 12 8 (0.291 %) BusinessObjects XI 12 8 (0.291 %) SQL Server 7 12 8 (0.291 %) SQL Server 2000 13 7 (0.254 %) SQLPlus 13 7 (0.254 %) GIS 13 7 (0.254 %) Crystal Reports 14 6 (0.218 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 33 (1.200 %) ClearCase 2 15 (0.545 %) TestDirector 3 13 (0.473 %) LabVIEW 4 12 (0.436 %) Flash 4 12 (0.436 %) QuickTest Pro 5 11 (0.400 %) WinRunner 5 11 (0.400 %) Visual Studio 6 10 (0.364 %) Eclipse 7 5 (0.182 %) LoadRunner 7 5 (0.182 %) MSI 8 4 (0.145 %) Ant 8 4 (0.145 %) JUnit 9 3 (0.109 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 2 (0.073 %) CruiseControl 10 2 (0.073 %) Oracle APEX 10 2 (0.073 %) StarTeam 11 1 (0.036 %) JIRA 11 1 (0.036 %) Subversion 11 1 (0.036 %) RequisitePro 11 1 (0.036 %) ERwin	General 1 254 (9.233 %) Finance 2 198 (7.197 %) Marketing 3 114 (4.144 %) Billing 4 66 (2.399 %) Government 5 57 (2.072 %) Retail 6 49 (1.781 %) Legal 7 24 (0.872 %) Health 8 20 (0.727 %) Military 9 18 (0.654 %) Law 9 18 (0.654 %) Electronics 9 18 (0.654 %) Auditing 10 16 (0.582 %) Electric 11 15 (0.545 %) Multimedia 12 12 (0.436 %) Pensions 13 10 (0.364 %) FMCG 13 10 (0.364 %) Manufacturing 14 9 (0.327 %) Front Office 15 7 (0.254 %) Education 16 6 (0.218 %) Advertising 16 6 (0.218 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 389 (14.14 %) Analyst 2 263 (9.560 %) Project Manager 3 203 (7.379 %) Consultant 4 136 (4.944 %) Developer 5 103 (3.744 %) Software Engineer 6 82 (2.981 %) Architect 7 72 (2.617 %) Coordinator 8 70 (2.545 %) Business Analyst 9 68 (2.472 %) Network Engineer 9 68 (2.472 %) Administrator 9 68 (2.472 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 10 64 (2.326 %) Support Analyst 11 62 (2.254 %) Design Engineer 12 58 (2.108 %) Support Engineer 13 55 (1.999 %) Test Engineer 14 47 (1.708 %) Report Analyst 15 46 (1.672 %) Telecoms Project Manager 15 46 (1.672 %) Technical Lead 16 45 (1.636 %) Systems Engineer 17 40 (1.454 %) Marketing Manager	Miscellaneous 1 79 (2.872 %) Handset 2 62 (2.254 %) ASIC 3 60 (2.181 %) VHDL 4 44 (1.599 %) French Language 5 38 (1.381 %) IVR 6 33 (1.200 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 33 (1.200 %) PMI 7 28 (1.018 %) DTV 8 27 (0.981 %) German Language 9 26 (0.945 %) Blackberry 10 24 (0.872 %) Italian Language 11 23 (0.836 %) Device Driver 12 18 (0.654 %) IPTV 13 14 (0.509 %) Management Information System 14 12 (0.436 %) Clustering 14 12 (0.436 %) Mathematics 14 12 (0.436 %) STB 15 9 (0.327 %) Asset Management 15 9 (0.327 %) Firmware 15 9 (0.327 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 158 (5.743 %) Unix 2 156 (5.671 %) Windows 3 124 (4.507 %) Linux 4 67 (2.435 %) Solaris 5 30 (1.091 %) Windows Server 2003 6 25 (0.909 %) Windows XP 7 22 (0.800 %) Windows NT 8 12 (0.436 %) Windows 2000 9 9 (0.327 %) Windows Mobile 10 8 (0.291 %) Embedded Linux 10 8 (0.291 %) HPUX 11 7 (0.254 %) Windows Vista 11 7 (0.254 %) SUSE 12 6 (0.218 %) Ubuntu 12 6 (0.218 %) VMS 12 6 (0.218 %) FreeBSD 12 6 (0.218 %) Tru64 13 4 (0.145 %) AIX 14 3 (0.109 %) OpenVMS 14 3 (0.109 %) VxWorks	Processes & Methodologies 1 245 (8.906 %) Project Management 2 228 (8.288 %) Security Cleared 3 177 (6.434 %) Migration 4 143 (5.198 %) SC Cleared 5 124 (4.507 %) PRINCE2 6 106 (3.853 %) ITIL 7 88 (3.199 %) Configuration Management 8 84 (3.053 %) Business Intelligence 9 73 (2.654 %) Network Design 10 66 (2.399 %) Change Management 11 56 (2.036 %) CRM 12 55 (1.999 %) Network Planning 13 50 (1.818 %) Data Modelling 14 43 (1.563 %) Risk Assessment 15 42 (1.527 %) ITSM 16 38 (1.381 %) Performance Management 17 36 (1.309 %) Product Marketing 18 35 (1.272 %) User Acceptance Testing 19 33 (1.200 %) Service Delivery 20 32 (1.163 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 170 (6.180 %) SQL 2 157 (5.707 %) C 3 75 (2.726 %) Java 4 67 (2.435 %) C++ 5 50 (1.818 %) Perl 6 40 (1.454 %) Embedded C 7 28 (1.018 %) Shell Script 7 28 (1.018 %) C# 8 24 (0.872 %) VB 9 19 (0.691 %) JavaScript 10 15 (0.545 %) Embedded C++ 11 12 (0.436 %) Korn 11 12 (0.436 %) Transact-SQL 12 11 (0.400 %) VB.NET 13 10 (0.364 %) PL/SQL 14 9 (0.327 %) Tcl 15 8 (0.291 %) Assembly Language 15 8 (0.291 %) VBA 16 7 (0.254 %) Python 17 6 (0.218 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 68 (2.472 %) Degree 2 43 (1.563 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 36 (1.309 %) Cisco Certification 4 28 (1.018 %) Microsoft Certification 5 27 (0.981 %) ISEB 6 26 (0.945 %) MCSE 7 24 (0.872 %) CCNP 8 22 (0.800 %) CNE 8 22 (0.800 %) Novell Certification 9 19 (0.691 %) ITIL Certification 10 18 (0.654 %) CIMA 11 17 (0.618 %) ACCA 11 17 (0.618 %) CCNA 12 9 (0.327 %) CIPD 13 8 (0.291 %) HND 13 8 (0.291 %) PMP 13 8 (0.291 %) PMI Certification 14 7 (0.254 %) HNC 14 7 (0.254 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 15 6 (0.218 %) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 87 (3.162 %) SLA 2 29 (1.054 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 28 (1.018 %) ISO27001 4 15 (0.545 %) QA 5 11 (0.400 %) GAAP 6 10 (0.364 %) BS7799 7 8 (0.291 %) ISO9000 8 6 (0.218 %) ISO9001 9 3 (0.109 %) PCI DSS 10 2 (0.073 %) GCP 10 2 (0.073 %) BS25999 10 2 (0.073 %) ISO12207 11 1 (0.036 %) WAI 11 1 (0.036 %) COBIT	System Software 1 31 (1.127 %) Active Directory 2 10 (0.364 %) Oracle RAC 3 5 (0.182 %) NetBackup 4 3 (0.109 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 2 (0.073 %) Oracle RMAN 5 2 (0.073 %) AquaLogic 5 2 (0.073 %) MailMarshal 6 1 (0.036 %) VMware Server 6 1 (0.036 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 1 (0.036 %) ISA Server 6 1 (0.036 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 47 (1.708 %) OpenView 2 36 (1.309 %) OVOW 3 19 (0.691 %) CiscoWorks 4 16 (0.582 %) OVPA 4 16 (0.582 %) OVPI 5 11 (0.400 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 9 (0.327 %) Netcool 6 9 (0.327 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 7 (0.254 %) Tivoli 8 5 (0.182 %) MIIS 9 4 (0.145 %) OVSD 10 3 (0.109 %) NNM 10 3 (0.109 %) HP Data Protector 10 3 (0.109 %) MOM 10 3 (0.109 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 2 (0.073 %) Netcool/Proviso 12 1 (0.036 %) DameWare 12 1 (0.036 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 158 (5.743 %) Cisco 2 142 (5.162 %) Oracle 3 134 (4.871 %) Ericsson 4 114 (4.144 %) Microsoft 5 95 (3.453 %) SAP 6 80 (2.908 %) Business Objects 7 60 (2.181 %) Nokia 8 57 (2.072 %) Cramer 9 50 (1.818 %) HP 10 30 (1.091 %) Sun 11 25 (0.909 %) Avaya 12 24 (0.872 %) Remedy 13 23 (0.836 %) Citrix 14 20 (0.727 %) Siemens 15 19 (0.691 %) Nortel 16 18 (0.654 %) Progress 17 16 (0.582 %) PeopleSoft 17 16 (0.582 %) CheckPoint 17 16 (0.582 %) Mapinfo 18 15 (0.545 %) IBM