South Wales Broadband Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Broadband skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Broadband over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Falkirk Glasgow Guildford Gwent Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Milton Keynes Newbury North West Northern Ireland Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	47
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	6	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	5.263 %	5.941 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£415
Average daily rate	£456	£440
% change on same period last year	+3.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£513	£465
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£343
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.16	£20.95
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
Communications & Networking South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	114	101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.152 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	34	33
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£415
Average daily rate	£324	£435
% change on same period last year	-25.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£456
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.53	£24.45
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£26.33
% change on same period last year	+6.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.80	£28.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
Broadband Wales

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Broadband across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Broadband across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Broadband across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 jobs citing Broadband within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Cardiff	-5	3	£442	+0.37 %
Gwent	-	2	-	-
Bridgend	-	1	£500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 5 (62.50 %) NHS 2 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 3 2 (25.00 %) VoIP 3 2 (25.00 %) SLA 4 1 (12.50 %) Local Government 4 1 (12.50 %) IPTV 4 1 (12.50 %) Degree 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 4 1 (12.50 %) PMI 4 1 (12.50 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) OpenGL 4 1 (12.50 %) DirectX 4 1 (12.50 %) MPLS

4 1 (12.50 %) DVB 4 1 (12.50 %) OOD 4 1 (12.50 %) GPRS 4 1 (12.50 %) GSM 4 1 (12.50 %) C++ 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Project 4 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 4 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (12.50 %) Wireless 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 4 1 (12.50 %) Education 4 1 (12.50 %) Government 4 1 (12.50 %) Health 4 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) OpenGL 1 1 (12.50 %) DirectX	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) VoIP 2 1 (12.50 %) MPLS 2 1 (12.50 %) DVB 2 1 (12.50 %) Wireless 2 1 (12.50 %) GPRS 2 1 (12.50 %) GSM	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Education 1 1 (12.50 %) Government 1 1 (12.50 %) Health 1 1 (12.50 %) Games 1 1 (12.50 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Manager 1 2 (25.00 %) Programme Manager 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Support Officer 1 2 (25.00 %) Project Officer 2 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) NHS Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Delivery Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Services Delivery Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (62.50 %) NHS 2 1 (12.50 %) IPTV 2 1 (12.50 %) PMI	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (12.50 %) OOD 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Risk Assessment 2 1 (12.50 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C++	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PMI Certification 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (25.00 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Cisco