South West ADSL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ADSL over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Assymetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Crewe East Midlands East of England Ely England Greenwich Hampshire Kettering Leeds London Luton Manchester Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Scotland South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	141	161
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	3	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.422 %	1.041 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£241	£322
% change on same period last year	-25.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.81
Average hourly rate	-	£12.97
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.50	£18.23
% change on same period last year	+6.97 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching contract IT job ads	711	961
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.961 %	0.948 %
Daily rates quoted	201	217
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£329
Average daily rate	£334	£346
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	156
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.01	£25.95
Average hourly rate	£26.81	£27.89
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.61	£29.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
ADSL 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ADSL across the South West 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 ADSL across the South West region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADSL within the South West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Bristol	+8	2	-	-
Wiltshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing ADSL 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 ADSL.

1 10 (71.43 %) TCP/IP 1 10 (71.43 %) MPLS 1 10 (71.43 %) OSPF 2 6 (42.86 %) BGP 3 4 (28.57 %) Redback 3 4 (28.57 %) DSL 3 4 (28.57 %) Lucent 3 4 (28.57 %) Alcatel 4 3 (21.43 %) Cisco 4 3 (21.43 %) Broadband 5 2 (14.29 %) SDH 5 2 (14.29 %) DSLAM 5 2 (14.29 %) Firewall 5 2 (14.29 %) DWDM 5 2 (14.29 %) Network Design

5 2 (14.29 %) Agilent 5 2 (14.29 %) Fujitsu 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (7.143 %) Summit 6 1 (7.143 %) Wi-Fi 6 1 (7.143 %) VoIP 6 1 (7.143 %) WAN 6 1 (7.143 %) Ethernet 6 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 6 1 (7.143 %) ITIL 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows 6 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows XP 6 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 6 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing ADSL 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 ADSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 10 (71.43 %) MPLS 1 10 (71.43 %) OSPF 1 10 (71.43 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (42.86 %) BGP 3 4 (28.57 %) DSL 4 3 (21.43 %) Broadband 5 2 (14.29 %) SDH 5 2 (14.29 %) DSLAM 5 2 (14.29 %) Firewall 5 2 (14.29 %) DWDM 6 1 (7.143 %) Wi-Fi 6 1 (7.143 %) Internet 6 1 (7.143 %) VoIP 6 1 (7.143 %) WAN 6 1 (7.143 %) Ethernet	Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) NOC Engineer 2 4 (28.57 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Technical Support 3 2 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Design Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Technical Support Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Technical Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Network Design Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Implementation Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Network Support 4 1 (7.143 %) Problem Manager 4 1 (7.143 %) Test Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Network Technician 4 1 (7.143 %) 1st Line Support
Operating Systems 1 1 (7.143 %) Windows 1 1 (7.143 %) Windows XP 1 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Network Design 2 1 (7.143 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) ITIL Certification	System Software 1 1 (7.143 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Lucent 1 4 (28.57 %) Alcatel 1 4 (28.57 %) Redback 2 3 (21.43 %) Cisco 3 2 (14.29 %) Agilent 3 2 (14.29 %) Fujitsu 4 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 4 1 (7.143 %) Citrix