The first table below looks at the demand for IP Telephony skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IP Telephony over the 3 months to 18 June 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 West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IP Telephony
Rank 103 129 123
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -6
Contract jobs citing IP Telephony 7 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.341% 0.255% 0.133%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.341% 1.713% 1.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £400 £363 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% +45.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £293 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £433 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £373 £338
% change year-on-year
-21.81% +10.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+68.88% -15.09%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
299 467 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.55% 14.90% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 222 155
Average daily rate £375 £386 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.72% +4.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 41 53
Average hourly rate £21.50 £24.38 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.79% -15.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £20.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.10 £45.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
IP Telephony
England

IP Telephony
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West IP Telephony Jobs Demand Trend

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West IP Telephony Daily Rate Trend

IP Telephony
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing IP Telephony across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South West IP Telephony Daily Rate Histogram

IP Telephony
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West IP Telephony Hourly Rate Trend

IP Telephony
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IP Telephony within the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Bristol - 4 £400 -
Wiltshire -5 1 - -
Dorset - - - -
IP Telephony
England

IP Telephony
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony.

1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
1 6 (66.67%) HP
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (55.56%) IronPort
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (55.56%) Unified Communications
2 5 (55.56%) FWSM
2 5 (55.56%) Nokia
2 5 (55.56%) CheckPoint
2 5 (55.56%) MPLS
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Wireless
3 4 (44.44%) IBM
3 4 (44.44%) OSPF
3 4 (44.44%) BGP
3 4 (44.44%) CiscoWorks
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (44.44%) Network Management
3 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
3 4 (44.44%) CA
4 3 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (33.33%) Blue Coat
4 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (22.22%) Finance
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 2 (22.22%) SAN
5 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
5 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
5 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007

IP Telephony
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco IPT
2 5 (55.56%) Wireless
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (55.56%) Unified Communications
2 5 (55.56%) FWSM
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 5 (55.56%) MPLS
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
3 4 (44.44%) OSPF
3 4 (44.44%) BGP
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (22.22%) SAN
6 1 (11.11%) LAN
6 1 (11.11%) VoIP
6 1 (11.11%) WAN
6 1 (11.11%) Network Security
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Network Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Network Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Network Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Network Management
2 3 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Business Development
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
1 6 (66.67%) HP
2 5 (55.56%) Nokia
2 5 (55.56%) CheckPoint
2 5 (55.56%) IronPort
3 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
3 4 (44.44%) CA
3 4 (44.44%) IBM
4 3 (33.33%) Blue Coat
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
6 1 (11.11%) Siemens
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