South West IP Telephony Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Cumbria East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Feltham Fife Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Pontefract Reading Scotland Sevenoaks South East South Wales South West Stockport Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	145
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	4	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.563 %	2.706 %
Daily rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£269
Average daily rate	£325	£269
% change on same period last year	+20.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£269
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£346
% change on same period last year	-10.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£37.86
% change on same period last year	-57.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£40.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.50	£23.76
% change on same period last year	+7.31 %
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 %
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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 IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony 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 IP Telephony 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
Wiltshire	-5	2	£325	+25.90 %
Bristol	+5	1	-	-
Gloucestershire	-2	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 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 3 (37.50 %) AIX 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Planning 2 2 (25.00 %) Government 2 2 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (25.00 %) CCNP 2 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (25.00 %) LAN 2 2 (25.00 %) WAN 3 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 3 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (12.50 %) DNS

3 1 (12.50 %) PBX 3 1 (12.50 %) VoIP 3 1 (12.50 %) ATM 3 1 (12.50 %) CORBA 3 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 1 (12.50 %) MCSA 3 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 3 1 (12.50 %) Java 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) Avaya 3 1 (12.50 %) MPLS

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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 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 Development 1 1 (12.50 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) WAN 1 2 (25.00 %) LAN 2 1 (12.50 %) PBX 2 1 (12.50 %) VoIP 2 1 (12.50 %) ATM 2 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 2 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (12.50 %) DNS 2 1 (12.50 %) MPLS 2 1 (12.50 %) Firewall 2 1 (12.50 %) Frame Relay 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco IPT	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 2 2 (25.00 %) Government 3 1 (12.50 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Manager 1 3 (37.50 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 1 3 (37.50 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Contracts Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Telephony Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Infrastructure Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Avaya Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Voice Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) AIX 2 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Planning 2 2 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Network Load Balancing 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) Java 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) CCNP 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 2 1 (12.50 %) CCDP 2 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 2 1 (12.50 %) MCSA	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) Avaya 2 1 (12.50 %) Mitel 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle