South West VoIP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) 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 VoIP over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Devon Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	121
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	42	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	6.316 %	5.285 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£425	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£475	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£369
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.82	£34.23
Average hourly rate	£17.32	£36.73
% change on same period last year	-52.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.82	£39.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.98	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-12.29 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching contract IT job ads	665	946
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.948 %	0.978 %
Daily rates quoted	138	192
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£307
Average daily rate	£336	£326
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	119	156
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.09	£26.21
Average hourly rate	£28.97	£27.99
% change on same period last year	+3.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.85	£29.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.34	£28.77
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
VoIP 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.

VoIP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VoIP across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

VoIP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Gloucestershire	+13	21	-	-
Devon	-	6	-	-
Dorset	0	5	-	-
Wiltshire	-19	5	£550	-
Bristol	+8	3	-	-

VoIP England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1 34 (49.28 %) Windows 1 34 (49.28 %) Cisco 2 24 (34.78 %) MS Exchange 2 24 (34.78 %) Telecoms 3 22 (31.88 %) Active Directory 4 21 (30.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 20 (28.99 %) Windows Server 2003 6 16 (23.19 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 12 (17.39 %) C 8 11 (15.94 %) UNIX 8 11 (15.94 %) TCP/IP 8 11 (15.94 %) Cisco Certification 9 10 (14.49 %) CCNA 9 10 (14.49 %) WAN 9 10 (14.49 %) LAN

9 10 (14.49 %) Wireless 10 9 (13.04 %) Broadband 10 9 (13.04 %) SS7 10 9 (13.04 %) MPLS 11 8 (11.59 %) SQL 12 7 (10.14 %) Firewall 12 7 (10.14 %) Linux 12 7 (10.14 %) ISDN 12 7 (10.14 %) QSIG 12 7 (10.14 %) DASS2 12 7 (10.14 %) DPNSS 12 7 (10.14 %) Microsoft 13 6 (8.696 %) RDBMS 13 6 (8.696 %) Citrix 13 6 (8.696 %) ATM

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (8.696 %) ASP 2 3 (4.348 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 24 (34.78 %) MS Exchange 2 21 (30.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 16 (23.19 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 4 (5.797 %) SharePoint 5 3 (4.348 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.449 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 2 (2.899 %) MS Office 1 2 (2.899 %) MS Excel 1 2 (2.899 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (1.449 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 11 (15.94 %) TCP/IP 2 10 (14.49 %) LAN 2 10 (14.49 %) WAN 2 10 (14.49 %) Wireless 3 9 (13.04 %) SS7 3 9 (13.04 %) Broadband 3 9 (13.04 %) MPLS 4 7 (10.14 %) DASS2 4 7 (10.14 %) DPNSS 4 7 (10.14 %) ISDN 4 7 (10.14 %) QSIG 4 7 (10.14 %) Firewall 5 6 (8.696 %) ATM 6 5 (7.246 %) PSTN 7 4 (5.797 %) PBX 7 4 (5.797 %) DNS 8 3 (4.348 %) SAN 8 3 (4.348 %) 3G 8 3 (4.348 %) GPRS 8 3 (4.348 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (8.696 %) RDBMS 2 2 (2.899 %) SQL Server
General 1 24 (34.78 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.449 %) Finance 2 1 (1.449 %) Government 2 1 (1.449 %) Home Office	Job Titles 1 14 (20.29 %) Network Engineer 2 13 (18.84 %) Support Engineer 2 13 (18.84 %) Cisco Engineer 3 8 (11.59 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 8 (11.59 %) Software Engineer 4 6 (8.696 %) Administrator 5 5 (7.246 %) Field Engineer 5 5 (7.246 %) 3rd Line Support 5 5 (7.246 %) VoIP Engineer 5 5 (7.246 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 6 4 (5.797 %) Network Support 6 4 (5.797 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 4 (5.797 %) Network Support Engineer 6 4 (5.797 %) Architect 6 4 (5.797 %) Applications Support 6 4 (5.797 %) Systems Administrator 7 3 (4.348 %) Programmer 7 3 (4.348 %) Developer 7 3 (4.348 %) Analyst 8 2 (2.899 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.696 %) Client/Server 1 6 (8.696 %) IPTV 2 1 (1.449 %) NHS 2 1 (1.449 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.449 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.449 %) Handset 2 1 (1.449 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.449 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 34 (49.28 %) Windows 2 20 (28.99 %) Windows Server 2003 3 11 (15.94 %) UNIX 4 7 (10.14 %) Linux 5 4 (5.797 %) AIX 6 2 (2.899 %) Solaris 6 2 (2.899 %) Windows XP 7 1 (1.449 %) Embedded Linux 7 1 (1.449 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (7.246 %) Migration 2 4 (5.797 %) Load Balancing 3 3 (4.348 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (4.348 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (2.899 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.449 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.449 %) Asset Management 5 1 (1.449 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 12 (17.39 %) C 2 8 (11.59 %) SQL 3 3 (4.348 %) Java 4 2 (2.899 %) VBA 5 1 (1.449 %) VB 5 1 (1.449 %) C++
Qualifications 1 11 (15.94 %) Cisco Certification 2 10 (14.49 %) CCNA 3 5 (7.246 %) CCNP 4 4 (5.797 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (4.348 %) MCSE 5 3 (4.348 %) MCSA 6 1 (1.449 %) Citrix Certification	System Software 1 22 (31.88 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.899 %) VMware ESX
Vendors 1 34 (49.28 %) Cisco 2 7 (10.14 %) Microsoft 3 6 (8.696 %) Citrix 4 4 (5.797 %) Avaya 4 4 (5.797 %) Sun 4 4 (5.797 %) VMware 4 4 (5.797 %) Oracle 5 3 (4.348 %) Lotus 6 2 (2.899 %) Juniper 6 2 (2.899 %) Nortel 6 2 (2.899 %) Mitel 7 1 (1.449 %) IBM 7 1 (1.449 %) Red Hat