The first table below looks at the demand for Unified Communications skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unified Communications over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Surrey 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Communications
Rank 78 96 93
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -3
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 1 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.088% 0.185% 0.434%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.529% 1.124% 2.694%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
Average daily rate £250 £188 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -45.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £326 £365 £400
% change year-on-year
-10.61% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 - £35.00
All Communications & Networking
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
189 267 297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 16.58% 16.45% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 114 141
Average daily rate £330 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 33 19
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £26.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.15 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £47.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Unified Communications
South East

Unified Communications
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Unified Communications Jobs Demand Trend

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Unified Communications across the Surrey region.

Surrey Unified Communications Daily Rate Trend

Unified Communications
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications.

1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (100.00%) EMC Centera
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (100.00%) Celerra
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint

Unified Communications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (100.00%) EMC Centera
1 1 (100.00%) Celerra
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware