Swindon NGN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Next Generation Networking (NGN) skills within the Swindon region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited NGN over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Next Generation Networking (NGN)
Location Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hinckley Home Counties Ipswich Leicestershire London Scotland South Coast South East South West Suffolk Swindon UK Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	52
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	1.000 %	1.099 %
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	£271	£454
% change on same period last year	-40.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Communications & Networking Swindon
Matching contract IT job ads	100	91
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.132 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	22	22
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£302
Average daily rate	£403	£334
% change on same period last year	+20.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£437	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.86	£24.29
Average hourly rate	£29.51	£25.79
% change on same period last year	+14.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.16	£27.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
NGN Wiltshire

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 NGN across the Swindon 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 NGN across the Swindon region.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing NGN 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 NGN.

1 3 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 2 (66.67 %) BSS 2 2 (66.67 %) eTOM 2 2 (66.67 %) IPTV 2 2 (66.67 %) Test Management 2 2 (66.67 %) CRM 2 2 (66.67 %) Siebel 2 2 (66.67 %) Broadband 2 2 (66.67 %) VoIP 2 2 (66.67 %) MPLS 2 2 (66.67 %) VXML 2 2 (66.67 %) Project Management 2 2 (66.67 %) TCAP 2 2 (66.67 %) ISUP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing NGN 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 NGN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) VXML	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) Broadband 1 2 (66.67 %) VoIP 1 2 (66.67 %) MPLS 1 2 (66.67 %) TCAP 1 2 (66.67 %) ISUP 1 2 (66.67 %) BSS
General 1 3 (100.00 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Manager 1 2 (66.67 %) Integration Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) IPTV	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) CRM 1 2 (66.67 %) Project Management 1 2 (66.67 %) eTOM 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Management
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Siebel