Swindon Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Swindon region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
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Rank	6	32
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	67	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.086 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	21.61 %	8.197 %
Daily rates quoted	18	3
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£167
Average daily rate	£354	£178
% change on same period last year	+98.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£190
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£324
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.75	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£37.63	£21.00
% change on same period last year	+79.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.50	£21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+8.37 %
General Swindon
Matching contract IT job ads	310	183
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.398 %	0.206 %
Daily rates quoted	143	75
Average minimum daily rate	£424	£368
Average daily rate	£454	£397
% change on same period last year	+14.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£485	£426
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.67	£37.61
Average hourly rate	£29.17	£40.86
% change on same period last year	-28.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.67	£44.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.74	£26.10
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Telecoms 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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Swindon region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Swindon region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Swindon region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Swindon region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Swindon region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 38 (24.52 %) C 2 31 (20.00 %) C++ 3 29 (18.71 %) Perl 3 29 (18.71 %) UMTS 4 27 (17.42 %) 3G 5 25 (16.13 %) Linux 6 21 (13.55 %) Unix 7 20 (12.90 %) Windows 8 19 (12.26 %) 3GPP 9 18 (11.61 %) SMS 10 16 (10.32 %) HP 11 15 (9.677 %) IBM 12 14 (9.032 %) Embedded C 12 14 (9.032 %) ClearCase 12 14 (9.032 %) Device Driver

13 12 (7.742 %) SDH 13 12 (7.742 %) Embedded Linux 14 11 (7.097 %) Government 14 11 (7.097 %) Oracle 15 10 (6.452 %) Red Hat 15 10 (6.452 %) CTI 15 10 (6.452 %) CSS 15 10 (6.452 %) Solaris 15 10 (6.452 %) VoIP 15 10 (6.452 %) Fujitsu 16 9 (5.806 %) Network Design 16 9 (5.806 %) Embedded C++ 16 9 (5.806 %) Sun 16 9 (5.806 %) TCP/IP 16 9 (5.806 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Swindon region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (6.452 %) CSS 2 5 (3.226 %) XMPP 3 4 (2.581 %) Adobe Flex 3 4 (2.581 %) X-Windows 4 3 (1.935 %) VXML	Application Platforms 1 3 (1.935 %) IIS 2 2 (1.290 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (1.290 %) Apache 2 2 (1.290 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (1.290 %) SAS 2 2 (1.290 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (0.645 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (0.645 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 4 (2.581 %) MS Office 2 3 (1.935 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.290 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (1.290 %) Endur 2 1 (0.645 %) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 29 (18.71 %) UMTS 2 27 (17.42 %) 3G 3 19 (12.26 %) 3GPP 4 18 (11.61 %) SMS 5 12 (7.742 %) SDH 6 10 (6.452 %) VoIP 6 10 (6.452 %) CTI 7 9 (5.806 %) TCP/IP 8 8 (5.161 %) DSL 9 7 (4.516 %) IPsec 10 6 (3.871 %) Nortel Meridian 11 5 (3.226 %) NGN 11 5 (3.226 %) SAN 11 5 (3.226 %) Ethernet 11 5 (3.226 %) HTTP 11 5 (3.226 %) ATM 11 5 (3.226 %) CDMA 11 5 (3.226 %) Internet 11 5 (3.226 %) DWDM 11 5 (3.226 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (5.806 %) SQL Server 2 8 (5.161 %) ETL 3 4 (2.581 %) RDBMS 3 4 (2.581 %) Siebel EIM 4 1 (0.645 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 14 (9.032 %) ClearCase	General 1 11 (7.097 %) Government 2 7 (4.516 %) Finance 3 6 (3.871 %) Multimedia 4 5 (3.226 %) Retail 5 4 (2.581 %) Legal 5 4 (2.581 %) Auditing 6 3 (1.935 %) Electric 6 3 (1.935 %) Billing 7 1 (0.645 %) Education
Job Titles 1 24 (15.48 %) Software Engineer 2 14 (9.032 %) Support Engineer 3 13 (8.387 %) Developer 3 13 (8.387 %) Test Engineer 4 12 (7.742 %) Software Test Engineer 5 11 (7.097 %) Analyst 6 8 (5.161 %) Consultant 7 7 (4.516 %) Network Engineer 8 6 (3.871 %) Network Designer 8 6 (3.871 %) Business Analyst 8 6 (3.871 %) Real Time Developer 9 5 (3.226 %) Technical Support 10 4 (2.581 %) Software Developer 10 4 (2.581 %) Test Manager 10 4 (2.581 %) Technical Support Engineer 10 4 (2.581 %) Technical Engineer 11 3 (1.935 %) UNIX Engineer 11 3 (1.935 %) C Developer 11 3 (1.935 %) Storage Engineer 11 3 (1.935 %) SAN Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (9.032 %) Device Driver 2 5 (3.226 %) Multithreading 3 4 (2.581 %) Video Conferencing 4 3 (1.935 %) IPTV 5 2 (1.290 %) Clustering 5 2 (1.290 %) IVR
Operating Systems 1 25 (16.13 %) Linux 2 21 (13.55 %) Unix 3 20 (12.90 %) Windows 4 12 (7.742 %) Embedded Linux 5 10 (6.452 %) Solaris 6 4 (2.581 %) VMS 6 4 (2.581 %) OpenVMS 6 4 (2.581 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (1.935 %) Windows NT 7 3 (1.935 %) VxWorks 7 3 (1.935 %) pSOS 8 2 (1.290 %) Windows XP 8 2 (1.290 %) Windows Server 2003 9 1 (0.645 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (5.806 %) Code Coverage 1 9 (5.806 %) Project Management 1 9 (5.806 %) Network Design 2 7 (4.516 %) CRM 3 6 (3.871 %) ITIL 4 4 (2.581 %) Risk Management 4 4 (2.581 %) Business Analysis 4 4 (2.581 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (1.935 %) Time Management 5 3 (1.935 %) Release Management 5 3 (1.935 %) Performance Testing 5 3 (1.935 %) Data Analysis 5 3 (1.935 %) EAI 5 3 (1.935 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (1.290 %) eTOM 6 2 (1.290 %) Test Management 7 1 (0.645 %) System Testing 7 1 (0.645 %) Logistics 7 1 (0.645 %) Migration 7 1 (0.645 %) Network Planning
Programming Languages 1 38 (24.52 %) C 2 31 (20.00 %) C++ 3 29 (18.71 %) Perl 4 14 (9.032 %) Embedded C 5 9 (5.806 %) Embedded C++ 6 4 (2.581 %) SQL 7 3 (1.935 %) Korn 8 2 (1.290 %) Shell Script 8 2 (1.290 %) VBScript 8 2 (1.290 %) VB	Qualifications 1 5 (3.226 %) CISSP 1 5 (3.226 %) Degree 2 2 (1.290 %) CCIE 2 2 (1.290 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (1.290 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (1.290 %) MCP 3 1 (0.645 %) HND 3 1 (0.645 %) MCSE 3 1 (0.645 %) MCSA 3 1 (0.645 %) Siebel Certification 3 1 (0.645 %) ACCA 3 1 (0.645 %) CIMA 3 1 (0.645 %) JNCIE 3 1 (0.645 %) CCNP 3 1 (0.645 %) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.226 %) SLA 2 2 (1.290 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (1.290 %) QA	System Software 1 8 (5.161 %) NetBackup 2 6 (3.871 %) Active Directory 3 2 (1.290 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 7 (4.516 %) OpenView 2 5 (3.226 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 16 (10.32 %) HP 2 15 (9.677 %) IBM 3 11 (7.097 %) Oracle 4 10 (6.452 %) Red Hat 4 10 (6.452 %) Fujitsu 5 9 (5.806 %) Sun 5 9 (5.806 %) Nortel 6 8 (5.161 %) Juniper 7 7 (4.516 %) VMware 8 6 (3.871 %) VERITAS 8 6 (3.871 %) Avaya 8 6 (3.871 %) Siebel 8 6 (3.871 %) Microsoft 9 5 (3.226 %) Sybase 9 5 (3.226 %) SAP 9 5 (3.226 %) BMC 9 5 (3.226 %) Ericsson 9 5 (3.226 %) Remedy 10 4 (2.581 %) BT 11 3 (1.935 %) StorageTek