Swindon VoIP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the Swindon 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chichester City of London Crawley Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton 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 Oxfordshire Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Witham Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	41
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	8	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	9.302 %	10.59 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£363	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£425	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£353
% change on same period last year	-11.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£37.00
Average hourly rate	-	£38.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.89	£26.86
% change on same period last year	+7.59 %
Communications & Networking Swindon
Matching contract IT job ads	86	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	26	15
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£280
Average daily rate	£407	£301
% change on same period last year	+34.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£451	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.97	£29.30
Average hourly rate	£28.49	£30.98
% change on same period last year	-8.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.02	£32.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
VoIP 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.

VoIP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VoIP 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 VoIP 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 VoIP across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Swindon region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 9 (56.25 %) Cisco 1 9 (56.25 %) Telecoms 2 6 (37.50 %) PBX 2 6 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 5 (31.25 %) Windows 3 5 (31.25 %) CCNP 3 5 (31.25 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 4 4 (25.00 %) MCSE 4 4 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 5 3 (18.75 %) Avaya 5 3 (18.75 %) MCSA 5 3 (18.75 %) CCNA

5 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 5 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) NGN 6 2 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 6 2 (12.50 %) VXML 6 2 (12.50 %) BSS 6 2 (12.50 %) eTOM 6 2 (12.50 %) IPTV 6 2 (12.50 %) Test Management 6 2 (12.50 %) TCAP 6 2 (12.50 %) ISUP 6 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 6 2 (12.50 %) HP 6 2 (12.50 %) MPLS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (12.50 %) VXML	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (31.25 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 4 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (6.250 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (37.50 %) PBX 2 4 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (12.50 %) DNS 3 2 (12.50 %) TCAP 3 2 (12.50 %) ISUP 3 2 (12.50 %) WAN 3 2 (12.50 %) DHCP 3 2 (12.50 %) Broadband 3 2 (12.50 %) LAN 3 2 (12.50 %) MPLS 3 2 (12.50 %) BSS 3 2 (12.50 %) NGN 4 1 (6.250 %) GGSN 4 1 (6.250 %) OSPF 4 1 (6.250 %) DPNSS 4 1 (6.250 %) ADSL 4 1 (6.250 %) ATM 4 1 (6.250 %) SNMP 4 1 (6.250 %) Q.931 4 1 (6.250 %) QSIG
General 1 9 (56.25 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.250 %) Government 2 1 (6.250 %) Home Office	Job Titles 1 2 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 1 2 (12.50 %) Integration Manager 1 2 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 1 2 (12.50 %) Analyst 1 2 (12.50 %) Test Manager 1 2 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 1 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (6.250 %) Network Designer 2 1 (6.250 %) Architect 2 1 (6.250 %) Project Manager 2 1 (6.250 %) Telephony Engineer 2 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Architect 2 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 1 (6.250 %) Communications Engineer 2 1 (6.250 %) Server Specialist 2 1 (6.250 %) Implementation Engineer 2 1 (6.250 %) Avaya Engineer 2 1 (6.250 %) Voice Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) IPTV 2 1 (6.250 %) Clustering 2 1 (6.250 %) IVR 2 1 (6.250 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 5 (31.25 %) Windows 2 1 (6.250 %) Linux 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP 2 1 (6.250 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 1 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 1 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (12.50 %) eTOM 2 2 (12.50 %) Test Management 2 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 2 (12.50 %) CRM 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (31.25 %) CCNP 1 5 (31.25 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (25.00 %) MCSE 3 3 (18.75 %) MCSA 3 3 (18.75 %) CCNA 4 2 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (6.250 %) CCDP 5 1 (6.250 %) CCIE	System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 9 (56.25 %) Cisco 2 3 (18.75 %) Avaya 3 2 (12.50 %) Juniper 3 2 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 2 (12.50 %) HP 3 2 (12.50 %) Siebel 4 1 (6.250 %) IBM 4 1 (6.250 %) Siemens 4 1 (6.250 %) Red Hat 4 1 (6.250 %) 3Com 4 1 (6.250 %) VMware 4 1 (6.250 %) ProCurve