Thames Valley ATM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) skills within the Thames Valley region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ATM over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Ceredigion Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Dartford East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Kent Knutsford Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Mid Wales Midlands Milton Keynes New Quay Newcastle Newquay North East North West North Yorkshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redditch Runcorn Scotland South East South West Southampton Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	56
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	1	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.493 %	5.185 %
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	£359	£408
% change on same period last year	-11.88 %
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	£34.69	£23.72
% change on same period last year	+46.24 %
Communications & Networking Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	67	135
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.137 %
Daily rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£336
Average daily rate	£364	£343
% change on same period last year	+6.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.69	£35.37
Average hourly rate	£39.42	£35.98
% change on same period last year	+9.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.15	£36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
ATM South East

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.

ATM
Demand Trend

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

ATM
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ATM across the Thames Valley region.

ATM
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ATM across the Thames Valley region.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing ATM 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 ATM.

1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Banking 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail 1 1 (33.33 %) IPTV 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail Banking 1 1 (33.33 %) NGN 1 1 (33.33 %) LLU 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 1 1 (33.33 %) PMI 1 1 (33.33 %) NCR 1 1 (33.33 %) EPoS 1 1 (33.33 %) DSLAM

ATM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley region citing ATM 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 ATM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 1 1 (33.33 %) DSLAM 1 1 (33.33 %) NGN 1 1 (33.33 %) LLU	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 1 1 (33.33 %) Banking 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Project Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Installation Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Deployment Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Project Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) ATM Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Deployment Project Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Break Fix Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) PMI 1 1 (33.33 %) EPoS 1 1 (33.33 %) IPTV
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) NCR