The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our General category for the Tyne and Wear 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 24 26 16
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -10
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 4 16 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.128% 4.776% 7.491%
As % of the General category 9.091% 23.53% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
Average daily rate £260 £510 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-49.01% +126.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £329 £340
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -1.58%
All of the General Category
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
44 68 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 23.40% 20.30% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 24
Average daily rate £425 £375 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £250 £166
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +71.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
North East

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Tyne and Wear Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Telecoms across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Newcastle upon Tyne 0 4 £260 -37.72%
Telecoms
North East

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1 3 (27.27%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Broadband
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) RDF
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) Internet
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) HP
3 1 (9.091%) Nortel
3 1 (9.091%) Avaya
3 1 (9.091%) Genesys
3 1 (9.091%) Informatica
3 1 (9.091%) ISDN
3 1 (9.091%) PSTN
3 1 (9.091%) VoIP
3 1 (9.091%) DHCP
3 1 (9.091%) VPN
3 1 (9.091%) DNS
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco
3 1 (9.091%) IBM
3 1 (9.091%) UML
3 1 (9.091%) JBoss
3 1 (9.091%) Apache
3 1 (9.091%) LDAP
3 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
3 1 (9.091%) CRM
3 1 (9.091%) Siebel
3 1 (9.091%) C#

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
1 1 (9.091%) Web Services
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
1 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Broadband
2 1 (9.091%) Internet
2 1 (9.091%) ISDN
2 1 (9.091%) PSTN
2 1 (9.091%) VoIP
2 1 (9.091%) DHCP
2 1 (9.091%) VPN
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) LDAP
2 1 (9.091%) Wireless
2 1 (9.091%) Symposium
2 1 (9.091%) Nortel Meridian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Commercial Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Report Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Telecoms Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Service Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) AIX
2 1 (9.091%) CentOS
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) RDF
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) UML
3 1 (9.091%) CRM
3 1 (9.091%) Identity Management
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) C#
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
1 1 (9.091%) VBA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Nortel
2 1 (9.091%) Avaya
2 1 (9.091%) Genesys
2 1 (9.091%) Informatica
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco
2 1 (9.091%) IBM
2 1 (9.091%) JBoss
2 1 (9.091%) Siebel