The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Acme Packet products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Acme Packet over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Acme Packet.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Acme Packet
Rank 539 579 577
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -2
Contract jobs citing Acme Packet 1 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% 0.007% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £36.60
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

Acme Packet
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Acme Packet within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Acme Packet Jobs Demand Trend

Acme Packet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Acme Packet within the UK.

Acme Packet Daily Rate Trend

Acme Packet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Acme Packet 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 Acme Packet.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 2 (66.67%) Avaya
2 2 (66.67%) BT
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 2 (66.67%) CyberTech
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) LTE
3 1 (33.33%) XCAP
3 1 (33.33%) Handset
3 1 (33.33%) Streaming Video
3 1 (33.33%) Softphone
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) IVR
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) Avaya Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) OSPF
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) RTP
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Megaco
3 1 (33.33%) H.323
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall

Acme Packet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Acme Packet 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 Acme Packet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) LTE
2 1 (33.33%) XCAP
2 1 (33.33%) Softphone
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) RTP
2 1 (33.33%) Megaco
2 1 (33.33%) H.323
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) GSM
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Handset
1 1 (33.33%) Streaming Video
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Time Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Avaya Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Avaya
2 2 (66.67%) BT
2 2 (66.67%) CyberTech
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) HP