Communications Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Communications Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles 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.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Comms Engineer
Rank 520 564 574
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Communications Engineer 9 20 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.034% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.037% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 7
Average daily rate £425 £469 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.33% +10.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £185 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £675 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £238 £300
% change year-on-year
+78.94% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 10 Communications Engineer jobs
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Communications Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Communications Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Communications Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Communications Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Communications Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Communications Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Communications Engineer within the UK.

Communications Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Communications Engineer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Communications Engineer within the UK 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
England +32 4 £450 -18.18%
Scotland - 4 - -
Edinburgh - 3 - -
East of England - 2 - -
Essex - 2 - -
South West +28 1 - -
Bristol +14 1 - -
South East +11 1 £450 -
West Lothian - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £450 -
Newbury - 1 £450 -
Livingston - 1 - -

Communications Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title.

1 23 (76.67%) Unified Communications
2 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (43.33%) Lync
3 12 (40.00%) Cisco
4 9 (30.00%) VoIP
5 8 (26.67%) MGCP
5 8 (26.67%) QSIG
5 8 (26.67%) H.323
5 8 (26.67%) Cisco UCCX
5 8 (26.67%) Capacity Management
6 6 (20.00%) Wireless
7 4 (13.33%) Spanish Language
7 4 (13.33%) C
7 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (10.00%) MATLAB
8 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
9 2 (6.667%) Office Communications Server
9 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
9 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (6.667%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
9 2 (6.667%) MCTS
9 2 (6.667%) MCITP
9 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (6.667%) Migration
9 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (6.667%) Symantec
9 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
9 2 (6.667%) CCNA
9 2 (6.667%) Active Directory

Communications Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Communications Engineer in their job title 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 with Communications Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 13 (43.33%) Lync
2 2 (6.667%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (6.667%) IIS
2 2 (6.667%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 23 (76.67%) Unified Communications
2 9 (30.00%) VoIP
3 8 (26.67%) MGCP
3 8 (26.67%) QSIG
3 8 (26.67%) H.323
4 6 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (3.333%) Bluetooth
5 1 (3.333%) LAN
5 1 (3.333%) WAN
5 1 (3.333%) MPLS
5 1 (3.333%) SS7
5 1 (3.333%) Firewall
5 1 (3.333%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.333%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (3.333%) xDSL
5 1 (3.333%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.333%) SIGTRAN
5 1 (3.333%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Subversion
General
1 4 (13.33%) Spanish Language
2 1 (3.333%) Electronics
2 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.333%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.333%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Capacity Management
2 2 (6.667%) Migration
2 2 (6.667%) High Availability
3 1 (3.333%) Configuration Management
3 1 (3.333%) Project Management
3 1 (3.333%) Service Delivery
3 1 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (3.333%) Network Design
3 1 (3.333%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) C
2 3 (10.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.667%) MCTS
3 2 (6.667%) MCITP
3 2 (6.667%) CCNA
4 1 (3.333%) CCIE
4 1 (3.333%) CITP
4 1 (3.333%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.333%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (6.667%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Cisco UCCX
2 2 (6.667%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (3.333%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (6.667%) Symantec
4 1 (3.333%) EMC
4 1 (3.333%) Nortel
4 1 (3.333%) Avaya
4 1 (3.333%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.333%) VMware
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