The first table below looks at the demand for DWDM skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DWDM over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Communications & Networking category.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
Rank 476 484 487
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +3
Contract jobs citing DWDM 54 94 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.116% 0.161% 0.165%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.796% 1.033% 1.280%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 31
Average daily rate £250 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 £375 £270
% change year-on-year
-53.33% +38.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £175.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

DWDM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DWDM within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

DWDM Jobs Demand Trend

DWDM
Daily Rate Trend

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

DWDM Daily Rate Trend

DWDM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DWDM within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

DWDM Daily Rate Histogram

DWDM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DWDM Hourly Rate Trend

DWDM
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DWDM within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +12 51 £250 -28.57%
London +16 28 £263 -17.32%
South East +8 16 £175 -46.96%
Surrey +29 8 £175 -
Reading +9 7 - -
Berkshire -6 7 - -
North West - 4 £175 -
Manchester - 3 £175 -
West Midlands +9 2 - -
Docklands, London - 2 £301 -
Rochdale - 2 £175 -
Milton Keynes +11 1 - -
Buckinghamshire +10 1 - -
City of London +3 1 £200 -48.38%
Camberley 0 1 £175 -
Guildford - 1 - -

DWDM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DWDM 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 DWDM.

1 76 (89.41%) Telecoms
2 57 (67.06%) SDH
3 39 (45.88%) Ethernet
3 39 (45.88%) Huawei
4 30 (35.29%) ATM
5 15 (17.65%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 14 (16.47%) 3G
6 14 (16.47%) Project Management
7 13 (15.29%) 2G
8 11 (12.94%) Network Management
8 11 (12.94%) Cisco
8 11 (12.94%) Nortel
9 10 (11.76%) Network Design
10 9 (10.59%) Ericsson
11 8 (9.412%) ETL
11 8 (9.412%) RNC
11 8 (9.412%) Security Cleared
12 7 (8.235%) Juniper
12 7 (8.235%) MPLS
13 6 (7.059%) Wireless
13 6 (7.059%) VoIP
13 6 (7.059%) SC Cleared
13 6 (7.059%) Nokia Siemens Networks
14 5 (5.882%) Migration
14 5 (5.882%) C
15 4 (4.706%) Change Management
15 4 (4.706%) Fibre Channel
16 3 (3.529%) Radio Access Network
16 3 (3.529%) LTE
16 3 (3.529%) Banking

DWDM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DWDM 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 DWDM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.176%) ASP
1 1 (1.176%) CSS
1 1 (1.176%) XML
Applications
1 3 (3.529%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.176%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 57 (67.06%) SDH
2 39 (45.88%) Ethernet
3 30 (35.29%) ATM
4 14 (16.47%) 3G
5 13 (15.29%) 2G
6 8 (9.412%) RNC
7 7 (8.235%) MPLS
8 6 (7.059%) Wireless
8 6 (7.059%) VoIP
9 4 (4.706%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (3.529%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (3.529%) LTE
10 3 (3.529%) LAN
10 3 (3.529%) OSPF
11 2 (2.353%) BGP
11 2 (2.353%) DSL
11 2 (2.353%) EIGRP
11 2 (2.353%) HTTP
11 2 (2.353%) RIP
11 2 (2.353%) SNMP
General
1 76 (89.41%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.529%) Banking
3 1 (1.176%) Billing
3 1 (1.176%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.176%) Arabic Language
3 1 (1.176%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (28.24%) Transmission Engineer
2 23 (27.06%) Field Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) Design Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) Provisioning Engineer
4 5 (5.882%) Commissioning Engineer
5 4 (4.706%) Test Engineer
5 4 (4.706%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (3.529%) Telecoms Engineer
6 3 (3.529%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.529%) IP Engineer
6 3 (3.529%) Technical Leader
7 2 (2.353%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.353%) Network Planner
8 1 (1.176%) Network Specialist
8 1 (1.176%) Business Manager
8 1 (1.176%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.176%) Installations Engineer
8 1 (1.176%) Cisco Engineer
8 1 (1.176%) Field Support Engineer
8 1 (1.176%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.353%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.176%) Device Driver
2 1 (1.176%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.529%) Windows
2 1 (1.176%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (16.47%) Project Management
2 11 (12.94%) Network Management
3 10 (11.76%) Network Design
4 8 (9.412%) ETL
5 5 (5.882%) Migration
6 4 (4.706%) Change Management
7 3 (3.529%) PRINCE2
7 3 (3.529%) Service Delivery
8 2 (2.353%) Network Architecture
8 2 (2.353%) Network Planning
9 1 (1.176%) Enterprise Architecture
9 1 (1.176%) Problem Management
9 1 (1.176%) Fault Management
9 1 (1.176%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (1.176%) Performance Testing
9 1 (1.176%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (1.176%) Information Security
9 1 (1.176%) PLM
9 1 (1.176%) E-Commerce
9 1 (1.176%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.882%) C
2 2 (2.353%) Perl
3 1 (1.176%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 8 (9.412%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.059%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.529%) CCNP
3 3 (3.529%) CCNA
3 3 (3.529%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.353%) PMP
4 2 (2.353%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.353%) Degree
5 1 (1.176%) CCIP
5 1 (1.176%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.529%) SLA
2 1 (1.176%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.176%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (1.176%) OpenView
1 1 (1.176%) HP NNM
1 1 (1.176%) Cacti
1 1 (1.176%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 39 (45.88%) Huawei
2 15 (17.65%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 11 (12.94%) Cisco
3 11 (12.94%) Nortel
4 9 (10.59%) Ericsson
5 7 (8.235%) Juniper
6 6 (7.059%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 3 (3.529%) Telcordia
8 2 (2.353%) BT
9 1 (1.176%) NEC
9 1 (1.176%) OPNET
9 1 (1.176%) Blue Coat
9 1 (1.176%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.176%) HP
9 1 (1.176%) Nokia
9 1 (1.176%) Brocade
9 1 (1.176%) NetScout
9 1 (1.176%) SolarWinds
London
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