The first table below looks at the demand for eTOM skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited eTOM over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Processes & Methodologies 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enhanced Telecom Operations Map (eTOM)
Rank 528 551 567
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +16
Contract jobs citing eTOM 25 27 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.051% 0.046% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.068% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
Average daily rate £263 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £190 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £392 £380 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £210 £350 £419
% change year-on-year
-40.00% -16.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34664 39633 41216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.17% 68.20% 67.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20804 22627 23501
Average daily rate £413 £400 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -7.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1006 1270 1419
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.11 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £46.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

eTOM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing eTOM within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

eTOM Jobs Demand Trend

eTOM
Daily Rate Trend

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

eTOM Daily Rate Trend

eTOM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

eTOM Daily Rate Histogram

eTOM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

eTOM Hourly Rate Trend

eTOM
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 eTOM within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +43 23 £263 -5.57%
South East +22 21 £210 -44.00%
Berkshire +22 13 £210 -44.00%
Hampshire - 8 - -
Reading +18 4 - -
London +23 2 £425 -
Newbury - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Leicestershire - - - -
City of London - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Midlands - - - -

eTOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing eTOM 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 eTOM.

1 59 (72.84%) ITIL
1 59 (72.84%) Telecoms
2 35 (43.21%) Business Analysis
3 24 (29.63%) TOGAF
4 20 (24.69%) BSS
4 20 (24.69%) Java
5 19 (23.46%) UML
5 19 (23.46%) CRM
5 19 (23.46%) 3G
6 18 (22.22%) Radio Access Network
7 14 (17.28%) Huawei
8 12 (14.81%) Degree
8 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (13.58%) Rational Application Developer
9 11 (13.58%) LTE
9 11 (13.58%) Middleware
9 11 (13.58%) SOA
9 11 (13.58%) SQL
10 10 (12.35%) C
10 10 (12.35%) 2G
11 9 (11.11%) ATM
11 9 (11.11%) SLA
11 9 (11.11%) IPv4
11 9 (11.11%) ISEB
11 9 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (9.877%) Big Data
12 8 (9.877%) CBAP
12 8 (9.877%) NoSQL
12 8 (9.877%) Perl

eTOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (13.58%) Middleware
2 8 (9.877%) .NET
2 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.235%) EJB
3 1 (1.235%) XSD
3 1 (1.235%) CORBA
3 1 (1.235%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.407%) ESB
2 1 (1.235%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.235%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.235%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.69%) BSS
2 19 (23.46%) 3G
3 18 (22.22%) Radio Access Network
4 11 (13.58%) LTE
5 10 (12.35%) 2G
6 9 (11.11%) IPv4
6 9 (11.11%) ATM
7 1 (1.235%) GSM
7 1 (1.235%) UMTS
7 1 (1.235%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.877%) NoSQL
1 8 (9.877%) Big Data
2 4 (4.938%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.469%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.235%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (1.235%) Rational Rose
General
1 59 (72.84%) Telecoms
2 8 (9.877%) Billing
3 4 (4.938%) Finance
4 3 (3.704%) Back Office
5 2 (2.469%) Electronics
6 1 (1.235%) Retail
6 1 (1.235%) Local Government
6 1 (1.235%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (48.15%) Architect
2 32 (39.51%) Solutions Architect
3 16 (19.75%) Analyst
3 16 (19.75%) OSS Architect
4 13 (16.05%) Business Analyst
5 11 (13.58%) Solutions Designer
5 11 (13.58%) Designer
6 8 (9.877%) CRM Architect
6 8 (9.877%) SOA Architect
7 7 (8.642%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.173%) Project Manager
8 5 (6.173%) Telecoms Business Analyst
8 5 (6.173%) Process Analyst
9 4 (4.938%) Business Process Analyst
10 3 (3.704%) UML Business Analyst
10 3 (3.704%) Systems Architect
11 2 (2.469%) Data Analyst
11 2 (2.469%) Senior Project Manager
11 2 (2.469%) Senior Manager
11 2 (2.469%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.938%) Open Source
3 2 (2.469%) NGOSS
4 1 (1.235%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.235%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.938%) Windows
1 4 (4.938%) Linux
2 1 (1.235%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (72.84%) ITIL
2 35 (43.21%) Business Analysis
3 24 (29.63%) TOGAF
4 19 (23.46%) UML
4 19 (23.46%) CRM
5 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (13.58%) SOA
7 8 (9.877%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (9.877%) Use Case
7 8 (9.877%) Fault Management
8 7 (8.642%) Network Management
9 6 (7.407%) Project Management
10 5 (6.173%) Change Management
11 4 (4.938%) Migration
11 4 (4.938%) Service Management
12 3 (3.704%) ETL
12 3 (3.704%) PRINCE2
12 3 (3.704%) Agile Software Development
12 3 (3.704%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) Java
2 11 (13.58%) SQL
3 10 (12.35%) C
4 8 (9.877%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (14.81%) Degree
2 9 (11.11%) ISEB
3 8 (9.877%) CBAP
4 3 (3.704%) PMP
5 2 (2.469%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.469%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (2.469%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.235%) MBA
6 1 (1.235%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (1.235%) TickIT
2 1 (1.235%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.235%) ISO 9000
2 1 (1.235%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (1.235%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.235%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.235%) XenServer
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Huawei
2 7 (8.642%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 7 (8.642%) Ericsson
2 7 (8.642%) Oracle
3 5 (6.173%) Citrix
4 4 (4.938%) Business Objects
4 4 (4.938%) NEC
4 4 (4.938%) Greenplum
5 3 (3.704%) Chordiant
5 3 (3.704%) Genesys
6 2 (2.469%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 2 (2.469%) Cisco
6 2 (2.469%) IBM
7 1 (1.235%) BMC
7 1 (1.235%) VMware
7 1 (1.235%) Casewise
7 1 (1.235%) Siemens
7 1 (1.235%) Remedy
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