The first table below looks at the demand for INAP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited INAP over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Intelligent Network Application Part (INAP)
Rank 515 559 583
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +24
Contract jobs citing INAP 18 14 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.039% 0.024% 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.265% 0.154% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 1
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
- +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6781 9109 7754
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.57% 15.61% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3315 4137 3529
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
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 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 537 608 773
Average hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.65 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%

INAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

INAP Jobs Demand Trend

INAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

INAP Daily Rate Trend

INAP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing INAP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

INAP Daily Rate Histogram

INAP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing INAP within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +66 17 £390 +11.42%
South East +33 14 £440 +46.66%
Berkshire +29 14 £440 +46.66%
Hampshire - 9 - -
South West - 3 £263 -
Bristol - 2 £263 -
Newbury - 2 £440 -

INAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing INAP 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 INAP.

1 17 (85.00%) Telecoms
2 11 (55.00%) SS7
3 10 (50.00%) Digital Media
4 8 (40.00%) SIGTRAN
5 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (30.00%) ISUP
6 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
7 5 (25.00%) Cisco
7 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
8 4 (20.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 4 (20.00%) 3G
9 3 (15.00%) Ericsson
9 3 (15.00%) GPRS
9 3 (15.00%) GSM
9 3 (15.00%) LTE
9 3 (15.00%) MGW
10 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
10 2 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
10 2 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
10 2 (10.00%) 3GPP
10 2 (10.00%) VoIP
10 2 (10.00%) Project Management
10 2 (10.00%) Service Management
11 1 (5.000%) Electronics
11 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
11 1 (5.000%) WAP
11 1 (5.000%) RDBMS
11 1 (5.000%) LAN
11 1 (5.000%) Packet Switching

INAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) WAP
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Office
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) SS7
2 8 (40.00%) SIGTRAN
3 6 (30.00%) ISUP
4 4 (20.00%) 3G
5 3 (15.00%) GPRS
5 3 (15.00%) GSM
5 3 (15.00%) LTE
5 3 (15.00%) MGW
6 2 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
6 2 (10.00%) 3GPP
6 2 (10.00%) VoIP
7 1 (5.000%) ATM
7 1 (5.000%) LAN
7 1 (5.000%) Packet Switching
7 1 (5.000%) PSTN
7 1 (5.000%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.000%) MS Access
1 1 (5.000%) RDBMS
General
1 17 (85.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Games
2 1 (5.000%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Core Network Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Voice Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Design Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Design Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.000%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Service Management
5 1 (5.000%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.000%) SQL
1 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Cisco
2 4 (20.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 3 (15.00%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.000%) NetHawk
4 1 (5.000%) Agilent
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle
4 1 (5.000%) Sybase