The first table below looks at the demand for ISDN skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISDN over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN)
Rank 536 552 517
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -35
Contract jobs citing ISDN 18 37 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.064% 0.113%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.258% 0.407% 0.865%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 31
Average daily rate £275 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.25% +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £388 £338
% change year-on-year
-29.03% +14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
Average hourly rate £26.00 - £24.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.80 - £21.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 - £31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 - £24.00
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6968 9083 8091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.31% 15.64% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3510 4049 3664
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 620 810
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%

ISDN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ISDN Jobs Demand Trend

ISDN
Daily Rate Trend

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

ISDN Daily Rate Trend

ISDN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ISDN Hourly Rate Trend

ISDN
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISDN within the UK over the 3 months to 18 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 +2 18 £275 -31.25% 20
South East +19 11 £275 -31.25% 4
Berkshire +29 5 £278 -15.90% 1
Buckinghamshire -2 3 £275 -
London +12 2 - - 5
West Midlands +9 2 - - 2
North West - 2 - -
Warwickshire - 2 - - 1
West Sussex - 2 - -
Crawley - 2 - -
Hampshire -7 1 - - 1
Cheshire - 1 - -
Chester - 1 - -
High Wycombe - 1 - -
Leeds - - - - 1
Leicester - - - -
Chesterfield - - - -
Coventry - - - - 1
Basingstoke - - - - 1
Bedford - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Bristol - - - -
Derby - - - -
Dorchester - - - - 1
Dunstable - - - -
Epsom - - - - 1
Gatwick - - - -
Grimsby - - - - 4
Harrogate - - - - 2
Hayes - - - -

ISDN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ISDN 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 ISDN.

1 32 (69.57%) Cisco
2 18 (39.13%) WAN
3 16 (34.78%) LAN
4 15 (32.61%) Windows
4 15 (32.61%) TCP/IP
5 14 (30.43%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (30.43%) BGP
6 12 (26.09%) OSPF
6 12 (26.09%) Telecoms
7 11 (23.91%) Firewall
7 11 (23.91%) MPLS
7 11 (23.91%) VPN
8 10 (21.74%) Wireless
9 9 (19.57%) Cisco IPCC
9 9 (19.57%) EIGRP
9 9 (19.57%) Linux
9 9 (19.57%) ADSL
9 9 (19.57%) ATM
10 8 (17.39%) Ethernet
10 8 (17.39%) CCNP
10 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
10 8 (17.39%) Finance
11 7 (15.22%) Migration
11 7 (15.22%) VMware
11 7 (15.22%) Change Management
11 7 (15.22%) SAN
11 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (15.22%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (13.04%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (13.04%) Cisco ASA

ISDN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ISDN 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 ISDN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.174%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.522%) IIS
1 3 (6.522%) MS Exchange
2 2 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (4.348%) Lync
3 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.174%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) WAN
2 16 (34.78%) LAN
3 15 (32.61%) TCP/IP
4 14 (30.43%) BGP
5 12 (26.09%) OSPF
6 11 (23.91%) MPLS
6 11 (23.91%) VPN
6 11 (23.91%) Firewall
7 10 (21.74%) Wireless
8 9 (19.57%) EIGRP
8 9 (19.57%) ADSL
8 9 (19.57%) ATM
9 8 (17.39%) Ethernet
10 7 (15.22%) SAN
10 7 (15.22%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (13.04%) IGRP
11 6 (13.04%) VoIP
11 6 (13.04%) GPRS
12 5 (10.87%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 12 (26.09%) Telecoms
2 8 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (8.696%) Billing
4 3 (6.522%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.174%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.174%) French Language
5 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.174%) Banking
5 1 (2.174%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Network Engineer
2 4 (8.696%) Software Engineer
3 3 (6.522%) Analyst
3 3 (6.522%) Consultant
3 3 (6.522%) Architect
3 3 (6.522%) Project Manager
3 3 (6.522%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (6.522%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (6.522%) Cisco IPT Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Development Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Network Specialist
4 2 (4.348%) Design Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Provisioning Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Network Analyst
4 2 (4.348%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Programme Manager
4 2 (4.348%) IP Engineer
5 1 (2.174%) Senior Software Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (8.696%) IVR
3 3 (6.522%) Handset
4 2 (4.348%) SecurID
4 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.174%) Visualisation
5 1 (2.174%) PKI
5 1 (2.174%) Streaming Media
5 1 (2.174%) IPTV
5 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.174%) CESG
5 1 (2.174%) CESG CLAS
Operating Systems
1 15 (32.61%) Windows
2 9 (19.57%) Linux
3 7 (15.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (10.87%) UNIX
5 4 (8.696%) Windows 7
5 4 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (6.522%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.522%) Solaris
7 2 (4.348%) Debian
8 1 (2.174%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.174%) Windows XP
8 1 (2.174%) MVS
8 1 (2.174%) Windows Vista
8 1 (2.174%) VME
8 1 (2.174%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (2.174%) CentOS
8 1 (2.174%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (15.22%) Change Management
1 7 (15.22%) Migration
2 5 (10.87%) Network Management
3 4 (8.696%) Multithreading
3 4 (8.696%) Network Architecture
3 4 (8.696%) Network Design
3 4 (8.696%) ITIL
4 3 (6.522%) CRM
4 3 (6.522%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (4.348%) Performance Management
5 2 (4.348%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (4.348%) Project Management
5 2 (4.348%) Service Delivery
5 2 (4.348%) Network Planning
5 2 (4.348%) Project Planning
6 1 (2.174%) Fault Management
6 1 (2.174%) TOGAF
6 1 (2.174%) Business Analysis
6 1 (2.174%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) C
1 5 (10.87%) SQL
2 4 (8.696%) C++
3 1 (2.174%) Perl
3 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (17.39%) CCNP
3 6 (13.04%) CCNA
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.522%) Degree
6 2 (4.348%) CCVP
7 1 (2.174%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.174%) IBM Certification
7 1 (2.174%) HNC
7 1 (2.174%) CCIE
7 1 (2.174%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.87%) vSphere
3 3 (6.522%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.348%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.174%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Cisco IPCC
2 5 (10.87%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (6.522%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (2.174%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.174%) Netcool
4 1 (2.174%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (2.174%) Backup Exec
4 1 (2.174%) Netcool/Webtop
4 1 (2.174%) SCCM
4 1 (2.174%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (69.57%) Cisco
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.22%) VMware
4 6 (13.04%) Juniper
5 5 (10.87%) Avaya
6 4 (8.696%) IBM
6 4 (8.696%) Remedy
6 4 (8.696%) BT
7 3 (6.522%) CyberTech
7 3 (6.522%) Nortel
8 2 (4.348%) HP
8 2 (4.348%) CA
8 2 (4.348%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.348%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.348%) Verint
8 2 (4.348%) Cramer
9 1 (2.174%) McAfee
9 1 (2.174%) Sophos
9 1 (2.174%) Clearswift
9 1 (2.174%) Brocade
Newbury, Thames Valley
Key Skills 2nd/3rd Line Support experience Support of Active Directory Technical Support of ADSL, MPLS Networks, SCCMGood Networking knowledge - Gateway, Alcatel, ISDN Supporting VoIP systems Supporting Windows...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £24.00 - £27.00 per hour
Posted: 3 June 2013
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