The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Nortel products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nortel over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Nortel Networks Corporation.

Nortel
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank379472384
Rank change year-on-year
Up+93Down-88
Matching contract IT job ads203109155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.343 %0.178 %0.282 %
As % of the Vendors category0.740 %0.382 %0.640 %
Number of daily rates quoted552959
Average daily rate£310£350£265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.42 %+32.07 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£155£239£155
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£445£535£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£310£325£268
% change year-on-year
-4.61 %+21.49 %
Number of hourly rates quoted1147
Average hourly rate£20.00£18.50£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.10 %-7.50 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£15.58£19.35
% change year-on-year
--19.48 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
274282850924236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK46.34 %46.46 %44.02 %
Number of daily rates quoted140221424810950
Average daily rate£400£405£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.23 %+1.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£233£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted129815981456
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£11.38£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£40.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£20.00£19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00 %+2.56 %

Nortel
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Nortel within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Nortel Demand Trend

Nortel
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nortel Daily Rate Trend

Nortel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Nortel within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Nortel Daily Rate Histogram

Nortel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nortel Hourly Rate Trend

Nortel
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 Nortel within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+108183£310-8.14 %
South EastUp+4474£310+16.98 %
BerkshireUp+2647£223-
LondonUp+3439£300-33.33 %
South WestUp+224£425-
West MidlandsUp+621£325+38.29 %
WiltshireUp+1420£425-
SurreyUp+1317£500-
SwindonUp+817£425-
ReadingNew entry-15£219-
StaffordshireNew entry-14--
North WestUp+413£178-45.38 %
East of EnglandUp+411£350-
M4 CorridorNew entry-8--
HertfordshireNew entry-7£350-
City of LondonUp+326--
LancashireNew entry-5£155-
ManchesterNew entry-5£218-
Hemel HempsteadNew entry-5--
BurnleyNew entry-5£155-
CoventryNew entry-5--
GuildfordUp+44--
BedfordshireNew entry-3--
East MidlandsDown-52--
WalesDown-112£428+13.24 %
YorkshireDown-122£300-14.28 %
West YorkshireNew entry-2£300-
NottinghamshireNew entry-2--
DorsetNew entry-2£235-
DunstableNew entry-2--

Nortel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Nortel 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 Nortel.

1147 (38.79 %)Telecoms
2134 (35.36 %)Ericsson
3114 (30.08 %)Avaya
4112 (29.55 %)Cisco
5111 (29.29 %)Ethernet
6108 (28.50 %)ATM
765 (17.15 %)WAN
862 (16.36 %)2G
961 (16.09 %)Cisco Certification
1059 (15.57 %)Change Management
1157 (15.04 %)Back Office
1251 (13.46 %)Juniper
1346 (12.14 %)CheckPoint
1346 (12.14 %)Firewall
1444 (11.61 %)SDH
1444 (11.61 %)VPN
1543 (11.35 %)LAN
1543 (11.35 %)CCNA
1639 (10.29 %)Windows
1737 (9.763 %)Nokia
1737 (9.763 %)Front Office
1836 (9.499 %)Symposium
1836 (9.499 %)SLA
1836 (9.499 %)ITIL
1836 (9.499 %)Nortel Meridian
1934 (8.971 %)VoIP
1934 (8.971 %)Microsoft
1934 (8.971 %)3G
2033 (8.707 %)Security Cleared
2129 (7.652 %)F5

Nortel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Nortel 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 Nortel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
18 (2.111 %)XSL
18 (2.111 %)VXML
24 (1.055 %)TAPI
33 (0.792 %)XML
41 (0.264 %)Middleware
41 (0.264 %)XHTML
41 (0.264 %)HTML
41 (0.264 %).NET
41 (0.264 %)ASP.NET
41 (0.264 %)CSS
41 (0.264 %)CGI
41 (0.264 %)CSS3
41 (0.264 %)Ext JS
41 (0.264 %)jQuery
41 (0.264 %)Zend Framework
41 (0.264 %)CodeIgniter
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
115 (3.958 %)IIS
211 (2.902 %)CMS
38 (2.111 %)MS Exchange
47 (1.847 %)Exchange Server 2010
55 (1.319 %)SharePoint
63 (0.792 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
72 (0.528 %)Exchange Server 2003
72 (0.528 %)Lotus Domino
81 (0.264 %)Apache
81 (0.264 %)Office Communications Server
81 (0.264 %)Exchange Server 2007
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
113 (3.430 %)MS Office
24 (1.055 %)MS Visio
24 (1.055 %)MS Excel
31 (0.264 %)LightWave 3D
31 (0.264 %)DeltaView
31 (0.264 %)Acrobat
31 (0.264 %)Spreadsheet
31 (0.264 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.792 %)Oracle EBS
13 (0.792 %)assyst
22 (0.528 %)Remedy AR System
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1111 (29.29 %)Ethernet
2108 (28.50 %)ATM
365 (17.15 %)WAN
462 (16.36 %)2G
546 (12.14 %)Firewall
644 (11.61 %)SDH
644 (11.61 %)VPN
743 (11.35 %)LAN
836 (9.499 %)Symposium
836 (9.499 %)Nortel Meridian
934 (8.971 %)VoIP
934 (8.971 %)3G
1029 (7.652 %)Radio Access Network
1127 (7.124 %)OSPF
1127 (7.124 %)PBX
1226 (6.860 %)GSM
1226 (6.860 %)BGP
1324 (6.332 %)DWDM
1324 (6.332 %)Cisco PIX
1422 (5.805 %)VLAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
116 (4.222 %)SQL Server
211 (2.902 %)ETL
35 (1.319 %)SQL Server 2008
35 (1.319 %)SQL Server 2005
41 (0.264 %)MS Access
41 (0.264 %)MySQL
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1147 (38.79 %)Telecoms
257 (15.04 %)Back Office
337 (9.763 %)Front Office
422 (5.805 %)Finance
58 (2.111 %)Multimedia
65 (1.319 %)Retail
73 (0.792 %)Legal
73 (0.792 %)Banking
82 (0.528 %)Financial Institution
91 (0.264 %)Military
91 (0.264 %)Advertising
91 (0.264 %)Law
91 (0.264 %)Music
91 (0.264 %)Retail Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
183 (21.90 %)Transmission Engineer
269 (18.21 %)Support Engineer
351 (13.46 %)Network Engineer
429 (7.652 %)Avaya Engineer
526 (6.860 %)Field Engineer
526 (6.860 %)RAN Engineer
623 (6.069 %)Architect
722 (5.805 %)Designer
814 (3.694 %)Analyst
913 (3.430 %)Network Designer
1012 (3.166 %)Back Office Engineer
1012 (3.166 %)Network Architect
1111 (2.902 %)Senior Network Engineer
1111 (2.902 %)Network Support
1111 (2.902 %)Senior Support Engineer
1111 (2.902 %)Project Manager
1111 (2.902 %)Senior RAN Engineer
1210 (2.639 %)Consultant
139 (2.375 %)Developer
139 (2.375 %)Systems Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
125 (6.596 %)IVR
27 (1.847 %)Blackberry
36 (1.583 %)Video Conferencing
36 (1.583 %)Handset
44 (1.055 %)Mathematics
53 (0.792 %)e-Health
53 (0.792 %)Statistics
53 (0.792 %)SecurID
62 (0.528 %)DataPower
62 (0.528 %)AVVID
71 (0.264 %)Clustering
71 (0.264 %)Replication
71 (0.264 %)Mainframe
71 (0.264 %)Tandem
71 (0.264 %)Firmware
71 (0.264 %)HACMP
71 (0.264 %)FMCG
71 (0.264 %)Computer Science
71 (0.264 %)IBM Mainframe
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
139 (10.29 %)Windows
217 (4.485 %)Windows Server 2008
315 (3.958 %)Windows Server 2003
414 (3.694 %)Linux
511 (2.902 %)Windows 7
69 (2.375 %)Windows XP
78 (2.111 %)UNIX
78 (2.111 %)Windows 2000
81 (0.264 %)SUSE
81 (0.264 %)AIX
81 (0.264 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
81 (0.264 %)Ubuntu
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
159 (15.57 %)Change Management
236 (9.499 %)ITIL
325 (6.596 %)Service Management
423 (6.069 %)Network Design
522 (5.805 %)Network Management
618 (4.749 %)Project Management
715 (3.958 %)ERP
811 (2.902 %)PRINCE2
910 (2.639 %)Configuration Management
109 (2.375 %)Data Analysis
109 (2.375 %)Capacity Management
118 (2.111 %)Load Balancing
118 (2.111 %)WAN Optimisation
127 (1.847 %)Service Delivery
136 (1.583 %)Validation
145 (1.319 %)Stakeholder Management
145 (1.319 %)Capacity Planning
154 (1.055 %)Incident Management
154 (1.055 %)Root Cause Analysis
163 (0.792 %)Migration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (1.319 %)C
23 (0.792 %)SQL
32 (0.528 %)JavaScript
41 (0.264 %)Tcl
41 (0.264 %)Shell Script
41 (0.264 %)Perl
41 (0.264 %)PHP
41 (0.264 %)T-SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
161 (16.09 %)Cisco Certification
243 (11.35 %)CCNA
333 (8.707 %)Security Cleared
429 (7.652 %)CCNP
521 (5.541 %)SC Cleared
616 (4.222 %)HND
715 (3.958 %)Degree
812 (3.166 %)HNC
911 (2.902 %)CCIE
1010 (2.639 %)Microsoft Certification
119 (2.375 %)Avaya Certification
128 (2.111 %)CCDP
137 (1.847 %)MCSE
146 (1.583 %)CCDA
154 (1.055 %)PMP
154 (1.055 %)PMI Certification
154 (1.055 %)CCVP
163 (0.792 %)CCSP
163 (0.792 %)CCIP
172 (0.528 %)MCP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
136 (9.499 %)SLA
25 (1.319 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
25 (1.319 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
118 (4.749 %)Active Directory
216 (4.222 %)VMware Infrastructure
36 (1.583 %)VMware ESX
45 (1.319 %)VMware ESXi
45 (1.319 %)VMware Server
53 (0.792 %)XenApp
53 (0.792 %)XenDesktop
62 (0.528 %)vSphere
71 (0.264 %)Terminal Services
71 (0.264 %)MetaFrame
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (1.055 %)OpenView
14 (1.055 %)Cisco IPCC
23 (0.792 %)Netcool
23 (0.792 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
32 (0.528 %)McAfee ePO
32 (0.528 %)NetBackup
41 (0.264 %)HP NNM
41 (0.264 %)Tivoli
41 (0.264 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
41 (0.264 %)Norton AntiVirus
41 (0.264 %)CiscoWorks
41 (0.264 %)Cisco CUCM
41 (0.264 %)WMI
41 (0.264 %)SCCM
41 (0.264 %)WSUS
41 (0.264 %)Netcool/Webtop
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1134 (35.36 %)Ericsson
2114 (30.08 %)Avaya
3112 (29.55 %)Cisco
451 (13.46 %)Juniper
546 (12.14 %)CheckPoint
637 (9.763 %)Nokia
734 (8.971 %)Microsoft
829 (7.652 %)F5
921 (5.541 %)Huawei
1019 (5.013 %)Blue Coat
1118 (4.749 %)Siemens
1118 (4.749 %)VMware
1215 (3.958 %)TippingPoint
1313 (3.430 %)Riverbed
1411 (2.902 %)Alcatel-Lucent
1510 (2.639 %)Verint
1510 (2.639 %)Citrix
169 (2.375 %)BT
169 (2.375 %)Mitel
169 (2.375 %)SolarWinds