SONET Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SONET skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SONET over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
Rank 533 573 583
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +10
Contract jobs citing SONET 1 13 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.022% 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.015% 0.140% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £315 £330 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6869 9298 7776
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.58% 15.68% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3351 4212 3539
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
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 £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 624 790
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.85 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%

SONET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SONET Jobs Demand Trend

SONET
Daily Rate Trend

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

SONET Daily Rate Trend

SONET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SONET Hourly Rate Trend

SONET
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SONET within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +54 1 £315 -4.54%
London +29 1 £315 -4.54%
Docklands, London - 1 £315 -

SONET
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SONET 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 SONET.

1 3 (100.00%) SDH
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPLS
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) HSRP
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) IPv6
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) RSVP
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) HND
3 1 (33.33%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
3 1 (33.33%) Huawei

SONET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SONET 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 SONET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SDH
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPLS
2 2 (66.67%) HSRP
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) IPv6
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) RSVP
3 1 (33.33%) DWDM
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) IP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Provisioning Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) HND
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Huawei
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