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The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 19 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 terms in our General 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.

3 months to
19 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Telecommunications (Telecoms)

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

-16

+19

Contract jobs citing Telecoms

2204

3498

2704

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

4.581%

6.027%

4.344%

As % of the General category

10.55%

13.32%

8.830%

Number of daily rates quoted

862

1254

1031

Average daily rate

£350

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£210

£220

£225

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£500

UK excluding London average daily rate

£339

£335

£343

% change year-on-year

+1.11%

-2.18%

Number of hourly rates quoted

131

135

Average hourly rate

£32.50

£27.50

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+18.18%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£11.00

£10.50

£11.20

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£45.00

£47.50

£40.55

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£32.50

£34.50

£30.50

% change year-on-year

-5.79%

+13.11%

All of the General Category
UK

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category

20890

26265

30622

As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK

43.42%

45.26%

49.19%

Number of daily rates quoted

12652

15668

18449

Average daily rate

£450

£430

£489

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+4.65%

-12.06%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£275

£290

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£600

£650

UK excluding London average daily rate

£380

£375

% change year-on-year

+1.33%

Number of hourly rates quoted

638

690

917

Average hourly rate

£22.50

£25.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-10.00%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£12.00

£11.70

£11.20

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£43.35

£45.00

£42.50

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£25.00

£24.99

£26.00

% change year-on-year

+0.05%

-3.89%

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Telecoms
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 Telecoms within the UK over the 3 months to 19 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	-16	1956	£350	-	676
South East	-5	857	£333	+2.42%	191
London	-20	580	£375	-2.84%	229
Berkshire	0	515	£320	+6.66%	60
City of London	-9	198	£400	-	68
Reading	-3	131	£213	-22.72%	23
Hampshire	-9	127	£337	-10.06%	58
East of England	-11	123	£315	-16.00%	35
North West	+18	118	£304	-6.53%	44
Surrey	+12	85	£301	-10.29%	22
Scotland	-13	84	£377	+14.96%	21
South West	-14	76	£425	+21.42%	88
West Midlands	-19	72	£367	+32.25%	15
Yorkshire	+28	65	£275	-	37
Slough	0	65	£365	+21.66%	9
Hertfordshire	-10	60	£375	-5.06%	6
Buckinghamshire	+18	58	£393	-7.64%	10
Cheshire	+32	57	£318	-15.33%	22
West Yorkshire	+23	53	£275	-	32
Leeds	+20	48	£275	+7.84%	20
Newbury	0	46	£400	+81.81%	9
Manchester	-6	39	£291	+1.30%	15
Wiltshire	-7	39	£450	+16.42%	19
Guildford	+1	38	£294	-21.40%	6
Cambridgeshire	+20	32	£275	-21.42%	18
East Midlands	+12	30	£388	+16.98%	21
Warrington	+17	25	£478	-	13
Swindon	-12	24	£450	+9.75%	12
Cambridge	+19	23	£360	+2.85%	16
Birmingham	+4	22	£406	+30.00%	3

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms.

1	771 (16.33%)	Finance
2	599 (12.69%)	Project Management
3	491 (10.40%)	3G
4	407 (8.623%)	Windows
5	402 (8.517%)	SQL
6	388 (8.220%)	Degree
7	383 (8.114%)	Radio Access Network
8	379 (8.030%)	Cisco
9	369 (7.818%)	Microsoft
10	354 (7.500%)	Security Cleared
11	353 (7.479%)	Oracle
12	347 (7.352%)	PRINCE2
13	331 (7.013%)	ITIL
14	293 (6.208%)	Linux
15	290 (6.144%)	2G

16	281 (5.953%)	Java
17	277 (5.869%)	LTE
18	264 (5.593%)	Migration
19	261 (5.530%)	MS Excel
20	259 (5.487%)	SC Cleared
21	256 (5.424%)	Stakeholder Management
22	252 (5.339%)	.NET
23	237 (5.021%)	Ericsson
24	232 (4.915%)	Marketing
25	230 (4.873%)	SQL Server
26	219 (4.640%)	Business Intelligence
27	215 (4.555%)	WAN
27	215 (4.555%)	UNIX
28	212 (4.492%)	Manufacturing
29	209 (4.428%)	LAN

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1	252 (5.339%)	.NET
2	175 (3.708%)	Web Services
3	171 (3.623%)	XML
4	146 (3.093%)	HTML
5	139 (2.945%)	CSS
6	103 (2.182%)	jQuery
7	89 (1.886%)	HTML5
8	87 (1.843%)	ASP.NET
9	76 (1.610%)	WCF
10	66 (1.398%)	J2EE
11	61 (1.292%)	Middleware
12	55 (1.165%)	Spring
13	48 (1.017%)	SOAP
14	46 (0.975%)	CSS3
15	41 (0.869%)	Ajax
16	39 (0.826%)	Hibernate
17	30 (0.636%)	.NET Framework
18	29 (0.614%)	Node.js
19	27 (0.572%)	WebSphere
20	25 (0.530%)	WAP

Application Platforms
1	103 (2.182%)	SharePoint
2	85 (1.801%)	Apache
3	57 (1.208%)	CMS
4	49 (1.038%)	MS Exchange
5	45 (0.953%)	WebLogic
6	33 (0.699%)	Adobe CQ
7	32 (0.678%)	SAS
7	32 (0.678%)	SharePoint 2010
8	30 (0.636%)	IBM Notes
9	29 (0.614%)	Amazon AWS
10	26 (0.551%)	Lync
10	26 (0.551%)	ESB
11	25 (0.530%)	nginx
11	25 (0.530%)	Amazon EC2
11	25 (0.530%)	Amazon S3
11	25 (0.530%)	Exchange Server 2010
11	25 (0.530%)	Route 53
12	22 (0.466%)	IIS
12	22 (0.466%)	Drupal
13	21 (0.445%)	Tomcat

Applications
1	261 (5.530%)	MS Excel
2	197 (4.174%)	MS Office
3	121 (2.564%)	MS Visio
4	96 (2.034%)	MS Project
5	75 (1.589%)	MS PowerPoint
6	38 (0.805%)	Photoshop
7	37 (0.784%)	Spreadsheet
8	8 (0.169%)	Adobe Illustrator
8	8 (0.169%)	InDesign
9	6 (0.127%)	Acrobat
9	6 (0.127%)	OmniGraffle
9	6 (0.127%)	InfoPath
10	5 (0.106%)	SPSS
11	4 (0.085%)	XMetaL
11	4 (0.085%)	Office 365
12	3 (0.064%)	FrameMaker
12	3 (0.064%)	AutoCAD
13	2 (0.042%)	Simulink
14	1 (0.021%)	CINEMA 4D
14	1 (0.021%)	PrintSoft PReS

Business Applications
1	76 (1.610%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	48 (1.017%)	Oracle EBS
3	27 (0.572%)	Remedy ITSM
4	17 (0.360%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	16 (0.339%)	CSG Singleview
6	15 (0.318%)	Taleo
7	10 (0.212%)	Oracle Financials
7	10 (0.212%)	SAP ERP
8	9 (0.191%)	Dynamics CRM
9	8 (0.169%)	SAP FI
10	7 (0.148%)	Maximo
11	6 (0.127%)	Oracle Applications
11	6 (0.127%)	SAP GTS
11	6 (0.127%)	SAP PSCD
11	6 (0.127%)	SAP CCM
11	6 (0.127%)	Dynamics AX
11	6 (0.127%)	Oracle BRM
12	5 (0.106%)	Oracle Retail
12	5 (0.106%)	SAP CRM
12	5 (0.106%)	Agresso

Communications & Networking
1	491 (10.40%)	3G
2	383 (8.114%)	Radio Access Network
3	290 (6.144%)	2G
4	277 (5.869%)	LTE
5	215 (4.555%)	WAN
6	209 (4.428%)	LAN
7	194 (4.110%)	Ethernet
8	186 (3.941%)	ATM
9	185 (3.919%)	GSM
10	181 (3.835%)	Internet
11	175 (3.708%)	VoIP
12	172 (3.644%)	Wireless
13	170 (3.602%)	SDH
14	169 (3.581%)	MPLS
15	158 (3.347%)	TCP/IP
16	143 (3.030%)	4G
17	138 (2.924%)	Firewall
18	131 (2.775%)	BSS
19	130 (2.754%)	UMTS
20	106 (2.246%)	DNS

Database & Business Intelligence
1	230 (4.873%)	SQL Server
2	94 (1.992%)	Data Warehouse
3	75 (1.589%)	MySQL
4	50 (1.059%)	MS Access
5	44 (0.932%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	39 (0.826%)	MongoDB
7	28 (0.593%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
7	28 (0.593%)	Data Mining
7	28 (0.593%)	SQL Server 2008
8	27 (0.572%)	Big Data
9	26 (0.551%)	Redis
10	25 (0.530%)	Amazon RDS
11	23 (0.487%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	23 (0.487%)	Oracle 11g
11	23 (0.487%)	NoSQL
11	23 (0.487%)	PostgreSQL
12	21 (0.445%)	Oracle 8/8i
13	20 (0.424%)	RDBMS
14	19 (0.403%)	GIS
15	18 (0.381%)	Oracle Reports

Development Applications
1	70 (1.483%)	Subversion
2	48 (1.017%)	JIRA
3	39 (0.826%)	SpecFlow
4	38 (0.805%)	Selenium
5	37 (0.784%)	Git (software)
6	32 (0.678%)	Jenkins
7	30 (0.636%)	Maven
8	23 (0.487%)	ClearCase
9	22 (0.466%)	Team Foundation Server
10	18 (0.381%)	Cucumber
11	16 (0.339%)	ClearQuest
11	16 (0.339%)	Visual Studio
11	16 (0.339%)	GDB
12	15 (0.318%)	Eclipse
13	13 (0.275%)	WebDriver
13	13 (0.275%)	JUnit
13	13 (0.275%)	MSI
14	12 (0.254%)	ERwin
14	12 (0.254%)	GCC
15	11 (0.233%)	Dreamweaver

General
1	771 (16.33%)	Finance
2	232 (4.915%)	Marketing
3	212 (4.492%)	Manufacturing
4	208 (4.407%)	Banking
5	183 (3.877%)	Billing
6	171 (3.623%)	Retail
7	121 (2.564%)	Legal
8	99 (2.097%)	Electronics
9	60 (1.271%)	Law
10	53 (1.123%)	Back Office
11	30 (0.636%)	Advertising
12	29 (0.614%)	Investment Banking
13	27 (0.572%)	German Language
14	26 (0.551%)	Publishing
15	25 (0.530%)	Military
16	23 (0.487%)	Aerospace
16	23 (0.487%)	Front Office
17	22 (0.466%)	Financial Institution
18	19 (0.403%)	Games
19	16 (0.339%)	French Language

Job Titles
1	613 (12.99%)	Analyst
2	506 (10.72%)	Project Manager
3	496 (10.51%)	Developer
4	350 (7.415%)	Architect
5	279 (5.911%)	Business Analyst
6	211 (4.470%)	Consultant
7	192 (4.068%)	Solutions Architect
8	161 (3.411%)	Network Engineer
9	131 (2.775%)	Test Engineer
10	115 (2.436%)	Coordinator
11	112 (2.373%)	Designer
12	111 (2.352%)	Design Engineer
13	97 (2.055%)	Support Engineer
14	96 (2.034%)	Administrator
15	83 (1.758%)	Software Engineer
16	78 (1.653%)	Telecoms Project Manager
17	77 (1.631%)	Transmission Engineer
18	76 (1.610%)	.NET Developer
19	71 (1.504%)	Support Analyst
19	71 (1.504%)	Service Manager

Miscellaneous
1	138 (2.924%)	SaaS
2	96 (2.034%)	Management Information System
3	94 (1.992%)	Digital Media
4	85 (1.801%)	DTV
5	80 (1.695%)	Computer Science
6	72 (1.525%)	Handset
7	66 (1.398%)	Mobile App
8	53 (1.123%)	IPTV
9	52 (1.102%)	NHS
10	44 (0.932%)	PMI
11	41 (0.869%)	Client/Server
12	39 (0.826%)	Blackberry
13	37 (0.784%)	FMCG
14	32 (0.678%)	Video Conferencing
15	31 (0.657%)	Open Source
15	31 (0.657%)	N-Tier
15	31 (0.657%)	Streaming Video
16	28 (0.593%)	Enterprise Software
17	20 (0.424%)	Device Driver
17	20 (0.424%)	iPhone

Operating Systems
1	407 (8.623%)	Windows
2	293 (6.208%)	Linux
3	215 (4.555%)	UNIX
4	99 (2.097%)	Windows 7
5	72 (1.525%)	Windows Server 2008
6	70 (1.483%)	Android
7	69 (1.462%)	Windows XP
7	69 (1.462%)	Windows Server 2003
8	68 (1.441%)	Solaris
9	25 (0.530%)	Apple iOS
10	22 (0.466%)	Mac OS X
11	19 (0.403%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	13 (0.275%)	AIX
13	12 (0.254%)	Windows Vista
14	11 (0.233%)	HPUX
15	9 (0.191%)	Windows 2000
16	7 (0.148%)	CentOS
17	6 (0.127%)	Embedded Linux
17	6 (0.127%)	Windows Mobile
18	5 (0.106%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	599 (12.69%)	Project Management
2	347 (7.352%)	PRINCE2
3	331 (7.013%)	ITIL
4	264 (5.593%)	Migration
5	256 (5.424%)	Stakeholder Management
6	219 (4.640%)	Business Intelligence
7	207 (4.386%)	Business Analysis
8	192 (4.068%)	CRM
9	188 (3.983%)	Service Delivery
10	186 (3.941%)	Programme Management
11	181 (3.835%)	Agile Software Development
12	165 (3.496%)	ERP
13	160 (3.390%)	Change Management
14	159 (3.369%)	Service Management
15	135 (2.860%)	Scrum
16	116 (2.458%)	SOA
17	115 (2.436%)	Validation
18	112 (2.373%)	TDD
19	105 (2.225%)	E-Commerce
20	104 (2.203%)	Incident Management

Programming Languages
1	402 (8.517%)	SQL
2	281 (5.953%)	Java
3	199 (4.216%)	C#
4	188 (3.983%)	C
5	137 (2.903%)	JavaScript
6	126 (2.669%)	C++
7	125 (2.648%)	Perl
8	82 (1.737%)	PHP
9	72 (1.525%)	Python
10	61 (1.292%)	PL/SQL
11	60 (1.271%)	VB
12	58 (1.229%)	Ruby
13	50 (1.059%)	Shell Script
13	50 (1.059%)	Bash shell
14	49 (1.038%)	VBA
15	46 (0.975%)	T-SQL
16	42 (0.890%)	VB.NET
17	26 (0.551%)	Erlang
18	25 (0.530%)	Embedded C
19	22 (0.466%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	388 (8.220%)	Degree
2	354 (7.500%)	Security Cleared
3	259 (5.487%)	SC Cleared
4	196 (4.153%)	Cisco Certification
5	113 (2.394%)	PMI Certification
6	105 (2.225%)	CCNA
7	101 (2.140%)	CCNP
8	82 (1.737%)	PMP
9	77 (1.631%)	ISEB
10	59 (1.250%)	Microsoft Certification
11	54 (1.144%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	54 (1.144%)	DV Cleared
12	47 (0.996%)	CCIE
13	40 (0.847%)	ITIL Certification
14	35 (0.742%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
15	32 (0.678%)	MCSE
15	32 (0.678%)	CISSP
16	27 (0.572%)	HND
17	26 (0.551%)	MCP
18	17 (0.360%)	HNC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	176 (3.729%)	SLA
2	95 (2.013%)	QA
3	36 (0.763%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	28 (0.593%)	PCI DSS
5	14 (0.297%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
6	10 (0.212%)	ISO 9001
7	7 (0.148%)	Data Quality
8	5 (0.106%)	ISO 9000
8	5 (0.106%)	GAAP
9	4 (0.085%)	BS25999
10	2 (0.042%)	FATCA
10	2 (0.042%)	JSP 440
10	2 (0.042%)	JTAG
11	1 (0.021%)	HL7
11	1 (0.021%)	COBIT
11	1 (0.021%)	WAI

System Software
1	154 (3.263%)	Active Directory
2	70 (1.483%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	23 (0.487%)	XenApp
4	18 (0.381%)	Microsoft App-V
5	15 (0.318%)	NFS
6	12 (0.254%)	vSphere
7	10 (0.212%)	VMware ESX
8	9 (0.191%)	ProxySG
9	8 (0.169%)	Terminal Services
10	7 (0.148%)	Hyper-V
11	6 (0.127%)	MetaFrame
11	6 (0.127%)	XenDesktop
12	5 (0.106%)	Citrix Presentation Server
12	5 (0.106%)	XenServer
13	4 (0.085%)	VMware ESXi
14	3 (0.064%)	Xen
14	3 (0.064%)	Sendmail
14	3 (0.064%)	VMware Workstation
15	2 (0.042%)	Oracle RMAN
15	2 (0.042%)	Microsoft Virtual Server

Systems Management
1	53 (1.123%)	HP Quality Center
2	33 (0.699%)	Netcool
3	27 (0.572%)	SCCM
3	27 (0.572%)	Puppet
4	23 (0.487%)	Cisco CUCM
5	18 (0.381%)	OpenView
6	15 (0.318%)	SCOM
7	14 (0.297%)	Nagios
8	12 (0.254%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
9	11 (0.233%)	Cisco IPCC
10	10 (0.212%)	Tivoli
10	10 (0.212%)	Ionix
11	8 (0.169%)	OpenView Configuration Management
11	8 (0.169%)	CiscoWorks
12	7 (0.148%)	Cisco UCCE
13	6 (0.127%)	Backup Exec
14	5 (0.106%)	WSUS
14	5 (0.106%)	HP SIM
15	4 (0.085%)	Control-M
15	4 (0.085%)	HP NNM

Vendors
1	379 (8.030%)	Cisco
2	369 (7.818%)	Microsoft
3	353 (7.479%)	Oracle
4	237 (5.021%)	Ericsson
5	162 (3.432%)	SAP
6	134 (2.839%)	Huawei
7	133 (2.818%)	Nokia Siemens Networks
8	119 (2.521%)	Citrix
9	111 (2.352%)	HP
10	104 (2.203%)	VMware
11	93 (1.970%)	Juniper
12	67 (1.419%)	Business Objects
13	65 (1.377%)	Remedy
13	65 (1.377%)	BT
14	64 (1.356%)	IBM
15	63 (1.335%)	Nokia
16	55 (1.165%)	Avaya
17	52 (1.102%)	Adobe
18	51 (1.081%)	Nortel
19	49 (1.038%)	Cramer

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