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This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs across the UK together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkTelecommunications (Telecomms)
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank3124
Rank change on same period last yearDown-7
Matching contract IT job ads31854109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled4.055 %4.645 %
As % of the category below8.597 %9.933 %
Daily rates quoted8361000
Average minimum daily rate£345£311
Average daily rate£365£328
% change on same period last year+11.45 %
Average maximum daily rate£386£345
UK excluding London average daily rate£355£321
% change on same period last year+10.58 %
Hourly rates quoted266246
Average minimum hourly rate£24.70£22.84
Average hourly rate£26.35£24.26
% change on same period last year+8.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate£28.01£25.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.43£23.72
% change on same period last year+7.21 %
General UKGeneral
UK
Matching contract IT job ads3704741369
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled47.16 %46.76 %
Daily rates quoted1357714043
Average minimum daily rate£420£421
Average daily rate£452£450
% change on same period last year+0.44 %
Average maximum daily rate£483£478
UK excluding London average daily rate£391£372
% change on same period last year+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted22122054
Average minimum hourly rate£23.85£24.28
Average hourly rate£25.63£25.87
% change on same period last year-0.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.41£27.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.58£25.98
% change on same period last year-1.55 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the UK over the past 3 months.

Telecoms Daily Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the UK.

Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the UK over the past 3 months.

Telecoms Hourly Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-73009£364+10.00 %
2South EastDown-31332£367+7.37 %
3LondonDown-12713£392+13.12 %
4BerkshireNo change0686£348-0.20 %
5HampshireUp+7310£387+21.40 %
6East of EnglandDown-9247£358+7.54 %
7South WestUp+9245£356+19.06 %
8SurreyDown-3150£375+22.40 %
9HertfordshireDown-7149£356+7.26 %
10North WestDown-5140£306-0.09 %
11City of LondonUp+28133£412+17.47 %
12NewburyNo change0120£402+12.04 %
13West MidlandsDown-21108£314+9.64 %
14WiltshireUp+2095£354+31.10 %
15ManchesterUp+2085£338-6.11 %
16BuckinghamshireUp+982£408+5.88 %
17YorkshireDown-2772£321+20.33 %
18SwindonUp+2770£345+60.61 %
19BristolDown-361£323-1.17 %
19Milton KeynesUp+1261£406+29.47 %
20ReadingDown-260£356+15.19 %
21CambridgeshireDown-1456£383+24.91 %
22MaidenheadNo change053£475+27.07 %
23SloughUp+1250£387+40.09 %
24ScotlandDown-2746£377+58.74 %
25CambridgeDown-345£385+25.45 %
26West YorkshireDown-2843£321+26.14 %
27PortsmouthUp+1837--
28BirminghamDown-1536£294-2.02 %
29BasingstokeUp+534£328+27.42 %

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1674 (10.29 %)Finance
2551 (8.413 %)Oracle
3550 (8.398 %)Project Management
4517 (7.894 %)Cisco
5471 (7.192 %)Unix
6448 (6.841 %)Windows
7435 (6.642 %)3G
8428 (6.535 %)SQL
9413 (6.306 %)C
10353 (5.390 %)PRINCE2
11347 (5.299 %)Java
12333 (5.085 %)Billing
13332 (5.069 %)Microsoft
14311 (4.749 %)VoIP
15296 (4.520 %)Linux
16293 (4.474 %)ITIL
17281 (4.291 %)Migration
18269 (4.107 %)LAN
19250 (3.817 %)WAN
20243 (3.710 %)Cisco Certification
20243 (3.710 %)SQL Server
20243 (3.710 %)Marketing
21233 (3.558 %)Solaris
22225 (3.436 %)MS Excel
23219 (3.344 %)MS Office
24218 (3.329 %)C++
25217 (3.313 %)Ericsson
26209 (3.191 %)GSM
27206 (3.146 %)J2EE
27206 (3.146 %)Government

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1206 (3.146 %)J2EE
2183 (2.794 %).NET
3159 (2.428 %)XML
4123 (1.878 %)HTML
5116 (1.771 %)JSP
6109 (1.664 %)CSS
783 (1.267 %)Spring
878 (1.191 %)Struts
973 (1.115 %)WebServices
1070 (1.069 %)ASP.NET
1070 (1.069 %)Hibernate
1160 (0.916 %)AJAX
1255 (0.840 %)WebSphere
1347 (0.718 %)XHTML
1440 (0.611 %)EJB
1535 (0.534 %)ASP
1535 (0.534 %)Servlets
1630 (0.458 %)J2ME
1726 (0.397 %)Middleware
1824 (0.366 %).NET Framework
Application Platforms
1102 (1.557 %)WebLogic
291 (1.390 %)MS Exchange
362 (0.947 %)JBoss
460 (0.916 %)SAS
559 (0.901 %)Apache
644 (0.672 %)Exchange Server 2003
739 (0.596 %)CMS
837 (0.565 %)IIS
837 (0.565 %)Exchange Server 2007
935 (0.534 %)SharePoint
1027 (0.412 %)Lotus Notes
1125 (0.382 %)Tomcat
1219 (0.290 %)Exchange Server 2000
1315 (0.229 %)Oracle Workflow
1413 (0.199 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1510 (0.153 %)WebSphere Application Server
169 (0.137 %)Oracle Application Server
178 (0.122 %)WebSphere Message Broker
178 (0.122 %)SharePoint Server 2007
178 (0.122 %)TeamSite
Applications
1225 (3.436 %)MS Excel
2219 (3.344 %)MS Office
3135 (2.061 %)MS Project
4111 (1.695 %)MS Visio
585 (1.298 %)MS PowerPoint
621 (0.321 %)AutoCAD
719 (0.290 %)Photoshop
814 (0.214 %)CA Clarity
912 (0.183 %)Pro/ENGINEER
108 (0.122 %)NASTRAN
115 (0.076 %)CATIA
115 (0.076 %)Adobe Illustrator
124 (0.061 %)FrameMaker
124 (0.061 %)DeltaView
133 (0.046 %)MATLAB
133 (0.046 %)SPSS
142 (0.031 %)InfoPath
151 (0.015 %)RoboHelp
151 (0.015 %)Simulink
151 (0.015 %)S-PLUS
Business Applications
128 (0.428 %)Singl.eView
215 (0.229 %)BusinessWorks
314 (0.214 %)TIBCO iProcess
411 (0.168 %)Siebel Analytics
510 (0.153 %)Oracle 11i
68 (0.122 %)SAP CRM
68 (0.122 %)SAP Oil and Gas
77 (0.107 %)Oracle Financials
86 (0.092 %)SAP HR
95 (0.076 %)Oracle CRM
104 (0.061 %)SAP FI
104 (0.061 %)SAP SD
104 (0.061 %)Microsoft CRM
104 (0.061 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
104 (0.061 %)AWD
113 (0.046 %)Remedy AR System
113 (0.046 %)Google Analytics
113 (0.046 %)SAP ERP
113 (0.046 %)RMDS
113 (0.046 %)Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1435 (6.642 %)3G
2311 (4.749 %)VoIP
3269 (4.107 %)LAN
4250 (3.817 %)WAN
5209 (3.191 %)GSM
6205 (3.130 %)Internet
7188 (2.871 %)MPLS
8181 (2.764 %)UMTS
8181 (2.764 %)TCP/IP
9173 (2.642 %)Firewall
10164 (2.504 %)2G
11126 (1.924 %)Broadband
12120 (1.832 %)GPRS
13119 (1.817 %)BSS
14117 (1.787 %)SDH
15105 (1.603 %)VPN
15105 (1.603 %)DNS
16100 (1.527 %)Wireless
1794 (1.435 %)PBX
1893 (1.420 %)BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1243 (3.710 %)SQL Server
2175 (2.672 %)Datawarehouse
3115 (1.756 %)BusinessObjects
479 (1.206 %)Oracle 8/8i
576 (1.160 %)MySQL
660 (0.916 %)MS Access
759 (0.901 %)RDBMS
858 (0.886 %)SQL Server 2005
945 (0.687 %)ETL
1042 (0.641 %)Oracle 10g
1141 (0.626 %)Oracle 9i
1236 (0.550 %)Oracle Reports
1329 (0.443 %)DB2
1428 (0.428 %)SQL Server 2000
1526 (0.397 %)OLAP
1619 (0.290 %)Crystal Reports
1717 (0.260 %)SQL Server 7
1814 (0.214 %)BusinessObjects XI
1912 (0.183 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
2010 (0.153 %)GIS
Development Applications
187 (1.328 %)ClearCase
258 (0.886 %)Eclipse
353 (0.809 %)TestDirector
451 (0.779 %)Ant
532 (0.489 %)QuickTest Pro
631 (0.473 %)LabVIEW
729 (0.443 %)WinRunner
825 (0.382 %)Visual Studio
924 (0.366 %)JUnit
924 (0.366 %)Flash
1017 (0.260 %)LoadRunner
1114 (0.214 %)Rational Rose
1211 (0.168 %)ERwin
1310 (0.153 %)MSI
148 (0.122 %)Oracle Forms
155 (0.076 %)ClearQuest
155 (0.076 %)FrontPage
164 (0.061 %)FitNesse
164 (0.061 %)ProC
164 (0.061 %)NUnit
General
1674 (10.29 %)Finance
2333 (5.085 %)Billing
3243 (3.710 %)Marketing
4206 (3.146 %)Government
5165 (2.519 %)Retail
6154 (2.352 %)Banking
793 (1.420 %)Legal
881 (1.237 %)Health
964 (0.977 %)Multimedia
1057 (0.870 %)Education
1150 (0.763 %)Investment Banking
1249 (0.748 %)Electronics
1345 (0.687 %)Insurance
1442 (0.641 %)Military
1540 (0.611 %)Construction
1638 (0.580 %)Electric
1735 (0.534 %)Manufacturing
1833 (0.504 %)Pharmaceutical
1932 (0.489 %)Law
2030 (0.458 %)Auditing
Job Titles
1889 (13.57 %)Analyst
2642 (9.803 %)Project Manager
3629 (9.605 %)Developer
4440 (6.719 %)Consultant
5234 (3.573 %)Software Engineer
6230 (3.512 %)Architect
7228 (3.481 %)Business Analyst
8202 (3.084 %)Network Engineer
9192 (2.932 %)Administrator
10172 (2.626 %)Support Engineer
11156 (2.382 %)Test Engineer
12150 (2.290 %)Java Developer
13135 (2.061 %)Support Analyst
14131 (2.000 %)Coordinator
15120 (1.832 %)Telecoms Project Manager
16118 (1.802 %)Design Engineer
17107 (1.634 %)Programme Manager
18102 (1.557 %)Systems Engineer
19100 (1.527 %)Test Manager
19100 (1.527 %)Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1165 (2.519 %)Handset
285 (1.298 %)ASIC
374 (1.130 %)IVR
471 (1.084 %)VHDL
471 (1.084 %)French Language
560 (0.916 %)IPTV
657 (0.870 %)PMI
752 (0.794 %)German Language
847 (0.718 %)Device Driver
944 (0.672 %)Blackberry
1038 (0.580 %)Italian Language
1135 (0.534 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
1234 (0.519 %)DTV
1331 (0.473 %)Video Conferencing
1428 (0.428 %)Spanish Language
1524 (0.366 %)Clustering
1524 (0.366 %)Management Information System
1619 (0.290 %)Asset Management
1715 (0.229 %)Replication
1715 (0.229 %)Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1471 (7.192 %)Unix
2448 (6.841 %)Windows
3296 (4.520 %)Linux
4233 (3.558 %)Solaris
585 (1.298 %)Windows Server 2003
680 (1.222 %)HPUX
768 (1.038 %)Windows NT
866 (1.008 %)Windows 2000
950 (0.763 %)Windows XP
1027 (0.412 %)AIX
1126 (0.397 %)Windows Mobile
1224 (0.366 %)Embedded Linux
1316 (0.244 %)Symbian OS
1413 (0.199 %)Windows Vista
1511 (0.168 %)VMS
1511 (0.168 %)Tru64
1610 (0.153 %)Mac OS X
1610 (0.153 %)SUSE
178 (0.122 %)VxWorks
187 (0.107 %)FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1550 (8.398 %)Project Management
2353 (5.390 %)PRINCE2
3293 (4.474 %)ITIL
4281 (4.291 %)Migration
5197 (3.008 %)CRM
6149 (2.275 %)Change Management
7138 (2.107 %)Configuration Management
8120 (1.832 %)Business Intelligence
9115 (1.756 %)Network Design
10113 (1.725 %)UML
11105 (1.603 %)Service Delivery
12103 (1.573 %)Data Modelling
1388 (1.344 %)Business Analysis
1484 (1.283 %)Service Management
1582 (1.252 %)Stakeholder Management
1681 (1.237 %)Agile Software Development
1776 (1.160 %)Programme Management
1874 (1.130 %)User Acceptance Testing
1968 (1.038 %)Network Planning
1968 (1.038 %)OO
Programming Languages
1428 (6.535 %)SQL
2413 (6.306 %)C
3347 (5.299 %)Java
4218 (3.329 %)C++
5141 (2.153 %)Perl
6124 (1.893 %)C#
793 (1.420 %)JavaScript
883 (1.267 %)Embedded C
958 (0.886 %)Shell Script
1054 (0.825 %)PL/SQL
1136 (0.550 %)Embedded C++
1235 (0.534 %)VB
1235 (0.534 %)PHP
1331 (0.473 %)VB.NET
1430 (0.458 %)VBA
1525 (0.382 %)Transact-SQL
1525 (0.382 %)Korn
1624 (0.366 %)Assembly Language
1722 (0.336 %)Tcl
1816 (0.244 %)Python
Qualifications
1243 (3.710 %)Cisco Certification
2201 (3.069 %)Degree
3128 (1.954 %)CCNP
499 (1.512 %)CCNA
585 (1.298 %)PRINCE2 Certification
684 (1.283 %)Microsoft Certification
778 (1.191 %)CCIE
874 (1.130 %)MCSE
964 (0.977 %)ISEB
1047 (0.718 %)CCVP
1146 (0.702 %)PMI Certification
1240 (0.611 %)ITIL Certification
1338 (0.580 %)PMP
1430 (0.458 %)CCDP
1528 (0.428 %)CCIP
1625 (0.382 %)CISSP
1723 (0.351 %)CNE
1723 (0.351 %)Novell Certification
1821 (0.321 %)HNC
1821 (0.321 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1168 (2.565 %)SLA
252 (0.794 %)QA
351 (0.779 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
437 (0.565 %)ISO27001
522 (0.336 %)ISO9001
619 (0.290 %)ISO9000
716 (0.244 %)BS7799
813 (0.199 %)GAAP
99 (0.137 %)JSP 440
107 (0.107 %)PCI DSS
115 (0.076 %)ISO14001
124 (0.061 %)WAI
133 (0.046 %)COBIT
142 (0.031 %)GCP
151 (0.015 %)ISO17799
151 (0.015 %)ISO12207
System Software
1159 (2.428 %)Active Directory
243 (0.657 %)NetBackup
325 (0.382 %)Oracle RAC
416 (0.244 %)VMware ESX
512 (0.183 %)Oracle RMAN
67 (0.107 %)NFS
75 (0.076 %)MSMQ
75 (0.076 %)ISA Server
75 (0.076 %)PowerConvert
83 (0.046 %)Citrix Presentation Server
83 (0.046 %)AquaLogic
83 (0.046 %)Backup Exec
92 (0.031 %)MetaFrame
101 (0.015 %)Terminal Server
101 (0.015 %)Terminal Services
101 (0.015 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
101 (0.015 %)Orbix
101 (0.015 %)MailMarshal
101 (0.015 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
193 (1.420 %)OpenView
237 (0.565 %)Netcool
335 (0.534 %)OVOW
423 (0.351 %)CiscoWorks
521 (0.321 %)OVPA
620 (0.305 %)AssetCenter
717 (0.260 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
816 (0.244 %)OVPI
816 (0.244 %)OVSD
915 (0.229 %)Tivoli
1011 (0.168 %)MOM
1110 (0.153 %)Netcool/Proviso
129 (0.137 %)OpenView Configuration Management
129 (0.137 %)BMC PATROL
138 (0.122 %)HP Data Protector
147 (0.107 %)MAILsweeper
147 (0.107 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
156 (0.092 %)Legato
165 (0.076 %)EMC Navisphere
174 (0.061 %)DameWare
Vendors
1551 (8.413 %)Oracle
2517 (7.894 %)Cisco
3332 (5.069 %)Microsoft
4217 (3.313 %)Ericsson
5193 (2.947 %)SAP
6186 (2.840 %)HP
7115 (1.756 %)Business Objects
8111 (1.695 %)Nortel
9109 (1.664 %)Remedy
1092 (1.405 %)Nokia
1092 (1.405 %)Sun
1191 (1.390 %)Avaya
1288 (1.344 %)Cramer
1366 (1.008 %)VERITAS
1462 (0.947 %)Sybase
1560 (0.916 %)IBM
1657 (0.870 %)Siebel
1657 (0.870 %)Citrix
1755 (0.840 %)Red Hat
1848 (0.733 %)Juniper
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