The first table below looks at the demand for TELNET skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TELNET over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TELNET
Rank 515 574 565
Rank change year-on-year
+59 -9
Contract jobs citing TELNET 14 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.030% 0.017% 0.031%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.207% 0.109% 0.240%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 8
Average daily rate £320 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £269 £186 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £335 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £350 £253
% change year-on-year
-7.85% +38.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £18.50
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6757 9144 7905
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.57% 15.68% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3304 4153 3577
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 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 606 804
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%

TELNET
Jobs Demand Trend

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

TELNET Jobs Demand Trend

TELNET
Daily Rate Trend

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

TELNET Daily Rate Trend

TELNET
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TELNET Hourly Rate Trend

TELNET
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TELNET within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +51 14 £320 +6.66%
South East - 6 £275 -
Berkshire - 5 £275 -
East of England +20 4 £325 -
Essex 0 4 £325 -
London +37 3 £260 -13.33%
Brentwood - 3 £325 -
Surbiton - 2 - -
North West +12 1 £300 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £300 -
Reading - 1 £275 -
Chester - 1 £300 -
Brentford - 1 £260 -

TELNET
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TELNET 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 TELNET.

1 21 (70.00%) Oracle
2 20 (66.67%) Perl
2 20 (66.67%) SQL
3 14 (46.67%) TCP/IP
4 13 (43.33%) .NET
4 13 (43.33%) UNIX
4 13 (43.33%) Ericsson
4 13 (43.33%) 3G
4 13 (43.33%) 2G
5 12 (40.00%) Validation
5 12 (40.00%) Migration
5 12 (40.00%) PL/SQL
5 12 (40.00%) C#
5 12 (40.00%) C++
5 12 (40.00%) Nortel
5 12 (40.00%) Web Development
5 12 (40.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 12 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
6 11 (36.67%) Java
6 11 (36.67%) Linux
7 9 (30.00%) SNMP
7 9 (30.00%) DNS
7 9 (30.00%) DHCP
7 9 (30.00%) HTTP
8 8 (26.67%) Shell Script
8 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (26.67%) SSL
8 8 (26.67%) Apache
8 8 (26.67%) Tomcat
8 8 (26.67%) HTML

TELNET
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TELNET 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 TELNET. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (43.33%) .NET
2 8 (26.67%) HTML
3 7 (23.33%) JDBC
4 4 (13.33%) J2EE
4 4 (13.33%) XML
4 4 (13.33%) CGI
5 3 (10.00%) Flash
5 3 (10.00%) Spring
5 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 3 (10.00%) Apache Flex
6 2 (6.667%) REST
6 2 (6.667%) SOAP
7 1 (3.333%) Web Services
7 1 (3.333%) XSL
7 1 (3.333%) ODBC
7 1 (3.333%) WSDL
7 1 (3.333%) FIXML
7 1 (3.333%) OLE DB
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.333%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) Apache
1 8 (26.67%) Tomcat
2 5 (16.67%) Liferay
3 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.333%) IIS
3 1 (3.333%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (3.333%) Alfresco
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Office
1 1 (3.333%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) TCP/IP
2 13 (43.33%) 3G
2 13 (43.33%) 2G
3 12 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
4 9 (30.00%) SNMP
4 9 (30.00%) DNS
4 9 (30.00%) DHCP
4 9 (30.00%) HTTP
5 8 (26.67%) SSL
6 7 (23.33%) tcpdump
7 5 (16.67%) SAN
7 5 (16.67%) FTP
7 5 (16.67%) SMTP
7 5 (16.67%) LDAP
7 5 (16.67%) Firewall
7 5 (16.67%) DSL
7 5 (16.67%) iSCSI
7 5 (16.67%) NAS
8 4 (13.33%) 4G
8 4 (13.33%) DLNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (23.33%) MySQL
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.333%) MS Access
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.00%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 5 (16.67%) Hudson
4 4 (13.33%) Trac
4 4 (13.33%) ClearCase
5 3 (10.00%) Eclipse
5 3 (10.00%) JUnit
5 3 (10.00%) Selenium
5 3 (10.00%) TestNG
6 2 (6.667%) MyEclipse
6 2 (6.667%) Mercurial
7 1 (3.333%) LabVIEW
7 1 (3.333%) WinDbg
General
1 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 5 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (10.00%) Back Office
2 3 (10.00%) Electronics
3 2 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 7 (23.33%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (23.33%) Administrator
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) OSS Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) OSS Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.667%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 2 (6.667%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.333%) Embedded Software Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Embedded C Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Senior C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Clustering
1 7 (23.33%) Cryptography
2 3 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 3 (10.00%) Streaming Media
3 2 (6.667%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.667%) Open Source
4 1 (3.333%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) UNIX
2 11 (36.67%) Linux
3 4 (13.33%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Android
4 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Validation
1 12 (40.00%) Migration
1 12 (40.00%) Web Development
2 7 (23.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (23.33%) Memory Management
2 7 (23.33%) Load Balancing
3 4 (13.33%) Network Management
3 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (10.00%) Scrum
4 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.667%) Change Management
5 2 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.333%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.333%) Regression Testing
6 1 (3.333%) Performance Management
6 1 (3.333%) Problem Management
6 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) Perl
1 20 (66.67%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) PL/SQL
2 12 (40.00%) C#
2 12 (40.00%) C++
3 11 (36.67%) Java
4 8 (26.67%) Shell Script
5 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (23.33%) AWK
5 7 (23.33%) sed
5 7 (23.33%) Bash shell
6 5 (16.67%) C
7 4 (13.33%) Embedded C
8 1 (3.333%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) GCP
1 1 (3.333%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Nmap
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (16.67%) NFS
3 5 (16.67%) Postfix
3 5 (16.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Puppet
2 5 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Oracle
2 13 (43.33%) Ericsson
3 12 (40.00%) Nortel
3 12 (40.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 7 (23.33%) JBoss
4 7 (23.33%) Red Hat
5 6 (20.00%) VMware
5 6 (20.00%) EMC
6 5 (16.67%) SAP
6 5 (16.67%) NetApp
7 3 (10.00%) Adobe
8 1 (3.333%) Plumtree
8 1 (3.333%) BMC
8 1 (3.333%) IBM
8 1 (3.333%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.333%) Alias
8 1 (3.333%) Remedy
8 1 (3.333%) Lotus