The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VoIP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 21 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 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.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank185267283
Rank change year-on-year
Up+82Up+16
Matching contract IT job ads559386279
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.956 %0.642 %0.506 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category6.095 %4.975 %4.325 %
Number of daily rates quoted28914394
Average daily rate£350£325£346
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69 %-6.13 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£175£163£197
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£466£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£300£300
% change year-on-year
+4.16 %-
Number of hourly rates quoted537540
Average hourly rate£21.00£31.00£16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.25 %+87.87 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.00£13.00£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£40.00£25.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.00£32.75£14.75
% change year-on-year
-32.82 %+122.03 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
917177596451
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK15.69 %12.90 %11.69 %
Number of daily rates quoted416035392637
Average daily rate£365£350£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£225£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£335£325£308
% change year-on-year
+3.07 %+5.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted614779699
Average hourly rate£25.00£25.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+19.04 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£12.00£13.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£41.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.75£27.50£22.50
% change year-on-year
-6.36 %+22.22 %

VoIP
Demand Trend

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

VoIP Demand Trend

VoIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

VoIP Daily Rate Trend

VoIP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

VoIP Daily Rate Histogram

VoIP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VoIP Hourly Rate Trend

VoIP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

VoIP Hourly Rate Histogram

VoIP
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 VoIP within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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+83534£350+11.11 %
LondonUp+83212£385+2.66 %
South EastUp+49172£340+4.61 %
BerkshireUp+1596£350-
City of LondonUp+3954£401+0.12 %
South WestUp+547£328+67.94 %
ReadingUp+2645£330+26.92 %
North WestUp+1245£300-7.69 %
HampshireUp+3328£300-7.69 %
WiltshireUp+1025£381-
ManchesterUp+625£300-7.69 %
SurreyUp+1020£201-33.16 %
East MidlandsUp+720£308-5.38 %
SwindonUp+1319£394-
East of EnglandUp+417£350-
SouthamptonUp+715£300-
ScotlandDown-110£350-10.82 %
DorsetNew entry-10£230-
YorkshireDown-279£135-16.92 %
CheshireUp+148£300-25.69 %
MiddlesexUp+118£350+16.66 %
West MidlandsDown-248£244+50.00 %
WalesUp+87£218-
BournemouthNew entry-7£225-
East SussexNew entry-7£380-
KentUp+76£314+4.58 %
West YorkshireDown-226£135-77.11 %
LiverpoolNew entry-6£195-
MerseysideNew entry-6£195-
South WalesUp+35£218-

VoIP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VoIP 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 VoIP.

1678 (61.25 %)Cisco
2396 (35.77 %)WAN
3379 (34.24 %)Firewall
4368 (33.24 %)LAN
5332 (29.99 %)Cisco Certification
6301 (27.19 %)Telecoms
7285 (25.75 %)Windows
8253 (22.85 %)OSPF
9236 (21.32 %)VPN
10216 (19.51 %)MPLS
11186 (16.80 %)Microsoft
12184 (16.62 %)CheckPoint
13169 (15.27 %)TCP/IP
14165 (14.91 %)CCIE
15163 (14.72 %)BGP
16162 (14.63 %)Wireless
17161 (14.54 %)Active Directory
18156 (14.09 %)CCNP
19152 (13.73 %)CCNA
20150 (13.55 %)Citrix
21145 (13.10 %)Finance
22141 (12.74 %)Cisco ASA
23139 (12.56 %)Avaya
24129 (11.65 %)VMware
25123 (11.11 %)Juniper
26120 (10.84 %)HP
26120 (10.84 %)Load Balancing
27118 (10.66 %)DNS
28117 (10.57 %)Project Management
29105 (9.485 %)ITIL

VoIP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VoIP 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 VoIP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (0.452 %)Web Services
24 (0.361 %)XML
33 (0.271 %)Spring
33 (0.271 %)Spring MVC
33 (0.271 %)RESTful
42 (0.181 %)WPF
42 (0.181 %)Silverlight
42 (0.181 %)COM
42 (0.181 %)CSS
42 (0.181 %)JDBC
42 (0.181 %)Servlets
42 (0.181 %).NET
42 (0.181 %)J2EE
42 (0.181 %)Flash
42 (0.181 %)JMS
51 (0.090 %)OCX
51 (0.090 %)OpenGL
51 (0.090 %)WebKit
51 (0.090 %)Java ME
51 (0.090 %)Java EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
190 (8.130 %)MS Exchange
243 (3.884 %)Exchange Server 2003
336 (3.252 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
434 (3.071 %)Exchange Server 2007
533 (2.981 %)Exchange Server 2010
625 (2.258 %)CMS
724 (2.168 %)SharePoint
820 (1.807 %)Lync
820 (1.807 %)Lotus Notes
99 (0.813 %)IIS
104 (0.361 %)Office Communications Server
112 (0.181 %)Apache
121 (0.090 %)CICS
121 (0.090 %)BizTalk Server
121 (0.090 %)Drupal
121 (0.090 %)SharePoint 2010
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
188 (7.949 %)MS Office
260 (5.420 %)MS Excel
346 (4.155 %)MS Visio
428 (2.529 %)MS PowerPoint
57 (0.632 %)AutoCAD
66 (0.542 %)Acrobat
74 (0.361 %)MS Project
82 (0.181 %)Office 365
91 (0.090 %)Photoshop
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.271 %)Oracle Financials
22 (0.181 %)Dynamics NAV
22 (0.181 %)Oracle EBS
22 (0.181 %)SoftGrid
31 (0.090 %)Metrica
31 (0.090 %)assyst
31 (0.090 %)SAP CCM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1396 (35.77 %)WAN
2379 (34.24 %)Firewall
3368 (33.24 %)LAN
4253 (22.85 %)OSPF
5236 (21.32 %)VPN
6216 (19.51 %)MPLS
7169 (15.27 %)TCP/IP
8163 (14.72 %)BGP
9162 (14.63 %)Wireless
10141 (12.74 %)Cisco ASA
11118 (10.66 %)DNS
1292 (8.311 %)DHCP
1390 (8.130 %)Cisco IOS
1484 (7.588 %)IPsec
1579 (7.136 %)SNMP
1674 (6.685 %)Internet
1773 (6.594 %)Cisco PIX
1868 (6.143 %)IP Telephony
1962 (5.601 %)EIGRP
1962 (5.601 %)VLAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
116 (1.445 %)SQL Server
26 (0.542 %)SQL Server 2005
26 (0.542 %)MS Access
34 (0.361 %)SQL Server 2008
43 (0.271 %)MySQL
51 (0.090 %)Data Warehouse
51 (0.090 %)Oracle 8/8i
51 (0.090 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51 (0.090 %)Oracle 11g
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (0.452 %)LoadRunner
23 (0.271 %)VSS/SourceSafe
23 (0.271 %)WinRunner
23 (0.271 %)TestDirector
32 (0.181 %)GDB
32 (0.181 %)Valgrind
32 (0.181 %)Visual Studio
32 (0.181 %)Ant
32 (0.181 %)JUnit
41 (0.090 %)Subversion
41 (0.090 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1301 (27.19 %)Telecoms
2145 (13.10 %)Finance
361 (5.510 %)Banking
429 (2.620 %)Retail
525 (2.258 %)French Language
624 (2.168 %)Billing
721 (1.897 %)Local Government
820 (1.807 %)Investment Banking
916 (1.445 %)Financial Institution
1012 (1.084 %)Law
119 (0.813 %)Publishing
128 (0.723 %)Legal
128 (0.723 %)Multimedia
134 (0.361 %)German Language
143 (0.271 %)Manufacturing
143 (0.271 %)Retail Banking
152 (0.181 %)Advertising
152 (0.181 %)Games
152 (0.181 %)Pharmaceutical
161 (0.090 %)Electronics
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1197 (17.80 %)Network Engineer
2163 (14.72 %)Analyst
3130 (11.74 %)IP Engineer
499 (8.943 %)Design Engineer
581 (7.317 %)Security Engineer
675 (6.775 %)Architect
762 (5.601 %)Project Manager
860 (5.420 %)Consultant
959 (5.330 %)Network Analyst
1054 (4.878 %)Support Engineer
1150 (4.517 %)Network Support
1249 (4.426 %)Cisco Engineer
1342 (3.794 %)Support Analyst
1433 (2.981 %)3rd Line Support
1433 (2.981 %)Desktop Support
1531 (2.800 %)Designer
1630 (2.710 %)Administrator
1729 (2.620 %)2nd Line Support
1729 (2.620 %)Implementation Engineer
1827 (2.439 %)Cisco Network Engineer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
180 (7.227 %)Blackberry
259 (5.330 %)IVR
347 (4.246 %)Video Conferencing
429 (2.620 %)Handset
429 (2.620 %)iPhone
524 (2.168 %)Fat Client
524 (2.168 %)Thin Client
613 (1.174 %)Clustering
710 (0.903 %)NHS
89 (0.813 %)Client/Server
97 (0.632 %)Management Information System
97 (0.632 %)iPad
106 (0.542 %)Social Network
106 (0.542 %)e-Health
106 (0.542 %)Mainframe
106 (0.542 %)PMI
115 (0.452 %)Computer Science
115 (0.452 %)PDA
124 (0.361 %)Hedge funds
124 (0.361 %)AS400
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1285 (25.75 %)Windows
293 (8.401 %)Windows Server 2003
390 (8.130 %)Windows XP
479 (7.136 %)Windows Server 2008
571 (6.414 %)Windows 7
669 (6.233 %)Linux
723 (2.078 %)Windows Vista
822 (1.987 %)Android
919 (1.716 %)UNIX
109 (0.813 %)Windows 2000
116 (0.542 %)Embedded Linux
116 (0.542 %)Solaris
125 (0.452 %)Windows NT
134 (0.361 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
134 (0.361 %)Windows 2000 Server
143 (0.271 %)Mac OS X
143 (0.271 %)CentOS
152 (0.181 %)HPUX
161 (0.090 %)AIX
161 (0.090 %)Windows Mobile
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1120 (10.84 %)Load Balancing
2117 (10.57 %)Project Management
3105 (9.485 %)ITIL
498 (8.853 %)Network Management
567 (6.052 %)Network Design
664 (5.781 %)Migration
749 (4.426 %)PRINCE2
834 (3.071 %)Disaster Recovery
932 (2.891 %)Service Delivery
1028 (2.529 %)Change Control
1127 (2.439 %)CRM
1127 (2.439 %)Change Management
1127 (2.439 %)WAN Optimisation
1221 (1.897 %)Network Architecture
1221 (1.897 %)Time Management
1320 (1.807 %)WFM
1320 (1.807 %)Risk Assessment
1419 (1.716 %)E-Commerce
1419 (1.716 %)Stakeholder Management
1518 (1.626 %)Fault Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
148 (4.336 %)SQL
228 (2.529 %)C
318 (1.626 %)Java
410 (0.903 %)Erlang
59 (0.813 %)Shell Script
68 (0.723 %)C++
74 (0.361 %)Perl
83 (0.271 %)C#
92 (0.181 %)PowerShell
92 (0.181 %)PHP
92 (0.181 %)Python
101 (0.090 %)Embedded C
101 (0.090 %)COBOL
101 (0.090 %)Tcl
101 (0.090 %)Groovy
101 (0.090 %)Ruby
101 (0.090 %)Bash shell
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1332 (29.99 %)Cisco Certification
2165 (14.91 %)CCIE
3156 (14.09 %)CCNP
4152 (13.73 %)CCNA
579 (7.136 %)Security Cleared
670 (6.323 %)CCSP
766 (5.962 %)SC Cleared
848 (4.336 %)Microsoft Certification
941 (3.704 %)CCVP
1034 (3.071 %)MCSE
1132 (2.891 %)Degree
1228 (2.529 %)CCDP
1320 (1.807 %)Check Point Certification
1419 (1.716 %)CCIP
1516 (1.445 %)MCP
1613 (1.174 %)CISSP
1712 (1.084 %)PMI Certification
1811 (0.994 %)PMP
1910 (0.903 %)MCITP
209 (0.813 %)HND
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
124 (2.168 %)PCI DSS
219 (1.716 %)SLA
39 (0.813 %)ISO/IEC 27001
45 (0.452 %)QA
51 (0.090 %)ISO 9001
51 (0.090 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
51 (0.090 %)BS7799
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1161 (14.54 %)Active Directory
274 (6.685 %)VMware Infrastructure
326 (2.349 %)XenApp
414 (1.265 %)VMware ESX
512 (1.084 %)Citrix Presentation Server
611 (0.994 %)ISA Server
710 (0.903 %)vSphere
710 (0.903 %)Terminal Services
87 (0.632 %)VMware ESXi
87 (0.632 %)Hyper-V
95 (0.452 %)MetaFrame
104 (0.361 %)UAG
113 (0.271 %)XenDesktop
122 (0.181 %)XenServer
122 (0.181 %)Squid
122 (0.181 %)Snort
122 (0.181 %)Terminal Server
131 (0.090 %)Oracle RAC
131 (0.090 %)VMware Server
131 (0.090 %)Xen
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
151 (4.607 %)Cisco CUCM
229 (2.620 %)SCCM
321 (1.897 %)Cacti
415 (1.355 %)Cisco UCCX
514 (1.265 %)Cisco IPCC
613 (1.174 %)Backup Exec
710 (0.903 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
710 (0.903 %)Norton AntiVirus
89 (0.813 %)OpenView
89 (0.813 %)SolarWinds Orion
98 (0.723 %)CiscoWorks
107 (0.632 %)HP NNM
107 (0.632 %)DameWare
116 (0.542 %)HP Quality Center
124 (0.361 %)Cisco UCCE
124 (0.361 %)Netcool
133 (0.271 %)SCOM
142 (0.181 %)WSUS
142 (0.181 %)Tivoli
142 (0.181 %)ZENworks
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1678 (61.25 %)Cisco
2186 (16.80 %)Microsoft
3184 (16.62 %)CheckPoint
4150 (13.55 %)Citrix
5139 (12.56 %)Avaya
6129 (11.65 %)VMware
7123 (11.11 %)Juniper
8120 (10.84 %)HP
998 (8.853 %)Nokia
1065 (5.872 %)Redback
1160 (5.420 %)Riverbed
1251 (4.607 %)Mitel
1349 (4.426 %)Blue Coat
1444 (3.975 %)Verint
1541 (3.704 %)F5
1640 (3.613 %)Remedy
1738 (3.433 %)Siemens
1837 (3.342 %)Infoblox
1934 (3.071 %)Nortel
2031 (2.800 %)Oracle