Wales Telecoms Contracts

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Wales region 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 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Avon Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	34
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	43	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	12.15 %	8.794 %
Daily rates quoted	19	12
Average minimum daily rate	£395	£364
Average daily rate	£404	£378
% change on same period last year	+6.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£367
% change on same period last year	-5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£24.03
Average hourly rate	£23.67	£24.65
% change on same period last year	-3.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.33	£25.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.17	£24.64
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
General Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	354	398
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.479 %	0.392 %
Daily rates quoted	121	92
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£401
Average daily rate	£378	£430
% change on same period last year	-12.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£460
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.27	£22.15
Average hourly rate	£30.65	£24.43
% change on same period last year	+25.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.03	£26.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.14	£27.27
% change on same period last year	+3.16 %
Telecoms UK

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Wales region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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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 Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank 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
South Wales	-6	21	£357	+0.01 %
West Wales	+4	14	£395	-10.27 %

Telecoms UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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 25 (36.76 %) Security Cleared 2 17 (25.00 %) UNIX 3 13 (19.12 %) CTC Cleared 4 11 (16.18 %) SC Cleared 5 10 (14.71 %) Government 6 9 (13.24 %) Oracle 7 8 (11.76 %) SAP 7 8 (11.76 %) Java 7 8 (11.76 %) Cisco 8 7 (10.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 6 (8.824 %) Windows 9 6 (8.824 %) WebServices 9 6 (8.824 %) SQL 9 6 (8.824 %) J2EE 9 6 (8.824 %) WebLogic

9 6 (8.824 %) HP 9 6 (8.824 %) ClearCase 10 5 (7.353 %) GPRS 10 5 (7.353 %) GSM 10 5 (7.353 %) IIS 10 5 (7.353 %) Perl 10 5 (7.353 %) XML 10 5 (7.353 %) Windows 2000 10 5 (7.353 %) Mainframe 10 5 (7.353 %) Integration Testing 11 4 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 4 (5.882 %) Network Design 11 4 (5.882 %) ICL 11 4 (5.882 %) Knowledge Management 11 4 (5.882 %) InfoPath

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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 6 (8.824 %) J2EE 1 6 (8.824 %) WebServices 2 5 (7.353 %) XML 3 4 (5.882 %) .NET 3 4 (5.882 %) WebSphere 4 2 (2.941 %) Struts 4 2 (2.941 %) XSL 4 2 (2.941 %) XSLT 5 1 (1.471 %) HTML 5 1 (1.471 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.824 %) WebLogic 2 5 (7.353 %) IIS 3 4 (5.882 %) Apache 3 4 (5.882 %) SharePoint 3 4 (5.882 %) NetWeaver 4 2 (2.941 %) CMS 5 1 (1.471 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 4 (5.882 %) InfoPath 2 2 (2.941 %) MS Office 2 2 (2.941 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.471 %) SmartSuite 3 1 (1.471 %) Spreadsheet 3 1 (1.471 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (2.941 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 5 (7.353 %) GPRS 1 5 (7.353 %) GSM 2 4 (5.882 %) UMTS 2 4 (5.882 %) Intranet 2 4 (5.882 %) Extranet 3 3 (4.412 %) VoIP 3 3 (4.412 %) SAN 4 2 (2.941 %) Internet 4 2 (2.941 %) LAN 4 2 (2.941 %) Firewall 4 2 (2.941 %) Broadband 4 2 (2.941 %) Network Security 5 1 (1.471 %) Wireless 5 1 (1.471 %) SONET 5 1 (1.471 %) SDH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (10.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (4.412 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (2.941 %) SQL Server 3 2 (2.941 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.471 %) DataStage 4 1 (1.471 %) Siebel EIM 4 1 (1.471 %) DB2 4 1 (1.471 %) TOAD 4 1 (1.471 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 6 (8.824 %) ClearCase 2 4 (5.882 %) JUnit 2 4 (5.882 %) TestDirector 3 3 (4.412 %) Ant 4 2 (2.941 %) RequisitePro 4 2 (2.941 %) ClearQuest 5 1 (1.471 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (1.471 %) WinRunner	General 1 10 (14.71 %) Government 2 2 (2.941 %) Finance 3 1 (1.471 %) Electronics 3 1 (1.471 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.471 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 12 (17.65 %) Developer 2 11 (16.18 %) Consultant 3 5 (7.353 %) Applications Developer 3 5 (7.353 %) Analyst 3 5 (7.353 %) Project Manager 3 5 (7.353 %) Java Developer 4 4 (5.882 %) Web Designer 4 4 (5.882 %) Software Engineer 4 4 (5.882 %) SAP Developer 5 3 (4.412 %) Release Engineer 5 3 (4.412 %) Storage Consultant 5 3 (4.412 %) Java Applications Developer 5 3 (4.412 %) IT Manager 5 3 (4.412 %) Administrator 6 2 (2.941 %) Migration Consultant 6 2 (2.941 %) Design Engineer 6 2 (2.941 %) Test Engineer 6 2 (2.941 %) J2EE Developer 6 2 (2.941 %) Security Specialist 6 2 (2.941 %) Network Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.353 %) Mainframe 2 2 (2.941 %) IVR 2 2 (2.941 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (2.941 %) PMI 3 1 (1.471 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.471 %) VHDL
Operating Systems 1 17 (25.00 %) UNIX 2 6 (8.824 %) Windows 3 5 (7.353 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (5.882 %) AIX 5 1 (1.471 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.471 %) NetWare 5 1 (1.471 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.471 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (36.76 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (19.12 %) CTC Cleared 3 11 (16.18 %) SC Cleared 4 5 (7.353 %) Integration Testing 5 4 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 4 (5.882 %) Knowledge Management 5 4 (5.882 %) Network Design 5 4 (5.882 %) Workflow 6 3 (4.412 %) Migration 6 3 (4.412 %) Project Management 6 3 (4.412 %) Incident Management 6 3 (4.412 %) Security Management 7 2 (2.941 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (2.941 %) Test Scripting 7 2 (2.941 %) Web Development 7 2 (2.941 %) Service Delivery 7 2 (2.941 %) Change Management 7 2 (2.941 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (2.941 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (2.941 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 8 (11.76 %) Java 2 6 (8.824 %) SQL 3 5 (7.353 %) Perl 4 4 (5.882 %) ABAP 5 3 (4.412 %) Shell Script 6 1 (1.471 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (2.941 %) CCNA 1 2 (2.941 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (1.471 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.471 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (4.412 %) Active Directory 1 3 (4.412 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (2.941 %) Legato 2 1 (1.471 %) SCCM 2 1 (1.471 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 9 (13.24 %) Oracle 2 8 (11.76 %) SAP 2 8 (11.76 %) Cisco 3 6 (8.824 %) HP 4 4 (5.882 %) IBM 4 4 (5.882 %) Microsoft 4 4 (5.882 %) ICL 5 3 (4.412 %) Remedy 5 3 (4.412 %) VERITAS 5 3 (4.412 %) Citrix 5 3 (4.412 %) VMware 6 2 (2.941 %) Avaya 6 2 (2.941 %) BEA 6 2 (2.941 %) Nokia 6 2 (2.941 %) CheckPoint 6 2 (2.941 %) Symantec 7 1 (1.471 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.471 %) Primavera 7 1 (1.471 %) Xilinx 7 1 (1.471 %) Novell