The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms 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 terms in our General category for the Warwickshire region.

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
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 28 16 19
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +3
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 3 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 1.449% 4.508% 4.186%
As % of the General category 5.455% 16.18% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £200 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £329 £340
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £26.50 £31.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.51% -13.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -1.58%
All of the General Category
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
55 68 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 26.57% 27.87% 28.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 8
Average daily rate £325 £300 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -21.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £201 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £401 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 9
Average hourly rate £26.50 £17.50 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+51.42% -43.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £16.85 £24.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £31.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
West Midlands

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire Telecoms Jobs Demand Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Warwickshire Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Warwickshire Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Essbase
2 2 (25.00%) Hyperion Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Hyperion
2 2 (25.00%) Electronics
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
3 1 (12.50%) Unified Process
3 1 (12.50%) W3C
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) DVB
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) MS Project

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Project
1 1 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DVB
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
1 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Essbase
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Electronics
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Database Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Resource Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) W3C
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Validation
1 1 (12.50%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (12.50%) Unified Process
1 1 (12.50%) Service Management
1 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
1 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Information Security Management
1 1 (12.50%) Security Management
1 1 (12.50%) UML
1 1 (12.50%) RUP
1 1 (12.50%) ERP
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (12.50%) Information Security
1 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
1 1 (12.50%) Use Case
1 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) VB
1 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
1 1 (12.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9000
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
1 1 (12.50%) WAI
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Hyperion
3 1 (12.50%) EMC