The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Watford 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 Watford 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 14 - 13
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 2 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 2.778% - 6.173%
As % of the General category 7.692% - 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £329 £340
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £11.20
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
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
26 65 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 36.11% 63.11% 58.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 17
Average daily rate £500 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £338 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £458 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £14.75 £11.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +31.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
Hertfordshire

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V