West Lothian Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the West Lothian 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Poole 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 Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	4
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£348
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.09	£24.55
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
General West Lothian
Matching contract IT job ads	13	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£230
Average daily rate	£381	£250
% change on same period last year	+52.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£11.00
Average hourly rate	-	£11.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.83	£27.05
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
Telecoms Scotland

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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

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

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Telecoms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Livingston	-9	1	-	-

Telecoms Scotland

Telecoms
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) CRM 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT 1 1 (33.33 %) SOA 1 1 (33.33 %) Chordiant 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) SDH 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 1 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi 1 1 (33.33 %) Workflow 1 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development

1 1 (33.33 %) WiMAX 1 1 (33.33 %) WebSphere

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 (33.33 %) WebSphere	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) SDH 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) MPLS 1 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi 1 1 (33.33 %) WiMAX
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Design Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Radio Engineer	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) UML 1 1 (33.33 %) CRM 1 1 (33.33 %) SOA 1 1 (33.33 %) Workflow 1 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Chordiant