West Midlands VoIP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Voice Over IP (VoIP) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VoIP over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chichester City of London Clapham County Antrim Crawley Croydon Dorchester Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	110
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	18	30
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	3.516 %	6.356 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£340
Average daily rate	£395	£365
% change on same period last year	+8.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£363
% change on same period last year	-9.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£21.67
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£23.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.24	£28.65
% change on same period last year	-8.39 %
Communications & Networking West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	512	472
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.692 %	0.465 %
Daily rates quoted	114	71
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£283
Average daily rate	£327	£304
% change on same period last year	+7.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	82	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.28	£29.23
Average hourly rate	£29.96	£32.75
% change on same period last year	-8.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.65	£36.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
VoIP England

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.

VoIP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VoIP across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 VoIP across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VoIP across the West Midlands 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 VoIP across the West Midlands region.

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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 VoIP within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire	-	10	£441	-
Birmingham	+6	2	-	-
Warwickshire	+5	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

1 14 (46.67 %) Government 2 10 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 7 (23.33 %) Service Delivery 3 7 (23.33 %) Disaster Recovery 3 7 (23.33 %) PRINCE2 4 6 (20.00 %) Matrix Management 5 5 (16.67 %) Cisco 5 5 (16.67 %) Firewall 6 4 (13.33 %) Nortel 6 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 4 (13.33 %) UNIX 7 3 (10.00 %) C++ 7 3 (10.00 %) Java 7 3 (10.00 %) WAN 7 3 (10.00 %) LAN

7 3 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 2 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 8 2 (6.667 %) Project Planning 8 2 (6.667 %) IP Telephony 8 2 (6.667 %) Stakeholder Management 8 2 (6.667 %) Programme Management 8 2 (6.667 %) CheckPoint 8 2 (6.667 %) PMP 8 2 (6.667 %) PMI Certification 8 2 (6.667 %) Juniper 8 2 (6.667 %) Internet 8 2 (6.667 %) C 8 2 (6.667 %) CGI 8 2 (6.667 %) SNMP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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.

Application Development 1 2 (6.667 %) HTML 1 2 (6.667 %) CGI	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.333 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 5 (16.67 %) Firewall 2 3 (10.00 %) LAN 2 3 (10.00 %) WAN 3 2 (6.667 %) SNMP 3 2 (6.667 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (6.667 %) VPN 3 2 (6.667 %) Internet 3 2 (6.667 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (3.333 %) 3G 4 1 (3.333 %) MPLS 4 1 (3.333 %) SS7 4 1 (3.333 %) NetScreen 4 1 (3.333 %) Q.931 4 1 (3.333 %) Wireless 4 1 (3.333 %) Frame Relay 4 1 (3.333 %) 2G 4 1 (3.333 %) Symposium 4 1 (3.333 %) DNS 4 1 (3.333 %) WLAN 4 1 (3.333 %) ADSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.667 %) ObjectStore 2 1 (3.333 %) MySQL
General 1 14 (46.67 %) Government 2 10 (33.33 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.333 %) Education 3 1 (3.333 %) Health	Job Titles 1 14 (46.67 %) Project Manager 2 7 (23.33 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 7 (23.33 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 4 (13.33 %) Programme Manager 4 3 (10.00 %) Analyst 4 3 (10.00 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (6.667 %) Network Support Analyst 5 2 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) Network Analyst 5 2 (6.667 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) Developer 5 2 (6.667 %) Network Support 5 2 (6.667 %) Voice Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) Implementation Manager 6 1 (3.333 %) Implementation Project Manager 6 1 (3.333 %) Senior Support Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) C++ Software Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) VoIP Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) Report Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.333 %) PMI 1 1 (3.333 %) DTV 1 1 (3.333 %) IPTV	Operating Systems 1 4 (13.33 %) UNIX 2 2 (6.667 %) Solaris 2 2 (6.667 %) Linux 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.333 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (23.33 %) PRINCE2 1 7 (23.33 %) Service Delivery 1 7 (23.33 %) Disaster Recovery 2 6 (20.00 %) Matrix Management 3 3 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (6.667 %) Project Planning 4 2 (6.667 %) Stakeholder Management 4 2 (6.667 %) Programme Management 4 2 (6.667 %) OO 5 1 (3.333 %) PRINCE 5 1 (3.333 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Information Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Supplier Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Incident Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (10.00 %) C++ 1 3 (10.00 %) Java 2 2 (6.667 %) JavaScript 2 2 (6.667 %) Perl 2 2 (6.667 %) C 3 1 (3.333 %) PHP 3 1 (3.333 %) VB 3 1 (3.333 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (6.667 %) PMP 2 2 (6.667 %) PMI Certification 2 2 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 2 (6.667 %) CCNA 2 2 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (3.333 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (3.333 %) CCDA 3 1 (3.333 %) CCDP 3 1 (3.333 %) MCSE 3 1 (3.333 %) CCNP	Vendors 1 5 (16.67 %) Cisco 2 4 (13.33 %) Nortel 3 2 (6.667 %) Juniper 3 2 (6.667 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (3.333 %) Mitel 4 1 (3.333 %) Blue Coat 4 1 (3.333 %) Siemens 4 1 (3.333 %) Avaya 4 1 (3.333 %) Microsoft