West Yorkshire Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the West Yorkshire 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	16
Rank change on same period last year	-31
Matching contract IT job ads	50	128
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.064 %	0.144 %
As % of the category below	7.353 %	18.66 %
Daily rates quoted	24	51
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£246
Average daily rate	£304	£251
% change on same period last year	+20.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£257
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£323
% change on same period last year	+9.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.42	£32.40
Average hourly rate	£14.58	£32.70
% change on same period last year	-55.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.74	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.78	£23.61
% change on same period last year	+9.21 %
General West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	680	686
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.872 %	0.771 %
Daily rates quoted	177	159
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£284
Average daily rate	£357	£294
% change on same period last year	+21.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.21	£26.33
Average hourly rate	£18.39	£27.73
% change on same period last year	-33.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.56	£29.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£26.00
% change on same period last year	-1.22 %
Telecoms Yorkshire

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the West Yorkshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the West Yorkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Leeds	-26	38	£302	+20.84 %
2	Huddersfield	-	6	£130	-
3	Bradford	+3	1	£375	-
3	Pontefract	-	1	£313	-

Telecoms Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 22 (18.97 %) Unix 2 20 (17.24 %) Oracle 3 17 (14.66 %) Active Directory 4 15 (12.93 %) ITIL 5 14 (12.07 %) Cisco 5 14 (12.07 %) Cisco Certification 6 13 (11.21 %) SQL 6 13 (11.21 %) Internet 6 13 (11.21 %) IVR 7 12 (10.34 %) HPUX 8 10 (8.621 %) Finance 8 10 (8.621 %) VERITAS 8 10 (8.621 %) Windows 8 10 (8.621 %) Citrix 9 9 (7.759 %) Nortel

9 9 (7.759 %) Genesys 9 9 (7.759 %) Firewall 10 8 (6.897 %) CCNA 11 7 (6.034 %) CCNP 11 7 (6.034 %) Broadband 11 7 (6.034 %) DNS 11 7 (6.034 %) SLA 11 7 (6.034 %) .NET 12 6 (5.172 %) Open Text 12 6 (5.172 %) Project Management 12 6 (5.172 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 6 (5.172 %) Windows Server 2003 12 6 (5.172 %) Perl 12 6 (5.172 %) Java 12 6 (5.172 %) MS Exchange

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (6.034 %) .NET 2 5 (4.310 %) WebSphere 3 4 (3.448 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 4 (3.448 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (2.586 %) CSS 5 2 (1.724 %) XML 5 2 (1.724 %) XSL 5 2 (1.724 %) J2EE 6 1 (0.862 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (0.862 %) MonoRail 6 1 (0.862 %) XHTML 6 1 (0.862 %) WinForms 6 1 (0.862 %) AJAX 6 1 (0.862 %) NHibernate	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.172 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (3.448 %) IIS 3 3 (2.586 %) WorkSite 4 2 (1.724 %) Apache 4 2 (1.724 %) Tomcat 4 2 (1.724 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 3 (2.586 %) MS Project 1 3 (2.586 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.862 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (0.862 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (2.586 %) SoftGrid 2 1 (0.862 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 13 (11.21 %) Internet 2 9 (7.759 %) Firewall 3 7 (6.034 %) DNS 3 7 (6.034 %) Broadband 4 5 (4.310 %) VoIP 5 4 (3.448 %) IP Telephony 6 3 (2.586 %) SAN 6 3 (2.586 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (1.724 %) PBX 7 2 (1.724 %) MPLS 7 2 (1.724 %) IPCC 8 1 (0.862 %) Cisco PIX 8 1 (0.862 %) SMS 8 1 (0.862 %) LAN 8 1 (0.862 %) LDAP 8 1 (0.862 %) WAN 8 1 (0.862 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (5.172 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 4 (3.448 %) SQL Server 3 3 (2.586 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (1.724 %) MS Access 4 2 (1.724 %) MySQL 5 1 (0.862 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (0.862 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (0.862 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (0.862 %) Oracle OWB
Development Applications 1 4 (3.448 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.862 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (0.862 %) TestDirector 2 1 (0.862 %) Subversion	General 1 10 (8.621 %) Finance 2 4 (3.448 %) Legal 3 3 (2.586 %) Government 3 3 (2.586 %) Health 3 3 (2.586 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (1.724 %) Electric 4 2 (1.724 %) Banking 4 2 (1.724 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.862 %) Local Government 5 1 (0.862 %) Billing 5 1 (0.862 %) Education
Job Titles 1 18 (15.52 %) Developer 2 17 (14.66 %) Analyst 3 11 (9.483 %) Network Engineer 4 9 (7.759 %) Cisco Engineer 5 8 (6.897 %) Cisco Network Engineer 5 8 (6.897 %) Project Manager 5 8 (6.897 %) Solutions Designer 6 7 (6.034 %) Support Analyst 7 6 (5.172 %) Test Manager 7 6 (5.172 %) UNIX Engineer 7 6 (5.172 %) Environment Manager 7 6 (5.172 %) Service Manager 8 5 (4.310 %) Senior Developer 9 4 (3.448 %) Consultant 9 4 (3.448 %) Business Analyst 10 3 (2.586 %) Coordinator 10 3 (2.586 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 10 3 (2.586 %) Server Support 10 3 (2.586 %) Service Analyst 10 3 (2.586 %) Design Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 13 (11.21 %) IVR 2 6 (5.172 %) CMDB 2 6 (5.172 %) Clustering 3 1 (0.862 %) NHS 3 1 (0.862 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (0.862 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 22 (18.97 %) Unix 2 12 (10.34 %) HPUX 3 10 (8.621 %) Windows 4 6 (5.172 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (4.310 %) Solaris 6 4 (3.448 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (12.93 %) ITIL 2 6 (5.172 %) Project Management 3 5 (4.310 %) Service Management 3 5 (4.310 %) Release Management 4 4 (3.448 %) Test Management 4 4 (3.448 %) Network Design 5 3 (2.586 %) Risk Management 5 3 (2.586 %) Validation 5 3 (2.586 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (2.586 %) Problem Management 6 2 (1.724 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (1.724 %) Performance Testing 6 2 (1.724 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (1.724 %) Change Management 7 1 (0.862 %) MVC 7 1 (0.862 %) PRINCE 7 1 (0.862 %) Six Sigma 7 1 (0.862 %) Migration 7 1 (0.862 %) Programme Management 7 1 (0.862 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 13 (11.21 %) SQL 2 6 (5.172 %) Perl 2 6 (5.172 %) Java 3 4 (3.448 %) VB 3 4 (3.448 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (3.448 %) Shell Script 4 3 (2.586 %) C 5 2 (1.724 %) C# 5 2 (1.724 %) VB.NET 5 2 (1.724 %) PHP 6 1 (0.862 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 14 (12.07 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (6.897 %) CCNA 3 7 (6.034 %) CCNP 4 4 (3.448 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (2.586 %) CCDP 6 1 (0.862 %) MCP 6 1 (0.862 %) CCVP 6 1 (0.862 %) Degree 6 1 (0.862 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (0.862 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (6.034 %) SLA 2 4 (3.448 %) QA	System Software 1 17 (14.66 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.724 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 6 (5.172 %) OpenView 1 6 (5.172 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 6 (5.172 %) OVSD 1 6 (5.172 %) AssetCenter	Vendors 1 20 (17.24 %) Oracle 2 14 (12.07 %) Cisco 3 10 (8.621 %) Citrix 3 10 (8.621 %) VERITAS 4 9 (7.759 %) Genesys 4 9 (7.759 %) Nortel 5 6 (5.172 %) HP 5 6 (5.172 %) Microsoft 5 6 (5.172 %) Open Text 6 5 (4.310 %) KANA 7 3 (2.586 %) Empirix 7 3 (2.586 %) Business Objects 8 2 (1.724 %) Siemens 8 2 (1.724 %) Mitel 8 2 (1.724 %) ATG 9 1 (0.862 %) BT 9 1 (0.862 %) SAP 9 1 (0.862 %) Sun 9 1 (0.862 %) Avaya