Yorkshire SDH Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SDH over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Feltham Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire London Maidenhead Manchester Midlands North West Nottinghamshire Paddington Reading Solihull South East South West Suffolk Swindon UK Warrington West Midlands Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	126
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.595 %
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	£258	£353
% change on same period last year	-27.02 %
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	£28.58	£13.80
% change on same period last year	+107.11 %
Communications & Networking Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	424	504
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.564 %	0.511 %
Daily rates quoted	84	70
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£315
Average daily rate	£308	£323
% change on same period last year	-4.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	75	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.61	£24.87
Average hourly rate	£24.11	£26.21
% change on same period last year	-8.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.61	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
SDH 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.

SDH
Demand Trend

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

SDH
Daily Rate Trend

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

SDH
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SDH across the Yorkshire region.