The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Telecoms in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 23 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 Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Rank 43 56 61
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +5
Contract jobs citing Telecoms 73 55 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 3.925% 2.448% 2.262%
As % of the General category 12.92% 6.358% 5.874%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 34 17
Average daily rate £275 £300 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £240 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £337 £410 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £345
% change year-on-year
+0.76% -5.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 £10.50 £11.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.61% -11.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.23 £10.50 £11.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.90 £10.50 £11.98
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
565 865 715
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 30.38% 38.50% 38.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 528 369
Average daily rate £340 £380 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -0.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £265 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 22
Average hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +6.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.75 £10.50 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.50 £50.00 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Telecoms Daily Rate Trend

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Yorkshire Telecoms Daily Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Telecoms Hourly Rate Trend

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Yorkshire Telecoms Hourly Rate Histogram

Telecoms
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
West Yorkshire +17 62 £275 -5.17%
South Yorkshire +2 7 £204 -41.78%
East Yorkshire - 3 £275 -
Telecoms
England

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 49 (28.32%) Finance
2 46 (26.59%) Oracle
3 31 (17.92%) Web Services
4 29 (16.76%) Java
5 28 (16.18%) C++
5 28 (16.18%) Oracle EBS
6 27 (15.61%) Linux
6 27 (15.61%) Ruby
7 26 (15.03%) Test Automation
7 26 (15.03%) MongoDB
7 26 (15.03%) Node.js
7 26 (15.03%) Redis
7 26 (15.03%) Apache
7 26 (15.03%) PHP
7 26 (15.03%) MySQL
8 25 (14.45%) Python
8 25 (14.45%) Client/Server
8 25 (14.45%) DNS
8 25 (14.45%) Route 53
8 25 (14.45%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (14.45%) nginx
8 25 (14.45%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (14.45%) Amazon S3
8 25 (14.45%) Amazon AWS
8 25 (14.45%) Bash shell
8 25 (14.45%) Kanban
9 24 (13.87%) Internet
9 24 (13.87%) Perl
10 22 (12.72%) Configuration Management
11 21 (12.14%) TCP/IP

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 31 (17.92%) Web Services
2 26 (15.03%) Node.js
3 12 (6.936%) CSS
4 10 (5.780%) Hibernate
4 10 (5.780%) J2EE
5 9 (5.202%) HTML5
5 9 (5.202%) CSS3
6 8 (4.624%) SOAP
6 8 (4.624%) jQuery
6 8 (4.624%) Spring
7 7 (4.046%) REST
7 7 (4.046%) XML
8 4 (2.312%) .NET
9 3 (1.734%) LAMP
10 2 (1.156%) POSIX
10 2 (1.156%) ASP
10 2 (1.156%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.156%) Struts
11 1 (0.578%) Application Packaging
11 1 (0.578%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 26 (15.03%) Apache
2 25 (14.45%) Route 53
2 25 (14.45%) nginx
2 25 (14.45%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (14.45%) Amazon S3
2 25 (14.45%) Amazon AWS
3 9 (5.202%) Adobe CQ
4 7 (4.046%) Apache Solr
4 7 (4.046%) Tomcat
5 5 (2.890%) ESB
5 5 (2.890%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.734%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (1.734%) MS Exchange
7 2 (1.156%) SAS
7 2 (1.156%) IIS
7 2 (1.156%) Lotus Notes
7 2 (1.156%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.578%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.578%) Exchange Server 5.5
8 1 (0.578%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (8.671%) MS Excel
2 13 (7.514%) MS Office
3 4 (2.312%) MS Project
4 2 (1.156%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.578%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.578%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.578%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 28 (16.18%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (5.780%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (4.046%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (2.312%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 3 (1.734%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.45%) DNS
2 24 (13.87%) Internet
3 21 (12.14%) TCP/IP
4 18 (10.40%) SSL
5 17 (9.827%) DHCP
6 12 (6.936%) Intrusion Detection
7 11 (6.358%) LAN
7 11 (6.358%) WAN
8 9 (5.202%) HTTP
9 5 (2.890%) 3G
9 5 (2.890%) GSM
9 5 (2.890%) FTP
9 5 (2.890%) 2G
10 4 (2.312%) Wireless
10 4 (2.312%) UMTS
11 3 (1.734%) Broadband
11 3 (1.734%) Firewall
11 3 (1.734%) IPsec
12 2 (1.156%) GPRS
12 2 (1.156%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.03%) MongoDB
1 26 (15.03%) Redis
1 26 (15.03%) MySQL
2 25 (14.45%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.624%) Oracle BI EE
4 7 (4.046%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.312%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.734%) Oracle 11g
6 3 (1.734%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.734%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.156%) GIS
7 2 (1.156%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.156%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.156%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.156%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.156%) SimpleDB
7 2 (1.156%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (0.578%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.578%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.578%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (4.624%) Jenkins
1 8 (4.624%) Git (software)
2 7 (4.046%) Maven
3 2 (1.156%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.156%) JIRA
4 1 (0.578%) Selenium
4 1 (0.578%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.578%) Hudson
4 1 (0.578%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.578%) Subversion
4 1 (0.578%) Xcode
General
1 49 (28.32%) Finance
2 10 (5.780%) Retail
3 8 (4.624%) Electronics
4 7 (4.046%) Legal
5 6 (3.468%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.890%) Billing
6 5 (2.890%) Banking
7 4 (2.312%) Marketing
8 3 (1.734%) Military
8 3 (1.734%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.156%) Games
9 2 (1.156%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.578%) Law
10 1 (0.578%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 42 (24.28%) Analyst
2 21 (12.14%) Architect
3 19 (10.98%) Developer
4 15 (8.671%) Service Analyst
5 12 (6.936%) Business Analyst
6 9 (5.202%) Operations Engineer
6 9 (5.202%) Java Developer
6 9 (5.202%) Service Desk Analyst
7 8 (4.624%) Technical Architect
8 7 (4.046%) Oracle Architect
9 6 (3.468%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (3.468%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.468%) Telecoms Business Analyst
10 5 (2.890%) Desktop Support
10 5 (2.890%) Consultant
10 5 (2.890%) Process Analyst
11 4 (2.312%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (2.312%) Voice Architect
12 3 (1.734%) Mobile Applications Developer
12 3 (1.734%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.45%) Client/Server
2 11 (6.358%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.624%) NHS
4 5 (2.890%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.890%) Open Source
5 4 (2.312%) DTV
5 4 (2.312%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.734%) Fat Client
6 3 (1.734%) Thin Client
6 3 (1.734%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.156%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.156%) Handset
7 2 (1.156%) Chip and PIN
7 2 (1.156%) Social Media
7 2 (1.156%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.156%) Data Integration
7 2 (1.156%) CMDB
8 1 (0.578%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.578%) PDA
8 1 (0.578%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.61%) Linux
2 20 (11.56%) Windows
3 12 (6.936%) Windows 7
4 7 (4.046%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (2.890%) Windows XP
6 4 (2.312%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (1.734%) Windows Mobile
7 3 (1.734%) Windows CE
8 2 (1.156%) UNIX
8 2 (1.156%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.578%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.578%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.578%) Android
9 1 (0.578%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.578%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (15.03%) Test Automation
2 25 (14.45%) Kanban
3 22 (12.72%) Configuration Management
4 20 (11.56%) Incident Management
5 19 (10.98%) Security Testing
6 17 (9.827%) Capacity Management
6 17 (9.827%) Load Balancing
6 17 (9.827%) Project Management
7 14 (8.092%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (7.514%) Migration
9 12 (6.936%) Scrum
9 12 (6.936%) ERP
9 12 (6.936%) SOA
10 11 (6.358%) ITIL
11 10 (5.780%) TDD
12 9 (5.202%) Change Management
13 8 (4.624%) Service Management
13 8 (4.624%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (4.624%) Software Engineering
14 7 (4.046%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.76%) Java
2 28 (16.18%) C++
3 27 (15.61%) Ruby
4 26 (15.03%) PHP
5 25 (14.45%) Python
5 25 (14.45%) Bash shell
6 24 (13.87%) Perl
7 8 (4.624%) SQL
7 8 (4.624%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.046%) C#
9 5 (2.890%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.734%) VC++
10 3 (1.734%) C
11 2 (1.156%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.156%) VBA
12 1 (0.578%) Erlang
12 1 (0.578%) VB
12 1 (0.578%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.578%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 12 (6.936%) Degree
2 10 (5.780%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (5.202%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.468%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.890%) MCP
5 5 (2.890%) CCNA
6 4 (2.312%) CCIE
6 4 (2.312%) CCNP
6 4 (2.312%) Avaya Certification
6 4 (2.312%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.734%) CCAB
8 2 (1.156%) ISEB
9 1 (0.578%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.578%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.358%) SLA
2 3 (1.734%) QA
2 3 (1.734%) GAAP
3 2 (1.156%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (2.890%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.734%) NFS
3 2 (1.156%) XenApp
3 2 (1.156%) XenServer
3 2 (1.156%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (10.40%) Puppet
2 3 (1.734%) Unicenter
3 2 (1.156%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (1.156%) SCCM
4 1 (0.578%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.578%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.578%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.578%) OpenView
4 1 (0.578%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 46 (26.59%) Oracle
2 21 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.827%) Percona
4 11 (6.358%) Cisco
5 9 (5.202%) Adobe
6 7 (4.046%) hybris
7 6 (3.468%) Hyperion
8 5 (2.890%) Avaya
9 4 (2.312%) Amdocs
9 4 (2.312%) Business Objects
9 4 (2.312%) SAP
10 3 (1.734%) Citrix
10 3 (1.734%) CA
11 2 (1.156%) AppSense
11 2 (1.156%) CheckPoint
11 2 (1.156%) Nokia
11 2 (1.156%) Lotus
11 2 (1.156%) HP
12 1 (0.578%) Huawei
12 1 (0.578%) Tandberg
Leeds, Yorkshire
Service Change Analyst required for an initial 6 month contract working for my client based in Leeds.
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £100.00 - £120.00 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013