The first table below looks at the demand for Unified Communications skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Unified Communications over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unified Communications
Rank 104 111 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Unified Communications 6 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.323% 0.045% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.911% 0.356% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £358 £388
% change year-on-year
-2.09% -7.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 - £35.00
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
314 281 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.90% 12.58% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 141 81
Average daily rate £300 £280 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -16.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £190 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 37 32
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.25 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -54.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.90 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Unified Communications Jobs Demand Trend

Unified Communications
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Unified Communications Daily Rate Trend

Unified Communications
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unified Communications within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 +8 6 - -
Unified Communications
England

Unified Communications
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications.

1 3 (42.86%) SQL
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) AIX
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) XHTML
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (14.29%) PMP
3 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
3 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Remote Control
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Process Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Business Objects
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2

Unified Communications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Unified Communications 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 Unified Communications. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) XHTML
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
1 1 (14.29%) NHibernate
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Server Support
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Support Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) MI Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Project Management
1 1 (14.29%) Process Management
1 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
1 1 (14.29%) MVC
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
1 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (14.29%) TDD
1 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
1 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
1 1 (14.29%) Matrix Management
1 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
1 1 (14.29%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VBA
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Remote Control
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Business Objects
2 1 (14.29%) VMware