Video Conferencing Contracts in England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video Conferencing in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Video Conferencing over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Videoconferencing UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	473	516	472
Rank change year-on-year	+43	-44
Contract jobs citing Video Conferencing	128	107	155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.30%	0.22%	0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.88%	0.65%	0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted	68	71	80
Median daily rate	£358	£350	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.14%	+7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£103	£150	£135
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£478
UK excluding London median daily rate	£395	£350	£300
% change year-on-year	+12.85%	+16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	17	3	14
Median hourly rate	£16.00	£23.00	£14.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-30.43%	+61.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.30	£15.80	£10.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.88	£25.40	£22.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£16.00	-	£12.38

Video Conferencing is in the generic IT skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Generic IT Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	14509	16515	16170
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	33.55%	33.30%	32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted	9503	10997	10406
Median daily rate	£463	£440	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.11%	+3.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£280	£273	£255
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£615	£615
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£388	£375
% change year-on-year	+3.22%	+3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	445	539	561
Median hourly rate	£22.00	£22.00	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+15.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.49	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£46.07	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00	£18.88
% change year-on-year	+8.69%	+21.82%

Video Conferencing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Video Conferencing as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Miscellaneous category.

Job vacancy trend for Video Conferencing in England

Video Conferencing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Video Conferencing in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Video Conferencing in England

Video Conferencing
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Video Conferencing in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Video Conferencing in England

Video Conferencing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video Conferencing in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Video Conferencing in England

Video Conferencing
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Video Conferencing in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Video Conferencing in England

Video Conferencing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video Conferencing within the England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+6	59	£203	-55.00%	29
South East	+20	20	£395	+21.53%	7
East of England	+4	15	£315	+5.00%	8
South West	+3	13	£338	-25.00%	2
West Midlands	+26	9	£400	-	11
North West	+24	8	£103	-73.52%	5
East Midlands	-	5	£525	-	1
Yorkshire	+27	1	£500	+13.63%
North East	-	1	-	-
Video Conferencing UK

Video Conferencing
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Video Conferencing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Video Conferencing.

1	100 (45.45%)	Windows
2	94 (42.73%)	Cisco
3	81 (36.82%)	Microsoft
4	67 (30.45%)	Active Directory
5	51 (23.18%)	Windows 7
6	49 (22.27%)	Microsoft Office
7	44 (20.00%)	Finance
8	39 (17.73%)	Cisco Certification
8	39 (17.73%)	Skype for Business
9	37 (16.82%)	Firewall
10	36 (16.36%)	VoIP
11	35 (15.91%)	ITIL
12	33 (15.00%)	VPN
12	33 (15.00%)	Citrix
13	30 (13.64%)	CCNA

13	30 (13.64%)	VMware
13	30 (13.64%)	VMware Infrastructure
14	29 (13.18%)	TCP/IP
15	28 (12.73%)	HP
16	27 (12.27%)	Unified Communications
17	25 (11.36%)	Polycom
17	25 (11.36%)	Office 365
18	24 (10.91%)	Skype
18	24 (10.91%)	Windows 10
18	24 (10.91%)	Security Cleared
19	23 (10.45%)	Apple
19	23 (10.45%)	WAN
19	23 (10.45%)	DNS
20	22 (10.00%)	LAN
20	22 (10.00%)	MS Exchange

Video Conferencing
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	39 (17.73%)	Skype for Business
2	22 (10.00%)	MS Exchange
3	15 (6.82%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	8 (3.64%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
5	5 (2.27%)	CMS
6	4 (1.82%)	SharePoint
7	3 (1.36%)	Apache
7	3 (1.36%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	3 (1.36%)	IBM Domino
7	3 (1.36%)	Office Communications Server
8	2 (0.91%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	2 (0.91%)	IIS
8	2 (0.91%)	Tomcat
9	1 (0.45%)	Exchange Server 2007

Applications
1	49 (22.27%)	Microsoft Office
2	7 (3.18%)	Microsoft Project
2	7 (3.18%)	MS Visio
3	5 (2.27%)	Microsoft Excel
4	4 (1.82%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	3 (1.36%)	InfoPath
6	2 (0.91%)	Photoshop
7	1 (0.45%)	Adobe Creative Suite
7	1 (0.45%)	Shockwave
7	1 (0.45%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	4 (1.82%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	2 (0.91%)	Teamcenter
3	1 (0.45%)	Eikon

Cloud Services
1	25 (11.36%)	Office 365
2	8 (3.64%)	Microsoft Azure
3	5 (2.27%)	IaaS
4	4 (1.82%)	Amazon AWS
5	2 (0.91%)	Cloud Computing
5	2 (0.91%)	PaaS
5	2 (0.91%)	SaaS
6	1 (0.45%)	G Suite
6	1 (0.45%)	GitHub
6	1 (0.45%)	Slack
6	1 (0.45%)	Twilio
6	1 (0.45%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	37 (16.82%)	Firewall
2	36 (16.36%)	VoIP
3	33 (15.00%)	VPN
4	29 (13.18%)	TCP/IP
5	27 (12.27%)	Unified Communications
6	24 (10.91%)	Skype
7	23 (10.45%)	DNS
7	23 (10.45%)	WAN
8	22 (10.00%)	LAN
9	20 (9.09%)	DHCP
10	17 (7.73%)	Cisco Nexus
10	17 (7.73%)	WebEx
10	17 (7.73%)	Wi-Fi
11	15 (6.82%)	Telepresence
12	14 (6.36%)	IP Telephony
12	14 (6.36%)	VLAN
12	14 (6.36%)	Wireless
13	13 (5.91%)	MPLS
14	11 (5.00%)	Cisco ASA
15	10 (4.55%)	Cisco IPT

Database & Business Intelligence
1	7 (3.18%)	SQL Server
2	3 (1.36%)	SQL Server 2012
3	2 (0.91%)	Big Data
4	1 (0.45%)	Apache Cassandra
4	1 (0.45%)	Couchbase
4	1 (0.45%)	Data Warehouse
4	1 (0.45%)	Hadoop
4	1 (0.45%)	MariaDB
4	1 (0.45%)	MongoDB
4	1 (0.45%)	MySQL
4	1 (0.45%)	Neo4j
4	1 (0.45%)	NoSQL
4	1 (0.45%)	PostgreSQL
4	1 (0.45%)	Relational Database
4	1 (0.45%)	SQL Server 2014

Development Applications
1	1 (0.45%)	Git (software)
1	1 (0.45%)	Grunt
1	1 (0.45%)	gulp
1	1 (0.45%)	webpack

General
1	44 (20.00%)	Finance
2	21 (9.55%)	Banking
3	15 (6.82%)	Telecoms
4	13 (5.91%)	Manufacturing
5	10 (4.55%)	Law
6	6 (2.73%)	Marketing
7	5 (2.27%)	Legal
8	4 (1.82%)	Electronics
9	2 (0.91%)	Automotive
10	1 (0.45%)	Back Office
10	1 (0.45%)	Corporate Banking
10	1 (0.45%)	Games
10	1 (0.45%)	Investment Banking
10	1 (0.45%)	Multimedia
10	1 (0.45%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	42 (19.09%)	Analyst
2	28 (12.73%)	Desktop Support
3	26 (11.82%)	Support Engineer
4	24 (10.91%)	Architect
4	24 (10.91%)	Network Engineer
5	21 (9.55%)	IT Support
6	20 (9.09%)	Cisco Engineer
7	19 (8.64%)	Service Analyst
8	18 (8.18%)	Cisco Network Engineer
9	17 (7.73%)	Project Manager
10	16 (7.27%)	Service Desk Analyst
11	15 (6.82%)	Support Analyst
12	13 (5.91%)	2nd Line Support
12	13 (5.91%)	Junior
13	11 (5.00%)	Desktop Analyst
13	11 (5.00%)	Voice Engineer
14	9 (4.09%)	Active Directory Analyst
14	9 (4.09%)	Citrix Analyst
14	9 (4.09%)	Desktop Engineer
15	8 (3.64%)	Desktop Support Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	11 (5.00%)	XMPP
2	5 (2.27%)	Middleware
3	3 (1.36%)	AngularJS
3	3 (1.36%)	WAP
4	2 (0.91%)	CSS
4	2 (0.91%)	HTML
4	2 (0.91%)	jQuery
4	2 (0.91%)	React
5	1 (0.45%)	CSS3
5	1 (0.45%)	EDI
5	1 (0.45%)	Flash
5	1 (0.45%)	HTML5
5	1 (0.45%)	JPA
5	1 (0.45%)	Node.js
5	1 (0.45%)	Polymer
5	1 (0.45%)	RESTful
5	1 (0.45%)	Sass
5	1 (0.45%)	Spring
5	1 (0.45%)	Twitter Bootstrap
5	1 (0.45%)	Web Components

Miscellaneous
1	18 (8.18%)	Data Centre
2	17 (7.73%)	Analytical Skills
3	12 (5.45%)	Smartphone
3	12 (5.45%)	Virtual Team
4	11 (5.00%)	Blackberry
5	8 (3.64%)	Digital Signage
5	8 (3.64%)	iPhone
6	7 (3.18%)	BBC
6	7 (3.18%)	Device Driver
6	7 (3.18%)	Life Science
7	6 (2.73%)	Fat Client
7	6 (2.73%)	iPad
7	6 (2.73%)	Thin Client
8	5 (2.27%)	IPTV
8	5 (2.27%)	Video Editing
9	4 (1.82%)	Driving Licence
9	4 (1.82%)	HTC Vive
9	4 (1.82%)	Linux Command Line
10	3 (1.36%)	Hybrid Cloud
10	3 (1.36%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	100 (45.45%)	Windows
2	51 (23.18%)	Windows 7
3	24 (10.91%)	Windows 10
4	21 (9.55%)	Windows Server
5	18 (8.18%)	Windows Server 2012
6	16 (7.27%)	Linux
7	13 (5.91%)	Windows Server 2008
8	10 (4.55%)	Mac OS
9	9 (4.09%)	Android
10	8 (3.64%)	Mac OS X
11	6 (2.73%)	Windows 8
12	5 (2.27%)	Apple iOS
13	3 (1.36%)	Windows Server 2003
14	2 (0.91%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14	2 (0.91%)	Ubuntu
14	2 (0.91%)	Windows Mobile
14	2 (0.91%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	35 (15.91%)	ITIL
2	20 (9.09%)	Incident Management
3	18 (8.18%)	Service Delivery
4	15 (6.82%)	Network Design
5	13 (5.91%)	ITSM
5	13 (5.91%)	Service Management
6	11 (5.00%)	Load Balancing
7	10 (4.55%)	ITIL V3
7	10 (4.55%)	PRINCE2
8	9 (4.09%)	Agile Software Development
8	9 (4.09%)	Network Monitoring
9	8 (3.64%)	Migration
9	8 (3.64%)	Programme Management
9	8 (3.64%)	Project Management
10	7 (3.18%)	Stakeholder Management
11	6 (2.73%)	CAD
12	5 (2.27%)	Business Intelligence
12	5 (2.27%)	Change Management
12	5 (2.27%)	Disaster Recovery
12	5 (2.27%)	Scrum

Programming Languages
1	9 (4.09%)	C
2	7 (3.18%)	PowerShell
3	6 (2.73%)	SQL
4	3 (1.36%)	JavaScript
5	1 (0.45%)	C#
5	1 (0.45%)	ES6
5	1 (0.45%)	Java
5	1 (0.45%)	Python

Qualifications
1	39 (17.73%)	Cisco Certification
2	30 (13.64%)	CCNA
3	24 (10.91%)	Security Cleared
4	20 (9.09%)	Microsoft Certification
5	15 (6.82%)	SC Cleared
6	14 (6.36%)	CCNP
6	14 (6.36%)	MCSE
7	12 (5.45%)	DV Cleared
8	11 (5.00%)	CCIE
8	11 (5.00%)	Degree
9	10 (4.55%)	MCP
10	8 (3.64%)	JNCIA
10	8 (3.64%)	MCSA
11	7 (3.18%)	CCDP
12	6 (2.73%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
13	4 (1.82%)	MCDST
14	3 (1.36%)	A+ Certification
14	3 (1.36%)	CCENT
14	3 (1.36%)	MCSD
15	2 (0.91%)	PMI Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	7 (3.18%)	SLA
2	3 (1.36%)	GDPR

System Software
1	67 (30.45%)	Active Directory
2	30 (13.64%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	12 (5.45%)	XenApp
4	8 (3.64%)	Virtual Desktop
5	6 (2.73%)	Hyper-V
6	5 (2.27%)	Microsoft App-V
6	5 (2.27%)	VMware ESXi
6	5 (2.27%)	XenDesktop
7	3 (1.36%)	Virtual Machines
8	1 (0.45%)	BitLocker
8	1 (0.45%)	Terminal Services
8	1 (0.45%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	22 (10.00%)	SCCM
2	10 (4.55%)	Cisco CUCM
3	9 (4.09%)	AirWatch
4	5 (2.27%)	OVSD
5	4 (1.82%)	SCOrch
5	4 (1.82%)	SCSM
6	3 (1.36%)	Failover Clustering
6	3 (1.36%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6	3 (1.36%)	NetBackup
6	3 (1.36%)	Norton AntiVirus
6	3 (1.36%)	SCOM
7	1 (0.45%)	Business Desktop Deployment
7	1 (0.45%)	Cisco LMS
7	1 (0.45%)	Cisco Prime
7	1 (0.45%)	FortiGate
7	1 (0.45%)	McAfee ePO
7	1 (0.45%)	Nagios
7	1 (0.45%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
7	1 (0.45%)	WSUS
7	1 (0.45%)	XenMobile

Vendors
1	94 (42.73%)	Cisco
2	81 (36.82%)	Microsoft
3	33 (15.00%)	Citrix
4	30 (13.64%)	VMware
5	28 (12.73%)	HP
6	25 (11.36%)	Polycom
7	23 (10.45%)	Apple
8	17 (7.73%)	CheckPoint
9	15 (6.82%)	Juniper
10	10 (4.55%)	Palo Alto
11	9 (4.09%)	Google
11	9 (4.09%)	MobileIron
12	8 (3.64%)	F5
12	8 (3.64%)	Meraki
12	8 (3.64%)	Riverbed
13	7 (3.18%)	Rackspace
13	7 (3.18%)	Virgin Media
14	6 (2.73%)	Adobe
14	6 (2.73%)	NetApp
14	6 (2.73%)	Oracle