The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Bedfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 28 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.041% 0.376% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 2.439% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £24.38 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -6.25%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
32 41 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 16.33% 15.41% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 11
Average daily rate £325 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £325 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Wireless
East of England

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton - 3 £300 -
Bedford - - - -
Leighton Buzzard - - - -
Wireless
East of England

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Lync
2 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (16.67%) Office 365
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Business Development
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (16.67%) Polycom
2 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Cacti
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) VMware

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (16.67%) Lync
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) DMZ
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Development Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Validation
1 1 (16.67%) Business Development
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Terminal Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) Cacti
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) JD Edwards
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Polycom
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco