Bedfordshire Wireless Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chesham City of London Cumbria Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Fife Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Reigate Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	33
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	27.27 %	3.226 %
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	£304	£286
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	-
Average hourly rate	£45.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.98	£32.01
% change on same period last year	-15.70 %
Communications & Networking Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	11	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£299
Average daily rate	£362	£316
% change on same period last year	+14.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.75	£17.75
Average hourly rate	£27.25	£18.61
% change on same period last year	+46.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.75	£19.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.98	£29.13
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 20 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	-	2	-	-

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, 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 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (33.33 %) WatchGuard 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, 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 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 1 1 (33.33 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Technician 1 1 (33.33 %) RF Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Support Technician
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) Backup Exec 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware 1 1 (33.33 %) WatchGuard