2G Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for 2G skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 2G over the 3 months to 22 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 Berkshire 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
2G
Rank 50 38 90
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +52
Contract jobs citing 2G 79 125 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 3.221% 3.897% 1.401%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 11.26% 6.138%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 2
Average daily rate £285 £285 £211
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +34.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £218 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £365 £214
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.86% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% -12.50%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 632 1110 668
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 25.76% 34.60% 22.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 220 189
Average daily rate £285 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £200 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £437 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 47 54
Average hourly rate £18.75 £30.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.68 £14.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
2G
South East

2G
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 2G across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Berkshire 2G Jobs Demand Trend

2G
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 2G across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire 2G Daily Rate Trend

2G
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 2G across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire 2G Daily Rate Histogram

2G
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 2G across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire 2G Hourly Rate Trend

2G
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2G within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Reading -23 23 £300 +7.14%
Newbury +3 13 £285 +31.03%
Slough -8 7 £403 +40.00%
2G
South East

2G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing 2G 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 2G.

1 205 (97.62%) 3G
2 169 (80.48%) Telecoms
3 119 (56.67%) Radio Access Network
4 111 (52.86%) Ericsson
5 70 (33.33%) LTE
6 61 (29.05%) ATM
7 54 (25.71%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 53 (25.24%) Migration
9 51 (24.29%) RNC
10 42 (20.00%) GSM
11 41 (19.52%) Ethernet
12 38 (18.10%) SDH
13 33 (15.71%) WCDMA
14 32 (15.24%) Project Management
15 31 (14.76%) 3GPP
15 31 (14.76%) NetHawk
16 30 (14.29%) Huawei
16 30 (14.29%) 4G
17 29 (13.81%) Wireshark
18 27 (12.86%) SQL
19 25 (11.90%) MPLS
20 24 (11.43%) .NET
20 24 (11.43%) Degree
21 23 (10.95%) Perl
21 23 (10.95%) ISEB
21 23 (10.95%) NEC
22 20 (9.524%) UNIX
23 18 (8.571%) Oracle
23 18 (8.571%) RANAP
24 16 (7.619%) BT

2G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing 2G 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 2G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (11.43%) .NET
2 8 (3.810%) ASP.NET
3 6 (2.857%) XML
4 4 (1.905%) J2EE
5 2 (0.952%) ASP
Applications
1 7 (3.333%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.857%) MS Office
3 2 (0.952%) Maya
Communications & Networking
1 205 (97.62%) 3G
2 119 (56.67%) Radio Access Network
3 70 (33.33%) LTE
4 61 (29.05%) ATM
5 51 (24.29%) RNC
6 42 (20.00%) GSM
7 41 (19.52%) Ethernet
8 38 (18.10%) SDH
9 33 (15.71%) WCDMA
10 31 (14.76%) 3GPP
11 30 (14.29%) 4G
12 29 (13.81%) Wireshark
13 25 (11.90%) MPLS
14 18 (8.571%) RANAP
15 15 (7.143%) IPv4
16 12 (5.714%) TELNET
17 10 (4.762%) DNS
18 8 (3.810%) DWDM
19 7 (3.333%) UMTS
20 6 (2.857%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.810%) NoSQL
1 8 (3.810%) Big Data
2 7 (3.333%) MS Access
3 6 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.905%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.952%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 169 (80.48%) Telecoms
2 12 (5.714%) Back Office
3 3 (1.429%) Front Office
3 3 (1.429%) Electronics
4 2 (0.952%) Finance
4 2 (0.952%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (19.05%) Test Engineer
2 29 (13.81%) Transmission Engineer
2 29 (13.81%) RAN Engineer
2 29 (13.81%) Design Engineer
3 25 (11.90%) Architect
4 24 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (7.619%) Project Manager
6 15 (7.143%) Integration Engineer
7 13 (6.190%) Developer
8 11 (5.238%) 3G Engineer
9 9 (4.286%) Back Office Engineer
9 9 (4.286%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.810%) Technical Leader
11 6 (2.857%) Implementation Manager
11 6 (2.857%) Network Planner
11 6 (2.857%) OSS Architect
12 5 (2.381%) Test Leader
12 5 (2.381%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (2.381%) Network Engineer
13 4 (1.905%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (1.905%) Open Source
2 2 (0.952%) Management Information System
2 2 (0.952%) Smart Meter
3 1 (0.476%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (0.476%) Economics
3 1 (0.476%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.524%) UNIX
2 12 (5.714%) Windows
3 7 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (25.24%) Migration
2 32 (15.24%) Project Management
3 15 (7.143%) Validation
4 12 (5.714%) ITIL
4 12 (5.714%) Web Development
4 12 (5.714%) Network Management
5 11 (5.238%) eTOM
5 11 (5.238%) Network Planning
5 11 (5.238%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (4.762%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (4.286%) Fault Management
7 9 (4.286%) PRINCE2
8 8 (3.810%) ETL
9 7 (3.333%) Resource Management
10 5 (2.381%) Time Management
10 5 (2.381%) Logistics
10 5 (2.381%) Change Management
11 4 (1.905%) SOA
11 4 (1.905%) Incident Management
11 4 (1.905%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.86%) SQL
2 23 (10.95%) Perl
3 13 (6.190%) C#
4 12 (5.714%) C++
4 12 (5.714%) PL/SQL
5 11 (5.238%) C
6 8 (3.810%) Java
7 3 (1.429%) VBA
8 1 (0.476%) R
8 1 (0.476%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.476%) Python
8 1 (0.476%) VB
8 1 (0.476%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (11.43%) Degree
2 23 (10.95%) ISEB
3 7 (3.333%) PMP
3 7 (3.333%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.952%) HNC
4 2 (0.952%) HND
4 2 (0.952%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (0.952%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (0.952%) CCNP
5 1 (0.476%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.238%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.905%) Netcool
Vendors
1 111 (52.86%) Ericsson
2 54 (25.71%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 31 (14.76%) NetHawk
4 30 (14.29%) Huawei
5 23 (10.95%) NEC
6 18 (8.571%) Oracle
7 16 (7.619%) BT
8 15 (7.143%) Nokia
9 14 (6.667%) Cramer
10 13 (6.190%) Nortel
11 11 (5.238%) Citrix
12 6 (2.857%) Business Objects
12 6 (2.857%) Greenplum
13 5 (2.381%) Sun
13 5 (2.381%) HP
14 2 (0.952%) Microsoft
15 1 (0.476%) Actix
15 1 (0.476%) Amdocs
15 1 (0.476%) Siemens
Senior Transmission Delivery Manager
Slough, Berkshire
Manage the transmission SLA's... Own the process workflow to manage ordering to delivery... Proficient in the use in Microsoft s software packages. Knowledge of radio principles (2G &...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 20 May 2013
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