The first table below looks at the demand for ATM 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 ATM over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Rank 62 19 96
Rank change year-on-year
-43 +77
Contract jobs citing ATM 60 182 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.499% 5.776% 1.289%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.600% 16.77% 5.603%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 1
Average daily rate £283 £270 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.62% -36.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-18.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- +34.14%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
625 1085 696
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 26.03% 34.43% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 217 197
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 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £432 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 47 58
Average hourly rate £20.00 £30.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.50 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £134.90 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
ATM
South East

ATM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire ATM Jobs Demand Trend

ATM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ATM Daily Rate Trend

ATM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ATM Hourly Rate Trend

ATM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATM within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 -27 27 £249 -6.13%
Newbury - 8 £285 -
Slough -9 1 - -
ATM
South East

ATM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ATM 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 ATM.

1 124 (83.22%) Telecoms
2 84 (56.38%) Ethernet
2 84 (56.38%) 3G
3 79 (53.02%) SDH
4 66 (44.30%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 63 (42.28%) LTE
6 60 (40.27%) 2G
7 58 (38.93%) Project Management
8 56 (37.58%) Ericsson
9 47 (31.54%) Radio Access Network
10 43 (28.86%) MPLS
11 37 (24.83%) Huawei
12 24 (16.11%) Resource Management
12 24 (16.11%) NEC
13 19 (12.75%) Network Design
13 19 (12.75%) UTRAN
13 19 (12.75%) 3GPP
14 17 (11.41%) Handset
15 16 (10.74%) SLA
16 15 (10.07%) DWDM
16 15 (10.07%) BT
17 14 (9.396%) Front Office
18 12 (8.054%) RNC
19 11 (7.383%) Cramer
19 11 (7.383%) Nokia
20 10 (6.711%) IPv4
20 10 (6.711%) C
20 10 (6.711%) Migration
20 10 (6.711%) Capacity Planning
20 10 (6.711%) Continuous Improvement

ATM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ATM 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 ATM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (5.369%) .NET
1 8 (5.369%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.671%) XML
Applications
1 4 (2.685%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.671%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (0.671%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.671%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 84 (56.38%) Ethernet
1 84 (56.38%) 3G
2 79 (53.02%) SDH
3 63 (42.28%) LTE
4 60 (40.27%) 2G
5 47 (31.54%) Radio Access Network
6 43 (28.86%) MPLS
7 19 (12.75%) UTRAN
7 19 (12.75%) 3GPP
8 15 (10.07%) DWDM
9 12 (8.054%) RNC
10 10 (6.711%) IPv4
11 9 (6.040%) TCP/IP
11 9 (6.040%) VPN
11 9 (6.040%) DNS
12 8 (5.369%) UMTS
12 8 (5.369%) WAN
12 8 (5.369%) ADSL
12 8 (5.369%) GSM
12 8 (5.369%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.369%) NoSQL
1 8 (5.369%) Big Data
2 6 (4.027%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.342%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.671%) Star Schema
4 1 (0.671%) DB2
General
1 124 (83.22%) Telecoms
2 14 (9.396%) Front Office
3 9 (6.040%) Back Office
4 7 (4.698%) Finance
5 1 (0.671%) Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (45.64%) Design Engineer
2 64 (42.95%) Transmission Engineer
3 20 (13.42%) RAN Engineer
4 8 (5.369%) Project Manager
4 8 (5.369%) Network Engineer
4 8 (5.369%) Back Office Engineer
5 7 (4.698%) Technical Leader
6 6 (4.027%) Access Transmission Engineer
7 5 (3.356%) Test Leader
7 5 (3.356%) Test Engineer
7 5 (3.356%) Field Engineer
8 4 (2.685%) Architect
8 4 (2.685%) Analyst
8 4 (2.685%) Administrator
8 4 (2.685%) Technical Project Manager
8 4 (2.685%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.685%) Project Administrator
8 4 (2.685%) Technical Manager
8 4 (2.685%) Network Architect
9 2 (1.342%) Senior Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.41%) Handset
2 4 (2.685%) Open Source
3 1 (0.671%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (0.671%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.027%) Windows
1 6 (4.027%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.93%) Project Management
2 24 (16.11%) Resource Management
3 19 (12.75%) Network Design
4 10 (6.711%) Migration
4 10 (6.711%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (6.711%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (6.040%) Fault Management
6 8 (5.369%) ETL
6 8 (5.369%) ITIL
6 8 (5.369%) eTOM
6 8 (5.369%) Validation
6 8 (5.369%) Network Management
7 7 (4.698%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (4.027%) PRINCE2
9 5 (3.356%) Configuration Management
10 4 (2.685%) Use Case
10 4 (2.685%) Network Architecture
11 2 (1.342%) Business Intelligence
12 1 (0.671%) Change Control
12 1 (0.671%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.711%) C
2 9 (6.040%) Perl
3 8 (5.369%) SQL
3 8 (5.369%) Java
4 1 (0.671%) VB
4 1 (0.671%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (5.369%) CCNA
1 8 (5.369%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (5.369%) SC Cleared
1 8 (5.369%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.698%) Degree
2 7 (4.698%) CCNP
3 3 (2.013%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.671%) HNC
4 1 (0.671%) HND
4 1 (0.671%) ISEB
4 1 (0.671%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.671%) PMP
4 1 (0.671%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.74%) SLA
2 1 (0.671%) QA
Vendors
1 66 (44.30%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 56 (37.58%) Ericsson
3 37 (24.83%) Huawei
4 24 (16.11%) NEC
5 15 (10.07%) BT
6 11 (7.383%) Cramer
6 11 (7.383%) Nokia
7 8 (5.369%) Cisco
8 6 (4.027%) Business Objects
8 6 (4.027%) Oracle
8 6 (4.027%) Citrix
8 6 (4.027%) Greenplum
9 5 (3.356%) Niku
10 2 (1.342%) Nortel
11 1 (0.671%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.671%) NetCracker
11 1 (0.671%) IBM
11 1 (0.671%) Alcatel-Lucent