The first table below looks at the demand for CDMA 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 CDMA 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
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
Rank - 127 127
Contract jobs citing CDMA 0 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - 0.281% 0.103%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.811% 0.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £365 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £370 -
% change year-on-year
-20.94% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £44.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-9.60% +4.11%
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%
CDMA
South East

CDMA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire CDMA Jobs Demand Trend

CDMA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire CDMA Daily Rate Trend

CDMA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire CDMA Hourly Rate Trend

CDMA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) GPRS
1 4 (100.00%) UMTS
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) BSS
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) GSM
2 3 (75.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) B2B
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (50.00%) Stress Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Network Management
4 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) NetCracker
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) OPNET
4 1 (25.00%) Cramer
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) PMP

CDMA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) J2EE
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) GPRS
1 4 (100.00%) UMTS
2 3 (75.00%) BSS
2 3 (75.00%) GSM
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 4 (100.00%) OSS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Business Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 2 (50.00%) B2B
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) NetCracker
2 1 (25.00%) OPNET
2 1 (25.00%) Cramer
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Greenplum