The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Ericsson products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ericsson over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Ericsson.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ericsson
Rank 58 35 100
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +65
Contract jobs citing Ericsson 65 129 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.714% 4.102% 0.974%
As % of the Vendors category 5.337% 8.222% 1.867%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 0
Average daily rate £273 £260 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.80% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £275 £255
% change year-on-year
+5.45% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £18.50
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1218 1569 1553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 50.86% 49.89% 52.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 537 551
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 81 90
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.85 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Ericsson
South East

Ericsson
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Ericsson Jobs Demand Trend

Ericsson
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Ericsson Daily Rate Trend

Ericsson
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Ericsson across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Ericsson Daily Rate Histogram

Ericsson
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Ericsson Hourly Rate Trend

Ericsson
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ericsson within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Newbury +10 19 £430 +81.05%
Reading -35 18 £273 +4.80%
Slough -9 4 £200 -28.75%
Ericsson
South East

Ericsson
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Ericsson 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 Ericsson.

1 174 (80.93%) Telecoms
2 122 (56.74%) 3G
3 110 (51.16%) 2G
4 105 (48.84%) Radio Access Network
5 80 (37.21%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 69 (32.09%) LTE
7 56 (26.05%) ATM
8 49 (22.79%) Migration
9 47 (21.86%) Project Management
10 46 (21.40%) Huawei
11 43 (20.00%) Ethernet
12 41 (19.07%) RNC
13 37 (17.21%) SDH
14 36 (16.74%) 3GPP
15 32 (14.88%) MPLS
16 29 (13.49%) GSM
17 28 (13.02%) WCDMA
18 25 (11.63%) Perl
18 25 (11.63%) Oracle
19 24 (11.16%) NEC
20 23 (10.70%) NetHawk
21 21 (9.767%) Wireshark
21 21 (9.767%) SQL
21 21 (9.767%) UNIX
22 19 (8.837%) Validation
22 19 (8.837%) 4G
23 18 (8.372%) .NET
24 15 (6.977%) Nortel
24 15 (6.977%) ISEB
25 14 (6.512%) C++

Ericsson
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Ericsson 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 Ericsson. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (8.372%) .NET
2 6 (2.791%) XML
3 4 (1.860%) XHTML
3 4 (1.860%) HTML
3 4 (1.860%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (1.860%) WebLogic Portal
1 4 (1.860%) Apache
1 4 (1.860%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.930%) Maya
2 1 (0.465%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 122 (56.74%) 3G
2 110 (51.16%) 2G
3 105 (48.84%) Radio Access Network
4 69 (32.09%) LTE
5 56 (26.05%) ATM
6 43 (20.00%) Ethernet
7 41 (19.07%) RNC
8 37 (17.21%) SDH
9 36 (16.74%) 3GPP
10 32 (14.88%) MPLS
11 29 (13.49%) GSM
12 28 (13.02%) WCDMA
13 21 (9.767%) Wireshark
14 19 (8.837%) 4G
15 13 (6.047%) RANAP
16 12 (5.581%) TELNET
17 11 (5.116%) UTRAN
18 5 (2.326%) MGW
18 5 (2.326%) DWDM
18 5 (2.326%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.256%) MySQL
1 7 (3.256%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (1.860%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.860%) Big Data
3 3 (1.395%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (1.395%) Subversion
General
1 174 (80.93%) Telecoms
2 3 (1.395%) Back Office
2 3 (1.395%) Finance
3 1 (0.465%) Billing
Job Titles
1 46 (21.40%) Design Engineer
2 38 (17.67%) Test Engineer
3 35 (16.28%) Transmission Engineer
4 34 (15.81%) Integration Engineer
5 29 (13.49%) RAN Engineer
6 28 (13.02%) OSS Engineer
7 21 (9.767%) Architect
8 19 (8.837%) Solutions Architect
9 14 (6.512%) Developer
10 13 (6.047%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.581%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.721%) 3G Engineer
13 7 (3.256%) Implementation Manager
14 6 (2.791%) Access Transmission Engineer
14 6 (2.791%) Test Leader
15 4 (1.860%) Network Engineer
16 3 (1.395%) Designer
16 3 (1.395%) OSS Systems Engineer
16 3 (1.395%) Systems Engineer
16 3 (1.395%) Senior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.256%) Handset
2 6 (2.791%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.860%) Open Source
4 2 (0.930%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.767%) UNIX
2 8 (3.721%) Windows
3 7 (3.256%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (22.79%) Migration
2 47 (21.86%) Project Management
3 19 (8.837%) Validation
4 14 (6.512%) Web Development
5 12 (5.581%) Resource Management
6 10 (4.651%) Capacity Planning
6 10 (4.651%) Fault Management
7 9 (4.186%) Performance Management
7 9 (4.186%) ITIL
7 9 (4.186%) Incident Management
7 9 (4.186%) Network Design
8 8 (3.721%) Network Management
9 7 (3.256%) eTOM
10 6 (2.791%) Service Delivery
10 6 (2.791%) PRINCE2
10 6 (2.791%) Configuration Management
10 6 (2.791%) Change Control
11 5 (2.326%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (2.326%) Problem Management
12 4 (1.860%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.63%) Perl
2 21 (9.767%) SQL
3 14 (6.512%) C++
4 12 (5.581%) C#
4 12 (5.581%) PL/SQL
5 10 (4.651%) Java
6 6 (2.791%) PHP
6 6 (2.791%) C
7 4 (1.860%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.465%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (6.977%) ISEB
2 14 (6.512%) Degree
3 6 (2.791%) PMP
3 6 (2.791%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.930%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.256%) SLA
2 2 (0.930%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (1.860%) Netcool
Vendors
1 80 (37.21%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 46 (21.40%) Huawei
3 25 (11.63%) Oracle
4 24 (11.16%) NEC
5 23 (10.70%) NetHawk
6 15 (6.977%) Nortel
7 14 (6.512%) BT
8 11 (5.116%) Nokia
9 8 (3.721%) Citrix
10 7 (3.256%) Greenplum
11 4 (1.860%) Business Objects
12 3 (1.395%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.465%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 1 (0.465%) Cisco