The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of NEC 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 NEC over the 3 months to 19 June 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 the NEC Corporation.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NEC
Rank 103 125 129
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +4
Contract jobs citing NEC 18 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.769% 0.410% 0.033%
As % of the Vendors category 1.561% 0.853% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £273 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £273 £438 £268
% change year-on-year
-37.71% +63.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £17.00
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1153 1524 1565
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 49.25% 48.08% 51.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 532 552
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £495 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 75 90
Average hourly rate £23.50 £27.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.96% +1.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.75 £10.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
NEC
South East

NEC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire NEC Jobs Demand Trend

NEC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire NEC Daily Rate Trend

NEC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing NEC 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 NEC.

1 22 (95.65%) Telecoms
2 20 (86.96%) ATM
2 20 (86.96%) Ericsson
2 20 (86.96%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 19 (82.61%) 2G
3 19 (82.61%) 3G
4 16 (69.57%) Huawei
5 15 (65.22%) SDH
5 15 (65.22%) Ethernet
6 13 (56.52%) LTE
7 12 (52.17%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (43.48%) Project Management
9 8 (34.78%) BT
10 7 (30.43%) MPLS
11 6 (26.09%) SLA
11 6 (26.09%) Nokia
11 6 (26.09%) C
12 4 (17.39%) Java
12 4 (17.39%) Perl
12 4 (17.39%) SQL
12 4 (17.39%) .NET
12 4 (17.39%) Oracle
12 4 (17.39%) Business Objects
12 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET
12 4 (17.39%) ITIL
12 4 (17.39%) Windows
12 4 (17.39%) Linux
12 4 (17.39%) ETL
12 4 (17.39%) IPv4
12 4 (17.39%) Citrix

NEC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing NEC 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 NEC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (17.39%) .NET
1 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 20 (86.96%) ATM
2 19 (82.61%) 2G
2 19 (82.61%) 3G
3 15 (65.22%) SDH
3 15 (65.22%) Ethernet
4 13 (56.52%) LTE
5 12 (52.17%) Radio Access Network
6 7 (30.43%) MPLS
7 4 (17.39%) IPv4
8 2 (8.696%) RNC
9 1 (4.348%) Nokia NetAct
9 1 (4.348%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
1 4 (17.39%) Big Data
General
1 22 (95.65%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.696%) Front Office
3 1 (4.348%) Finance
3 1 (4.348%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Transmission Engineer
1 11 (47.83%) Design Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.696%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) RAN Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) RAN Performance Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Access Transmission Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.348%) Perl Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Project Management
2 4 (17.39%) ITIL
2 4 (17.39%) ETL
2 4 (17.39%) eTOM
2 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (13.04%) Network Management
3 3 (13.04%) Fault Management
3 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.348%) Network Design
4 1 (4.348%) Supplier Management
4 1 (4.348%) Workflow
4 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) C
2 4 (17.39%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) Perl
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) Ericsson
1 20 (86.96%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 16 (69.57%) Huawei
3 8 (34.78%) BT
4 6 (26.09%) Nokia
5 4 (17.39%) Oracle
5 4 (17.39%) Business Objects
5 4 (17.39%) Citrix
5 4 (17.39%) Greenplum
6 1 (4.348%) Nortel
6 1 (4.348%) Siemens
6 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
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