SDH Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SDH 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 SDH 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
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 85 62 101
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +39
Contract jobs citing SDH 36 79 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.499% 2.507% 1.124%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.760% 7.281% 4.885%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 4
Average daily rate £225 £308 £712
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.82% -56.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
-16.17% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
- +61.76%
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%
SDH
South East

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire SDH Daily Rate Trend

SDH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire SDH Hourly Rate Trend

SDH
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDH 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 -6 21 £225 -26.82%
Slough - 1 - -
SDH
South East

SDH
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 83 (95.40%) Telecoms
2 79 (90.80%) ATM
3 76 (87.36%) Ethernet
4 39 (44.83%) 3G
5 37 (42.53%) Ericsson
5 37 (42.53%) 2G
6 36 (41.38%) MPLS
6 36 (41.38%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 30 (34.48%) Project Management
8 26 (29.89%) LTE
9 25 (28.74%) Huawei
10 19 (21.84%) NEC
11 15 (17.24%) BT
11 15 (17.24%) Radio Access Network
12 14 (16.09%) Front Office
13 13 (14.94%) DWDM
14 10 (11.49%) Nokia
15 9 (10.34%) SLA
15 9 (10.34%) Cisco
16 8 (9.195%) Migration
17 7 (8.046%) SC Cleared
17 7 (8.046%) Security Cleared
17 7 (8.046%) Frame Relay
17 7 (8.046%) ADSL
17 7 (8.046%) EIGRP
17 7 (8.046%) Internet
17 7 (8.046%) CCNA
17 7 (8.046%) OSPF
17 7 (8.046%) BGP
17 7 (8.046%) Cisco Certification

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 2 (2.299%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 79 (90.80%) ATM
2 76 (87.36%) Ethernet
3 39 (44.83%) 3G
4 37 (42.53%) 2G
5 36 (41.38%) MPLS
6 26 (29.89%) LTE
7 15 (17.24%) Radio Access Network
8 13 (14.94%) DWDM
9 7 (8.046%) Frame Relay
9 7 (8.046%) ADSL
9 7 (8.046%) EIGRP
9 7 (8.046%) Internet
9 7 (8.046%) OSPF
9 7 (8.046%) BGP
9 7 (8.046%) RIP
9 7 (8.046%) TCP/IP
9 7 (8.046%) VPN
9 7 (8.046%) GSM
9 7 (8.046%) LAN
9 7 (8.046%) UMTS
General
1 83 (95.40%) Telecoms
2 14 (16.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (64.37%) Transmission Engineer
2 42 (48.28%) Design Engineer
3 8 (9.195%) Network Engineer
4 6 (6.897%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.747%) Test Engineer
5 5 (5.747%) Test Leader
6 4 (4.598%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (4.598%) Architect
7 2 (2.299%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.299%) Network Architect
8 1 (1.149%) Field Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) IP Network Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) Network Design Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) 3G Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) Transmission Planning Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) Access Transmission Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) IP Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) RAN Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) Data Network Engineer
8 1 (1.149%) Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.48%) Project Management
2 8 (9.195%) Migration
3 3 (3.448%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (2.299%) Use Case
4 2 (2.299%) Network Architecture
4 2 (2.299%) PRINCE2
5 1 (1.149%) B2B
5 1 (1.149%) Network Design
5 1 (1.149%) Network Planning
5 1 (1.149%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.299%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (8.046%) SC Cleared
1 7 (8.046%) Security Cleared
1 7 (8.046%) CCNA
1 7 (8.046%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (6.897%) CCNP
3 3 (3.448%) BC Cleared
4 2 (2.299%) PMP
4 2 (2.299%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) SLA
Vendors
1 37 (42.53%) Ericsson
2 36 (41.38%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 25 (28.74%) Huawei
4 19 (21.84%) NEC
5 15 (17.24%) BT
6 10 (11.49%) Nokia
7 9 (10.34%) Cisco
8 1 (1.149%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (1.149%) Nortel
8 1 (1.149%) Cramer
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