The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS 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 UMTS 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 103 79 91
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +12
Contract jobs citing UMTS 18 60 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.769% 1.893% 1.359%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.899% 5.561% 5.899%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 4
Average daily rate £300 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £333 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.77% +2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £162.50 £37.00 £26.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+339.18% +40.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
621 1079 695
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 26.53% 34.04% 23.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 221 195
Average daily rate £285 £285 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £172
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 43 68
Average hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.66% +13.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
UMTS
South East

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire UMTS Daily Rate Trend

UMTS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UMTS across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire UMTS Daily Rate Histogram

UMTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire UMTS Hourly Rate Trend

UMTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UMTS within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Slough -4 6 £163 -31.57%
Reading -17 3 £375 +40.18%
Bracknell - - - -
Newbury - - - - 1
UMTS
South East

UMTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 34 (89.47%) Telecoms
2 29 (76.32%) GSM
3 13 (34.21%) 3G
4 12 (31.58%) GPRS
5 11 (28.95%) Radio Access Network
6 10 (26.32%) LTE
7 8 (21.05%) ATM
8 7 (18.42%) SDH
8 7 (18.42%) Android
9 6 (15.79%) Ethernet
9 6 (15.79%) UNIX
9 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
10 5 (13.16%) SS7
10 5 (13.16%) WAP
10 5 (13.16%) Network Architecture
10 5 (13.16%) HP Quality Center
10 5 (13.16%) Integration Testing
10 5 (13.16%) 2G
11 4 (10.53%) Front Office
11 4 (10.53%) Handset
11 4 (10.53%) Apple iOS
11 4 (10.53%) 4G
11 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (10.53%) SLA
11 4 (10.53%) Project Management
11 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
12 3 (7.895%) SSL
12 3 (7.895%) ISEB
12 3 (7.895%) Internet
12 3 (7.895%) Alcatel-Lucent

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (13.16%) WAP
2 3 (7.895%) XML
2 3 (7.895%) WML
3 2 (5.263%) J2EE
3 2 (5.263%) Web Services
4 1 (2.632%) .NET
4 1 (2.632%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.895%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (5.263%) MS Excel
1 2 (5.263%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.632%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.632%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.632%) Minerva
Communications & Networking
1 29 (76.32%) GSM
2 13 (34.21%) 3G
3 12 (31.58%) GPRS
4 11 (28.95%) Radio Access Network
5 10 (26.32%) LTE
6 8 (21.05%) ATM
7 7 (18.42%) SDH
8 6 (15.79%) Ethernet
9 5 (13.16%) SS7
9 5 (13.16%) 2G
10 4 (10.53%) 4G
11 3 (7.895%) SSL
11 3 (7.895%) Internet
11 3 (7.895%) HTTP
11 3 (7.895%) DNS
11 3 (7.895%) CDMA
11 3 (7.895%) SIGTRAN
11 3 (7.895%) BSS
12 2 (5.263%) Wireshark
12 2 (5.263%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.263%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (7.895%) TestDirector
General
1 34 (89.47%) Telecoms
2 4 (10.53%) Front Office
3 3 (7.895%) Finance
4 2 (5.263%) Billing
4 2 (5.263%) Military
4 2 (5.263%) Marketing
5 1 (2.632%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Test Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Architect
2 8 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Network Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Network Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Transmission Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) OSS Architect
5 3 (7.895%) Network Support Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Network Support
6 2 (5.263%) Project Administrator
6 2 (5.263%) Administrator
6 2 (5.263%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.632%) Business Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Junior
7 1 (2.632%) Analyst
7 1 (2.632%) Coordinator
7 1 (2.632%) Field Engineer
7 1 (2.632%) Transmission Planner
7 1 (2.632%) RAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.53%) Handset
3 3 (7.895%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.895%) iPhone
4 2 (5.263%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.263%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Android
2 6 (15.79%) UNIX
3 4 (10.53%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.632%) Windows
4 1 (2.632%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.16%) Network Architecture
1 5 (13.16%) Integration Testing
2 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (10.53%) Project Management
2 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
3 3 (7.895%) PRINCE2
3 3 (7.895%) Business Transformation
3 3 (7.895%) Software Engineering
3 3 (7.895%) Network Design
4 2 (5.263%) Validation
4 2 (5.263%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (5.263%) Resource Management
4 2 (5.263%) Release Management
4 2 (5.263%) Test Management
4 2 (5.263%) Product Marketing
4 2 (5.263%) Time Management
4 2 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (5.263%) Stress Testing
4 2 (5.263%) Test Strategy
4 2 (5.263%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.895%) Java
1 3 (7.895%) Perl
1 3 (7.895%) PHP
2 2 (5.263%) C
2 2 (5.263%) SQL
3 1 (2.632%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (7.895%) ISEB
1 3 (7.895%) Degree
2 2 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.263%) PMP
2 2 (5.263%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.632%) HNC
3 1 (2.632%) HND
3 1 (2.632%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (2.632%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.632%) NDS
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.632%) Netcool
Vendors
1 3 (7.895%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 3 (7.895%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 2 (5.263%) Cramer
2 2 (5.263%) NetCracker
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle
2 2 (5.263%) Cisco
2 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.263%) TIBCO
3 1 (2.632%) Citrix
3 1 (2.632%) Nokia
3 1 (2.632%) BMC
3 1 (2.632%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.632%) Remedy
3 1 (2.632%) Greenplum
3 1 (2.632%) OPNET