The first table below looks at the demand for 4G skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 4G over the 3 months to 17 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 Bradford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
4G
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing 4G 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £450 £418
% change year-on-year
-28.33% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+46.15% -18.75%
All Communications & Networking
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
12 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 7.595% 7.547% 6.504%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
Average daily rate £250 £165 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+51.51% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
Average hourly rate £18.71 £32.50 £7.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.43% +356.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £32.50 £6.83
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £7.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
4G
West Yorkshire

4G
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing 4G 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 4G.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics

4G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing 4G 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 4G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C