The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless 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 Wireless over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 22 27 22
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing Wireless 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 2.564% 1.220% 0.870%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 16.67% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £323 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.78% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -9.09%
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 7.692% 7.317% 6.957%
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 £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
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 £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Wireless
West Yorkshire

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bradford Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Lotus
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
3 3 (50.00%) Lotus Domino
3 3 (50.00%) MCSE
3 3 (50.00%) MCSA
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) VoIP
3 3 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) CCNA
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (50.00%) Replication
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (50.00%) SAN
3 3 (50.00%) LANDesk
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (33.33%) Linux

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (50.00%) Lotus Domino
2 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) VoIP
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Broadband
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) MCSE
1 3 (50.00%) MCSA
1 3 (50.00%) CCNA
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Lotus
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (50.00%) LANDesk
4 1 (16.67%) Juniper
4 1 (16.67%) Adobe