The first table below looks at the demand for 3GPP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3GPP over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridge 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
Rank 27 - 31
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 12 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.571% - 0.826%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.22% - 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £300
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -1.93%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 73 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.02% 17.59% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 19
Average daily rate £285 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.80% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 10
Average hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.94% +18.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
3GPP
Cambridgeshire

3GPP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 3GPP Jobs Demand Trend

3GPP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge 3GPP Daily Rate Trend

3GPP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge 3GPP Hourly Rate Trend

3GPP
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing 3GPP 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 3GPP.

1 20 (100.00%) LTE
2 19 (95.00%) Wireless
3 12 (60.00%) UMTS
4 11 (55.00%) 3G
5 10 (50.00%) C
6 9 (45.00%) 4G
7 8 (40.00%) C++
7 8 (40.00%) Embedded C
8 7 (35.00%) MATLAB
9 6 (30.00%) WiMAX
9 6 (30.00%) Embedded C++
9 6 (30.00%) PhD
10 5 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
10 5 (25.00%) Signal Processing
11 4 (20.00%) GSM
11 4 (20.00%) WCDMA
11 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
12 3 (15.00%) OFDM
12 3 (15.00%) MIMO
13 2 (10.00%) Handset
13 2 (10.00%) Software Architecture
13 2 (10.00%) NAS
14 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing
14 1 (5.000%) 2G

3GPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing 3GPP 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 3GPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) LTE
2 19 (95.00%) Wireless
3 12 (60.00%) UMTS
4 11 (55.00%) 3G
5 9 (45.00%) 4G
6 6 (30.00%) WiMAX
7 4 (20.00%) GSM
7 4 (20.00%) WCDMA
8 3 (15.00%) OFDM
8 3 (15.00%) MIMO
9 2 (10.00%) NAS
10 1 (5.000%) 2G
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) DSP Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Development Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 5 (25.00%) Signal Processing
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Software Architecture
4 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) C
2 8 (40.00%) C++
2 8 (40.00%) Embedded C
3 7 (35.00%) MATLAB
4 6 (30.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) PhD