The first table below looks at the demand for Digital Signal Processing 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 Digital Signal Processing 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Digital Signal Processing
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Digital Signal Processing 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.488% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.674% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
187 220 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.65% 53.01% 56.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 108 84
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £273 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 17
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £37.25 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.85 £44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Digital Signal Processing
Cambridgeshire

Digital Signal Processing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Digital Signal Processing across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridge Digital Signal Processing Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Signal Processing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Digital Signal Processing Hourly Rate Trend

Digital Signal Processing
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Digital Signal Processing 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 Digital Signal Processing.

1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 5 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
1 5 (100.00%) LTE
1 5 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Embedded C++
2 4 (80.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) OFDM
3 1 (20.00%) MIMO

Digital Signal Processing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 5 (100.00%) Wireless
1 5 (100.00%) LTE
2 1 (20.00%) OFDM
2 1 (20.00%) MIMO
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DSP Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Signal Processing
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 5 (100.00%) MATLAB
2 4 (80.00%) Embedded C++
2 4 (80.00%) C++