The first table below looks at the demand for LTE 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 LTE 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Rank 27 - 28
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LTE 14 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 4.094% - 1.600%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.42% - 7.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £340 £250
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
76 73 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.22% 17.46% 22.00%
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 £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 11
Average hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.94% +14.86%
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 £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
LTE
Cambridgeshire

LTE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge LTE Jobs Demand Trend

LTE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge LTE Daily Rate Trend

LTE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge LTE Hourly Rate Trend

LTE
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing LTE 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 LTE.

1 20 (90.91%) 3GPP
1 20 (90.91%) Wireless
2 12 (54.55%) UMTS
3 11 (50.00%) C
3 11 (50.00%) 3G
4 10 (45.45%) C++
4 10 (45.45%) 4G
5 9 (40.91%) Embedded C
6 8 (36.36%) MATLAB
7 7 (31.82%) Embedded C++
8 6 (27.27%) PhD
8 6 (27.27%) WiMAX
9 5 (22.73%) Digital Signal Processing
9 5 (22.73%) Signal Processing
10 4 (18.18%) OFDM
10 4 (18.18%) MIMO
10 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 4 (18.18%) GSM
10 4 (18.18%) WCDMA
11 2 (9.091%) Handset
11 2 (9.091%) NAS
11 2 (9.091%) Software Architecture
12 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
12 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
12 1 (4.545%) 2G
12 1 (4.545%) Automotive

LTE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) 3GPP
1 20 (90.91%) Wireless
2 12 (54.55%) UMTS
3 11 (50.00%) 3G
4 10 (45.45%) 4G
5 6 (27.27%) WiMAX
6 4 (18.18%) OFDM
6 4 (18.18%) MIMO
6 4 (18.18%) GSM
6 4 (18.18%) WCDMA
7 2 (9.091%) NAS
8 1 (4.545%) 2G
General
1 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.545%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) DSP Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Development Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Digital Signal Processing
1 5 (22.73%) Signal Processing
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 2 (9.091%) Software Architecture
4 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) C
2 10 (45.45%) C++
3 9 (40.91%) Embedded C
4 8 (36.36%) MATLAB
5 7 (31.82%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) PhD