The first table below looks at the demand for OFDM 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 OFDM 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OFDM 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.298% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.351% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - £323
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - £35.75
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
74 74 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.02% 17.29% 22.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 20
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 22 12
Average hourly rate £37.00 £41.25 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.30% +17.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.75 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
OFDM
Cambridgeshire

OFDM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge OFDM Jobs Demand Trend

OFDM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge OFDM Hourly Rate Trend

OFDM
Top 13 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) MIMO
1 3 (100.00%) LTE
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded C++
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) 4G
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing

OFDM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) MIMO
1 3 (100.00%) LTE
1 3 (100.00%) 3GPP
2 2 (66.67%) 4G
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DSP Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Signal Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C
2 2 (66.67%) Embedded C++
2 2 (66.67%) C++