The first table below looks at the demand for 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 Signal Processing over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Signal Processing
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.520% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.747% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £50.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
-32.50% +28.20%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 223 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.32% 52.59% 55.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 110 89
Average daily rate £350 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 20 18
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 £32.50 £33.25 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.85 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Signal Processing
Cambridgeshire

Signal Processing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Signal Processing Jobs Demand Trend

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Signal Processing Daily Rate Trend

Signal Processing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Signal Processing Hourly Rate Trend

Signal Processing
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing 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 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%) Digital 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

Signal Processing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing 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 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%) Digital 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++