The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless 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 Wireless 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
Wireless
Rank 17 47 24
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -23
Contract jobs citing Wireless 24 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 7.018% 0.478% 3.200%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.58% 2.740% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
Average daily rate £275 £305 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.83% +1.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
Average hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% +21.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.80 £47.50 £37.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £47.50 £39.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
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%
Wireless
Cambridgeshire

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wireless across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge Wireless Daily Rate Histogram

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wireless across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge Wireless Hourly Rate Histogram

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (52.38%) C
2 20 (47.62%) LTE
3 19 (45.24%) 3GPP
4 14 (33.33%) UMTS
4 14 (33.33%) Embedded C
5 12 (28.57%) C++
6 11 (26.19%) MATLAB
7 10 (23.81%) 3G
8 9 (21.43%) 4G
9 8 (19.05%) Windows
10 7 (16.67%) ITIL
10 7 (16.67%) Embedded C++
10 7 (16.67%) Cisco
10 7 (16.67%) Firewall
11 6 (14.29%) PhD
11 6 (14.29%) GSM
11 6 (14.29%) WiMAX
12 5 (11.90%) Digital Signal Processing
12 5 (11.90%) Signal Processing
12 5 (11.90%) High Availability
12 5 (11.90%) VPN
12 5 (11.90%) WAN
13 4 (9.524%) WCDMA
13 4 (9.524%) VoIP
13 4 (9.524%) DHCP
13 4 (9.524%) DNS
13 4 (9.524%) LAN
13 4 (9.524%) TCP/IP
13 4 (9.524%) BT
13 4 (9.524%) Telecoms

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (2.381%) OpenGL
1 1 (2.381%) Cocoa
1 1 (2.381%) iOS SDK
1 1 (2.381%) Direct3D
1 1 (2.381%) OpenGL ES
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.762%) MS Exchange
1 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (4.762%) Lync
1 2 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (47.62%) LTE
2 19 (45.24%) 3GPP
3 14 (33.33%) UMTS
4 10 (23.81%) 3G
5 9 (21.43%) 4G
6 7 (16.67%) Firewall
7 6 (14.29%) WiMAX
7 6 (14.29%) GSM
8 5 (11.90%) WAN
8 5 (11.90%) VPN
9 4 (9.524%) DNS
9 4 (9.524%) DMZ
9 4 (9.524%) TCP/IP
9 4 (9.524%) WCDMA
9 4 (9.524%) DHCP
9 4 (9.524%) LAN
9 4 (9.524%) VoIP
9 4 (9.524%) VLAN
9 4 (9.524%) OFDM
9 4 (9.524%) MIMO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.143%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.381%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (2.381%) Xcode
General
1 4 (9.524%) Telecoms
2 3 (7.143%) Games
3 2 (4.762%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.381%) Marketing
4 1 (2.381%) Automotive
4 1 (2.381%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (38.10%) DSP Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Embedded C Developer
3 6 (14.29%) C Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Development Engineer
4 3 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (2.381%) Verification Engineer
6 1 (2.381%) Designer
6 1 (2.381%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.381%) iOS Developer
6 1 (2.381%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.381%) Administrator
6 1 (2.381%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.381%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.381%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.143%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (7.143%) Augmented Reality
2 2 (4.762%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.762%) ASIC
2 2 (4.762%) Handset
2 2 (4.762%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (4.762%) VHDL
3 1 (2.381%) Verilog
3 1 (2.381%) ASIC Verification
3 1 (2.381%) Device Driver
3 1 (2.381%) CPLD
3 1 (2.381%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (7.143%) Linux
2 3 (7.143%) Windows 7
3 2 (4.762%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (4.762%) Android
3 2 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (2.381%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.381%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.381%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Phone
4 1 (2.381%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (16.67%) ITIL
2 5 (11.90%) Digital Signal Processing
2 5 (11.90%) Signal Processing
2 5 (11.90%) High Availability
3 4 (9.524%) Software Engineering
4 3 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (7.143%) Game Development
5 2 (4.762%) Software Architecture
5 2 (4.762%) Test Automation
5 2 (4.762%) Migration
6 1 (2.381%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (2.381%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.381%) Benchmarking
6 1 (2.381%) Project Management
6 1 (2.381%) Regression Testing
6 1 (2.381%) Computer Architecture
6 1 (2.381%) WAN Optimisation
6 1 (2.381%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (52.38%) C
2 14 (33.33%) Embedded C
3 12 (28.57%) C++
4 11 (26.19%) MATLAB
5 7 (16.67%) Embedded C++
6 2 (4.762%) Objective-C
6 2 (4.762%) Java
6 2 (4.762%) Python
7 1 (2.381%) Perl
7 1 (2.381%) SQL
7 1 (2.381%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.381%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) PhD
2 4 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.762%) Degree
4 1 (2.381%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) GAMP
1 1 (2.381%) GxP
1 1 (2.381%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (7.143%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.762%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (2.381%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Cisco
2 4 (9.524%) BT
3 3 (7.143%) Riverbed
3 3 (7.143%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.762%) HP
4 2 (4.762%) Motorola
4 2 (4.762%) Exinda
4 2 (4.762%) Altiris
5 1 (2.381%) Polycom
5 1 (2.381%) Remedy
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