The first table below looks at the demand for SS7 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SS7 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 Communications & Networking category for the Cheshire 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
Signaling System No. 7 (SS7)
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SS7 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.276% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.600% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £403 £375 £310
% change year-on-year
+7.33% +20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
125 161 196
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.27% 20.15% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 83 125
Average daily rate £325 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £188 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £488 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SS7
North West

SS7
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SS7 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Cheshire SS7 Jobs Demand Trend

SS7
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SS7 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington - 2 - -
SS7
North West

SS7
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SS7 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 SS7.

1 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) WCDMA
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 2 (100.00%) 3G
1 2 (100.00%) 2G
1 2 (100.00%) RNC
1 2 (100.00%) RANAP
1 2 (100.00%) NBAP
1 2 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (50.00%) LTE
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) XML

SS7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing SS7 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 SS7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) WCDMA
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) 3G
1 2 (100.00%) 2G
1 2 (100.00%) RNC
1 2 (100.00%) RANAP
1 2 (100.00%) NBAP
1 2 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (50.00%) LTE
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Engineer
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ericsson