The first table below looks at the demand for WCDMA 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 WCDMA over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA)
Rank - - 72
Contract jobs citing WCDMA 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - 0.107%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 0.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £255 £260 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.92% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.40% -8.12%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
140 148 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.31% 18.16% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 123
Average daily rate £325 £318 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.36% -9.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £184 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% +92.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.10 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.30 £25.00 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
WCDMA
North West

WCDMA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire WCDMA Jobs Demand Trend

WCDMA
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing WCDMA 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 WCDMA.

1 2 (100.00%) ATM
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 2 (100.00%) 3G
1 2 (100.00%) SS7
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

WCDMA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing WCDMA 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 WCDMA. 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%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) 3G
1 2 (100.00%) SS7
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
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