Cheshire Wireless Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Avon Barking Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cleethorpes Coventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Greenwich Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huddersfield Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Paisley Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stourbridge Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	42
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	1	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.437 %	14.29 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£219
Average daily rate	-	£221
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£223
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£295
% change on same period last year	+3.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£16.00
% change on same period last year	-37.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.47	£29.57
% change on same period last year	-13.88 %
Communications & Networking Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	229	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.305 %	0.135 %
Daily rates quoted	64	38
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£277
Average daily rate	£350	£283
% change on same period last year	+23.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.93	£20.36
Average hourly rate	£21.94	£21.80
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.95	£23.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Wireless across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	-	1	-	-

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (66.67 %) LAN 1 2 (66.67 %) WLAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) ADSL 2 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 2 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Remedy

2 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) LAN 1 2 (66.67 %) WLAN 2 1 (33.33 %) VPN 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (33.33 %) ADSL 2 1 (33.33 %) Broadband
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Support
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Incident Management
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco Certification	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Remedy