The first table below looks at the demand for Ethernet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ethernet 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 Coventry 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
Ethernet
Rank 31 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -
Contract jobs citing Ethernet 1 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 0.498% 2.317% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.167% 16.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+13.28% -1.53%
All Communications & Networking
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
24 37 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 11.94% 14.29% 8.889%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 6
Average daily rate £108 £325 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-66.92% +22.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £168 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £390 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.21% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Ethernet
West Midlands

Ethernet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry Ethernet Jobs Demand Trend

Ethernet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Coventry Ethernet Daily Rate Trend

Ethernet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Coventry Ethernet Hourly Rate Trend

Ethernet
Top 26 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (44.44%) ATM
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 3 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (33.33%) Xilinx
2 3 (33.33%) SDH
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) Nortel
2 3 (33.33%) Ericsson
2 3 (33.33%) ASIC
2 3 (33.33%) VHDL
2 3 (33.33%) Verilog
3 1 (11.11%) GStreamer
3 1 (11.11%) Twitter
3 1 (11.11%) 2G
3 1 (11.11%) Cramer
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Qt
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Logistics
3 1 (11.11%) 3G
3 1 (11.11%) SLA
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Linux

Ethernet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) GStreamer
1 1 (11.11%) Qt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) ATM
2 3 (33.33%) SDH
2 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) 2G
3 1 (11.11%) 3G
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Transmission Planner
1 3 (33.33%) ASIC Design Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) FPGA Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Design Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 3 (33.33%) ASIC
1 3 (33.33%) VHDL
1 3 (33.33%) Verilog
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (11.11%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C
1 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Xilinx
1 3 (33.33%) Nortel
1 3 (33.33%) Ericsson
2 1 (11.11%) Twitter
2 1 (11.11%) Cramer