East Midlands Wireless Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills within the East Midlands 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chesham City of London Cumbria Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Exeter Fife Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Rotherham Sale Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	89
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	7	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	3.825 %	1.818 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£285
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.38	-
Average hourly rate	£24.38	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.38	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.61	£32.01
% change on same period last year	-16.86 %
Communications & Networking East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	183	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.288 %	0.295 %
Daily rates quoted	32	46
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£326
Average daily rate	£296	£332
% change on same period last year	-10.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.76	£21.13
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£21.49
% change on same period last year	-25.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.24	£21.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
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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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wireless across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Leicestershire	-	4	-	-
Northamptonshire	-	2	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (43.75 %) Windows 2 6 (37.50 %) LAN 3 5 (31.25 %) Cisco 3 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 3 5 (31.25 %) Active Directory 3 5 (31.25 %) Citrix 4 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 5 3 (18.75 %) Migration 5 3 (18.75 %) ProCurve 5 3 (18.75 %) Fat Client 5 3 (18.75 %) VPN 5 3 (18.75 %) Thin Client 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (18.75 %) Citrix Certification 5 3 (18.75 %) HP

5 3 (18.75 %) WAN 5 3 (18.75 %) MCP 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 6 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 6 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (12.50 %) Management Information System 7 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 7 1 (6.250 %) Government 7 1 (6.250 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.250 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Project 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (37.50 %) LAN 2 3 (18.75 %) WAN 2 3 (18.75 %) VPN 3 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (6.250 %) SAN 4 1 (6.250 %) Firewall 4 1 (6.250 %) IP Telephony 4 1 (6.250 %) Cisco PIX 4 1 (6.250 %) Wireless Security 4 1 (6.250 %) Cisco ASA	General 1 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 1 1 (6.250 %) Government
Job Titles 1 4 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) 3rd Line Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Senior Systems Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 2 (12.50 %) Senior Support Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) RF Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Systems Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) 3rd Line Network Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Desktop Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) IT Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 4 1 (6.250 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Desktop Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) Thin Client 1 3 (18.75 %) Fat Client 2 2 (12.50 %) Management Information System 3 1 (6.250 %) EPoS 3 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 7 (43.75 %) Windows 2 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (6.250 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Migration 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (18.75 %) Citrix Certification 2 3 (18.75 %) MCP 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (6.250 %) MCSE 4 1 (6.250 %) CCNP 4 1 (6.250 %) CCNA
System Software 1 5 (31.25 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) CiscoWorks
Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) Cisco 1 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 1 5 (31.25 %) Citrix 2 3 (18.75 %) HP 2 3 (18.75 %) ProCurve 3 1 (6.250 %) 3Com 3 1 (6.250 %) VMware