East of England 3G Contracts

This section looks at the demand for 3G skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited 3G over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Avon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Clapham Coventry Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Lancashire Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	75
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	62	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.090 %
As % of the category below	8.708 %	10.99 %
Daily rates quoted	17	10
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£313
Average daily rate	£348	£326
% change on same period last year	+6.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£338
% change on same period last year	-5.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.10	£26.59
Average hourly rate	£34.64	£29.48
% change on same period last year	+17.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.18	£32.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.15	£30.14
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Communications & Networking East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	712	819
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.940 %	0.816 %
Daily rates quoted	231	209
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£322
Average daily rate	£313	£343
% change on same period last year	-8.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	100	158
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.52	£25.60
Average hourly rate	£26.87	£27.53
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.21	£29.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
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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 3G across the East of England 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 3G across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3G across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3G across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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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 3G within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Hertfordshire	+42	40	£351	-10.73 %
Cambridgeshire	-22	21	£329	+17.55 %
Essex	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing 3G 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 3G.

1 60 (63.83 %) Telecoms 2 43 (45.74 %) GSM 3 39 (41.49 %) 2G 4 31 (32.98 %) RNC 5 23 (24.47 %) GPRS 6 22 (23.40 %) C 6 22 (23.40 %) C++ 7 20 (21.28 %) UNIX 8 18 (19.15 %) OO 8 18 (19.15 %) UMTS 8 18 (19.15 %) Nokia 9 17 (18.09 %) Linux 10 16 (17.02 %) OOD 10 16 (17.02 %) Software Engineering 11 14 (14.89 %) SS7

11 14 (14.89 %) Wireless 12 13 (13.83 %) SDH 13 11 (11.70 %) Nortel 13 11 (11.70 %) PRINCE2 13 11 (11.70 %) Project Management 14 10 (10.64 %) German Language 14 10 (10.64 %) UML 14 10 (10.64 %) WCDMA 15 9 (9.574 %) Ethernet 15 9 (9.574 %) CDMA2000 15 9 (9.574 %) VHDL 15 9 (9.574 %) TETRA 15 9 (9.574 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 15 9 (9.574 %) WiMAX 15 9 (9.574 %) Gigabit Ethernet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing 3G 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 3G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.064 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.191 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (3.191 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 3 (3.191 %) MATLAB	Communications & Networking 1 43 (45.74 %) GSM 2 39 (41.49 %) 2G 3 31 (32.98 %) RNC 4 23 (24.47 %) GPRS 5 18 (19.15 %) UMTS 6 14 (14.89 %) SS7 6 14 (14.89 %) Wireless 7 13 (13.83 %) SDH 8 10 (10.64 %) WCDMA 9 9 (9.574 %) Ethernet 9 9 (9.574 %) CDMA2000 9 9 (9.574 %) TETRA 9 9 (9.574 %) WiMAX 9 9 (9.574 %) Gigabit Ethernet 10 8 (8.511 %) 2.5G 11 5 (5.319 %) TCP/IP 11 5 (5.319 %) UTRAN 12 4 (4.255 %) ATM 13 3 (3.191 %) LAN 13 3 (3.191 %) Packet Switching
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.191 %) MS Access	Development Applications 1 1 (1.064 %) PVCS
General 1 60 (63.83 %) Telecoms 2 3 (3.191 %) Education 3 1 (1.064 %) Electronics 3 1 (1.064 %) Auditing 3 1 (1.064 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.064 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 18 (19.15 %) Software Engineer 2 14 (14.89 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 2 14 (14.89 %) Project Manager 3 9 (9.574 %) FPGA Engineer 4 8 (8.511 %) Test Engineer 5 7 (7.447 %) Design Engineer 6 5 (5.319 %) Telecoms Project Manager 7 4 (4.255 %) FPGA Design Engineer 7 4 (4.255 %) 3G Engineer 7 4 (4.255 %) Support Engineer 8 3 (3.191 %) Administrator 8 3 (3.191 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 3 (3.191 %) Performance Engineer 8 3 (3.191 %) LAN Administrator 8 3 (3.191 %) GSM Engineer 9 2 (2.128 %) C++ Developer 9 2 (2.128 %) C++ Software Engineer 9 2 (2.128 %) RNC Engineer 9 2 (2.128 %) Switch Engineer 9 2 (2.128 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.64 %) German Language 2 9 (9.574 %) VHDL 2 9 (9.574 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 3 4 (4.255 %) Handset 4 3 (3.191 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 20 (21.28 %) UNIX 2 17 (18.09 %) Linux 3 3 (3.191 %) Windows 3 3 (3.191 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (3.191 %) Windows XP 3 3 (3.191 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (19.15 %) OO 2 16 (17.02 %) OOD 2 16 (17.02 %) Software Engineering 3 11 (11.70 %) PRINCE2 3 11 (11.70 %) Project Management 4 10 (10.64 %) UML 5 5 (5.319 %) Validation 5 5 (5.319 %) Matrix Management 6 4 (4.255 %) Incident Management 6 4 (4.255 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (3.191 %) ITIL 7 3 (3.191 %) Service Management 7 3 (3.191 %) Regression Testing 7 3 (3.191 %) Network Design 7 3 (3.191 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (2.128 %) Integration Testing 8 2 (2.128 %) Fault Management 9 1 (1.064 %) Automated Testing 9 1 (1.064 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 22 (23.40 %) C 1 22 (23.40 %) C++ 2 6 (6.383 %) Perl 3 2 (2.128 %) Java 4 1 (1.064 %) Embedded C 4 1 (1.064 %) Embedded C++
Qualifications 1 1 (1.064 %) HND 1 1 (1.064 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 1 (1.064 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (6.383 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (3.191 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (3.191 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 3 (3.191 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 18 (19.15 %) Nokia 2 11 (11.70 %) Nortel 3 8 (8.511 %) Ericsson 4 5 (5.319 %) Cisco 5 4 (4.255 %) Mapinfo 6 3 (3.191 %) Microsoft 6 3 (3.191 %) HP 6 3 (3.191 %) Compaq 6 3 (3.191 %) Dell 7 1 (1.064 %) MKS 7 1 (1.064 %) CA 7 1 (1.064 %) Cramer