3GPP Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for 3GPP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3GPP 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 England 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
3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
Rank 468 479 511
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +32
Contract jobs citing 3GPP 45 80 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.108% 0.150% 0.107%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.737% 0.954% 0.814%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 7
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £170 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £375 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £280 £270
% change year-on-year
-1.78% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 17
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.25 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.38% -6.87%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
Search 7 3GPP jobs in England
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
3GPP
UK

3GPP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 3GPP Jobs Demand Trend

3GPP
Daily Rate Trend

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

England 3GPP Daily Rate Trend

3GPP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3GPP across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England 3GPP Daily Rate Histogram

3GPP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England 3GPP Hourly Rate Trend

3GPP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3GPP across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England 3GPP Hourly Rate Histogram

3GPP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3GPP within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East -17 23 £275 -
East of England +28 19 £325 +16.07%
London +30 2 £381 +26.87%
3GPP
UK

3GPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing 3GPP 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 3GPP.

1 85 (69.11%) 3G
2 81 (65.85%) Telecoms
3 68 (55.28%) LTE
4 56 (45.53%) Radio Access Network
5 47 (38.21%) GSM
6 42 (34.15%) 2G
7 39 (31.71%) WCDMA
8 37 (30.08%) Ericsson
9 33 (26.83%) Handset
10 31 (25.20%) Wireless
10 31 (25.20%) RNC
10 31 (25.20%) NetHawk
10 31 (25.20%) Wireshark
10 31 (25.20%) Nokia Siemens Networks
11 30 (24.39%) UTRAN
12 24 (19.51%) C
13 23 (18.70%) UMTS
13 23 (18.70%) Resource Management
14 22 (17.89%) Network Design
14 22 (17.89%) Project Management
15 21 (17.07%) ISEB
16 20 (16.26%) ATM
16 20 (16.26%) C++
16 20 (16.26%) RANAP
17 19 (15.45%) Migration
18 16 (13.01%) 4G
19 15 (12.20%) Embedded C
20 14 (11.38%) Degree
21 11 (8.943%) Embedded C++
22 10 (8.130%) GPRS

3GPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing 3GPP 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 3GPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (3.252%) .NET
1 4 (3.252%) SOAP
1 4 (3.252%) XML
1 4 (3.252%) CORBA
2 3 (2.439%) Silverlight
3 1 (0.813%) REST
3 1 (0.813%) WCF
3 1 (0.813%) XSLT
3 1 (0.813%) Web Services
3 1 (0.813%) WAP
3 1 (0.813%) WSDL
3 1 (0.813%) XML Schema
3 1 (0.813%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.813%) ESB
1 1 (0.813%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.626%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 85 (69.11%) 3G
2 68 (55.28%) LTE
3 56 (45.53%) Radio Access Network
4 47 (38.21%) GSM
5 42 (34.15%) 2G
6 39 (31.71%) WCDMA
7 31 (25.20%) Wireless
7 31 (25.20%) RNC
7 31 (25.20%) Wireshark
8 30 (24.39%) UTRAN
9 23 (18.70%) UMTS
10 20 (16.26%) ATM
10 20 (16.26%) RANAP
11 16 (13.01%) 4G
12 10 (8.130%) GPRS
13 8 (6.504%) HSPA
14 6 (4.878%) CDMA
14 6 (4.878%) WiMAX
14 6 (4.878%) NAS
15 4 (3.252%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.439%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (3.252%) Rational Rose
1 4 (3.252%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (2.439%) Selenium
General
1 81 (65.85%) Telecoms
2 2 (1.626%) Electronics
2 2 (1.626%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 48 (39.02%) RAN Engineer
2 41 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 28 (22.76%) Design Engineer
4 15 (12.20%) DSP Engineer
5 11 (8.943%) 3G Engineer
6 7 (5.691%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.691%) Developer
7 6 (4.878%) Development Engineer
8 5 (4.065%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (3.252%) Consultant
10 3 (2.439%) Silverlight Developer
10 3 (2.439%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.439%) Radio Engineer
10 3 (2.439%) Technical Specialist
10 3 (2.439%) Architect
10 3 (2.439%) Tester
11 2 (1.626%) Network Engineer
11 2 (1.626%) Support Engineer
11 2 (1.626%) Systems Architect
11 2 (1.626%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 33 (26.83%) Handset
2 6 (4.878%) Mathematics
2 6 (4.878%) Physics
3 5 (4.065%) Smartcard
4 4 (3.252%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.439%) Device Driver
5 3 (2.439%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.626%) ASIC
6 2 (1.626%) EMV
6 2 (1.626%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.626%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.813%) Java Card
7 1 (0.813%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.626%) Windows
2 1 (0.813%) Android
2 1 (0.813%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.70%) Resource Management
2 22 (17.89%) Network Design
2 22 (17.89%) Project Management
3 19 (15.45%) Migration
4 10 (8.130%) Software Engineering
5 9 (7.317%) Validation
6 7 (5.691%) Digital Signal Processing
6 7 (5.691%) Signal Processing
7 4 (3.252%) UML
7 4 (3.252%) Data Modelling
7 4 (3.252%) SOA
7 4 (3.252%) Scrum
7 4 (3.252%) Use Case
7 4 (3.252%) Multithreading
7 4 (3.252%) Performance Management
8 3 (2.439%) Test Automation
8 3 (2.439%) Product Management
8 3 (2.439%) Network Architecture
8 3 (2.439%) MVVM
8 3 (2.439%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (19.51%) C
2 20 (16.26%) C++
3 15 (12.20%) Embedded C
4 11 (8.943%) Embedded C++
5 9 (7.317%) MATLAB
6 5 (4.065%) Perl
7 4 (3.252%) Java
7 4 (3.252%) C#
8 3 (2.439%) TTCN
9 2 (1.626%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.626%) Python
10 1 (0.813%) R
10 1 (0.813%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (17.07%) ISEB
2 14 (11.38%) Degree
3 6 (4.878%) PhD
Vendors
1 37 (30.08%) Ericsson
2 31 (25.20%) NetHawk
2 31 (25.20%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 10 (8.130%) Huawei
4 4 (3.252%) Oracle
4 4 (3.252%) Telelogic
4 4 (3.252%) Agilent
5 2 (1.626%) Cisco
5 2 (1.626%) Anite
6 1 (0.813%) WSO2
6 1 (0.813%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.813%) Renesas
6 1 (0.813%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.813%) Juniper
6 1 (0.813%) Nokia
Network Operator Test Support Engineer
Farnborough, South East
My client are a world leader in 3G and mobile technologies currently recruiting for a Test Support Engineer who possess the following mandatory technical skills (in priority order):...
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
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