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

The first table below looks at the demand for HSPA 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 HSPA 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
High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
Rank 505 543 550
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +7
Contract jobs citing HSPA 8 16 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.019% 0.030% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.131% 0.191% 0.285%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
Average daily rate £275 £238 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £225 £603
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -62.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
Average hourly rate £41.25 - £41.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.25 - £28.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.25 - £44.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.25 - £41.25
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%
HSPA
UK

HSPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England HSPA Jobs Demand Trend

HSPA
Daily Rate Trend

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

England HSPA Daily Rate Trend

HSPA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England HSPA Daily Rate Histogram

HSPA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England HSPA Hourly Rate Trend

HSPA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HSPA 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 +10 7 £238 +5.55%
London +36 1 £360 +30.90%
HSPA
UK

HSPA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (86.36%) 3G
2 17 (77.27%) LTE
3 15 (68.18%) Wireless
4 12 (54.55%) UMTS
5 11 (50.00%) GSM
5 11 (50.00%) Handset
6 10 (45.45%) GPRS
6 10 (45.45%) 2G
7 9 (40.91%) C
7 9 (40.91%) Perl
8 8 (36.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (36.36%) Telecoms
8 8 (36.36%) WCDMA
8 8 (36.36%) Anite
9 7 (31.82%) ASN.1
9 7 (31.82%) TTCN
9 7 (31.82%) Agilent
10 6 (27.27%) HSDPA
10 6 (27.27%) HSUPA
11 5 (22.73%) RNC
11 5 (22.73%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (18.18%) NAS
12 4 (18.18%) IP Telephony
12 4 (18.18%) ASIC
12 4 (18.18%) CDMA
13 3 (13.64%) C++
13 3 (13.64%) Wireshark
13 3 (13.64%) Degree
13 3 (13.64%) Nokia NetAct
13 3 (13.64%) Nokia Siemens Networks

HSPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (4.545%) .NET
1 1 (4.545%) WPF
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) 3G
2 17 (77.27%) LTE
3 15 (68.18%) Wireless
4 12 (54.55%) UMTS
5 11 (50.00%) GSM
6 10 (45.45%) GPRS
6 10 (45.45%) 2G
7 8 (36.36%) 3GPP
7 8 (36.36%) WCDMA
8 7 (31.82%) ASN.1
9 6 (27.27%) HSDPA
9 6 (27.27%) HSUPA
10 5 (22.73%) RNC
10 5 (22.73%) Radio Access Network
11 4 (18.18%) NAS
11 4 (18.18%) IP Telephony
11 4 (18.18%) CDMA
12 3 (13.64%) Wireshark
12 3 (13.64%) Nokia NetAct
12 3 (13.64%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (36.36%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.091%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Test Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) RAN Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Network Operator
4 2 (9.091%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Network Support
4 2 (9.091%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Field Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) RF Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Radio Network Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) RF Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) PC Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Network Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Verification Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Handset
2 4 (18.18%) ASIC
3 1 (4.545%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.545%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (4.545%) OO
1 1 (4.545%) Validation
1 1 (4.545%) Network Design
1 1 (4.545%) Network Planning
1 1 (4.545%) Data Analysis
1 1 (4.545%) Multithreading
1 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (4.545%) Network Architecture
1 1 (4.545%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) C
1 9 (40.91%) Perl
2 7 (31.82%) TTCN
3 3 (13.64%) C++
4 2 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.091%) Python
5 1 (4.545%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Anite
2 7 (31.82%) Agilent
3 3 (13.64%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 2 (9.091%) Actix
5 1 (4.545%) Mapinfo
5 1 (4.545%) Huawei
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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