The first table below looks at the demand for Nokia NetAct 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 Nokia NetAct over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nokia NetAct
Rank 521 505 527
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +22
Contract jobs citing Nokia NetAct 11 40 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.025% 0.076% 0.093%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.176% 0.484% 0.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £300 £280 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £290
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6247 8269 7531
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.44% 15.61% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3225 3820 3506
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £499 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 564 756
Average hourly rate £24.00 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
Nokia NetAct
UK

Nokia NetAct
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Nokia NetAct Jobs Demand Trend

Nokia NetAct
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Nokia NetAct Daily Rate Trend

Nokia NetAct
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Nokia NetAct across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Nokia NetAct Daily Rate Histogram

Nokia NetAct
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Nokia NetAct 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 Nokia NetAct.

1 18 (75.00%) Nokia
1 18 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 14 (58.33%) Netcool
3 12 (50.00%) HP
3 12 (50.00%) EMC
3 12 (50.00%) BMC
3 12 (50.00%) Remedy
3 12 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (45.83%) Fault Management
4 11 (45.83%) Degree
4 11 (45.83%) Performance Management
5 9 (37.50%) Ionix
5 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (37.50%) LTE
5 9 (37.50%) TOGAF
5 9 (37.50%) ITSM
5 9 (37.50%) Service Management
5 9 (37.50%) Project Management
6 7 (29.17%) 3G
7 6 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (20.83%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 5 (20.83%) SLA
8 5 (20.83%) 2G
9 3 (12.50%) GSM
9 3 (12.50%) OpenView
9 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (8.333%) 4G
10 2 (8.333%) UMTS
10 2 (8.333%) GPRS
10 2 (8.333%) SQL

Nokia NetAct
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Nokia NetAct 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 Nokia NetAct. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) XML
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (4.167%) Metrica
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) LTE
2 7 (29.17%) 3G
3 6 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (20.83%) 2G
5 3 (12.50%) GSM
6 2 (8.333%) 4G
6 2 (8.333%) UMTS
6 2 (8.333%) GPRS
6 2 (8.333%) Wireless
6 2 (8.333%) RNC
7 1 (4.167%) GGSN
7 1 (4.167%) SGSN
7 1 (4.167%) BSS
7 1 (4.167%) WCDMA
7 1 (4.167%) HSPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.167%) MySQL
1 1 (4.167%) MS Access
General
1 18 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Front Office
2 1 (4.167%) Back Office
2 1 (4.167%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Architect
2 8 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 8 (33.33%) OSS Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Systems Architect
4 2 (8.333%) Consultant
4 2 (8.333%) RAN Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Network Planner
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Performance Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Service Performance Manager
5 1 (4.167%) OSS Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Design Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (4.167%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Designer
5 1 (4.167%) Databuild Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Fault Management
1 11 (45.83%) Performance Management
2 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (37.50%) TOGAF
2 9 (37.50%) ITSM
2 9 (37.50%) Service Management
2 9 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.167%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.167%) Change Management
4 1 (4.167%) Migration
4 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.167%) ITIL
4 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.167%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.167%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.333%) SQL
2 1 (4.167%) Korn
2 1 (4.167%) VBA
2 1 (4.167%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Degree
2 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Netcool
2 9 (37.50%) Ionix
3 3 (12.50%) OpenView
4 1 (4.167%) TeMIP
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Nokia
2 12 (50.00%) HP
2 12 (50.00%) EMC
2 12 (50.00%) BMC
2 12 (50.00%) Remedy
3 5 (20.83%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 1 (4.167%) Huawei
4 1 (4.167%) NetCracker
4 1 (4.167%) Greenplum
4 1 (4.167%) NEC
4 1 (4.167%) Cramer
4 1 (4.167%) Amdocs
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle
4 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.167%) Mapinfo
4 1 (4.167%) Actix
Lancashire
To support the RAN Optimisation teams as required. Successful candidates must have strong skills in GSM, GPRS, UMTS and LTE network architectures and operation. Working knowledge of Fault...
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Rate: £140 - £160 per day
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West Yorkshire
To support the RAN Optimisation teams as required. Successful candidates must have strong skills in GSM, GPRS, UMTS and LTE network architectures and operation. Working knowledge of Fault...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £140 - £160 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013