The first table below looks at the demand for Signal Processing 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 Signal Processing over the 3 months to 17 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Signal Processing
Rank 490 547 557
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +10
Contract jobs citing Signal Processing 20 11 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.048% 0.021% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.030% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
Average daily rate £300 £350 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -26.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 7
Average hourly rate £33.75 £50.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.50% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £44.00 £36.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £50.00 £40.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.75 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-32.50% +33.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36423 38448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.36% 68.27% 68.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18133 21396 22256
Average daily rate £425 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 1186 1394
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.99 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Signal Processing
UK

Signal Processing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Signal Processing across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Signal Processing Jobs Demand Trend

Signal Processing
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Signal Processing Daily Rate Trend

Signal Processing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Signal Processing Hourly Rate Trend

Signal Processing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Signal Processing within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
East of England - 7 £325 -
South Coast - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £300 -
South West +22 2 £400 +14.28%
South East +21 2 - -
London +21 1 £300 -3.22%
Signal Processing
UK

Signal Processing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Signal Processing 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 Signal Processing.

1 17 (68.00%) C++
2 15 (60.00%) MATLAB
3 14 (56.00%) C
4 12 (48.00%) Digital Signal Processing
5 10 (40.00%) Embedded C
6 8 (32.00%) Embedded C++
6 8 (32.00%) Wireless
6 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
7 7 (28.00%) LTE
7 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
7 7 (28.00%) 3GPP
8 5 (20.00%) Java
8 5 (20.00%) UML
8 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
8 5 (20.00%) Device Driver
8 5 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (16.00%) Multithreading
9 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
9 4 (16.00%) OO
10 3 (12.00%) Flash
10 3 (12.00%) Freescale
11 2 (8.000%) DV Cleared
11 2 (8.000%) Degree
11 2 (8.000%) Physics
11 2 (8.000%) Android
11 2 (8.000%) OFDM
11 2 (8.000%) LabVIEW
11 2 (8.000%) Simulink
11 2 (8.000%) Delphi

Signal Processing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Signal Processing 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 Signal Processing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.00%) Flash
2 1 (4.000%) OpenCL
2 1 (4.000%) DirectCompute
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) Wireless
2 7 (28.00%) 3GPP
2 7 (28.00%) LTE
3 2 (8.000%) OFDM
4 1 (4.000%) MIMO
4 1 (4.000%) Bluetooth
4 1 (4.000%) GPRS
4 1 (4.000%) GSM
4 1 (4.000%) UMTS
4 1 (4.000%) WCDMA
4 1 (4.000%) HTTP
4 1 (4.000%) 3G
4 1 (4.000%) 4G
Development Applications
1 2 (8.000%) LabVIEW
General
1 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.000%) Games
2 1 (4.000%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Software Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) DSP Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Embedded C Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) C Software Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) RF Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) DSP Software Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Android Developer
5 1 (4.000%) GSM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Device Driver
2 2 (8.000%) Physics
3 1 (4.000%) Open Source
3 1 (4.000%) CUDA
3 1 (4.000%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.000%) Handset
3 1 (4.000%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (4.000%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.000%) Android
2 1 (4.000%) Tizen
2 1 (4.000%) Windows
2 1 (4.000%) Linux
2 1 (4.000%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Digital Signal Processing
2 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.00%) UML
3 5 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (16.00%) OO
4 4 (16.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (4.000%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.000%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) C++
2 15 (60.00%) MATLAB
3 14 (56.00%) C
4 10 (40.00%) Embedded C
5 8 (32.00%) Embedded C++
6 5 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (8.000%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.000%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Freescale
2 2 (8.000%) Borland
3 1 (4.000%) Perforce
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