Farnborough GSM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) skills within the Farnborough region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location Avon Banbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxfordshire Rugby Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Winchester	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	16
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	13.64 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£323
% change on same period last year	+5.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.57	£37.48
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Communications & Networking Farnborough
Matching contract IT job ads	10	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£331
Average daily rate	£339	£356
% change on same period last year	-4.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£12.50
% change on same period last year	+100.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
GSM Hampshire

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 GSM across the Farnborough 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 GSM across the Farnborough region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GSM across the Farnborough region.

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 5 (62.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (37.50 %) Validation 2 3 (37.50 %) Electronics 2 3 (37.50 %) Statistical Analysis 2 3 (37.50 %) Agilent 2 3 (37.50 %) Degree 2 3 (37.50 %) HND 2 3 (37.50 %) WCDMA 3 2 (25.00 %) Wireless 3 2 (25.00 %) UMTS 3 2 (25.00 %) Handset 4 1 (12.50 %) LabVIEW 4 1 (12.50 %) Multimedia 4 1 (12.50 %) WLAN 4 1 (12.50 %) WAP

4 1 (12.50 %) Bluetooth 4 1 (12.50 %) GPRS 4 1 (12.50 %) DVB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough region citing GSM 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 GSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) WAP	Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) WCDMA 2 2 (25.00 %) Wireless 2 2 (25.00 %) UMTS 3 1 (12.50 %) WLAN 3 1 (12.50 %) Bluetooth 3 1 (12.50 %) GPRS 3 1 (12.50 %) DVB
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) LabVIEW	General 1 5 (62.50 %) Telecoms 2 3 (37.50 %) Electronics 3 1 (12.50 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) Test Engineer 1 3 (37.50 %) RF Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Handset
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Validation 1 3 (37.50 %) Statistical Analysis	Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) HND 1 3 (37.50 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Agilent