The first table below looks at the demand for WCDMA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCDMA 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 Farnborough 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
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA)
Rank 9 - 16
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WCDMA 1 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 2.439% - 6.612%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% - 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £255 £260 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.92% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £36.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.40% -8.12%
All Communications & Networking
Farnborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7 15 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 17.07% 25.42% 24.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 13
Average daily rate £200 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.94% -5.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
Average hourly rate £12.50 £45.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-72.22% +5.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
WCDMA
Hampshire

WCDMA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough WCDMA Jobs Demand Trend

WCDMA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Farnborough WCDMA Daily Rate Trend

WCDMA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Farnborough WCDMA Hourly Rate Trend

WCDMA
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough region citing WCDMA 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 WCDMA.

1 3 (100.00%) CDMA
1 3 (100.00%) GPRS
1 3 (100.00%) GSM
1 3 (100.00%) ASIC
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) Handset
1 3 (100.00%) HSDPA
1 3 (100.00%) HSUPA
1 3 (100.00%) HSPA
1 3 (100.00%) LTE
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) 2G
2 2 (66.67%) Anite
2 2 (66.67%) IP Telephony
2 2 (66.67%) Agilent
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) 3GPP
2 2 (66.67%) UMTS
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) 3G
3 1 (33.33%) PPP
3 1 (33.33%) IPv6
3 1 (33.33%) TDMA
3 1 (33.33%) OFDM

WCDMA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) CDMA
1 3 (100.00%) GPRS
1 3 (100.00%) GSM
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
1 3 (100.00%) HSDPA
1 3 (100.00%) HSUPA
1 3 (100.00%) HSPA
1 3 (100.00%) LTE
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) 2G
2 2 (66.67%) IP Telephony
2 2 (66.67%) 3GPP
2 2 (66.67%) UMTS
2 2 (66.67%) 3G
3 1 (33.33%) PPP
3 1 (33.33%) IPv6
3 1 (33.33%) TDMA
3 1 (33.33%) OFDM
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Network Operator
2 2 (66.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Network Support
2 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) ASIC
1 3 (100.00%) Handset
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Anite
1 2 (66.67%) Agilent