The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless 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 Wireless 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 10 - 21
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Wireless 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 7.692% - 2.222%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% - 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -5.30%
All Communications & Networking
Farnborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6 18 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 15.38% 31.58% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 9
Average daily rate £275 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.29% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £420 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £436 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £12.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Wireless
Hampshire

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

Farnborough Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Farnborough Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (75.00%) C
2 5 (62.50%) CDMA
2 5 (62.50%) GPRS
2 5 (62.50%) GSM
2 5 (62.50%) Handset
2 5 (62.50%) LTE
3 4 (50.00%) C++
3 4 (50.00%) Perl
3 4 (50.00%) 3GPP
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) WCDMA
4 3 (37.50%) HSDPA
4 3 (37.50%) ASIC
4 3 (37.50%) HSPA
4 3 (37.50%) HSUPA
5 2 (25.00%) NFC
5 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
5 2 (25.00%) IP Telephony
5 2 (25.00%) Agilent
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (25.00%) NAS
5 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (25.00%) 3G
5 2 (25.00%) 2G
5 2 (25.00%) Anite
5 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) Python
5 2 (25.00%) UMTS
5 2 (25.00%) Java

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) CDMA
1 5 (62.50%) GPRS
1 5 (62.50%) GSM
1 5 (62.50%) LTE
2 4 (50.00%) 3GPP
3 3 (37.50%) WCDMA
3 3 (37.50%) HSDPA
3 3 (37.50%) HSPA
3 3 (37.50%) HSUPA
4 2 (25.00%) NFC
4 2 (25.00%) IP Telephony
4 2 (25.00%) NAS
4 2 (25.00%) 3G
4 2 (25.00%) 2G
4 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) UMTS
4 2 (25.00%) ISDN
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) WLAN
5 1 (12.50%) IPv6
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Operator
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Support
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Handset
2 3 (37.50%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C
2 4 (50.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Agilent
1 2 (25.00%) Anite
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
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