The first table below looks at the demand for UTRAN skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UTRAN over the 3 months to 22 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 Hampshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN)
Rank 96 88 103
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +15
Contract jobs citing UTRAN 3 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.193% 0.621% 0.054%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.962% 3.247% 0.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £280 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £251 £300
% change year-on-year
+9.56% -16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
Average hourly rate £47.50 £36.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.13% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £36.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -5.19%
All Communications & Networking
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
312 308 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 20.08% 19.13% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 126 81
Average daily rate £339 £360 £311
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.90% +15.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 55 74
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £20.60 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
UTRAN
South East

UTRAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire UTRAN Jobs Demand Trend

UTRAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire UTRAN Daily Rate Trend

UTRAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire UTRAN Hourly Rate Trend

UTRAN
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing UTRAN across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hampshire UTRAN Hourly Rate Histogram

UTRAN
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing UTRAN 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 UTRAN.

1 7 (100.00%) C
1 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) 3G
1 7 (100.00%) Device Driver
2 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
3 5 (71.43%) LTE
4 4 (57.14%) Embedded Software Development
4 4 (57.14%) Embedded C
4 4 (57.14%) Embedded C++
4 4 (57.14%) CDMA
4 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
5 3 (42.86%) VHDL
6 2 (28.57%) 4G
6 2 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (28.57%) WiMAX
6 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
6 2 (28.57%) 2G
6 2 (28.57%) Handset
6 2 (28.57%) UMTS
6 2 (28.57%) Wireless

UTRAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing UTRAN 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 UTRAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) 3G
2 5 (71.43%) LTE
3 4 (57.14%) CDMA
3 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
4 2 (28.57%) 4G
4 2 (28.57%) WiMAX
4 2 (28.57%) 2G
4 2 (28.57%) UMTS
4 2 (28.57%) Wireless
General
1 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DSP Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Device Driver
2 3 (42.86%) VHDL
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Handset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C
1 7 (100.00%) C++
2 4 (57.14%) Embedded C
2 4 (57.14%) Embedded C++
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