GSM Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for GSM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Rank - 59 -
Contract jobs citing GSM 0 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 1.146% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 5.789% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £438 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £278 £320
% change year-on-year
+10.81% -13.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 113 190 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 17.44% 19.79% 25.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 64
Average daily rate £300 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 28
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.47 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.93% -41.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £11.45 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £34.10 £42.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
GSM
East of England

GSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire GSM Jobs Demand Trend

GSM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire GSM Daily Rate Trend

GSM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire GSM Hourly Rate Trend

GSM
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) UMTS
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) 2G
2 2 (66.67%) SLA
2 2 (66.67%) 3G
2 2 (66.67%) LTE
2 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (33.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 1 (33.33%) 4G
3 1 (33.33%) Nokia NetAct
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) WCDMA
3 1 (33.33%) ATM
3 1 (33.33%) GPRS
3 1 (33.33%) 3GPP
3 1 (33.33%) RNC
3 1 (33.33%) Agilent
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) HSPA

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) UMTS
2 2 (66.67%) 3G
2 2 (66.67%) 2G
2 2 (66.67%) LTE
2 2 (66.67%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (33.33%) Nokia NetAct
3 1 (33.33%) 4G
3 1 (33.33%) RNC
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) HSPA
3 1 (33.33%) WCDMA
3 1 (33.33%) ATM
3 1 (33.33%) GPRS
3 1 (33.33%) 3GPP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) RAN Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Agilent
1 1 (33.33%) Nokia Siemens Networks
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