The first table below looks at the demand for the RAN Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAN Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Radio Access Network Engineer
Rank - 66 -
Contract jobs requiring a RAN Engineer 0 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.417% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.443% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £266 £200
% change year-on-year
+12.99% +32.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
617 902 814
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.22% 93.96% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 398 340
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 87 105
Average hourly rate £17.47 £22.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.59% +35.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
RAN Engineer
East of England

RAN Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RAN Engineer across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire RAN Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

RAN Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire RAN Engineer Daily Rate Trend

RAN Engineer
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited RAN Engineer in their job title 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 with RAN Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 1 (50.00%) 2G
2 1 (50.00%) RNC
2 1 (50.00%) Agilent
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) HSPA
2 1 (50.00%) LTE
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia NetAct
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ATM
2 1 (50.00%) GPRS
2 1 (50.00%) GSM
2 1 (50.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (50.00%) UMTS
2 1 (50.00%) WCDMA
2 1 (50.00%) 3G

RAN Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited RAN Engineer in their job title 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 with RAN Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (50.00%) ATM
2 1 (50.00%) GPRS
2 1 (50.00%) GSM
2 1 (50.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (50.00%) UMTS
2 1 (50.00%) WCDMA
2 1 (50.00%) 3G
2 1 (50.00%) 2G
2 1 (50.00%) RNC
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) HSPA
2 1 (50.00%) LTE
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia NetAct
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Agilent
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks