Hertfordshire SIGTRAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for SIGTRAN skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SIGTRAN over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SIGTRAN
Location Berkshire East of England East Sussex England Hertfordshire London Reading South East UK	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.673 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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Communications & Networking Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	297	295
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.392 %	0.294 %
Daily rates quoted	133	118
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£338
Average daily rate	£346	£361
% change on same period last year	-4.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£384
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.81	£17.30
Average hourly rate	£30.56	£19.58
% change on same period last year	+56.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.30	£21.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
SIGTRAN East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SIGTRAN
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SIGTRAN across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SIGTRAN
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing SIGTRAN 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 SIGTRAN.

1 3 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 2 (66.67 %) Network Design 2 2 (66.67 %) SGSN 2 2 (66.67 %) Packet Switching 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) Nortel 2 2 (66.67 %) 3G 2 2 (66.67 %) SS7 3 1 (33.33 %) ISUP 3 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson 3 1 (33.33 %) Nokia 3 1 (33.33 %) Fault Management 3 1 (33.33 %) RNC

SIGTRAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing SIGTRAN 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 SIGTRAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) SGSN 1 2 (66.67 %) Packet Switching 1 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (66.67 %) 3G 1 2 (66.67 %) SS7 2 1 (33.33 %) ISUP 2 1 (33.33 %) RNC	General 1 3 (100.00 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Design Engineer 2 2 (66.67 %) Switch Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Network Design 2 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Fault Management
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 1 2 (66.67 %) Nortel 2 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson 2 1 (33.33 %) Nokia