Home Counties GSM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Cheltenham City of London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Scotland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£310
% change on same period last year	+9.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.28	£34.01
% change on same period last year	+9.63 %
Communications & Networking Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	6	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.021 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£242
Average daily rate	-	£255
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£268
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£10.00
Average hourly rate	-	£12.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.98	£29.13
% change on same period last year	-3.95 %
GSM South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

GSM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (66.67 %) 3G 2 1 (33.33 %) Wireless 2 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) 2G 2 1 (33.33 %) Validation 2 1 (33.33 %) Handset 2 1 (33.33 %) C 2 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 2 1 (33.33 %) UMTS 2 1 (33.33 %) WCDMA 2 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson 2 1 (33.33 %) Firmware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (66.67 %) 3G 2 1 (33.33 %) Wireless 2 1 (33.33 %) 2G 2 1 (33.33 %) GPRS 2 1 (33.33 %) UMTS 2 1 (33.33 %) WCDMA	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Operations Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Firmware 1 1 (33.33 %) Handset
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Ericsson