The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Nokia products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nokia over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Kent 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Nokia Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nokia
Rank 35 35 37
Rank change year-on-year
0 +2
Contract jobs citing Nokia 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.350% 0.379% 0.977%
As % of the Vendors category 0.617% 0.800% 2.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £338 £295 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.40% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £295 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.67 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-39.38% +30.95%
All Vendors
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
162 125 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 56.64% 47.35% 47.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 62 96
Average daily rate £300 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £135 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 4
Average hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.81% -31.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.94 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £67.50 £105.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Nokia
South East

Nokia
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Nokia across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Kent Nokia Jobs Demand Trend

Nokia
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Nokia Daily Rate Trend

Nokia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Nokia Hourly Rate Trend

Nokia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Nokia 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 Nokia.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) WebLOAD
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) TippingPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) iSeries
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Junos
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP

Nokia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Nokia 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 Nokia. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Junos
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) WebLOAD
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Head of IT
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) TippingPoint
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (50.00%) Avaya
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint