Leicester RF Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the RF Engineer role in IT contracts within the Leicester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RF Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Radio Frequency Engineer
Location Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire East Midlands East of England England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Solihull South East South West Sussex Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.826 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£130	-
Average daily rate	£130	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£130	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£203	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	£35.67	£30.75
% change on same period last year	+15.98 %
Job Titles Leicester
Matching contract IT job ads	121	168
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.160 %	0.167 %
Daily rates quoted	24	41
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£390
Average daily rate	£325	£410
% change on same period last year	-20.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.67	£18.15
Average hourly rate	£16.92	£19.08
% change on same period last year	-11.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.17	£20.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
RF Engineer Leicestershire

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.

RF Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RF Engineer across the Leicester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

RF Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RF Engineer across the Leicester region.

RF Engineer
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited RF 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 RF Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) EPoS 1 1 (100.00 %) Wireless

RF Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited RF 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 RF Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) Wireless

Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) EPoS