The first table below looks at the demand for HSPA skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HSPA over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Speed Packet Access (HSPA)
Rank 376 412 -
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -
Contract jobs citing HSPA 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.011% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.036% 0.081% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £360 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.90% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £225 £603
% change year-on-year
+5.55% -62.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.25 - £41.25
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
HSPA
England

HSPA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HSPA across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

London HSPA Jobs Demand Trend

HSPA
Daily Rate Trend

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

London HSPA Daily Rate Trend

HSPA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London HSPA Hourly Rate Trend

HSPA
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing HSPA 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 HSPA.

1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) 3G
1 1 (50.00%) 2G
1 1 (50.00%) RNC
1 1 (50.00%) Agilent
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia NetAct
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network

HSPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing HSPA 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 HSPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 3G
1 1 (50.00%) 2G
1 1 (50.00%) RNC
1 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia NetAct
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) PC Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Agilent
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks