The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Nokia products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nokia over the 3 months to 17 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 Midlands 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nokia
Rank 21 31 33
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +2
Contract jobs citing Nokia 3 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.765% 0.364% 0.865%
As % of the Vendors category 3.333% 0.625% 1.382%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £200
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £290 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.67 £27.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
-39.38% -1.78%
All Vendors
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
90 160 217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 52.94% 58.18% 62.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 48
Average daily rate £388 £400 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -10.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £264
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £575 £545
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 36
Average hourly rate £32.00 £26.75 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.62% +11.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Nokia
England

Nokia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Nokia Hourly Rate Trend

Nokia
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) OpenView
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) BMC
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) OPNET
1 2 (66.67%) BIG-IP
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) Network Management
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (33.33%) 4G
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia NetAct
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) LTE
2 1 (33.33%) RNC
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) 2G
2 1 (33.33%) 3G

Nokia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) BIG-IP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) 3G
2 1 (33.33%) RNC
2 1 (33.33%) LTE
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia NetAct
2 1 (33.33%) 4G
2 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (33.33%) 2G
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) RAN Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Databuild Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Network Management
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Juniper
1 2 (66.67%) BMC
1 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (66.67%) OPNET
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
1 2 (66.67%) F5