Midlands TETRA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TETRA over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA)
Location Basingstoke Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Cheshire City of London East of England England Hampshire London Merseyside Midlands Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West Reading Rugby Scotland Slough South East South West St Helens Swindon Thames Valley UK Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	81
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.524 %
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	£292	£303
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
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	£33.38	£38.31
% change on same period last year	-12.87 %
Communications & Networking Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	71	191
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.193 %
Daily rates quoted	3	40
Average minimum daily rate	£219	£327
Average daily rate	£252	£337
% change on same period last year	-25.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£286	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.60	£18.12
Average hourly rate	£22.30	£20.17
% change on same period last year	+10.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£22.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.56	£28.73
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
TETRA England

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.

TETRA
Demand Trend

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

TETRA
Daily Rate Trend

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

TETRA
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing TETRA 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 TETRA.

1 3 (100.00 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms

TETRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing TETRA 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 TETRA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Integration Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Design Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Test Scripting