The first table below looks at the demand for Wi-Fi skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wi-Fi 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 Milton Keynes 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
Wireless Fidelity (WiFi)
Rank 54 57 55
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -2
Contract jobs citing Wi-Fi 1 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.188% 0.716% 0.166%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.961% 4.310% 0.971%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £101 £100
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +0.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £362 £270
% change year-on-year
-10.97% +34.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £31.50 £8.10
% change year-on-year
-36.50% +289.12%
All Communications & Networking
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
51 116 103
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 9.605% 16.62% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 48
Average daily rate £425 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 12
Average hourly rate £14.96 £13.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% -12.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Wi-Fi
Buckinghamshire

Wi-Fi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Wi-Fi Jobs Demand Trend

Wi-Fi
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Wi-Fi across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Wi-Fi Daily Rate Trend

Wi-Fi
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Wi-Fi across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Wi-Fi Hourly Rate Trend

Wi-Fi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi.

1 8 (80.00%) MS Office
1 8 (80.00%) SAP
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Lotus Notes
1 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 8 (80.00%) Broadband
1 8 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 8 (80.00%) VPN
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL Certification
1 8 (80.00%) Lotus
1 8 (80.00%) 3G
1 8 (80.00%) Remedy
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Vista
1 8 (80.00%) PDA
1 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (40.00%) Marketing
3 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
5 1 (10.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) WAN

Wi-Fi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Broadband
1 8 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 8 (80.00%) VPN
1 8 (80.00%) 3G
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Service Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Applications Support
4 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) PDA
2 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (10.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Vista
1 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) SAP
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (80.00%) Lotus
1 8 (80.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco