Newcastle Upon Tyne GSM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) skills within the Newcastle Upon Tyne region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited GSM over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Cheltenham City of London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands Wiltshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	26
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	5.263 %	7.317 %
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	£320	£307
% change on same period last year	+4.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-32.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.26	£36.41
% change on same period last year	-5.89 %
Communications & Networking Newcastle Upon Tyne
Matching contract IT job ads	19	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	6	11
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£291
Average daily rate	£338	£297
% change on same period last year	+13.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£19.10
Average hourly rate	£17.00	£21.47
% change on same period last year	-20.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£23.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.36	£28.72
% change on same period last year	-4.71 %
GSM Tyne and Wear

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing GSM across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing GSM across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region.

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 3 (100.00 %) ADSL 1 3 (100.00 %) VoIP 2 2 (66.67 %) Wi-Fi 2 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) IPTV 2 2 (66.67 %) WAN 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) GPRS 2 2 (66.67 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) UMTS 3 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE

3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) CCNA 3 1 (33.33 %) WAP 3 1 (33.33 %) IMAP4 3 1 (33.33 %) DHCP 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (33.33 %) HSDPA 3 1 (33.33 %) Billing 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region citing GSM 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 GSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) WAP	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) ADSL 1 3 (100.00 %) VoIP 2 2 (66.67 %) WAN 2 2 (66.67 %) GPRS 2 2 (66.67 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) UMTS 2 2 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (66.67 %) Wi-Fi 3 1 (33.33 %) HSDPA 3 1 (33.33 %) DNS 3 1 (33.33 %) Broadband 3 1 (33.33 %) IMAP4 3 1 (33.33 %) DHCP	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Telecoms 2 1 (33.33 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) 3rd Line Support 2 2 (66.67 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 2 2 (66.67 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile	Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 2 1 (33.33 %) CCNA
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft