North West HSDPA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HSDPA over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)
Location Berkshire East Anglia East of England England London M4 Corridor Maidenhead North West Reading South East South West UK Wiltshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£258	£287
% change on same period last year	-9.88 %
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	£45.00	£39.72
% change on same period last year	+13.28 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	459	610
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.646 %	0.616 %
Daily rates quoted	101	113
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£325
Average daily rate	£327	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.02	£23.32
Average hourly rate	£26.89	£24.38
% change on same period last year	+10.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.77	£25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
HSDPA 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.

HSDPA
Demand Trend

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

HSDPA
Daily Rate Trend

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

HSDPA
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing HSDPA 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 HSDPA.

1 1 (100.00 %) CDMA 1 1 (100.00 %) 3G 1 1 (100.00 %) HSUPA

HSDPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing HSDPA 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 HSDPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) CDMA 1 1 (100.00 %) 3G 1 1 (100.00 %) HSUPA