UMTS Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited UMTS over the 3 months to 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank - 110 124
Contract jobs citing UMTS 0 19 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.609% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 3.375% 0.624%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +11.25%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 303 563 481
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.93% 18.03% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 223 245
Average daily rate £313 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £175 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £461 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 36 45
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.93 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.11% -41.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
UMTS
England

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing UMTS across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

North West UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West UMTS Daily Rate Trend

UMTS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing UMTS across the North West region.

North West UMTS Hourly Rate Trend

UMTS
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing UMTS 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 UMTS.

1 3 (100.00%) GSM
2 2 (66.67%) 3G
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) 2G
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) LTE
3 1 (33.33%) 4G
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) PMP
3 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing UMTS 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 UMTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) GSM
2 2 (66.67%) 3G
2 2 (66.67%) 2G
3 1 (33.33%) LTE
3 1 (33.33%) 4G
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
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