North West Wireless Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless 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 job ads that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Avon Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Cleethorpes Docklands, London Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Glasgow Greenwich Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stourbridge Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Worksop Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	138	91
Rank change on same period last year	-47
Matching contract IT job ads	6	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	0.898 %	8.333 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£244
Average daily rate	£285	£248
% change on same period last year	+14.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£253
UK excluding London average daily rate	£309	£283
% change on same period last year	+9.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£18.93
% change on same period last year	-47.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£19.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.27	£28.49
% change on same period last year	-11.29 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	668	504
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.881 %	0.535 %
Daily rates quoted	135	83
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£284
Average daily rate	£389	£299
% change on same period last year	+30.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.62	£21.73
Average hourly rate	£26.65	£23.28
% change on same period last year	+14.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.67	£24.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
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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 Wireless across the North West 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 Wireless across the North West 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 Wireless across the North West region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Wireless within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-35	1	-	-
Manchester	-23	1	-	-
Lancashire	-	1	£285	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1 8 (36.36 %) LAN 2 6 (27.27 %) WAN 3 4 (18.18 %) Symbian 3 4 (18.18 %) Cisco 3 4 (18.18 %) C++ 3 4 (18.18 %) Telecoms 3 4 (18.18 %) UIQ 3 4 (18.18 %) Series 60 3 4 (18.18 %) Handset 4 3 (13.64 %) VPN 4 3 (13.64 %) Firewall 4 3 (13.64 %) VLAN 4 3 (13.64 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (13.64 %) Ethernet 5 2 (9.091 %) VoIP

5 2 (9.091 %) WLAN 5 2 (9.091 %) DHCP 5 2 (9.091 %) Windows 5 2 (9.091 %) Linux 5 2 (9.091 %) C 5 2 (9.091 %) Broadband 5 2 (9.091 %) Avaya 5 2 (9.091 %) CCNP 5 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services 5 2 (9.091 %) Intranet 5 2 (9.091 %) 802.11 5 2 (9.091 %) Project Management 5 2 (9.091 %) Mainframe 5 2 (9.091 %) Retail 5 2 (9.091 %) Network Design

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (18.18 %) UIQ 1 4 (18.18 %) Series 60	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.545 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 1 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 8 (36.36 %) LAN 2 6 (27.27 %) WAN 3 3 (13.64 %) VPN 3 3 (13.64 %) Firewall 3 3 (13.64 %) Ethernet 3 3 (13.64 %) VLAN 4 2 (9.091 %) Cisco PIX 4 2 (9.091 %) Wireless Security 4 2 (9.091 %) Intranet 4 2 (9.091 %) 802.11 4 2 (9.091 %) DHCP 4 2 (9.091 %) VoIP 4 2 (9.091 %) WLAN 4 2 (9.091 %) Broadband 5 1 (4.545 %) ADSL 5 1 (4.545 %) SDH 5 1 (4.545 %) MPLS 5 1 (4.545 %) Wi-Fi 5 1 (4.545 %) Frame Relay 5 1 (4.545 %) WiMAX
General 1 4 (18.18 %) Telecoms 2 2 (9.091 %) Retail 3 1 (4.545 %) Pensions 3 1 (4.545 %) Electric 3 1 (4.545 %) Health	Job Titles 1 4 (18.18 %) Project Manager 1 4 (18.18 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 2 (9.091 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (9.091 %) Embedded Software Engineer 2 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Engineer 2 2 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 2 (9.091 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 1 (4.545 %) Radio Engineer 3 1 (4.545 %) Wireless Engineer 3 1 (4.545 %) Symbian Developer 3 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support Technician 3 1 (4.545 %) Developer 3 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (4.545 %) Support Technician 3 1 (4.545 %) Technical Support 3 1 (4.545 %) Design Engineer 3 1 (4.545 %) Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (18.18 %) Handset 2 2 (9.091 %) Mainframe 2 2 (9.091 %) Device Driver 3 1 (4.545 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 2 (9.091 %) Windows 1 2 (9.091 %) Linux 2 1 (4.545 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (9.091 %) Project Management 1 2 (9.091 %) Network Design 2 1 (4.545 %) Incident Management 2 1 (4.545 %) Time Management 2 1 (4.545 %) Communications Security	Programming Languages 1 4 (18.18 %) C++ 2 2 (9.091 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (13.64 %) Cisco Certification 2 2 (9.091 %) CCNP 3 1 (4.545 %) CCNA 3 1 (4.545 %) NVQ Level 3	System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 4 (18.18 %) Symbian 1 4 (18.18 %) Cisco 2 2 (9.091 %) Avaya 3 1 (4.545 %) Remedy 3 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft