Northamptonshire 3G Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for 3G skills within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited 3G over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Clapham Coventry Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Lanarkshire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.273 %	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	£322	£325
% change on same period last year	-0.80 %
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	£26.48	£31.01
% change on same period last year	-14.59 %
Communications & Networking Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	44	54
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.053 %
Daily rates quoted	7	23
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£265
Average daily rate	£346	£268
% change on same period last year	+28.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£271
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£341
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.88	£21.82
Average hourly rate	£15.53	£21.86
% change on same period last year	-28.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.18	£21.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.54
% change on same period last year	-9.93 %
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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 3G across the Northamptonshire 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 3G across the Northamptonshire region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing 3G 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 3G.

1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) GSM 1 1 (100.00 %) UMTS 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA 1 1 (100.00 %) 2G 1 1 (100.00 %) Amdocs

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing 3G 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 3G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) GSM 1 1 (100.00 %) UMTS 1 1 (100.00 %) 2G
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Amdocs