Portsmouth Radio Access Network Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Radio Access Network Engineer role in IT contracts within the Portsmouth region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Radio Access Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Radio Access Network (RAN) Engineer
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Cumbria East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands North East North West Portsmouth Reading Scotland Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South West Stevenage Swindon UK Uxbridge Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	28
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.165 %	0.521 %
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	£350	£294
% change on same period last year	+19.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.20	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£33.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+32.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.80	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.77	£28.33
% change on same period last year	+8.58 %
Job Titles Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	231	192
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.362 %	0.209 %
Daily rates quoted	26	29
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£320
Average daily rate	£311	£339
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£350
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	129	110
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.58	£27.30
Average hourly rate	£24.32	£29.08
% change on same period last year	-16.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.06	£30.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.38	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-4.32 %
Radio Access Network Engineer Hampshire

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.

Radio Access Network Engineer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Radio Access Network Engineer across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Radio Access Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Radio Access Network Engineer across the Portsmouth region.

Radio Access Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Radio Access Network Engineer across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

Radio Access Network Engineer
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region that cited Radio Access Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Radio Access Network Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (80.00 %) QA 2 3 (60.00 %) Software Engineering 2 3 (60.00 %) Electronics 3 2 (40.00 %) Telecoms 3 2 (40.00 %) Degree 3 2 (40.00 %) HNC 4 1 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (20.00 %) Validation

Radio Access Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region that cited Radio Access Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Radio Access Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 3 (60.00 %) Electronics 2 2 (40.00 %) Telecoms	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (60.00 %) Software Engineering 2 1 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (20.00 %) Validation
Qualifications 1 2 (40.00 %) HNC 1 2 (40.00 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (80.00 %) QA