The first table below looks at the demand for ATM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ATM over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Rank 43 10 73
Rank change year-on-year
-33 +63
Contract jobs citing ATM 27 98 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.234% 8.789% 1.152%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.71% 20.90% 5.797%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 0
Average daily rate £249 £265 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.13% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £370 £325
% change year-on-year
-22.97% +13.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £29.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- +45.12%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
197 469 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.59% 42.06% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 112 71
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.99% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
ATM
Berkshire

ATM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading ATM Jobs Demand Trend

ATM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading ATM Daily Rate Trend

ATM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading ATM Hourly Rate Trend

ATM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing ATM 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 ATM.

1 67 (81.71%) Telecoms
2 48 (58.54%) SDH
2 48 (58.54%) Ethernet
3 44 (53.66%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 43 (52.44%) 3G
5 38 (46.34%) LTE
6 37 (45.12%) Project Management
7 35 (42.68%) Ericsson
8 31 (37.80%) Radio Access Network
9 28 (34.15%) Huawei
9 28 (34.15%) 2G
10 20 (24.39%) MPLS
10 20 (24.39%) Resource Management
11 15 (18.29%) UTRAN
11 15 (18.29%) 3GPP
11 15 (18.29%) NEC
11 15 (18.29%) Handset
12 14 (17.07%) Network Design
13 11 (13.41%) Front Office
14 10 (12.20%) DWDM
14 10 (12.20%) SLA
15 9 (10.98%) Nokia
15 9 (10.98%) BT
16 7 (8.537%) Finance
16 7 (8.537%) Validation
16 7 (8.537%) RNC
16 7 (8.537%) Degree
17 6 (7.317%) PRINCE2
18 5 (6.098%) Niku
18 5 (6.098%) Configuration Management

ATM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing ATM 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 ATM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (4.878%) .NET
1 4 (4.878%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 4 (4.878%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.220%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.220%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 48 (58.54%) SDH
1 48 (58.54%) Ethernet
2 43 (52.44%) 3G
3 38 (46.34%) LTE
4 31 (37.80%) Radio Access Network
5 28 (34.15%) 2G
6 20 (24.39%) MPLS
7 15 (18.29%) UTRAN
7 15 (18.29%) 3GPP
8 10 (12.20%) DWDM
9 7 (8.537%) RNC
10 4 (4.878%) IPv4
11 2 (2.439%) GSM
11 2 (2.439%) UMTS
12 1 (1.220%) VPN
12 1 (1.220%) VRRP
12 1 (1.220%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.878%) Big Data
1 4 (4.878%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.878%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.439%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.220%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.220%) DB2
General
1 67 (81.71%) Telecoms
2 11 (13.41%) Front Office
3 7 (8.537%) Finance
4 1 (1.220%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 44 (53.66%) Design Engineer
2 41 (50.00%) Transmission Engineer
3 15 (18.29%) RAN Engineer
4 6 (7.317%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.098%) Test Leader
6 4 (4.878%) Project Administrator
6 4 (4.878%) Technical Manager
6 4 (4.878%) Technical Project Manager
6 4 (4.878%) Administrator
7 3 (3.659%) Analyst
7 3 (3.659%) Technical Leader
8 1 (1.220%) Test Manager
8 1 (1.220%) Business Systems Analyst
8 1 (1.220%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (1.220%) Business Analyst
8 1 (1.220%) Developer
8 1 (1.220%) Field Engineer
8 1 (1.220%) Development Manager
8 1 (1.220%) Senior Manager
8 1 (1.220%) Delivery Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.29%) Handset
2 4 (4.878%) Open Source
3 1 (1.220%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.220%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.878%) Windows
1 4 (4.878%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.12%) Project Management
2 20 (24.39%) Resource Management
3 14 (17.07%) Network Design
4 7 (8.537%) Validation
5 6 (7.317%) PRINCE2
6 5 (6.098%) Configuration Management
7 4 (4.878%) eTOM
7 4 (4.878%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (4.878%) ETL
7 4 (4.878%) ITIL
8 3 (3.659%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (3.659%) Network Management
8 3 (3.659%) Fault Management
9 2 (2.439%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (1.220%) Service Management
10 1 (1.220%) CMMI
10 1 (1.220%) Migration
10 1 (1.220%) Stakeholder Management
10 1 (1.220%) Test Management
10 1 (1.220%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.878%) C
1 4 (4.878%) Java
1 4 (4.878%) Perl
1 4 (4.878%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (8.537%) Degree
2 1 (1.220%) HNC
2 1 (1.220%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.20%) SLA
Vendors
1 44 (53.66%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 35 (42.68%) Ericsson
3 28 (34.15%) Huawei
4 15 (18.29%) NEC
5 9 (10.98%) Nokia
5 9 (10.98%) BT
6 5 (6.098%) Niku
7 4 (4.878%) Greenplum
7 4 (4.878%) Citrix
7 4 (4.878%) Oracle
7 4 (4.878%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.220%) Alcatel-Lucent
8 1 (1.220%) IBM
8 1 (1.220%) Ab Initio