The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Handset in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Handset 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
Handsets
Rank 63 68 84
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +16
Contract jobs citing Handset 7 16 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.838% 1.435% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.590% 8.602% 0.463%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £275 £251 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.56% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 £265 £375
% change year-on-year
+8.96% -29.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +24.80%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
195 186 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.35% 16.68% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 76 97
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £484 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 7
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.79 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +8.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.53 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Handset
Berkshire

Handset
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Handset Jobs Demand Trend

Handset
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Handset Daily Rate Trend

Handset
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Handset Hourly Rate Trend

Handset
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (78.95%) ATM
1 15 (78.95%) 3GPP
1 15 (78.95%) 3G
1 15 (78.95%) UTRAN
1 15 (78.95%) Project Management
1 15 (78.95%) Resource Management
1 15 (78.95%) LTE
1 15 (78.95%) Nokia Siemens Networks
1 15 (78.95%) Radio Access Network
2 14 (73.68%) Telecoms
2 14 (73.68%) Network Design
3 6 (31.58%) RNC
3 6 (31.58%) Validation
4 5 (26.32%) Huawei
4 5 (26.32%) Ericsson
5 4 (21.05%) SOAP
5 4 (21.05%) Web Services
5 4 (21.05%) XML
5 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
5 4 (21.05%) soapUI
5 4 (21.05%) REST
5 4 (21.05%) DbVisualizer
5 4 (21.05%) Groovy
5 4 (21.05%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (15.79%) System Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Web Testing
6 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
6 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
6 3 (15.79%) UNIX
6 3 (15.79%) ISEB

Handset
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (21.05%) SOAP
1 4 (21.05%) Web Services
1 4 (21.05%) XML
1 4 (21.05%) soapUI
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) ATM
1 15 (78.95%) 3GPP
1 15 (78.95%) 3G
1 15 (78.95%) UTRAN
1 15 (78.95%) LTE
1 15 (78.95%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (31.58%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (5.263%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) LoadRunner
1 1 (5.263%) JProfiler
1 1 (5.263%) Cucumber
General
1 14 (73.68%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Design Engineer
1 15 (78.95%) RAN Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
2 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (5.263%) Performance Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Project Management
1 15 (78.95%) Resource Management
2 14 (73.68%) Network Design
3 6 (31.58%) Validation
4 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.79%) System Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Web Testing
6 1 (5.263%) Performance Testing
6 1 (5.263%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Groovy
2 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.263%) Java
3 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
1 3 (15.79%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 5 (26.32%) Huawei
2 5 (26.32%) Ericsson