LTE Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LTE 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 LTE over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Rank 54 45 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Contract jobs citing LTE 16 36 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.928% 3.383% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.466% 8.108% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
Average daily rate £280 £251 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.55% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £340 £250
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £44.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 189 444 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.77% 41.73% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 103 71
Average daily rate £275 £275 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 £160 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 5
Average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.95 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.15 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
LTE
Berkshire

LTE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading LTE Jobs Demand Trend

LTE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading LTE Daily Rate Trend

LTE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading LTE Hourly Rate Trend

LTE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing LTE 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 LTE.

1 58 (95.08%) Telecoms
2 50 (81.97%) 3G
3 47 (77.05%) Radio Access Network
4 44 (72.13%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 39 (63.93%) ATM
6 28 (45.90%) Huawei
7 27 (44.26%) Ethernet
7 27 (44.26%) Ericsson
8 26 (42.62%) 2G
8 26 (42.62%) Project Management
9 20 (32.79%) Network Design
10 19 (31.15%) UTRAN
10 19 (31.15%) SDH
10 19 (31.15%) 3GPP
11 18 (29.51%) Resource Management
12 15 (24.59%) MPLS
12 15 (24.59%) Handset
13 14 (22.95%) NEC
13 14 (22.95%) Nokia
14 9 (14.75%) 4G
14 9 (14.75%) Validation
14 9 (14.75%) BT
15 7 (11.48%) RNC
16 6 (9.836%) VRRP
16 6 (9.836%) VPN
16 6 (9.836%) MS Office
16 6 (9.836%) Capacity Planning
16 6 (9.836%) Nokia NetAct
17 5 (8.197%) Project Planning
17 5 (8.197%) HSRP

LTE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing LTE 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 LTE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (6.557%) .NET
1 4 (6.557%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 6 (9.836%) MS Office
2 2 (3.279%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 50 (81.97%) 3G
2 47 (77.05%) Radio Access Network
3 39 (63.93%) ATM
4 27 (44.26%) Ethernet
5 26 (42.62%) 2G
6 19 (31.15%) SDH
6 19 (31.15%) 3GPP
6 19 (31.15%) UTRAN
7 15 (24.59%) MPLS
8 9 (14.75%) 4G
9 7 (11.48%) RNC
10 6 (9.836%) Nokia NetAct
10 6 (9.836%) VPN
10 6 (9.836%) VRRP
11 5 (8.197%) OSPF
11 5 (8.197%) BGP
11 5 (8.197%) RSVP
11 5 (8.197%) HSRP
12 4 (6.557%) IPv4
13 2 (3.279%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.557%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.557%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.557%) Big Data
2 1 (1.639%) MS Access
General
1 58 (95.08%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.639%) Back Office
2 1 (1.639%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 36 (59.02%) Design Engineer
2 16 (26.23%) RAN Engineer
3 13 (21.31%) Transmission Engineer
4 6 (9.836%) Test Leader
5 5 (8.197%) Databuild Engineer
5 5 (8.197%) Network Design Engineer
5 5 (8.197%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.557%) Technical Leader
7 3 (4.918%) Radio Engineer
7 3 (4.918%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.279%) Developer
9 1 (1.639%) 3G Engineer
9 1 (1.639%) Senior Project Coordinator
9 1 (1.639%) Access Transmission Engineer
9 1 (1.639%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.639%) Senior Manager
9 1 (1.639%) Senior Developer
9 1 (1.639%) Coordinator
9 1 (1.639%) Architect
9 1 (1.639%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Handset
2 4 (6.557%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.557%) Windows
1 4 (6.557%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) Project Management
2 20 (32.79%) Network Design
3 18 (29.51%) Resource Management
4 9 (14.75%) Validation
5 6 (9.836%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (8.197%) Project Planning
6 5 (8.197%) ITIL
7 4 (6.557%) eTOM
7 4 (6.557%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (4.918%) Network Management
8 3 (4.918%) Fault Management
8 3 (4.918%) ETL
8 3 (4.918%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (1.639%) Migration
9 1 (1.639%) PRINCE2
9 1 (1.639%) Service Management
9 1 (1.639%) Data Entry
9 1 (1.639%) Network Planning
9 1 (1.639%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.197%) Perl
2 4 (6.557%) SQL
2 4 (6.557%) C
2 4 (6.557%) Java
3 1 (1.639%) VB
3 1 (1.639%) Python
3 1 (1.639%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (3.279%) Degree
2 1 (1.639%) HNC
2 1 (1.639%) HND
2 1 (1.639%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.918%) SLA
Vendors
1 44 (72.13%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 28 (45.90%) Huawei
3 27 (44.26%) Ericsson
4 14 (22.95%) Nokia
4 14 (22.95%) NEC
5 9 (14.75%) BT
6 5 (8.197%) Mapinfo
7 4 (6.557%) Oracle
7 4 (6.557%) Business Objects
7 4 (6.557%) Citrix
7 4 (6.557%) Greenplum
8 1 (1.639%) Microsoft
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