The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of NEC products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NEC over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the NEC Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
NEC
Rank 55 76 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing NEC 10 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.192% 0.269% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.227% 0.493% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £273 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £273 £284 £270
% change year-on-year
-3.96% +5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £17.00
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
449 608 617
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 53.52% 54.53% 57.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 187 251
Average daily rate £350 £330 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £215 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 42 25
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.25 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.54% -4.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
NEC
Berkshire

NEC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading NEC Jobs Demand Trend

NEC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading NEC Daily Rate Trend

NEC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing NEC 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 NEC.

1 17 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 16 (94.12%) 2G
2 16 (94.12%) 3G
2 16 (94.12%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 15 (88.24%) ATM
3 15 (88.24%) Ericsson
3 15 (88.24%) Huawei
4 13 (76.47%) LTE
5 11 (64.71%) SDH
5 11 (64.71%) Ethernet
6 10 (58.82%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (29.41%) SLA
7 5 (29.41%) MPLS
7 5 (29.41%) Nokia
8 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (23.53%) eTOM
8 4 (23.53%) Project Management
8 4 (23.53%) IPv4
8 4 (23.53%) Citrix
8 4 (23.53%) C
8 4 (23.53%) Java
8 4 (23.53%) Perl
8 4 (23.53%) SQL
8 4 (23.53%) .NET
8 4 (23.53%) Oracle
8 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
8 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
8 4 (23.53%) ITIL
8 4 (23.53%) Windows
8 4 (23.53%) Linux

NEC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing NEC 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 NEC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
1 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) 2G
1 16 (94.12%) 3G
2 15 (88.24%) ATM
3 13 (76.47%) LTE
4 11 (64.71%) SDH
4 11 (64.71%) Ethernet
5 10 (58.82%) Radio Access Network
6 5 (29.41%) MPLS
7 4 (23.53%) IPv4
8 1 (5.882%) Nokia NetAct
8 1 (5.882%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (23.53%) Big Data
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
General
1 17 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Test Leader
1 5 (29.41%) Transmission Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Design Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Technical Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) RAN Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) RAN Performance Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Access Transmission Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.882%) Perl Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) eTOM
1 4 (23.53%) Project Management
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
1 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (17.65%) Network Management
2 3 (17.65%) ETL
2 3 (17.65%) Fault Management
2 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) C
1 4 (23.53%) Java
1 4 (23.53%) Perl
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) SLA
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 15 (88.24%) Ericsson
2 15 (88.24%) Huawei
3 5 (29.41%) Nokia
4 4 (23.53%) Citrix
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) Business Objects
4 4 (23.53%) Greenplum
5 3 (17.65%) BT
6 1 (5.882%) Siemens