The first table below looks at the demand for Nokia NetAct 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 Nokia NetAct over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nokia NetAct
Rank 69 58 66
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +8
Contract jobs citing Nokia NetAct 2 23 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.232% 2.021% 1.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.015% 4.802% 5.340%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £280 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £290
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
197 479 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.88% 42.09% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 70
Average daily rate £275 £285 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -24.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £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 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
Nokia NetAct
Berkshire

Nokia NetAct
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Nokia NetAct Jobs Demand Trend

Nokia NetAct
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Nokia NetAct Daily Rate Trend

Nokia NetAct
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Nokia NetAct 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 Nokia NetAct.

1 21 (91.30%) Nokia
2 16 (69.57%) Telecoms
3 11 (47.83%) TOGAF
3 11 (47.83%) Service Management
3 11 (47.83%) ITSM
3 11 (47.83%) Netcool
3 11 (47.83%) Remedy
3 11 (47.83%) Project Management
3 11 (47.83%) HP
3 11 (47.83%) EMC
3 11 (47.83%) BMC
3 11 (47.83%) Degree
3 11 (47.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (47.83%) Fault Management
3 11 (47.83%) Performance Management
3 11 (47.83%) Ionix
3 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (30.43%) 3G
5 6 (26.09%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (26.09%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 5 (21.74%) Korn
6 5 (21.74%) LTE
6 5 (21.74%) Greenplum
6 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Perl
6 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 5 (21.74%) MySQL
6 5 (21.74%) Oracle
6 5 (21.74%) Back Office
6 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL

Nokia NetAct
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Nokia NetAct 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 Nokia NetAct. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) 3G
2 6 (26.09%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (21.74%) LTE
4 3 (13.04%) 2G
5 1 (4.348%) RNC
5 1 (4.348%) Wireless
5 1 (4.348%) GSM
5 1 (4.348%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
General
1 16 (69.57%) Telecoms
2 5 (21.74%) Back Office
3 1 (4.348%) Electronics
3 1 (4.348%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Solutions Architect
2 6 (26.09%) OSS Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Databuild Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Back Office Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) OSS Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Architect
4 1 (4.348%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Network Planner
4 1 (4.348%) RAN Performance Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) RAN Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) TOGAF
1 11 (47.83%) Service Management
1 11 (47.83%) ITSM
1 11 (47.83%) Project Management
1 11 (47.83%) Fault Management
1 11 (47.83%) Performance Management
1 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Korn
1 5 (21.74%) Perl
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Netcool
1 11 (47.83%) Ionix
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Nokia
2 11 (47.83%) Remedy
2 11 (47.83%) HP
2 11 (47.83%) EMC
2 11 (47.83%) BMC
3 6 (26.09%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 5 (21.74%) Greenplum
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
5 4 (17.39%) Mapinfo
6 1 (4.348%) Huawei
6 1 (4.348%) NEC
6 1 (4.348%) Ericsson