The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Nokia 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 Nokia 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 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 Nokia Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nokia
Rank 61 29 64
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +35
Contract jobs citing Nokia 9 55 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.078% 4.933% 2.015%
As % of the Vendors category 2.009% 9.016% 3.465%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 2
Average daily rate £390 £230 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+69.56% -38.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £207 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £282 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £295 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.67 £27.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-38.82% +29.76%
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
448 610 606
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 53.65% 54.71% 58.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 191 246
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 24
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.16% -3.12%
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 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Nokia
Berkshire

Nokia
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Nokia Jobs Demand Trend

Nokia
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Nokia Daily Rate Trend

Nokia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Nokia Hourly Rate Trend

Nokia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 27 (72.97%) Telecoms
2 22 (59.46%) Nokia NetAct
3 19 (51.35%) Project Management
4 16 (43.24%) 3G
4 16 (43.24%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 16 (43.24%) Radio Access Network
5 14 (37.84%) LTE
6 11 (29.73%) Performance Management
6 11 (29.73%) Ionix
6 11 (29.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (29.73%) Service Management
6 11 (29.73%) ITSM
6 11 (29.73%) 2G
6 11 (29.73%) TOGAF
6 11 (29.73%) Degree
6 11 (29.73%) Remedy ITSM
6 11 (29.73%) Fault Management
6 11 (29.73%) HP
6 11 (29.73%) EMC
6 11 (29.73%) BMC
6 11 (29.73%) Netcool
6 11 (29.73%) Remedy
7 9 (24.32%) Ericsson
7 9 (24.32%) ATM
7 9 (24.32%) SDH
7 9 (24.32%) Ethernet
7 9 (24.32%) Huawei
7 9 (24.32%) BT
7 9 (24.32%) MPLS
8 5 (13.51%) Back Office

Nokia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (2.703%) CSS
Business Applications
1 11 (29.73%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (59.46%) Nokia NetAct
2 16 (43.24%) 3G
2 16 (43.24%) Radio Access Network
3 14 (37.84%) LTE
4 11 (29.73%) 2G
5 9 (24.32%) ATM
5 9 (24.32%) SDH
5 9 (24.32%) Ethernet
5 9 (24.32%) MPLS
6 3 (8.108%) Firewall
6 3 (8.108%) Network Security
7 2 (5.405%) WAN
7 2 (5.405%) SSL
8 1 (2.703%) BGP
8 1 (2.703%) SS7
8 1 (2.703%) VRRP
8 1 (2.703%) DHCP
8 1 (2.703%) SNMP
8 1 (2.703%) VPN
8 1 (2.703%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) MySQL
1 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
General
1 27 (72.97%) Telecoms
2 5 (13.51%) Back Office
3 3 (8.108%) Finance
4 2 (5.405%) Front Office
5 1 (2.703%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 8 (21.62%) Design Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Transmission Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) OSS Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (13.51%) OSS Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Systems Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Back Office Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Databuild Engineer
6 3 (8.108%) Network Engineer
6 3 (8.108%) RAN Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) RAN Performance Engineer
7 2 (5.405%) Performance Engineer
8 1 (2.703%) 3G Engineer
8 1 (2.703%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (2.703%) Core Network Engineer
8 1 (2.703%) Access Transmission Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.703%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.703%) VMS
1 1 (2.703%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Project Management
2 11 (29.73%) Performance Management
2 11 (29.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (29.73%) Service Management
2 11 (29.73%) ITSM
2 11 (29.73%) TOGAF
2 11 (29.73%) Fault Management
3 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.405%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (5.405%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.703%) Network Management
5 1 (2.703%) Product Marketing
5 1 (2.703%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Korn
1 5 (13.51%) Perl
1 5 (13.51%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Degree
2 1 (2.703%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.703%) CCNP
2 1 (2.703%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.108%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Ionix
1 11 (29.73%) Netcool
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 11 (29.73%) HP
2 11 (29.73%) EMC
2 11 (29.73%) BMC
2 11 (29.73%) Remedy
3 9 (24.32%) Ericsson
3 9 (24.32%) Huawei
3 9 (24.32%) BT
4 5 (13.51%) NEC
4 5 (13.51%) Greenplum
4 5 (13.51%) Oracle
5 4 (10.81%) Mapinfo
6 3 (8.108%) CheckPoint
6 3 (8.108%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.703%) Siemens
7 1 (2.703%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (2.703%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.703%) Cisco
7 1 (2.703%) NetScout
7 1 (2.703%) TippingPoint