The first table below looks at the demand for Radio Access Network 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 Radio Access Network over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Radio Access Network (RAN)
Rank 48 11 71
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +60
Contract jobs citing Radio Access Network 23 107 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.629% 9.296% 0.692%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.70% 22.11% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 1
Average daily rate £275 £251 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.56% -16.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £263
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £57.50 £33.25 -
% change year-on-year
+72.93% -
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
215 484 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.57% 42.05% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 121 72
Average daily rate £273 £280 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.67% -24.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £215 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 12
Average hourly rate £23.50 £16.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.42% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £14.56 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £44.00 £22.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
Radio Access Network
Berkshire

Radio Access Network
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Radio Access Network Jobs Demand Trend

Radio Access Network
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Radio Access Network Daily Rate Trend

Radio Access Network
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Radio Access Network 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 Radio Access Network.

1 57 (90.48%) Telecoms
2 46 (73.02%) 3G
3 34 (53.97%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 30 (47.62%) LTE
5 27 (42.86%) 2G
6 25 (39.68%) Ericsson
7 24 (38.10%) ATM
8 23 (36.51%) Project Management
9 21 (33.33%) MPLS
10 20 (31.75%) Network Design
11 19 (30.16%) Ethernet
12 18 (28.57%) Huawei
13 13 (20.63%) Resource Management
13 13 (20.63%) Validation
13 13 (20.63%) UTRAN
14 12 (19.05%) OSPF
14 12 (19.05%) BGP
14 12 (19.05%) 3GPP
15 11 (17.46%) Capacity Planning
16 10 (15.87%) SDH
16 10 (15.87%) Perl
16 10 (15.87%) SQL
16 10 (15.87%) .NET
16 10 (15.87%) Oracle
16 10 (15.87%) Nokia
16 10 (15.87%) Handset
16 10 (15.87%) NEC
17 9 (14.29%) VPN
17 9 (14.29%) RSVP
17 9 (14.29%) VRRP

Radio Access Network
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Radio Access Network 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 Radio Access Network. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (15.87%) .NET
2 4 (6.349%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.587%) ASP
Applications
1 6 (9.524%) MS Office
2 2 (3.175%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.587%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 46 (73.02%) 3G
2 30 (47.62%) LTE
3 27 (42.86%) 2G
4 24 (38.10%) ATM
5 21 (33.33%) MPLS
6 19 (30.16%) Ethernet
7 13 (20.63%) UTRAN
8 12 (19.05%) 3GPP
8 12 (19.05%) OSPF
8 12 (19.05%) BGP
9 10 (15.87%) SDH
10 9 (14.29%) VPN
10 9 (14.29%) RSVP
10 9 (14.29%) VRRP
10 9 (14.29%) HSRP
11 8 (12.70%) RNC
12 6 (9.524%) TELNET
12 6 (9.524%) DNS
12 6 (9.524%) SNMP
12 6 (9.524%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.349%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.349%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.349%) Big Data
2 1 (1.587%) MS Access
General
1 57 (90.48%) Telecoms
2 4 (6.349%) Back Office
3 2 (3.175%) Front Office
3 2 (3.175%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (44.44%) Design Engineer
2 14 (22.22%) RAN Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Network Design Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Transmission Engineer
5 6 (9.524%) IP Engineer
5 6 (9.524%) Developer
6 5 (7.937%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.349%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.349%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.762%) Radio Engineer
8 3 (4.762%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.175%) RAN Performance Engineer
9 2 (3.175%) Integration Project Manager
9 2 (3.175%) Consultant
9 2 (3.175%) Integration Manager
9 2 (3.175%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.175%) Project Administrator
9 2 (3.175%) Security Engineer
9 2 (3.175%) Performance Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Handset
2 4 (6.349%) Open Source
3 2 (3.175%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.587%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.524%) UNIX
2 4 (6.349%) Windows
2 4 (6.349%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Project Management
2 20 (31.75%) Network Design
3 13 (20.63%) Resource Management
3 13 (20.63%) Validation
4 11 (17.46%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (9.524%) Web Development
5 6 (9.524%) Migration
6 5 (7.937%) ITIL
6 5 (7.937%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (6.349%) eTOM
8 3 (4.762%) Project Planning
8 3 (4.762%) Fault Management
8 3 (4.762%) PRINCE2
8 3 (4.762%) ETL
8 3 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (4.762%) Network Management
9 2 (3.175%) Time Management
9 2 (3.175%) Network Planning
10 1 (1.587%) Budget Control
10 1 (1.587%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) Perl
1 10 (15.87%) SQL
2 6 (9.524%) PL/SQL
2 6 (9.524%) C
2 6 (9.524%) C#
2 6 (9.524%) C++
3 4 (6.349%) Java
4 1 (1.587%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (7.937%) Degree
2 3 (4.762%) PMP
2 3 (4.762%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.175%) CCNP
3 2 (3.175%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.524%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.175%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 3 (4.762%) OpenView
1 3 (4.762%) CiscoWorks
1 3 (4.762%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 34 (53.97%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 25 (39.68%) Ericsson
3 18 (28.57%) Huawei
4 10 (15.87%) NEC
4 10 (15.87%) Nokia
4 10 (15.87%) Oracle
5 8 (12.70%) BT
6 6 (9.524%) Cisco
6 6 (9.524%) Nortel
7 4 (6.349%) Citrix
7 4 (6.349%) Juniper
7 4 (6.349%) Business Objects
7 4 (6.349%) Redback
7 4 (6.349%) Greenplum
8 3 (4.762%) HP
9 2 (3.175%) Blue Coat
9 2 (3.175%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.175%) F5
10 1 (1.587%) Siemens
10 1 (1.587%) Alcatel-Lucent