The first table below looks at the demand for UMTS 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 UMTS 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)
Rank 64 57 83
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +26
Contract jobs citing UMTS 6 27 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.719% 2.422% 0.192%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.046% 5.757% 0.966%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
-12.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £44.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +11.25%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
197 469 207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.59% 42.06% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 112 71
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.99% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.20 £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 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
UMTS
Berkshire

UMTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading UMTS Jobs Demand Trend

UMTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading UMTS Daily Rate Trend

UMTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading UMTS Hourly Rate Trend

UMTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (94.74%) GSM
1 18 (94.74%) Telecoms
2 9 (47.37%) GPRS
3 8 (42.11%) SS7
3 8 (42.11%) Integration Testing
4 7 (36.84%) UNIX
5 6 (31.58%) Network Design
5 6 (31.58%) SIGTRAN
5 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (21.05%) 2G
6 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
6 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
6 4 (21.05%) 3G
6 4 (21.05%) Linux
7 3 (15.79%) J2EE
7 3 (15.79%) CDMA
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.79%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 3 (15.79%) BSS
7 3 (15.79%) Business Transformation
7 3 (15.79%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 2 (10.53%) Stress Testing
8 2 (10.53%) Product Marketing
8 2 (10.53%) Time Management
8 2 (10.53%) Release Management
8 2 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
8 2 (10.53%) Marketing
8 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
8 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software

UMTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (15.79%) J2EE
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 1 (5.263%) WPF
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (94.74%) GSM
2 9 (47.37%) GPRS
3 8 (42.11%) SS7
4 6 (31.58%) SIGTRAN
5 4 (21.05%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (21.05%) 2G
5 4 (21.05%) 3G
6 3 (15.79%) CDMA
6 3 (15.79%) BSS
7 2 (10.53%) Wireless
7 2 (10.53%) SDH
7 2 (10.53%) ATM
8 1 (5.263%) Ethernet
8 1 (5.263%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) MS Access
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (94.74%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing
2 2 (10.53%) Military
3 1 (5.263%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Support Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Network Support Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Network Support
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) OSS Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Project Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.263%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Junior
5 1 (5.263%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (5.263%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Build Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Radio Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Transmission Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) UNIX
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Integration Testing
2 6 (31.58%) Network Design
2 6 (31.58%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Business Transformation
5 2 (10.53%) Stress Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Product Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Time Management
5 2 (10.53%) Release Management
5 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
5 2 (10.53%) Validation
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.53%) B2B
5 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.263%) Change Management
6 1 (5.263%) TOGAF
6 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (5.263%) Network Planning
6 1 (5.263%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) C
1 2 (10.53%) C#
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) PMP
1 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.263%) HNC
2 1 (5.263%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) NDS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) Netcool
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.79%) Alcatel-Lucent
1 3 (15.79%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 2 (10.53%) TIBCO
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.263%) Citrix
3 1 (5.263%) BMC
3 1 (5.263%) Ericsson
3 1 (5.263%) Nokia
3 1 (5.263%) Remedy
3 1 (5.263%) Cramer
3 1 (5.263%) OPNET
3 1 (5.263%) NetCracker
3 1 (5.263%) Greenplum