The first table below looks at the demand for GSM skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GSM 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 South East 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
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
Rank 183 145 161
Rank change year-on-year
-38 +16
Contract jobs citing GSM 41 95 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.526% 0.936% 0.887%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.757% 4.433% 4.792%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 20 4
Average daily rate £308 £265 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.03% -14.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £214 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £391 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £309 £280 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.26% -13.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £38.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.25 £24.20 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.75 £50.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1487 2143 1920
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.08% 21.12% 18.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 627 668
Average daily rate £320 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £188 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 187 236
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +22.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.50 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
GSM
England

GSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East GSM Jobs Demand Trend

GSM
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East GSM Daily Rate Trend

GSM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GSM across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East GSM Daily Rate Histogram

GSM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East GSM Hourly Rate Trend

GSM
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing GSM across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East GSM Hourly Rate Histogram

GSM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GSM within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire -23 20 £308 +13.88%
Hampshire -5 11 £293 +1.73%
Surrey +18 9 - -
Middlesex +7 1 - -
GSM
England

GSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing GSM 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 GSM.

1 109 (83.21%) Telecoms
2 62 (47.33%) 3G
3 57 (43.51%) WCDMA
4 56 (42.75%) UMTS
5 52 (39.69%) 2G
6 43 (32.82%) Radio Access Network
7 41 (31.30%) LTE
8 36 (27.48%) 3GPP
9 32 (24.43%) Ericsson
10 31 (23.66%) GPRS
11 28 (21.37%) NetHawk
12 27 (20.61%) Wireshark
12 27 (20.61%) ISEB
13 24 (18.32%) Wireless
14 22 (16.79%) RANAP
14 22 (16.79%) Migration
15 19 (14.50%) RNC
16 18 (13.74%) C
17 17 (12.98%) C++
17 17 (12.98%) UNIX
17 17 (12.98%) CDMA
18 14 (10.69%) Linux
19 13 (9.924%) Project Management
19 13 (9.924%) Configuration Management
19 13 (9.924%) Degree
20 11 (8.397%) SLA
21 10 (7.634%) Handset
22 9 (6.870%) Windows
22 9 (6.870%) STL
23 8 (6.107%) SQL

GSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (6.870%) STL
2 8 (6.107%) .NET
3 7 (5.344%) WAP
4 6 (4.580%) J2EE
4 6 (4.580%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (2.290%) Web Services
6 2 (1.527%) XML
6 2 (1.527%) Flash
7 1 (0.763%) soapUI
7 1 (0.763%) KML
7 1 (0.763%) WCF
7 1 (0.763%) WPF
7 1 (0.763%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.763%) JSON
7 1 (0.763%) SyncML
7 1 (0.763%) J2ME
7 1 (0.763%) HTML
7 1 (0.763%) WML
7 1 (0.763%) JDBC
7 1 (0.763%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.527%) SAS
1 2 (1.527%) Apache
2 1 (0.763%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (0.763%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (6.107%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.290%) MS Office
3 2 (1.527%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.527%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (1.527%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.763%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.763%) Minerva
1 1 (0.763%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 62 (47.33%) 3G
2 57 (43.51%) WCDMA
3 56 (42.75%) UMTS
4 52 (39.69%) 2G
5 43 (32.82%) Radio Access Network
6 41 (31.30%) LTE
7 36 (27.48%) 3GPP
8 31 (23.66%) GPRS
9 27 (20.61%) Wireshark
10 24 (18.32%) Wireless
11 22 (16.79%) RANAP
12 19 (14.50%) RNC
13 17 (12.98%) CDMA
14 8 (6.107%) ATM
14 8 (6.107%) SS7
15 7 (5.344%) HSPA
15 7 (5.344%) SDH
16 6 (4.580%) PBX
16 6 (4.580%) Ethernet
16 6 (4.580%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.580%) MS Access
1 6 (4.580%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.527%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (0.763%) GIS
3 1 (0.763%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (4.580%) Trac
1 6 (4.580%) Subversion
1 6 (4.580%) GCC
1 6 (4.580%) GDB
2 5 (3.817%) StarTeam
3 4 (3.053%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.763%) Hudson
4 1 (0.763%) Selenium
4 1 (0.763%) JMeter
4 1 (0.763%) TestDirector
4 1 (0.763%) JUnit
4 1 (0.763%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.763%) WebDriver
General
1 109 (83.21%) Telecoms
2 5 (3.817%) Military
3 4 (3.053%) Front Office
4 3 (2.290%) Marketing
4 3 (2.290%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.527%) Finance
5 2 (1.527%) Electronics
6 1 (0.763%) Billing
6 1 (0.763%) Music
Job Titles
1 51 (38.93%) Test Engineer
2 25 (19.08%) RAN Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Software Engineer
4 14 (10.69%) Network Engineer
5 12 (9.160%) Support Engineer
6 9 (6.870%) 3G Engineer
7 8 (6.107%) Architect
7 8 (6.107%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.107%) Network Support Engineer
7 8 (6.107%) Network Support
8 6 (4.580%) C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (4.580%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (4.580%) OSS Engineer
9 4 (3.053%) Transmission Engineer
9 4 (3.053%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.053%) Development Engineer
10 3 (2.290%) Verification Engineer
10 3 (2.290%) OSS Architect
10 3 (2.290%) Integration Engineer
10 3 (2.290%) RF Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.634%) Handset
2 6 (4.580%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.817%) ASIC
4 3 (2.290%) iPhone
5 2 (1.527%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.527%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.763%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.763%) Applied Mathematics
6 1 (0.763%) VHDL
6 1 (0.763%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.763%) Statistics
6 1 (0.763%) DTV
6 1 (0.763%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) UNIX
2 14 (10.69%) Linux
3 9 (6.870%) Windows
4 3 (2.290%) Android
4 3 (2.290%) Solaris
5 1 (0.763%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.79%) Migration
2 13 (9.924%) Project Management
2 13 (9.924%) Configuration Management
3 8 (6.107%) OOD
3 8 (6.107%) OO
3 8 (6.107%) Integration Testing
4 7 (5.344%) Resource Management
4 7 (5.344%) Network Design
4 7 (5.344%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (4.580%) Incident Management
5 6 (4.580%) Unit Testing
6 5 (3.817%) Fault Management
6 5 (3.817%) Performance Management
7 4 (3.053%) PRINCE2
7 4 (3.053%) Service Delivery
7 4 (3.053%) Multithreading
8 3 (2.290%) Time Management
8 3 (2.290%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (2.290%) Network Planning
8 3 (2.290%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.74%) C
2 17 (12.98%) C++
3 8 (6.107%) SQL
4 5 (3.817%) Embedded C
4 5 (3.817%) Perl
4 5 (3.817%) VBA
4 5 (3.817%) Python
5 4 (3.053%) VB.NET
6 3 (2.290%) VB
6 3 (2.290%) Java
6 3 (2.290%) C#
7 2 (1.527%) PHP
7 2 (1.527%) Tcl
7 2 (1.527%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.763%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 27 (20.61%) ISEB
2 13 (9.924%) Degree
3 3 (2.290%) PMP
3 3 (2.290%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.527%) HND
5 1 (0.763%) NVQ Level 4
5 1 (0.763%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.763%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.763%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.397%) SLA
2 2 (1.527%) QA
3 1 (0.763%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (0.763%) NDS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.053%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.763%) Netcool
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Ericsson
2 28 (21.37%) NetHawk
3 7 (5.344%) Cisco
4 6 (4.580%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.580%) Citrix
5 4 (3.053%) Oracle
5 4 (3.053%) Agilent
5 4 (3.053%) Cramer
5 4 (3.053%) Anite
6 3 (2.290%) Perforce
6 3 (2.290%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 2 (1.527%) Nokia
7 2 (1.527%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.527%) NetCracker
7 2 (1.527%) Amdocs
7 2 (1.527%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 1 (0.763%) Actix
8 1 (0.763%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.763%) Huawei
8 1 (0.763%) ESRI
Guildford, Surrey
Keywords:- Software Engineer, Software Developer, Telecoms, Datacoms, C++, Linux, STL, GCC, Make, GDB, GSM, UMTS, LTE, System Design, MAP, CAMEL, Boost, HLR, Auc, MSC, VLR, SMSC, SGSN, GGSN,...
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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