3G Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for 3G skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3G 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 South West 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
3G
Rank 106 102 87
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -15
Contract jobs citing 3G 5 37 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.243% 1.120% 1.195%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.706% 6.715% 8.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 6
Average daily rate £263 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £193 £293 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £305
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year
+3.57% -9.67%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 293 551 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.22% 16.68% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 284 152
Average daily rate £350 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £249 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 39 53
Average hourly rate £20.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.96 £16.50 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
3G
England

3G
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 3G Jobs Demand Trend

3G
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West 3G Daily Rate Trend

3G
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3G across the South West region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South West 3G Daily Rate Histogram

3G
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West 3G Hourly Rate Trend

3G
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3G within the South West region over the 3 months to 22 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
Bristol +1 3 £175 -63.15%
Somerset - 1 - -
3G
England

3G
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing 3G 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 3G.

1 11 (42.31%) Telecoms
1 11 (42.31%) 4G
2 10 (38.46%) 2G
3 7 (26.92%) C
4 6 (23.08%) Nokia
4 6 (23.08%) Radio Access Network
5 5 (19.23%) LTE
5 5 (19.23%) GSM
5 5 (19.23%) Cisco
5 5 (19.23%) Linux
5 5 (19.23%) UMTS
6 4 (15.38%) Broadband
6 4 (15.38%) GPRS
6 4 (15.38%) Wireless
6 4 (15.38%) IPsec
7 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
7 3 (11.54%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (11.54%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 3 (11.54%) Windows
7 3 (11.54%) Perl
7 3 (11.54%) MS Office
7 3 (11.54%) Embedded C
8 2 (7.692%) CCNP
8 2 (7.692%) CCNA
8 2 (7.692%) Microsoft
8 2 (7.692%) Citrix
8 2 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (7.692%) Juniper
8 2 (7.692%) C++
8 2 (7.692%) FTP

3G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing 3G 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 3G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.846%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) 4G
2 10 (38.46%) 2G
3 6 (23.08%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (19.23%) LTE
4 5 (19.23%) GSM
4 5 (19.23%) UMTS
5 4 (15.38%) Broadband
5 4 (15.38%) GPRS
5 4 (15.38%) Wireless
5 4 (15.38%) IPsec
6 2 (7.692%) FTP
6 2 (7.692%) SNMP
6 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
6 2 (7.692%) VPN
6 2 (7.692%) TACACS
6 2 (7.692%) OSPF
6 2 (7.692%) BGP
6 2 (7.692%) Firewall
6 2 (7.692%) RNC
6 2 (7.692%) FWSM
Development Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Subversion
General
1 11 (42.31%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Banking
2 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.846%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Design Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) IP Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) RAN Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) FPGA Design Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) RF Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) RF Design Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Software Developer
4 1 (3.846%) Developer
4 1 (3.846%) Technical Support
4 1 (3.846%) Support Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (3.846%) VHDL
2 1 (3.846%) Verilog
2 1 (3.846%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.846%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
3 1 (3.846%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.846%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
2 2 (7.692%) Performance Management
3 1 (3.846%) Test Management
3 1 (3.846%) Incident Management
3 1 (3.846%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (3.846%) Validation
3 1 (3.846%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (3.846%) Service Management
3 1 (3.846%) ITIL
3 1 (3.846%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) C
2 3 (11.54%) Perl
2 3 (11.54%) Embedded C
3 2 (7.692%) C++
4 1 (3.846%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (7.692%) CCNP
1 2 (7.692%) CCNA
1 2 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.846%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.846%) MCSE
2 1 (3.846%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Nokia
2 5 (19.23%) Cisco
3 3 (11.54%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 2 (7.692%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.692%) Citrix
4 2 (7.692%) Juniper
5 1 (3.846%) Panasonic
5 1 (3.846%) Huawei
5 1 (3.846%) AppSense
5 1 (3.846%) Motorola
5 1 (3.846%) Dell
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