Wireless 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 Wireless 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 Wireless over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 95 109 78
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -31
Contract jobs citing Wireless 20 30 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.977% 0.905% 1.392%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.826% 5.484% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 10
Average daily rate £210 £288 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.95% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £186 £225 £121
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £530 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 11
Average hourly rate £40.50 £22.50 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+80.00% -31.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 293 547 376
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.31% 16.51% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 280 154
Average daily rate £350 £400 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +18.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £240 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 56
Average hourly rate £20.50 £27.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.45% -5.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £20.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £40.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Wireless
England

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wireless across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West Wireless Daily Rate Histogram

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 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 +14 8 £450 -21.73%
Dorset +1 6 £205 -8.88%
Wiltshire 0 4 £173 -45.23%
Somerset - 1 - -
Devon - 1 - -
Wireless
England

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1 12 (31.58%) VPN
2 11 (28.95%) Cisco
2 11 (28.95%) VoIP
2 11 (28.95%) Internet
2 11 (28.95%) Telecoms
3 10 (26.32%) Windows
4 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
4 9 (23.68%) HP
4 9 (23.68%) Network Management
5 8 (21.05%) Windows XP
5 8 (21.05%) Windows 7
6 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (18.42%) Finance
7 6 (15.79%) Firewall
7 6 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (15.79%) CheckPoint
7 6 (15.79%) Blackberry
7 6 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 6 (15.79%) Citrix
7 6 (15.79%) Nokia
7 6 (15.79%) Linux
7 6 (15.79%) LAN
7 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
7 6 (15.79%) 4G
8 5 (13.16%) Unified Communications
8 5 (13.16%) FWSM
8 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
8 5 (13.16%) C
8 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2003

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.632%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.632%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (31.58%) VPN
2 11 (28.95%) Internet
2 11 (28.95%) VoIP
3 6 (15.79%) LAN
3 6 (15.79%) Firewall
3 6 (15.79%) TCP/IP
3 6 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (15.79%) 4G
4 5 (13.16%) FWSM
4 5 (13.16%) Unified Communications
4 5 (13.16%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (13.16%) IP Telephony
4 5 (13.16%) MPLS
5 4 (10.53%) OSPF
5 4 (10.53%) BGP
5 4 (10.53%) 3G
5 4 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (10.53%) Broadband
5 4 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (7.895%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.263%) LabVIEW
2 1 (2.632%) Subversion
2 1 (2.632%) Hudson
2 1 (2.632%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (28.95%) Telecoms
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 1 (2.632%) Automotive
3 1 (2.632%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Desktop Support
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Network Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Senior Network Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) Support Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.895%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Support
7 2 (5.263%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Blackberry
2 5 (13.16%) Handset
3 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.895%) iPad
5 2 (5.263%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 2 (5.263%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.632%) Open Source
6 1 (2.632%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.632%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 8 (21.05%) Windows XP
2 8 (21.05%) Windows 7
3 6 (15.79%) Linux
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (10.53%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (5.263%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.632%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Network Management
2 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (10.53%) ITIL
4 4 (10.53%) Information Management
4 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (7.895%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (7.895%) Matrix Management
6 2 (5.263%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (2.632%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.632%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (2.632%) Network Planning
7 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (2.632%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (2.632%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.632%) PRINCE2
7 1 (2.632%) Project Management
7 1 (2.632%) Quality Management
7 1 (2.632%) Web Design
7 1 (2.632%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) C
2 4 (10.53%) Perl
3 3 (7.895%) Embedded C
4 2 (5.263%) C++
5 1 (2.632%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (7.895%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (7.895%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (7.895%) MCDST
1 3 (7.895%) MCSE
2 2 (5.263%) CCNA
3 1 (2.632%) CCNP
3 1 (2.632%) Degree
3 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) CiscoWorks
2 1 (2.632%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Cisco
2 9 (23.68%) HP
3 6 (15.79%) Citrix
3 6 (15.79%) Nokia
3 6 (15.79%) CheckPoint
4 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 5 (13.16%) IronPort
5 4 (10.53%) SolarWinds
5 4 (10.53%) IBM
5 4 (10.53%) Avaya
5 4 (10.53%) CA
6 3 (7.895%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.632%) Oracle
7 1 (2.632%) Symantec
7 1 (2.632%) VMware
7 1 (2.632%) Motorola
7 1 (2.632%) Apple
7 1 (2.632%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (2.632%) Adobe
7 1 (2.632%) Altera
Electronics Project Manager
Wiltshire, South West
The role will be fairly hands on, so they are looking for someone who is prepared to get their hands dirty with the project. They will be looking...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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