Staines Handset Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Handsets skills within the Staines region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Handset over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barking Basingstoke Berkshire Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East Anglia East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Godalming Hampshire Haverhill Hayes Hertfordshire Home Counties London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Woking	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	5.556 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£272	£386
% change on same period last year	-29.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.12	£32.68
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Miscellaneous Staines
Matching contract IT job ads	18	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£308
Average daily rate	£388	£309
% change on same period last year	+25.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.15	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.85	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
Handset Surrey

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Handset across the Staines region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Handset across the Staines region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region citing Handset 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 Handset.

1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) CDMA 1 1 (33.33 %) SMS 1 1 (33.33 %) WCDMA 1 1 (33.33 %) Embedded C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region citing Handset 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 Handset. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) CDMA 1 1 (33.33 %) SMS 1 1 (33.33 %) WCDMA 1 1 (33.33 %) Wi-Fi	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Software Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Embedded Software Engineer
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Mobile	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Embedded C++