The first table below looks at the demand for LTE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LTE 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 Swindon 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
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LTE 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.364% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.500% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £340 £250
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-11.76% +6.25%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
40 63 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 14.55% 17.40% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 14
Average daily rate £440 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £265 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £433 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +12.06%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
LTE
Wiltshire

LTE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon LTE Jobs Demand Trend

LTE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon LTE Daily Rate Trend

LTE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon LTE Hourly Rate Trend

LTE
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing LTE 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 LTE.

1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Valgrind
2 1 (50.00%) GDB
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (50.00%) UTRAN
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#

LTE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) UTRAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Valgrind
1 1 (50.00%) GDB
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#