The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless 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 Wireless over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank - 37 22
Contract jobs citing Wireless 0 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon - 0.831% 4.459%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 4.478% 26.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £308 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £323 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
All Communications & Networking
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 67 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 15.03% 18.56% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 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 £271 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
Average hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.46% +12.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.70 £32.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.30 £32.50 £35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Wireless
Wiltshire

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 5 (71.43%) 4G
3 4 (57.14%) C
3 4 (57.14%) Perl
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (42.86%) Embedded C
4 3 (42.86%) 3G
4 3 (42.86%) Broadband
5 2 (28.57%) 2G
5 2 (28.57%) LabVIEW
6 1 (14.29%) Subversion
6 1 (14.29%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 1 (14.29%) Finance
6 1 (14.29%) Validation
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) 4G
2 3 (42.86%) 3G
2 3 (42.86%) Broadband
3 2 (28.57%) 2G
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) LabVIEW
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C
1 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) Embedded C
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco