The first table below looks at the demand for HSDPA skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HSDPA over the 3 months to 18 June 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.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)
Rank 551 574 573
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -1
Contract jobs citing HSDPA 3 15 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.026% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.043% 0.165% 0.173%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £200 £306 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.69% -26.20%
UK excluding London average daily rate £200 £306 £415
% change year-on-year
-34.69% -26.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
Average hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £38.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% +3.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.25 £40.00 £26.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.25 £45.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year
+3.12% +3.89%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6968 9083 8091
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.31% 15.64% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3510 4049 3664
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 620 810
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%

HSDPA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

HSDPA Jobs Demand Trend

HSDPA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HSDPA within the UK.

HSDPA Daily Rate Trend

HSDPA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HSDPA within the UK.

HSDPA Hourly Rate Trend

HSDPA
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HSDPA within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +11 3 £200 -34.69% 1
England +3 3 £200 -34.69% 1
Nottingham - - - -
Thame - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Midlands - - - -

HSDPA
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HSDPA 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 HSDPA.

1 6 (100.00%) Wireless
1 6 (100.00%) Handset
1 6 (100.00%) HSUPA
1 6 (100.00%) HSPA
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
2 4 (66.67%) Anite
2 4 (66.67%) Agilent
2 4 (66.67%) IP Telephony
2 4 (66.67%) 3G
2 4 (66.67%) ASIC
2 4 (66.67%) CDMA
2 4 (66.67%) GPRS
2 4 (66.67%) GSM
2 4 (66.67%) UMTS
2 4 (66.67%) WCDMA
3 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (33.33%) 2G
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) OFDM
4 2 (33.33%) NAS
4 2 (33.33%) PPP
4 2 (33.33%) IPv6
4 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (33.33%) 3GPP
4 2 (33.33%) TDMA
4 2 (33.33%) C
4 2 (33.33%) Perl

HSDPA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HSDPA 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 HSDPA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Wireless
1 6 (100.00%) HSUPA
1 6 (100.00%) HSPA
1 6 (100.00%) LTE
2 4 (66.67%) 3G
2 4 (66.67%) IP Telephony
2 4 (66.67%) CDMA
2 4 (66.67%) GPRS
2 4 (66.67%) GSM
2 4 (66.67%) UMTS
2 4 (66.67%) WCDMA
3 2 (33.33%) PPP
3 2 (33.33%) IPv6
3 2 (33.33%) 3GPP
3 2 (33.33%) TDMA
3 2 (33.33%) 2G
3 2 (33.33%) NAS
3 2 (33.33%) OFDM
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Support
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Operator
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Field Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Handset
2 4 (66.67%) ASIC
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) Perl
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Anite
1 4 (66.67%) Agilent
Hampshire
Understanding of field test execution of GSM /UMTS/IRAT/LTE Performance KPI... Exposure of the following: Understanding of digital communications systems, CDMA, TDMA,OFDM, telecommunications concepts... GSM/ GPRS /...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £20.00 - £25.00 per hour
Posted: 17 June 2013