The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Nokia Siemens Networks products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Nokia Siemens Networks over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nokia Siemens Networks
Rank 428 382 520
Rank change year-on-year
-46 +138
Contract jobs citing Nokia Siemens Networks 101 207 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.218% 0.355% 0.105%
As % of the Vendors category 0.463% 0.764% 0.225%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 35 23
Average daily rate £275 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £225 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £545 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £280 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.78% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21803 27081 28409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11623 13840 14202
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1174 1312 1605
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.22 £11.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Nokia Siemens Networks
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Nokia Siemens Networks within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Nokia Siemens Networks Jobs Demand Trend

Nokia Siemens Networks
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nokia Siemens Networks Daily Rate Trend

Nokia Siemens Networks
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Nokia Siemens Networks within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Nokia Siemens Networks Daily Rate Histogram

Nokia Siemens Networks
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nokia Siemens Networks Hourly Rate Trend

Nokia Siemens Networks
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nokia Siemens Networks within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England -38 82 £278 -1.76%
South East -31 67 £280 +1.81%
Berkshire -18 61 £278 +6.73%
Reading -12 31 £275 -0.90%
Guildford - 4 £300 -
Surrey - 4 £300 -
South West +25 3 £308 +66.21%
East of England +17 2 £270 -28.00%
Hemel Hempstead +11 2 £270 -
Hertfordshire +6 2 £270 -28.00%
Newbury -5 2 - -
Bristol +13 1 £350 +89.18%
Wiltshire - 1 £265 -
Swindon - 1 £265 -
Slough - 1 - -

Nokia Siemens Networks
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Nokia Siemens Networks 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 Nokia Siemens Networks.

1 153 (69.55%) Telecoms
2 121 (55.00%) 3G
3 110 (50.00%) Ericsson
4 84 (38.18%) Radio Access Network
5 82 (37.27%) LTE
6 74 (33.64%) ATM
7 68 (30.91%) Huawei
8 67 (30.45%) 2G
9 53 (24.09%) Ethernet
10 51 (23.18%) Project Management
11 46 (20.91%) SDH
12 38 (17.27%) Nokia
13 36 (16.36%) NEC
14 33 (15.00%) MPLS
15 32 (14.55%) 3GPP
15 32 (14.55%) UNIX
16 27 (12.27%) SQL
16 27 (12.27%) UTRAN
17 26 (11.82%) Oracle
18 24 (10.91%) SGSN
19 23 (10.45%) Network Design
19 23 (10.45%) GGSN
20 22 (10.00%) Resource Management
20 22 (10.00%) .NET
20 22 (10.00%) Perl
21 21 (9.545%) Validation
22 20 (9.091%) BT
22 20 (9.091%) Handset
23 19 (8.636%) RNC
23 19 (8.636%) Root Cause Analysis

Nokia Siemens Networks
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Nokia Siemens Networks 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 Nokia Siemens Networks. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (10.00%) .NET
2 11 (5.000%) XML
3 4 (1.818%) CORBA
3 4 (1.818%) ASP.NET
3 4 (1.818%) SOAP
4 3 (1.364%) Silverlight
5 1 (0.455%) Middleware
5 1 (0.455%) Web Services
5 1 (0.455%) XSLT
5 1 (0.455%) WSDL
5 1 (0.455%) XML Schema
5 1 (0.455%) WCF
5 1 (0.455%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.455%) IIS
1 1 (0.455%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (0.455%) MS Office
1 1 (0.455%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.455%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 121 (55.00%) 3G
2 84 (38.18%) Radio Access Network
3 82 (37.27%) LTE
4 74 (33.64%) ATM
5 67 (30.45%) 2G
6 53 (24.09%) Ethernet
7 46 (20.91%) SDH
8 33 (15.00%) MPLS
9 32 (14.55%) 3GPP
10 27 (12.27%) UTRAN
11 24 (10.91%) SGSN
12 23 (10.45%) GGSN
13 19 (8.636%) RNC
14 15 (6.818%) UMTS
14 15 (6.818%) GSM
15 13 (5.909%) SS7
16 12 (5.455%) TELNET
16 12 (5.455%) Nokia NetAct
17 9 (4.091%) VoIP
18 8 (3.636%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.636%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (2.273%) GIS
3 4 (1.818%) Big Data
3 4 (1.818%) NoSQL
3 4 (1.818%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.818%) MySQL
4 2 (0.909%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (1.818%) Subversion
1 4 (1.818%) Rational Rose
1 4 (1.818%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (1.364%) Selenium
General
1 153 (69.55%) Telecoms
2 15 (6.818%) Marketing
3 12 (5.455%) Legal
4 9 (4.091%) Back Office
5 7 (3.182%) Finance
5 7 (3.182%) Billing
6 5 (2.273%) Front Office
7 4 (1.818%) Law
8 3 (1.364%) German Language
9 2 (0.909%) Arabic Language
9 2 (0.909%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 76 (34.55%) Design Engineer
2 44 (20.00%) Transmission Engineer
3 31 (14.09%) RAN Engineer
4 21 (9.545%) Developer
5 14 (6.364%) Test Engineer
6 13 (5.909%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.455%) Network Engineer
8 7 (3.182%) Support Engineer
8 7 (3.182%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (2.727%) Radio Engineer
9 6 (2.727%) Access Transmission Engineer
9 6 (2.727%) Databuild Engineer
10 5 (2.273%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (2.273%) Analyst
10 5 (2.273%) Transmission Planning Engineer
10 5 (2.273%) Test Leader
10 5 (2.273%) Voice Engineer
11 4 (1.818%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (1.818%) Back Office Engineer
11 4 (1.818%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.091%) Handset
2 4 (1.818%) Open Source
2 4 (1.818%) Mathematics
2 4 (1.818%) Physics
2 4 (1.818%) Computer Science
3 3 (1.364%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.364%) Wiki
4 1 (0.455%) Data Extraction
4 1 (0.455%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.55%) UNIX
2 12 (5.455%) Linux
3 5 (2.273%) Windows
4 1 (0.455%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (23.18%) Project Management
2 23 (10.45%) Network Design
3 22 (10.00%) Resource Management
4 21 (9.545%) Validation
5 19 (8.636%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (6.818%) Problem Management
6 15 (6.818%) Product Marketing
7 14 (6.364%) Network Management
7 14 (6.364%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (6.364%) Web Development
8 13 (5.909%) Migration
9 12 (5.455%) Capacity Planning
10 9 (4.091%) Performance Management
10 9 (4.091%) eTOM
11 8 (3.636%) ITIL
12 7 (3.182%) Configuration Management
13 6 (2.727%) Service Delivery
13 6 (2.727%) Change Management
14 5 (2.273%) CRM
14 5 (2.273%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.27%) SQL
2 22 (10.00%) Perl
3 16 (7.273%) C#
4 14 (6.364%) C++
5 12 (5.455%) PL/SQL
6 8 (3.636%) C
7 7 (3.182%) Java
8 2 (0.909%) PHP
9 1 (0.455%) Tcl
9 1 (0.455%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (8.182%) Degree
2 3 (1.364%) PMP
2 3 (1.364%) PMI Certification
2 3 (1.364%) HNC
2 3 (1.364%) HND
3 2 (0.909%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.455%) PhD
4 1 (0.455%) A+ Certification
4 1 (0.455%) CCIE
4 1 (0.455%) CCNP
4 1 (0.455%) CCIP
4 1 (0.455%) CCNA
4 1 (0.455%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.364%) SLA
2 4 (1.818%) QA
3 1 (0.455%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.455%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.455%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (2.273%) NDS
2 4 (1.818%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (0.909%) Cacti
2 1 (0.455%) OpenView
2 1 (0.455%) HP NNM
2 1 (0.455%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 110 (50.00%) Ericsson
2 68 (30.91%) Huawei
3 38 (17.27%) Nokia
4 36 (16.36%) NEC
5 26 (11.82%) Oracle
6 20 (9.091%) BT
7 16 (7.273%) Nortel
8 13 (5.909%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 10 (4.545%) Siemens
10 9 (4.091%) Cisco
11 8 (3.636%) Greenplum
12 7 (3.182%) Business Objects
13 6 (2.727%) Mapinfo
13 6 (2.727%) TIBCO
14 5 (2.273%) Salesforce.com
14 5 (2.273%) Cerillion
15 4 (1.818%) Agilent
15 4 (1.818%) Amdocs
15 4 (1.818%) Citrix
15 4 (1.818%) Red Hat