The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Nokia 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 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 the Nokia Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Nokia
Rank 447 269 343
Rank change year-on-year
-178 +74
Contract jobs citing Nokia 82 376 260
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.177% 0.645% 0.426%
As % of the Vendors category 0.376% 1.388% 0.915%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 105 93
Average daily rate £350 £413 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% +26.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £262 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £445 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £295 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 11
Average hourly rate £16.67 £27.25 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.82% +29.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.67 £27.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-38.82% +29.76%
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
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nokia Jobs Demand Trend

Nokia
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nokia Daily Rate Trend

Nokia
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Nokia Daily Rate Histogram

Nokia
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nokia Hourly Rate Trend

Nokia
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Nokia 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 -153 75 £350 -15.15%
South East -102 25 £338 +19.46%
Berkshire -68 21 £383 +35.39%
London -40 15 £400 -5.88%
East Midlands +6 10 £263 -
Reading -32 9 £390 +69.56%
Nottinghamshire +1 5 - -
South West +27 4 £300 -
Shropshire +10 4 £560 -
West Midlands +3 4 £560 +103.63%
Nottingham -1 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £325 -
Lincolnshire - 4 £263 -
Telford - 4 £560 -
Lincoln - 4 £263 -
Bristol +16 3 £300 -
Surrey +16 3 £319 -
Midlands +3 3 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £350 -
East of England +11 2 - -
Scotland -11 2 - -
North West -16 2 - -
City of London -18 2 - -
Peterborough - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
Halifax - 2 - -
Edinburgh +2 1 - -
Dorset +1 1 £300 -
Lancashire +1 1 - -
Kent 0 1 £338 +14.40%

Nokia
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 89 (47.85%) Firewall
2 87 (46.77%) Cisco
3 72 (38.71%) CheckPoint
4 70 (37.63%) Telecoms
5 43 (23.12%) Cisco Certification
5 43 (23.12%) VPN
6 42 (22.58%) Juniper
7 38 (20.43%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 37 (19.89%) HP
9 36 (19.35%) OSPF
10 35 (18.82%) MPLS
10 35 (18.82%) 3G
11 33 (17.74%) BGP
12 30 (16.13%) Blue Coat
13 29 (15.59%) Radio Access Network
13 29 (15.59%) Nokia NetAct
14 26 (13.98%) LTE
14 26 (13.98%) Degree
14 26 (13.98%) 2G
14 26 (13.98%) Project Management
15 24 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
16 23 (12.37%) Cisco ASA
16 23 (12.37%) Network Management
16 23 (12.37%) Finance
17 22 (11.83%) Wireless
17 22 (11.83%) Windows
18 21 (11.29%) Ericsson
19 20 (10.75%) LAN
19 20 (10.75%) WAN
20 19 (10.22%) Ethernet

Nokia
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (7.527%) CSS
2 2 (1.075%) Middleware
3 1 (0.538%) Qt
3 1 (0.538%) Silverlight
3 1 (0.538%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.538%) .NET
3 1 (0.538%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.613%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (1.075%) Apache
2 2 (1.075%) MS Exchange
2 2 (1.075%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.538%) IIS
3 1 (0.538%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (2.688%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.151%) MS Office
3 1 (0.538%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.538%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (6.989%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.538%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 89 (47.85%) Firewall
2 43 (23.12%) VPN
3 36 (19.35%) OSPF
4 35 (18.82%) MPLS
4 35 (18.82%) 3G
5 33 (17.74%) BGP
6 29 (15.59%) Radio Access Network
6 29 (15.59%) Nokia NetAct
7 26 (13.98%) LTE
7 26 (13.98%) 2G
8 24 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 23 (12.37%) Cisco ASA
10 22 (11.83%) Wireless
11 20 (10.75%) LAN
11 20 (10.75%) WAN
12 19 (10.22%) Ethernet
13 18 (9.677%) TCP/IP
14 17 (9.140%) SNMP
14 17 (9.140%) VoIP
14 17 (9.140%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.688%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.688%) MySQL
2 3 (1.613%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (1.613%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.538%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (2.151%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.538%) WebLOAD
General
1 70 (37.63%) Telecoms
2 23 (12.37%) Finance
3 11 (5.914%) Back Office
4 5 (2.688%) Front Office
5 4 (2.151%) Banking
5 4 (2.151%) German Language
6 2 (1.075%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.075%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.538%) Marketing
7 1 (0.538%) French Language
Job Titles
1 39 (20.97%) Network Engineer
2 21 (11.29%) Architect
3 15 (8.065%) Design Engineer
3 15 (8.065%) Consultant
4 12 (6.452%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (5.914%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (5.914%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 11 (5.914%) Firewall Engineer
6 9 (4.839%) Databuild Engineer
6 9 (4.839%) Transmission Engineer
7 8 (4.301%) Analyst
7 8 (4.301%) Network Specialist
7 8 (4.301%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.301%) Network Support
7 8 (4.301%) Back Office Engineer
7 8 (4.301%) OSS Architect
7 8 (4.301%) RAN Engineer
8 7 (3.763%) Senior Network Analyst
8 7 (3.763%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (3.763%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.688%) Data Extraction
1 5 (2.688%) Computer Science
1 5 (2.688%) SecurID
2 3 (1.613%) Data Integration
3 2 (1.075%) Blackberry
3 2 (1.075%) Device Driver
3 2 (1.075%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.538%) Visualisation
4 1 (0.538%) iSeries
4 1 (0.538%) CMDB
4 1 (0.538%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.538%) VSAM
4 1 (0.538%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.538%) IVR
4 1 (0.538%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.538%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.538%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.83%) Windows
2 9 (4.839%) UNIX
3 8 (4.301%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (3.226%) Linux
5 5 (2.688%) VMS
5 5 (2.688%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (2.151%) Solaris
7 2 (1.075%) AIX
7 2 (1.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.075%) Windows Phone
8 1 (0.538%) Windows 8
8 1 (0.538%) Windows Phone 8
8 1 (0.538%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.538%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.538%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (13.98%) Project Management
2 23 (12.37%) Network Management
3 17 (9.140%) Load Balancing
4 15 (8.065%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (7.527%) ITIL
5 14 (7.527%) TOGAF
5 14 (7.527%) ITSM
5 14 (7.527%) Performance Management
6 12 (6.452%) Service Management
7 11 (5.914%) Fault Management
8 9 (4.839%) Network Design
9 8 (4.301%) Configuration Management
9 8 (4.301%) Network Architecture
10 7 (3.763%) Incident Management
11 6 (3.226%) Data Modelling
12 5 (2.688%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (2.688%) Service Delivery
12 5 (2.688%) Change Management
12 5 (2.688%) Business Intelligence
13 4 (2.151%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.763%) Perl
1 7 (3.763%) C
2 6 (3.226%) SQL
3 5 (2.688%) Korn
4 3 (1.613%) C++
5 1 (0.538%) COBOL
5 1 (0.538%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (23.12%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (13.98%) Degree
3 19 (10.22%) CCNP
3 19 (10.22%) CCNA
4 15 (8.065%) CCIE
5 12 (6.452%) CISSP
5 12 (6.452%) Security Cleared
6 10 (5.376%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.688%) HP APS
7 5 (2.688%) CCSE
7 5 (2.688%) CCSP
8 3 (1.613%) CCSA
9 2 (1.075%) Check Point Certification
10 1 (0.538%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.538%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.538%) CCIP
10 1 (0.538%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.538%) CCDA
10 1 (0.538%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.989%) SLA
2 4 (2.151%) QA
2 4 (2.151%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.075%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.688%) ProxySG
3 4 (2.151%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.538%) vSphere
4 1 (0.538%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 17 (9.140%) OpenView
2 13 (6.989%) Netcool
3 11 (5.914%) Ionix
4 9 (4.839%) CiscoWorks
5 4 (2.151%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.538%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.538%) HP NNM
6 1 (0.538%) Foglight
6 1 (0.538%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 87 (46.77%) Cisco
2 72 (38.71%) CheckPoint
3 42 (22.58%) Juniper
4 38 (20.43%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 37 (19.89%) HP
6 30 (16.13%) Blue Coat
7 21 (11.29%) Ericsson
8 18 (9.677%) BMC
8 18 (9.677%) Remedy
9 17 (9.140%) Huawei
9 17 (9.140%) F5
10 15 (8.065%) EMC
11 13 (6.989%) SolarWinds
11 13 (6.989%) Microsoft
12 12 (6.452%) Siemens
13 10 (5.376%) BT
13 10 (5.376%) NEC
13 10 (5.376%) TippingPoint
14 9 (4.839%) VMware
15 8 (4.301%) Citrix
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