RAN Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the RAN Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RAN Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles 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.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Radio Access Network Engineer
Rank 495 450 549
Rank change year-on-year
-45 +99
Contract jobs requiring a RAN Engineer 34 134 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.073% 0.230% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.248% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 1
Average daily rate £300 £280 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £200
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

RAN Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RAN Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

RAN Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

RAN Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

RAN Engineer Daily Rate Trend

RAN Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RAN Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

RAN Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RAN Engineer 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 -43 26 £300 +7.14%
Berkshire -39 20 £275 +12.58%
South East -57 20 £288 +17.70%
Reading -15 8 £275 +9.56%
Newbury -2 3 - -
North West +9 1 - -
Manchester +6 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £300 -
Surrey - 1 £300 -

RAN Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited RAN Engineer in their job title 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 with RAN Engineer in their job title.

1 90 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 70 (77.78%) Telecoms
3 69 (76.67%) 3G
4 49 (54.44%) 3GPP
5 43 (47.78%) 2G
6 37 (41.11%) Ericsson
7 32 (35.56%) LTE
8 31 (34.44%) Nokia Siemens Networks
9 30 (33.33%) GSM
10 29 (32.22%) RNC
11 28 (31.11%) WCDMA
12 25 (27.78%) UTRAN
13 24 (26.67%) ATM
14 23 (25.56%) NetHawk
15 22 (24.44%) Wireshark
16 21 (23.33%) Network Design
17 20 (22.22%) Handset
17 20 (22.22%) Project Management
18 19 (21.11%) Resource Management
19 18 (20.00%) ISEB
20 16 (17.78%) Migration
21 13 (14.44%) Huawei
22 11 (12.22%) RANAP
23 8 (8.889%) Nokia
24 7 (7.778%) Validation
25 6 (6.667%) Degree
26 5 (5.556%) Front Office
27 4 (4.444%) Back Office
27 4 (4.444%) Computer Science
27 4 (4.444%) SLA

RAN Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited RAN Engineer in their job title 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 with RAN Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.111%) ASP
1 1 (1.111%) XML
Applications
1 3 (3.333%) MS Excel
1 3 (3.333%) MS Office
1 3 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.111%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 90 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
2 69 (76.67%) 3G
3 49 (54.44%) 3GPP
4 43 (47.78%) 2G
5 32 (35.56%) LTE
6 30 (33.33%) GSM
7 29 (32.22%) RNC
8 28 (31.11%) WCDMA
9 25 (27.78%) UTRAN
10 24 (26.67%) ATM
11 22 (24.44%) Wireshark
12 11 (12.22%) RANAP
13 4 (4.444%) 4G
14 3 (3.333%) Nokia NetAct
14 3 (3.333%) UMTS
15 2 (2.222%) SMS
15 2 (2.222%) DNS
15 2 (2.222%) HSPA
16 1 (1.111%) MGW
16 1 (1.111%) Ethernet
General
1 70 (77.78%) Telecoms
2 5 (5.556%) Front Office
3 4 (4.444%) Back Office
4 3 (3.333%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Handset
2 4 (4.444%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.33%) Network Design
2 20 (22.22%) Project Management
3 19 (21.11%) Resource Management
4 16 (17.78%) Migration
5 7 (7.778%) Validation
6 3 (3.333%) Network Architecture
6 3 (3.333%) Configuration Management
7 2 (2.222%) Network Planning
7 2 (2.222%) ITIL
7 2 (2.222%) Performance Management
7 2 (2.222%) Fault Management
7 2 (2.222%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (1.111%) Performance Testing
8 1 (1.111%) Test Management
8 1 (1.111%) Test Scripting
8 1 (1.111%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.111%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) ISEB
2 6 (6.667%) Degree
3 3 (3.333%) HNC
4 1 (1.111%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.111%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.111%) CCNA
4 1 (1.111%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.444%) SLA
2 1 (1.111%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.111%) UAG
Vendors
1 37 (41.11%) Ericsson
2 31 (34.44%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 23 (25.56%) NetHawk
4 13 (14.44%) Huawei
5 8 (8.889%) Nokia
6 3 (3.333%) Cramer
6 3 (3.333%) NEC
7 2 (2.222%) Siemens
8 1 (1.111%) ZTE
8 1 (1.111%) Citrix
8 1 (1.111%) Mapinfo
8 1 (1.111%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.111%) SAP
8 1 (1.111%) Agilent
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