The first table below looks at the demand for RNC skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RNC 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Radio Network Controller (RNC)
Rank 490 474 489
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +15
Contract jobs citing RNC 39 110 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.084% 0.189% 0.156%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.577% 1.203% 1.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 16
Average daily rate £300 £256 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.41% -9.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £256 £283
% change year-on-year
+17.41% -9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6757 9144 7905
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.57% 15.68% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3304 4153 3577
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 606 804
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%

RNC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

RNC Jobs Demand Trend

RNC
Daily Rate Trend

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

RNC Daily Rate Trend

RNC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RNC Hourly Rate Trend

RNC
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RNC 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 -29 27 £300 +19.52%
South East -44 21 £300 +19.52%
Berkshire -35 16 £288 +14.54%
Surrey - 6 £300 -
Reading -16 4 £275 +9.56%
North West +11 2 - -
Slough -8 2 - -
Cheshire - 2 - -
Warrington - 2 - -
Guildford - 2 - -
Newbury -2 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £300 -

RNC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 109 (84.50%) 3G
2 95 (73.64%) Radio Access Network
3 92 (71.32%) 2G
4 85 (65.89%) Telecoms
5 68 (52.71%) Ericsson
6 44 (34.11%) LTE
7 36 (27.91%) Migration
8 34 (26.36%) ATM
8 34 (26.36%) WCDMA
9 33 (25.58%) GSM
10 32 (24.81%) 3GPP
11 28 (21.71%) RANAP
12 23 (17.83%) Wireshark
13 20 (15.50%) NetHawk
14 19 (14.73%) Nokia Siemens Networks
15 17 (13.18%) UTRAN
15 17 (13.18%) XML
16 14 (10.85%) Validation
17 13 (10.08%) UMTS
17 13 (10.08%) TCP/IP
18 12 (9.302%) Perl
18 12 (9.302%) Network Design
18 12 (9.302%) Huawei
19 11 (8.527%) ISEB
20 10 (7.752%) 4G
21 9 (6.977%) HSPA
21 9 (6.977%) Alcatel-Lucent
21 9 (6.977%) SDH
21 9 (6.977%) SQL
21 9 (6.977%) Handset

RNC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 17 (13.18%) XML
2 3 (2.326%) .NET
3 1 (0.775%) WAP
Applications
1 4 (3.101%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.550%) Maya
Communications & Networking
1 109 (84.50%) 3G
2 95 (73.64%) Radio Access Network
3 92 (71.32%) 2G
4 44 (34.11%) LTE
5 34 (26.36%) ATM
5 34 (26.36%) WCDMA
6 33 (25.58%) GSM
7 32 (24.81%) 3GPP
8 28 (21.71%) RANAP
9 23 (17.83%) Wireshark
10 17 (13.18%) UTRAN
11 13 (10.08%) UMTS
11 13 (10.08%) TCP/IP
12 10 (7.752%) 4G
13 9 (6.977%) HSPA
13 9 (6.977%) SDH
14 8 (6.202%) DWDM
14 8 (6.202%) SS7
14 8 (6.202%) GPRS
14 8 (6.202%) NBAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.101%) MS Access
General
1 85 (65.89%) Telecoms
2 6 (4.651%) Back Office
3 2 (1.550%) Front Office
3 2 (1.550%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (22.48%) RAN Engineer
2 23 (17.83%) Architect
2 23 (17.83%) Solutions Architect
3 22 (17.05%) Test Engineer
4 17 (13.18%) Field Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Integration Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) 3G Engineer
6 11 (8.527%) Design Engineer
6 11 (8.527%) Configuration Engineer
7 5 (3.876%) Verification Engineer
7 5 (3.876%) Network Planner
8 4 (3.101%) RNC Engineer
8 4 (3.101%) RF Engineer
9 3 (2.326%) RF Optimisation Engineer
9 3 (2.326%) Designer
9 3 (2.326%) Radio Engineer
9 3 (2.326%) Solutions Designer
9 3 (2.326%) Developer
9 3 (2.326%) Senior Developer
10 2 (1.550%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.977%) Handset
2 6 (4.651%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.202%) UNIX
2 1 (0.775%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.91%) Migration
2 14 (10.85%) Validation
3 12 (9.302%) Network Design
4 8 (6.202%) ETL
5 7 (5.426%) Project Management
6 6 (4.651%) Network Planning
6 6 (4.651%) Resource Management
7 4 (3.101%) Workflow
7 4 (3.101%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (2.326%) Network Architecture
8 3 (2.326%) Web Development
9 1 (0.775%) Network Management
9 1 (0.775%) TDD
9 1 (0.775%) Information Security
9 1 (0.775%) PRINCE2
9 1 (0.775%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.302%) Perl
2 9 (6.977%) SQL
3 6 (4.651%) Java
4 5 (3.876%) Python
4 5 (3.876%) C++
5 3 (2.326%) C#
5 3 (2.326%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.550%) VB
6 2 (1.550%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (8.527%) ISEB
2 5 (3.876%) Degree
3 1 (0.775%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (0.775%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.775%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.202%) SLA
2 5 (3.876%) QA
3 1 (0.775%) GCP
System Software
1 1 (0.775%) UAG
Vendors
1 68 (52.71%) Ericsson
2 20 (15.50%) NetHawk
3 19 (14.73%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 12 (9.302%) Huawei
5 9 (6.977%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 5 (3.876%) Nokia
7 4 (3.101%) Mapinfo
7 4 (3.101%) Nortel
7 4 (3.101%) Actix
8 3 (2.326%) Agilent
8 3 (2.326%) Oracle
9 2 (1.550%) NEC
10 1 (0.775%) ZTE
10 1 (0.775%) SAP
10 1 (0.775%) Juniper
10 1 (0.775%) Cisco
10 1 (0.775%) CheckPoint