SGSN Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SGSN skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SGSN over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN)
Rank 504 559 573
Rank change year-on-year
+55 +14
Contract jobs citing SGSN 26 19 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.056% 0.033% 0.024%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.383% 0.209% 0.190%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
Average daily rate - £200 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £200 £240
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £22.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 - £22.25
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6782 9103 7893
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.62% 15.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3331 4145 3588
Average daily rate £350 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
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 £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 542 606 785
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 £13.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%

SGSN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SGSN Jobs Demand Trend

SGSN
Daily Rate Trend

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

SGSN Daily Rate Trend

SGSN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SGSN Hourly Rate Trend

SGSN
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SGSN within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 10 - -
South East +25 10 - -
Berkshire +15 8 - -
Reading +11 3 - -
Guildford - 2 - -
Surrey - 2 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - -

SGSN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SGSN 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 SGSN.

1 43 (93.48%) GGSN
2 30 (65.22%) Telecoms
3 18 (39.13%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 18 (39.13%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (28.26%) Problem Management
5 12 (26.09%) 3G
6 10 (21.74%) Ericsson
7 9 (19.57%) GPRS
7 9 (19.57%) LTE
8 8 (17.39%) Degree
9 7 (15.22%) UMTS
9 7 (15.22%) Solaris
9 7 (15.22%) Legal
10 6 (13.04%) Linux
10 6 (13.04%) Product Marketing
10 6 (13.04%) Marketing
10 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (10.87%) 4G
11 5 (10.87%) GSM
11 5 (10.87%) 2G
11 5 (10.87%) Nokia
12 4 (8.696%) SS7
12 4 (8.696%) DNS
12 4 (8.696%) Cisco
12 4 (8.696%) Wireless
12 4 (8.696%) Migration
12 4 (8.696%) HTTP
12 4 (8.696%) Sun
12 4 (8.696%) MGW
12 4 (8.696%) Taleo

SGSN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SGSN 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 SGSN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.348%) STL
1 2 (4.348%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (2.174%) XML
2 1 (2.174%) WAP
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.696%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 43 (93.48%) GGSN
2 12 (26.09%) 3G
3 9 (19.57%) GPRS
3 9 (19.57%) LTE
4 7 (15.22%) UMTS
5 5 (10.87%) GSM
5 5 (10.87%) 4G
5 5 (10.87%) 2G
6 4 (8.696%) Wireless
6 4 (8.696%) DNS
6 4 (8.696%) SS7
6 4 (8.696%) MGW
6 4 (8.696%) HTTP
7 3 (6.522%) ATM
7 3 (6.522%) MPLS
7 3 (6.522%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (6.522%) Frame Relay
8 2 (4.348%) IP Telephony
8 2 (4.348%) SAN
8 2 (4.348%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.174%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (4.348%) Subversion
1 2 (4.348%) GCC
1 2 (4.348%) GDB
1 2 (4.348%) Trac
General
1 30 (65.22%) Telecoms
2 7 (15.22%) Legal
3 6 (13.04%) Marketing
4 3 (6.522%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (13.04%) Consultant
1 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
2 4 (8.696%) Support Consultant
2 4 (8.696%) Design Engineer
3 3 (6.522%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Databuild Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) IP Engineer
4 2 (4.348%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.174%) GPRS Engineer
5 1 (2.174%) Back Office Engineer
5 1 (2.174%) Security Consultant
5 1 (2.174%) Auditor
5 1 (2.174%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (2.174%) Document Controller
5 1 (2.174%) RAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.174%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) Solaris
2 6 (13.04%) Linux
3 3 (6.522%) UNIX
4 1 (2.174%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Root Cause Analysis
2 13 (28.26%) Problem Management
3 6 (13.04%) Product Marketing
3 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (8.696%) Migration
5 3 (6.522%) Network Design
5 3 (6.522%) Network Architecture
6 2 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.348%) Network Management
6 2 (4.348%) OO
6 2 (4.348%) CRM
6 2 (4.348%) OOD
6 2 (4.348%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.348%) Network Planning
7 1 (2.174%) Change Management
7 1 (2.174%) Workflow
7 1 (2.174%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.522%) C
2 2 (4.348%) C++
3 1 (2.174%) Perl
3 1 (2.174%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 2 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.348%) CCNP
3 1 (2.174%) CCDP
3 1 (2.174%) CISSP
3 1 (2.174%) HNC
3 1 (2.174%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.348%) Cisco IPCC
2 1 (2.174%) Cacti
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 10 (21.74%) Ericsson
3 5 (10.87%) Nokia
4 4 (8.696%) Cisco
4 4 (8.696%) Sun
5 3 (6.522%) Huawei
6 2 (4.348%) ZTE
6 2 (4.348%) IBM
7 1 (2.174%) Remedy
7 1 (2.174%) Openet Telecom
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