The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 20 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 for the Uxbridge region.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 18 21 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Wireless 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 1.942% 1.563% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.091% 13.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £233 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.45% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £318 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.08% +5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
All Communications & Networking
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
22 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 21.36% 11.72% 8.491%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 2
Average daily rate £250 £275 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -43.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £260 £438
10% offered a daily rate of more than £568 £600 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Wireless
London

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Wireless across the Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Wireless across the Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region citing Wireless 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 Wireless.

1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) LANDesk
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge region citing Wireless 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 Wireless. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) LANDesk