West Yorkshire 3G Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for 3G skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3G over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the West Yorkshire region.

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Location Amersham Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Dartford East of England East Sussex England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent London Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northern Ireland Reading Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	67	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	- 0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire	0.095 %	-	-
As % of the Communications & Networking category	1.429 %	-	-
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£300	£275
% change year-on-year	-6.660 % +9.090 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.50	£32.50	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+12.30 % -18.75 %
All Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	70	72	207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire	6.667 %	8.154 %	11.38 %
Daily rates quoted	28	8	51
Average daily rate	£325	£263	£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+23.80 % -12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£285	£226	£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£380	£455	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£338	£325
% change year-on-year	-3.700 % +3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4	32
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£26.00	£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-53.84 % +52.94 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£9.00	£18.50	£12.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£20.25	£39.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.00	£24.00	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+4.160 % -12.72 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing 3G across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3G across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3G across the West Yorkshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3G within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. 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	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
Halifax	-	1	-	-

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing 3G 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 3G.

1 14 (93.33 %) Ericsson 1 14 (93.33 %) Nokia 1 14 (93.33 %) 2G 2 11 (73.33 %) Nortel 3 10 (66.67 %) NEC 3 10 (66.67 %) Telecoms 4 1 (6.667 %) Wireless 4 1 (6.667 %) VPN 4 1 (6.667 %) SSH

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing 3G 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 3G. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 14 (93.33 %) 2G 2 1 (6.667 %) Wireless 2 1 (6.667 %) VPN 2 1 (6.667 %) SSH	General 1 10 (66.67 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 14 (93.33 %) Field Engineer 2 1 (6.667 %) Consultant 2 1 (6.667 %) Operations Engineer	Vendors 1 14 (93.33 %) Ericsson 1 14 (93.33 %) Nokia 2 11 (73.33 %) Nortel 3 10 (66.67 %) NEC