The first table below looks at the demand for 3G skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3G over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Wiltshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3G
Rank - 42 32
Contract jobs citing 3G 0 12 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire - 2.069% 3.746%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 8.955% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 4
Average daily rate - £333 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -26.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £280 £313
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £42.00 £21.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +96.49%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £38.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-11.84% +1.33%
All Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
84 134 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 16.50% 23.10% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 48
Average daily rate £425 £388 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% +0.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £213 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 16
Average hourly rate £35.00 £22.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+55.55% -22.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.40 £22.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £41.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
3G
South West

3G
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 3G Jobs Demand Trend

3G
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire 3G Daily Rate Trend

3G
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire 3G Hourly Rate Trend

3G
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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3G
South West

3G
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 4 (100.00%) 4G
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Broadband
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
2 3 (75.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (50.00%) 2G
3 2 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) VHDL
4 1 (25.00%) Verilog
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (25.00%) MATLAB

3G
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 4 (100.00%) 4G
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Broadband
3 2 (50.00%) 2G
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) FPGA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (25.00%) VHDL
2 1 (25.00%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) Embedded C
2 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
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