The first table below looks at the demand for Broadband 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 Broadband 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Broadband
Rank - - 47
Contract jobs citing Broadband 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire - - 0.544%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 3.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £396 £293 £380
% change year-on-year
+35.47% -23.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £9.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.69 £27.50 £11.88
% change year-on-year
-61.12% +131.57%
All Communications & Networking
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 122 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 14.57% 19.30% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 47 35
Average daily rate £424 £375 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.00% -2.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £263 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 15
Average hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.92% -3.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
Broadband
South West

Broadband
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire Broadband Jobs Demand Trend

Broadband
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire Broadband Daily Rate Trend

Broadband
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire Broadband Hourly Rate Trend

Broadband
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) C
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded C
2 3 (50.00%) 3G
2 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 3 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (50.00%) 4G
3 2 (33.33%) 2G
4 1 (16.67%) Subversion
4 1 (16.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Handset
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) 3G
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
1 3 (50.00%) 4G
2 2 (33.33%) 2G
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Handset
1 1 (16.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Validation
1 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) Embedded C
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft