Yorkshire 3GPP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited 3GPP over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
Location Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire East of England England Hampshire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Newbury Reading Scotland South Coast South East South West Swindon Thames Valley UK Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£250
% change on same period last year	+15.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£47.22	£40.81
% change on same period last year	+15.70 %
Communications & Networking Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	265	473
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.428 %	0.516 %
Daily rates quoted	35	82
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£300
Average daily rate	£341	£315
% change on same period last year	+8.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£336
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	79
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.61	£25.07
Average hourly rate	£24.12	£25.98
% change on same period last year	-7.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.63	£26.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£28.33
% change on same period last year	-1.39 %
3GPP England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

3GPP
Demand Trend

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