The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Wireless over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 99 96 86
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -10
Contract jobs citing Wireless 12 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.629% 0.876% 0.617%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.762% 7.143% 5.789%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 3
Average daily rate £288 £280 £163
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.67% +72.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £404 £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £323 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.97% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
Average hourly rate £12.42 £33.75 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.20% -0.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.51%
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
319 280 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.73% 12.26% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 142 77
Average daily rate £300 £280 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £201 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -52.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
Wireless
England

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
West Yorkshire -3 6 £250 -28.57%
East Yorkshire 0 5 £325 +16.07%
South Yorkshire -7 1 - -
Wireless
England

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 19 (67.86%) Firewall
2 11 (39.29%) Juniper
3 10 (35.71%) HP
3 10 (35.71%) Cisco
4 9 (32.14%) FortiGate
5 8 (28.57%) ITIL
5 8 (28.57%) Windows
5 8 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (25.00%) TippingPoint
6 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
7 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (21.43%) CCNA
7 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
8 5 (17.86%) IPsec
8 5 (17.86%) VMware
8 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
8 5 (17.86%) Windows XP
8 5 (17.86%) LAN
9 4 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
9 4 (14.29%) VoIP
9 4 (14.29%) WAN
9 4 (14.29%) CCNP
9 4 (14.29%) SAN
9 4 (14.29%) Lotus
9 4 (14.29%) Citrix
9 4 (14.29%) Internet
9 4 (14.29%) Change Management
9 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
9 4 (14.29%) Cisco ASA

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 Development
1 2 (7.143%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (10.71%) Lotus Domino
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.143%) MS Exchange
3 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Office
2 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) IPsec
2 5 (17.86%) LAN
3 4 (14.29%) VoIP
3 4 (14.29%) WAN
3 4 (14.29%) SAN
3 4 (14.29%) Internet
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (10.71%) VLAN
4 3 (10.71%) FWSM
4 3 (10.71%) SSL
5 2 (7.143%) WLAN
5 2 (7.143%) RIP
5 2 (7.143%) SNMP
5 2 (7.143%) TCP/IP
5 2 (7.143%) VPN
5 2 (7.143%) OSPF
5 2 (7.143%) BGP
5 2 (7.143%) VRRP
5 2 (7.143%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.143%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) Banking
2 2 (7.143%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.571%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Network Specialist
4 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 2 (7.143%) Desktop Support
5 2 (7.143%) Consultant
5 2 (7.143%) Support Technician
5 2 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Support Specialist
5 2 (7.143%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 2 (7.143%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (7.143%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Trainee
6 1 (3.571%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Wireless Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Replication
2 2 (7.143%) Device Driver
2 2 (7.143%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (17.86%) Windows XP
4 2 (7.143%) Linux
5 1 (3.571%) Windows Vista
5 1 (3.571%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.571%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) ITIL
2 4 (14.29%) Change Management
3 3 (10.71%) Network Management
4 2 (7.143%) E-Commerce
4 2 (7.143%) ERP
4 2 (7.143%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (7.143%) Service Management
5 1 (3.571%) Software Distribution
5 1 (3.571%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.571%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.143%) C
2 1 (3.571%) Embedded C
2 1 (3.571%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (21.43%) CCNA
3 4 (14.29%) CCNP
3 4 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (10.71%) MCSE
4 3 (10.71%) MCSA
5 2 (7.143%) CCIE
5 2 (7.143%) CCSP
6 1 (3.571%) MCITP
6 1 (3.571%) Degree
6 1 (3.571%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.571%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.571%) XenApp
3 1 (3.571%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.571%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.571%) Cisco IPCC
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Juniper
2 10 (35.71%) HP
2 10 (35.71%) Cisco
3 7 (25.00%) TippingPoint
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (17.86%) VMware
5 4 (14.29%) Lotus
5 4 (14.29%) Citrix
6 3 (10.71%) LANDesk
6 3 (10.71%) Trapeze
6 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
7 2 (7.143%) Nokia
8 1 (3.571%) F5
8 1 (3.571%) Blue Coat
8 1 (3.571%) Symantec
8 1 (3.571%) Apple
8 1 (3.571%) EMC
8 1 (3.571%) Intel
8 1 (3.571%) Nortel
8 1 (3.571%) Adobe