Yorkshire Wireless Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wireless 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 Wireless over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Andover Avon Barking Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bracknell Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Cheshire City of London Cleethorpes County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Greenwich Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Maidenhead Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Paisley Peterborough Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stourbridge Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	124
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	8	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	1.843 %	3.933 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£390
Average daily rate	£350	£390
% change on same period last year	-10.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£308	£299
% change on same period last year	+3.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.50	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£26.25	£25.50
% change on same period last year	+2.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.57	£31.68
% change on same period last year	-22.44 %
Communications & Networking Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	434	534
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.573 %	0.532 %
Daily rates quoted	70	89
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£317
Average daily rate	£333	£328
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	71
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.38	£22.15
Average hourly rate	£24.95	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+5.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.53	£25.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Wireless across the 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 Wireless across the 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 Wireless across the Yorkshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	+6	5	-	-
South Yorkshire	-1	2	£350	-
North Yorkshire	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 14 (43.75 %) C 1 14 (43.75 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (40.63 %) CCNP 2 13 (40.63 %) Cisco 3 12 (37.50 %) WAN 4 10 (31.25 %) MPLS 5 9 (28.13 %) LAN 6 8 (25.00 %) STB 7 7 (21.88 %) DOCSIS 7 7 (21.88 %) DSL 7 7 (21.88 %) DTV 7 7 (21.88 %) DVB 7 7 (21.88 %) ISDN 8 6 (18.75 %) Broadband 8 6 (18.75 %) CCDA

8 6 (18.75 %) EMC 8 6 (18.75 %) Electric 8 6 (18.75 %) Degree 9 5 (15.63 %) CCNA 10 4 (12.50 %) OSPF 10 4 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 10 4 (12.50 %) Embedded C 10 4 (12.50 %) Firewall 11 3 (9.375 %) BGP 12 2 (6.250 %) OpenView 12 2 (6.250 %) HP 12 2 (6.250 %) CiscoWorks 12 2 (6.250 %) VoIP 12 2 (6.250 %) C++ 12 2 (6.250 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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.

Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) FrameMaker 1 1 (3.125 %) MATLAB 1 1 (3.125 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 12 (37.50 %) WAN 2 10 (31.25 %) MPLS 3 9 (28.13 %) LAN 4 7 (21.88 %) DOCSIS 4 7 (21.88 %) DSL 4 7 (21.88 %) DVB 4 7 (21.88 %) ISDN 5 6 (18.75 %) Broadband 6 4 (12.50 %) OSPF 6 4 (12.50 %) Firewall 7 3 (9.375 %) BGP 8 2 (6.250 %) VoIP 8 2 (6.250 %) DAB 8 2 (6.250 %) DNS 9 1 (3.125 %) VLAN 9 1 (3.125 %) L2TP 9 1 (3.125 %) WLAN 9 1 (3.125 %) DHCP 9 1 (3.125 %) SNMP 9 1 (3.125 %) Internet	General 1 6 (18.75 %) Electric 2 1 (3.125 %) Electronics 2 1 (3.125 %) Telecoms 2 1 (3.125 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 10 (31.25 %) Cisco Engineer 2 9 (28.13 %) Design Engineer 3 8 (25.00 %) Network Engineer 4 6 (18.75 %) RF Engineer 5 5 (15.63 %) Senior RF Engineer 6 4 (12.50 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 4 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer 7 2 (6.250 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 1 (3.125 %) Technical Support Officer 8 1 (3.125 %) Python Developer 8 1 (3.125 %) Technical Engineer 8 1 (3.125 %) Sales Manager 8 1 (3.125 %) Presales Consultant 8 1 (3.125 %) Data Manager 8 1 (3.125 %) Electronics Engineer 8 1 (3.125 %) RF Design Engineer 8 1 (3.125 %) Java Developer 8 1 (3.125 %) Embedded Software Engineer 8 1 (3.125 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 8 (25.00 %) STB 2 7 (21.88 %) DTV 3 1 (3.125 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 2 (6.250 %) UNIX 1 2 (6.250 %) Linux 1 2 (6.250 %) Embedded Linux 2 1 (3.125 %) NetBSD 2 1 (3.125 %) VxWorks	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.250 %) Network Design 2 1 (3.125 %) Business Analysis 2 1 (3.125 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 14 (43.75 %) C 2 4 (12.50 %) Embedded C 3 2 (6.250 %) C++ 4 1 (3.125 %) Python 4 1 (3.125 %) Java 4 1 (3.125 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 14 (43.75 %) Cisco Certification 2 13 (40.63 %) CCNP 3 6 (18.75 %) CCDA 3 6 (18.75 %) Degree 4 5 (15.63 %) CCNA
Systems Management 1 2 (6.250 %) OpenView 1 2 (6.250 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 13 (40.63 %) Cisco 2 6 (18.75 %) EMC 3 4 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (6.250 %) HP 5 1 (3.125 %) SAP 5 1 (3.125 %) Genesys