SIGTRAN Contracts

SIGTRAN
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SIGTRAN skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SIGTRAN over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 712 850
Rank change year-on-year +127 +138 -182
Contract jobs citing SIGTRAN 1 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.007% 0.006%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.017% 0.053% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £416
25th Percentile - - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £438
75th Percentile - - £447
90th Percentile - - £449
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £438

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SIGTRAN is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,724 7,487 9,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.11% 12.34% 10.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,430 4,879 6,485
10th Percentile £205 £231 £226
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £430
% change year-on-year +0.95% +10.59% +7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 500 368
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -
75th Percentile £62.38 £60.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.39 £18.50 £21.43
% change year-on-year +150.76% -13.65% -14.30%

SIGTRAN
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SIGTRAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SIGTRAN in the UK

SIGTRAN
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SIGTRAN.

Daily rate trend for SIGTRAN in the UK

SIGTRAN
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SIGTRAN.

Hourly rate trend for SIGTRAN in the UK

SIGTRAN
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SIGTRAN within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +112 1 - -
UK excluding London +67 1 - -
South West - 1 - -

SIGTRAN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SS7
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SPML
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia