The first table below looks at the demand for Internet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Internet over the 3 months to 24 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 Aberdeen 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet
Rank - 25 27
Contract jobs citing Internet 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen - 1.026% 0.543%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 6.897% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -16.66%
All Communications & Networking
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20 29 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 14.29% 14.87% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 13
Average daily rate £330 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £156 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £328 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 10
Average hourly rate £32.00 £32.50 £31.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +3.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £32.50 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Internet
Scotland

Internet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Internet Jobs Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Internet 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 Internet.

1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) Intranet
2 4 (80.00%) Kofax
2 4 (80.00%) Open Text
2 4 (80.00%) LiveLink
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
2 4 (80.00%) Document Management
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) IIS
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Apache
2 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) LiveLink
1 4 (80.00%) IIS
1 4 (80.00%) Apache
1 4 (80.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Intranet
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Support
1 4 (80.00%) Team Leader
1 4 (80.00%) Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (80.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Content Management
1 4 (80.00%) Document Management
1 4 (80.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Kofax
2 4 (80.00%) Open Text
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle