The first table below looks at the demand for LAN 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 LAN 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
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 19 23 6
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -17
Contract jobs citing LAN 6 4 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 4.286% 2.051% 13.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.00% 13.79% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
Average daily rate £364 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £300 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.60% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £29.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-23.80% -
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%
LAN
Scotland

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (100.00%) WAN
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (81.25%) Cisco Certification
3 11 (68.75%) VPN
3 11 (68.75%) Wireless
3 11 (68.75%) Telecoms
4 9 (56.25%) BGP
4 9 (56.25%) CCIE
4 9 (56.25%) VoIP
4 9 (56.25%) IP Telephony
4 9 (56.25%) Time Management
4 9 (56.25%) Riverbed
5 8 (50.00%) Degree
5 8 (50.00%) CCNP
5 8 (50.00%) EIGRP
6 7 (43.75%) MGCP
6 7 (43.75%) Cisco ASA
6 7 (43.75%) H.323
6 7 (43.75%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (37.50%) SAP GTS
7 6 (37.50%) Data Management
7 6 (37.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 6 (37.50%) SAP CCM
7 6 (37.50%) Remedy
7 6 (37.50%) Citrix
7 6 (37.50%) SAP
8 5 (31.25%) ITIL
8 5 (31.25%) HP
8 5 (31.25%) Firewall
8 5 (31.25%) Finance

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) SAP GTS
1 6 (37.50%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (37.50%) SAP CCM
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) WAN
2 11 (68.75%) VPN
2 11 (68.75%) Wireless
3 9 (56.25%) BGP
3 9 (56.25%) VoIP
3 9 (56.25%) IP Telephony
4 8 (50.00%) EIGRP
5 7 (43.75%) MGCP
5 7 (43.75%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (43.75%) H.323
5 7 (43.75%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (31.25%) Firewall
7 3 (18.75%) NetScreen
7 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
8 2 (12.50%) VLAN
9 1 (6.250%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (6.250%) Unified Communications
9 1 (6.250%) MPLS
9 1 (6.250%) OSPF
General
1 11 (68.75%) Telecoms
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Network Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Technician
4 1 (6.250%) Network Technician
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Time Management
2 6 (37.50%) Data Management
3 5 (31.25%) ITIL
4 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 4 (25.00%) Release Management
5 2 (12.50%) Workflow
6 1 (6.250%) Network Design
6 1 (6.250%) Network Management
6 1 (6.250%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (56.25%) CCIE
3 8 (50.00%) Degree
3 8 (50.00%) CCNP
4 3 (18.75%) CCSP
4 3 (18.75%) CISSP
5 1 (6.250%) CCNA
5 1 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (56.25%) Riverbed
3 6 (37.50%) Remedy
3 6 (37.50%) Citrix
3 6 (37.50%) SAP
4 5 (31.25%) HP
5 3 (18.75%) Juniper
6 2 (12.50%) VMware
6 2 (12.50%) Fortinet