The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP 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 TCP/IP over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 26 24 23
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -1
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.176% 2.439% 0.725%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.333% 14.29% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.48% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £45.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% -24.44%
All Communications & Networking
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
24 35 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 14.12% 17.07% 18.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 8
Average daily rate £300 £300 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
Average hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +63.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
TCP/IP
Scotland

TCP/IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen TCP/IP Jobs Demand Trend

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen TCP/IP Daily Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen TCP/IP Hourly Rate Trend

TCP/IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing TCP/IP 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 TCP/IP.

1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) LAN
3 3 (37.50%) NetApp
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) CMDB
3 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
3 3 (37.50%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) NetScreen
4 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (25.00%) HP
4 2 (25.00%) CISSP
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (25.00%) C
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (25.00%) CCSP
5 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
5 1 (12.50%) Sun
5 1 (12.50%) VBScript
5 1 (12.50%) VB
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing TCP/IP 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 TCP/IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) NetScreen
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) SMS
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) OSPF
4 1 (12.50%) BGP
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Administrator
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Server Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) UNIX
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 3 (37.50%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C
2 1 (12.50%) VBScript
2 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (25.00%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) NetApp
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
2 2 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Sun