The first table below looks at the demand for the Network Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Network Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Network Engineer
Rank 54 60 63
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Network Engineer 2 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.247% 0.452% 0.448%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.263% 0.481% 0.473%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
Average daily rate £375 £375 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +22.95%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -29.68%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
761 1040 1269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 93.95% 94.03% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 520 626
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +56.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.41 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Network Engineer
Scotland

Network Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Network Engineer across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Network Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Network Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Network Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Network Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Network Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Sun
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 17799
3 1 (16.67%) Perl
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
3 1 (16.67%) IIS
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) HPUX
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection

Network Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Network Engineer in their job title 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 with Network Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
3 1 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) Service Management
1 1 (16.67%) Information Security
1 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 17799
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Brocade
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle