The first table below looks at the demand for TCP/IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
Rank 55 52 49
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -3
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 7 12 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.771% 1.126% 1.727%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.750% 9.231% 15.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 4
Average daily rate - £259 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -40.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £301 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.48% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.75 £17.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% -24.44%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
80 130 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.811% 12.20% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 38
Average daily rate £335 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £215 £314
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £428 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
Average hourly rate £9.20 £32.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-71.25% +109.28%
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 Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 14 (43.75%) Firewall
3 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 11 (34.38%) DNS
4 10 (31.25%) SQL
4 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (28.13%) UNIX
6 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
6 7 (21.88%) Cisco
6 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
6 7 (21.88%) Oracle
6 7 (21.88%) Linux
6 7 (21.88%) CheckPoint
6 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (21.88%) Banking
7 6 (18.75%) Citrix
7 6 (18.75%) Nokia
8 5 (15.63%) SAN
8 5 (15.63%) SQLPlus
8 5 (15.63%) LDAP
8 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
8 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
8 5 (15.63%) WebLogic
8 5 (15.63%) MS Office
8 5 (15.63%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (15.63%) Network Security
8 5 (15.63%) Data Guard
8 5 (15.63%) Oracle EBS

TCP/IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Application Development
1 2 (6.250%) Application Packaging
2 1 (3.125%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (3.125%) J2EE
2 1 (3.125%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (15.63%) WebLogic
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (3.125%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (3.125%) CICS
3 1 (3.125%) IBM Notes
3 1 (3.125%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
1 5 (15.63%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) Firewall
2 11 (34.38%) DNS
3 5 (15.63%) SAN
3 5 (15.63%) LDAP
3 5 (15.63%) Network Security
4 4 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (12.50%) LAN
4 4 (12.50%) WAN
4 4 (12.50%) Internet
5 3 (9.375%) DHCP
6 2 (6.250%) MPLS
7 1 (3.125%) VRRP
7 1 (3.125%) PSTN
7 1 (3.125%) PPP
7 1 (3.125%) GPRS
7 1 (3.125%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQLPlus
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 3 (9.375%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (6.250%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Retail Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Consultant
2 4 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Applications Packager
3 3 (9.375%) Architect
3 3 (9.375%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (9.375%) IT Support
3 3 (9.375%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 2 (6.250%) Business Consultant
4 2 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (6.250%) Designer
4 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Designer
4 2 (6.250%) E-Business Consultant
4 2 (6.250%) DBA
5 1 (3.125%) Senior Manager
5 1 (3.125%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.125%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.125%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (28.13%) UNIX
4 7 (21.88%) Linux
4 7 (21.88%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Vista
6 3 (9.375%) Windows 7
7 2 (6.250%) Windows 2000
8 1 (3.125%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (12.50%) Information Security
1 4 (12.50%) Project Management
2 3 (9.375%) Supplier Management
3 2 (6.250%) SIEM
3 2 (6.250%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (6.250%) Service Management
3 2 (6.250%) Incident Management
3 2 (6.250%) ITIL
4 1 (3.125%) Network Design
4 1 (3.125%) Performance Management
4 1 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.125%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 5 (15.63%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.375%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.250%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.250%) VBScript
5 1 (3.125%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.125%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.125%) CISSP
2 1 (3.125%) CCIE
2 1 (3.125%) CCNA
2 1 (3.125%) CCSE
System Software
1 9 (28.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (6.250%) DFS Replication
5 2 (6.250%) SRDF
5 2 (6.250%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.125%) XenApp
6 1 (3.125%) RACF
6 1 (3.125%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Data Guard
2 4 (12.50%) SCCM
3 2 (6.250%) WMI
3 2 (6.250%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (3.125%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) VMware
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Cisco
2 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) CheckPoint
3 6 (18.75%) Citrix
3 6 (18.75%) Nokia
4 3 (9.375%) HP
5 2 (6.250%) JBoss
6 1 (3.125%) CA
6 1 (3.125%) NetApp
6 1 (3.125%) Lotus
6 1 (3.125%) Remedy
6 1 (3.125%) EMC
6 1 (3.125%) IBM
6 1 (3.125%) Fujitsu
6 1 (3.125%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.125%) ArcSight
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