Glasgow Broadband Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Broadband skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Broadband over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Broadband
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim East of England England Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Pontypridd Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	65
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	4.348 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£364	£341
% change on same period last year	+6.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.26	£16.86
% change on same period last year	+8.29 %
Communications & Networking Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	126	115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.166 %	0.122 %
Daily rates quoted	32	22
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£314
Average daily rate	£320	£325
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.57	£19.00
Average hourly rate	£38.79	£21.02
% change on same period last year	+84.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.00	£23.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
Broadband Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Broadband
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Broadband across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Broadband
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Broadband across the Glasgow region.

Broadband
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Broadband 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 Broadband.

1 2 (100.00 %) ISDN 1 2 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 2 (100.00 %) BizTalk Server 1 2 (100.00 %) BMC PATROL 1 2 (100.00 %) MPLS 1 2 (100.00 %) Infovista

Broadband
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Broadband 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 Broadband. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) BizTalk Server	Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) ISDN 1 2 (100.00 %) MPLS
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Support Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Technical Support 1 2 (100.00 %) Technical Support Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Technical Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) IT Support Analyst	Systems Management 1 2 (100.00 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 2 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 2 (100.00 %) Nortel 1 2 (100.00 %) Infovista