The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smartcard in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Smartcard 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Glasgow 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
Smart Card
Rank - 59 61
Contract jobs citing Smartcard 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - 0.130% 0.286%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.746% 2.105%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £475
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.00 £13.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -21.21%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
259 134 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.49% 17.36% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 65 61
Average daily rate £357 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £207 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £24.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.89 £12.50 £23.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £26.00 £121.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Smartcard
Scotland

Smartcard
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Smartcard across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Glasgow Smartcard Jobs Demand Trend

Smartcard
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Smartcard Daily Rate Trend

Smartcard
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Smartcard Hourly Rate Trend

Smartcard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Smartcard 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 Smartcard.

1 4 (66.67%) EPoS
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
1 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
2 3 (50.00%) EMV
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Back Office
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Insight
4 1 (16.67%) HSRP
4 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (16.67%) SCCM
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing

Smartcard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Smartcard 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 Smartcard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) ADSL
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) WLAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
1 1 (16.67%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Crystal Reports
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
1 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) EPoS
2 3 (50.00%) EMV
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Insight
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL V3
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco