The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Specialist 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 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
Technical Specialist
Rank 76 53 60
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 4 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.425% 0.907% 0.429%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.448% 0.952% 0.450%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
Average daily rate £420 £275 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.72% -24.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £324 £303
% change year-on-year
+19.59% +7.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 - £15.58
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
892 735 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.69% 95.21% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 350 388
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 37 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.75 £34.54 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Specialist
Scotland

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Technical Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Technical Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Technical Specialist in their job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) IBM
3 6 (50.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (25.00%) UNIX
5 3 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (25.00%) AIX
5 3 (25.00%) Solaris
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle
5 3 (25.00%) LDAP
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Tivoli
5 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
5 3 (25.00%) DataPower
5 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
5 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
6 2 (16.67%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (16.67%) XenDesktop
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
6 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (16.67%) Banking
6 2 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
6 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (16.67%) Symantec
6 2 (16.67%) Red Hat

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 1 (8.333%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (16.67%) MQSeries
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (8.333%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (8.333%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (8.333%) HTTPS
3 1 (8.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) DataPower
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (8.333%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) UNIX
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) AIX
1 3 (25.00%) Solaris
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (8.333%) ERD
3 1 (8.333%) Waterfall
3 1 (8.333%) Data Transformation
3 1 (8.333%) Supplier Management
3 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (16.67%) XenDesktop
2 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (25.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (16.67%) Symantec
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) EMC
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
4 1 (8.333%) Lotus
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