The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Apple products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Apple over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Scotland 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Apple, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple
Rank - 104 112
Contract jobs citing Apple 0 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.152% 0.142%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.387% 0.329%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £239 £315 £250
% change year-on-year
-24.20% +26.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £16.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
-7.57% +13.79%
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1103 1034 1217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.19% 39.18% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 464 521
Average daily rate £370 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £212 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 51 56
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.70 £10.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Apple
UK

Apple
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Apple across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Scotland Apple Jobs Demand Trend

Apple
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Apple Daily Rate Trend

Apple
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Apple Hourly Rate Trend

Apple
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Apple 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 Apple.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Lotus
3 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
3 1 (25.00%) MSI
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) LANDesk
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) SMS
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP

Apple
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Apple 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 Apple. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) SMS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Packager
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Lotus
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) LANDesk