The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BT 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 BT over the 3 months to 21 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 BT Group plc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BT
Rank 120 108 109
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +1
Contract jobs citing BT 2 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.081% 0.038% 0.256%
As % of the Vendors category 0.178% 0.097% 0.591%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £420 £125
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +236.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £313 £368
% change year-on-year
-12.00% -14.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £15.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £78.75 £22.32
% change year-on-year
-75.87% +252.90%
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1122 1034 1185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.39% 39.12% 43.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 461 511
Average daily rate £365 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 52 55
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +51.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.85 £10.00 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £33.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
BT
UK

BT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland BT Jobs Demand Trend

BT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland BT Daily Rate Trend

BT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland BT Hourly Rate Trend

BT
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing BT 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 BT.

1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) 2G
2 2 (66.67%) 2.5G
2 2 (66.67%) HND
2 2 (66.67%) ATM
2 2 (66.67%) SDH
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) 3G
2 2 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (66.67%) Network Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Cramer
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
3 1 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Migration

BT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing BT 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 BT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) 2G
1 2 (66.67%) 2.5G
1 2 (66.67%) ATM
1 2 (66.67%) SDH
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 2 (66.67%) 3G
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Transmission Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Transmission Planning Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Packager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) B2B
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
1 2 (66.67%) Network Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) HND
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cramer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware