Cloud Computing Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cloud Computing over the 3 months to 20 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 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.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank 111 - 105
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 3 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.124% - 0.218%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.504% - 1.563%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Average daily rate - - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £461
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -18.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 595 433 384
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.51% 16.31% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 183 171
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £196 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 34 16
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.25 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £32.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Cloud Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh - 2 - -
Dundee - 1 - -
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing.

1 6 (46.15%) Windows
1 6 (46.15%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) OO
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) VMware ESX
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
3 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (23.08%) NAS
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) MVC
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) SAN
4 3 (23.08%) Lotus
4 3 (23.08%) WAN
4 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
4 3 (23.08%) Lotus Domino
5 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
5 2 (15.38%) Flash
5 2 (15.38%) AIX
5 2 (15.38%) Linux
5 2 (15.38%) OOP
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) PHP
5 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 2 (15.38%) ActionScript

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) J2EE
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) SOAP
1 2 (15.38%) Flash
1 2 (15.38%) JMS
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
1 2 (15.38%) Zend Framework
1 2 (15.38%) jQuery
1 2 (15.38%) Google Maps API
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) Smart GWT
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Lotus Domino
2 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
2 2 (15.38%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) WAN
1 3 (23.08%) SAN
1 3 (23.08%) NAS
2 2 (15.38%) Wireless
2 2 (15.38%) FTP
3 1 (7.692%) VPN
3 1 (7.692%) ADSL
3 1 (7.692%) LAN
3 1 (7.692%) WLAN
3 1 (7.692%) MPLS
3 1 (7.692%) BGP
3 1 (7.692%) EIGRP
3 1 (7.692%) Firewall
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (7.692%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JUnit
1 2 (15.38%) Eclipse
1 2 (15.38%) Maven
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Games
3 1 (7.692%) Retail
3 1 (7.692%) Retail Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) Drupal Developer
2 2 (15.38%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Java Applications Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Games Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Project Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) W3C
1 2 (15.38%) Derivative
1 2 (15.38%) Equity Derivative
1 2 (15.38%) Mathematics
2 1 (7.692%) Mashup
2 1 (7.692%) SaaS
2 1 (7.692%) Smartcard
2 1 (7.692%) EPoS
2 1 (7.692%) EMV
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX
3 2 (15.38%) AIX
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 1 (7.692%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) OO
2 3 (23.08%) MVC
2 3 (23.08%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) SEO
3 2 (15.38%) Workflow
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Code Coverage
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Release Management
3 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Information Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Game Development
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL V3
3 2 (15.38%) OOP
4 1 (7.692%) Network Management
4 1 (7.692%) Time Management
4 1 (7.692%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) Jython
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
3 2 (15.38%) Korn
3 2 (15.38%) PHP5
3 2 (15.38%) ActionScript 3.0
3 2 (15.38%) Bash shell
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) ActionScript
3 2 (15.38%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) WAI
2 1 (7.692%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware ESX
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (30.77%) Hyper-V
1 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (7.692%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Lotus
3 2 (15.38%) Twitter
3 2 (15.38%) Google
3 2 (15.38%) Zend
3 2 (15.38%) Sybase
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco
4 1 (7.692%) SonicWALL
4 1 (7.692%) TIBCO
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