Scotland Design Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Design Engineer role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Design Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Feltham Fife Glasgow Glenrothes Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Kent Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Paddington Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rochester Rugby Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West Southampton Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	110
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	3	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	0.129 %	0.526 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£385
% change on same period last year	-14.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-22.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.12	£35.81
% change on same period last year	-15.88 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2331	3425
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.107 %	3.465 %
Daily rates quoted	514	666
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£306
Average daily rate	£320	£321
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	140	196
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.18	£18.21
Average hourly rate	£22.27	£19.26
% change on same period last year	+15.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.36	£20.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Design Engineer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Design Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+1	1	-	-
Fife	-	1	-	-
West Lothian	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Design Engineer 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 Design Engineer in their job title.

1 10 (38.46 %) Electric 2 7 (26.92 %) Degree 3 6 (23.08 %) Aerospace 4 5 (19.23 %) Project Management 5 3 (11.54 %) Firewall 5 3 (11.54 %) CCNP 5 3 (11.54 %) CCIP 5 3 (11.54 %) CCDP 5 3 (11.54 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (11.54 %) LAN 5 3 (11.54 %) Finance 5 3 (11.54 %) Network Design 6 2 (7.692 %) VHDL 6 2 (7.692 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 2 (7.692 %) Cisco

7 1 (3.846 %) SDH 7 1 (3.846 %) Ethernet 7 1 (3.846 %) Government 7 1 (3.846 %) Handset 7 1 (3.846 %) MPLS 7 1 (3.846 %) Wi-Fi 7 1 (3.846 %) Electronics 7 1 (3.846 %) Telecoms 7 1 (3.846 %) Xilinx 7 1 (3.846 %) Mentor Graphics 7 1 (3.846 %) PDA 7 1 (3.846 %) WiMAX 7 1 (3.846 %) Performance Testing 7 1 (3.846 %) Chartered Engineer 7 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Design Engineer 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 Design Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 3 (11.54 %) LAN 1 3 (11.54 %) Firewall 2 1 (3.846 %) Wi-Fi 2 1 (3.846 %) WiMAX 2 1 (3.846 %) SDH 2 1 (3.846 %) Ethernet 2 1 (3.846 %) MPLS	General 1 10 (38.46 %) Electric 2 6 (23.08 %) Aerospace 3 3 (11.54 %) Finance 4 1 (3.846 %) Electronics 4 1 (3.846 %) Telecoms 4 1 (3.846 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.692 %) VHDL 1 2 (7.692 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 1 (3.846 %) PDA 2 1 (3.846 %) Handset	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (19.23 %) Project Management 2 3 (11.54 %) Network Design 3 1 (3.846 %) Performance Testing 3 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared
Qualifications 1 7 (26.92 %) Degree 2 3 (11.54 %) CCNP 2 3 (11.54 %) CCIP 2 3 (11.54 %) CCDP 2 3 (11.54 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (3.846 %) Chartered Engineer	Vendors 1 2 (7.692 %) Cisco 2 1 (3.846 %) Xilinx 2 1 (3.846 %) Mentor Graphics