The first table below looks at the demand for DFS Replication skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DFS Replication over the 3 months to 24 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 of the System Software 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £344 £325
% change year-on-year
- +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 - -
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
169 192 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 6.929% 7.218% 8.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 92 62
Average daily rate £350 £313 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 21
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 £12.00 £16.20 £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.50 £35.00 £73.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
DFS Replication
UK

DFS Replication
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland DFS Replication Jobs Demand Trend

DFS Replication
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing DFS Replication 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 DFS Replication.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Terminal Services
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) WMI
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing

DFS Replication
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing DFS Replication 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 DFS Replication. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) VBScript
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) WMI
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix