FTP Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for FTP 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 FTP over the 3 months to 17 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 Communications & Networking 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Rank - 103 111
Contract jobs citing FTP 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.076% 0.107%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.635% 1.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £463
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -29.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% -29.20%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 266 315 260
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.91% 11.89% 9.269%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 127 76
Average daily rate £361 £345 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.56% -4.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £243 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 33 29
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% +52.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.88 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £35.00 £35.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
FTP
UK

FTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland FTP Jobs Demand Trend

FTP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland FTP Daily Rate Trend

FTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland FTP Hourly Rate Trend

FTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing FTP 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 FTP.

1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) MS Office
2 13 (86.67%) Windows XP
2 13 (86.67%) DHCP
2 13 (86.67%) DNS
2 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (86.67%) MS PowerPoint
3 11 (73.33%) Cisco IPT
3 11 (73.33%) Cisco
4 9 (60.00%) Blackberry
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Jython
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Code Coverage
5 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (13.33%) JMS
5 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
5 2 (13.33%) SOAP
5 2 (13.33%) Linux
5 2 (13.33%) OO
5 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
5 2 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) J2EE
5 2 (13.33%) Sybase
5 2 (13.33%) JUnit
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA

FTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing FTP 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 FTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) J2EE
1 2 (13.33%) SOAP
1 2 (13.33%) JMS
1 2 (13.33%) Spring
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) Smart GWT
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (86.67%) MS Office
1 13 (86.67%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (86.67%) DHCP
1 13 (86.67%) DNS
2 11 (73.33%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JUnit
1 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (13.33%) Maven
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Help Desk Support
2 2 (13.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Help Desk Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Service Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Applications Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support
3 1 (6.667%) Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Java Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (13.33%) Derivative
2 2 (13.33%) Equity Derivative
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 13 (86.67%) Windows XP
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) OO
1 2 (13.33%) Code Coverage
1 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (13.33%) Workflow
1 2 (13.33%) Release Management
1 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
1 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (6.667%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (13.33%) Jython
1 2 (13.33%) Korn
1 2 (13.33%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (73.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Sybase
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