The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Designer
Rank 112 104 103
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Designer 10 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.395% 0.150% 0.393%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.428% 0.160% 0.422%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 9
Average daily rate £425 £475 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% +11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £475 £339
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £447 £419
% change year-on-year
-4.92% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £40.00
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2339 2494 2609
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.49% 93.34% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1091 1162 1315
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 103 93
Average hourly rate £14.00 £19.25 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +18.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.40 £10.43 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £33.00 £36.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Designer
UK

Infrastructure Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Infrastructure Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Infrastructure Designer Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Infrastructure Designer 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 Infrastructure Designer in their job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 8 (53.33%) Linux
3 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
4 6 (40.00%) SAN
4 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 6 (40.00%) VMware
4 6 (40.00%) Finance
5 5 (33.33%) Migration
5 5 (33.33%) IBM
5 5 (33.33%) EMC
5 5 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (33.33%) Windows
5 5 (33.33%) Solaris
5 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (26.67%) UNIX
6 4 (26.67%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
6 4 (26.67%) AIX
6 4 (26.67%) Citrix
6 4 (26.67%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (20.00%) Veritas
7 3 (20.00%) Windows XP
7 3 (20.00%) MQSeries
7 3 (20.00%) JBoss
7 3 (20.00%) VMware ESX
7 3 (20.00%) Symantec

Infrastructure Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Infrastructure Designer 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 Infrastructure Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (26.67%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (6.667%) X-Windows
3 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (20.00%) MQSeries
3 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
4 1 (6.667%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) SAN
2 3 (20.00%) NAS
3 2 (13.33%) MPLS
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.667%) VPN
4 1 (6.667%) IPv6
4 1 (6.667%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
3 1 (6.667%) Retail Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.667%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (6.667%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.667%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (33.33%) Windows
3 5 (33.33%) Solaris
4 4 (26.67%) UNIX
4 4 (26.67%) AIX
5 3 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Time Management
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Project Management
4 1 (6.667%) Identity Management
4 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (6.667%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (20.00%) XenDesktop
1 3 (20.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
1 1 (6.667%) Veritas Storage Foundation
1 1 (6.667%) SCCM
1 1 (6.667%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (46.67%) Red Hat
3 6 (40.00%) VMware
4 5 (33.33%) IBM
4 5 (33.33%) EMC
5 4 (26.67%) Citrix
6 3 (20.00%) Veritas
6 3 (20.00%) JBoss
6 3 (20.00%) Dell
6 3 (20.00%) Symantec
7 2 (13.33%) HP
8 1 (6.667%) Sun
8 1 (6.667%) TIBCO