LAN Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LAN 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 LAN over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Area Network (LAN)
Rank 94 65 66
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +1
Contract jobs citing LAN 27 40 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.090% 1.495% 1.606%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 12.08% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 10
Average daily rate £315 £325 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -1.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £155 £155 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £375 £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £309 £308 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.40% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
Average hourly rate - £23.00 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -4.76%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 270 331 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.90% 12.37% 9.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 135 73
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £240 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £420 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 26
Average hourly rate £30.25 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £35.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
LAN
UK

LAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland LAN Jobs Demand Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland LAN Daily Rate Trend

LAN
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LAN across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland LAN Daily Rate Histogram

LAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland LAN Hourly Rate Trend

LAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Aberdeen +8 11 £370 +12.97%
Fife 0 5 £315 +0.80%
Glasgow -23 4 £178 -52.66%
Edinburgh -12 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Aberdeenshire 0 1 £380 -
LAN
UK

LAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing LAN 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 LAN.

1 44 (86.27%) WAN
2 28 (54.90%) Cisco
3 22 (43.14%) Wireless
4 19 (37.25%) Telecoms
4 19 (37.25%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (35.29%) Windows
6 17 (33.33%) VPN
6 17 (33.33%) Firewall
7 14 (27.45%) BGP
7 14 (27.45%) Cisco ASA
8 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
8 13 (25.49%) EIGRP
9 12 (23.53%) Degree
9 12 (23.53%) CCNP
9 12 (23.53%) CCIE
10 11 (21.57%) VoIP
10 11 (21.57%) IP Telephony
10 11 (21.57%) Time Management
10 11 (21.57%) Riverbed
11 10 (19.61%) ITIL
11 10 (19.61%) MS Office
11 10 (19.61%) Citrix
12 9 (17.65%) Finance
13 8 (15.69%) MGCP
13 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
13 8 (15.69%) Remedy
13 8 (15.69%) H.323
13 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
13 8 (15.69%) MS Excel
13 8 (15.69%) Cisco Nexus

LAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing LAN 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 LAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.922%) HTML
1 2 (3.922%) .NET
1 2 (3.922%) ASP
1 2 (3.922%) CSS
1 2 (3.922%) XML
2 1 (1.961%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.882%) Jetty
2 2 (3.922%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.922%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 10 (19.61%) MS Office
2 8 (15.69%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (11.76%) SAP CCM
1 6 (11.76%) SAP GTS
2 2 (3.922%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 44 (86.27%) WAN
2 22 (43.14%) Wireless
3 17 (33.33%) VPN
3 17 (33.33%) Firewall
4 14 (27.45%) BGP
4 14 (27.45%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (25.49%) EIGRP
6 11 (21.57%) VoIP
6 11 (21.57%) IP Telephony
7 8 (15.69%) MGCP
7 8 (15.69%) H.323
7 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
7 8 (15.69%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (11.76%) WLAN
9 5 (9.804%) DHCP
9 5 (9.804%) DNS
9 5 (9.804%) MPLS
10 4 (7.843%) SAN
10 4 (7.843%) Internet
10 4 (7.843%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.922%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (3.922%) MS Access
1 2 (3.922%) SQL Server
General
1 19 (37.25%) Telecoms
2 9 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (3.922%) Marketing
3 2 (3.922%) Back Office
4 1 (1.961%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.961%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.961%) Banking
4 1 (1.961%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Network Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) Senior Network Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 5 (9.804%) Project Manager
5 5 (9.804%) Telecoms Engineer
6 4 (7.843%) Field Engineer
7 3 (5.882%) IT Support
7 3 (5.882%) Desktop Support
7 3 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.882%) Technical Project Manager
7 3 (5.882%) Technical Specialist
7 3 (5.882%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Technical Manager
7 3 (5.882%) Network Support
7 3 (5.882%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) Desktop Analyst
8 2 (3.922%) Senior Technical Specialist
8 2 (3.922%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.922%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.843%) CMDB
2 2 (3.922%) CCTV
3 1 (1.961%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.961%) EPoS
3 1 (1.961%) EMV
3 1 (1.961%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 18 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (9.804%) Windows 7
2 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (9.804%) Windows Vista
3 4 (7.843%) UNIX
4 2 (3.922%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.922%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.922%) Linux
4 2 (3.922%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.961%) Solaris
5 1 (1.961%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Time Management
2 10 (19.61%) ITIL
3 7 (13.73%) Data Management
4 4 (7.843%) Release Management
4 4 (7.843%) Problem Management
4 4 (7.843%) Configuration Management
5 3 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (5.882%) Network Management
5 3 (5.882%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (5.882%) PRINCE2
5 3 (5.882%) Service Delivery
6 2 (3.922%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (3.922%) Migration
6 2 (3.922%) Workflow
6 2 (3.922%) Project Management
6 2 (3.922%) Change Management
6 2 (3.922%) Service Management
6 2 (3.922%) E-Commerce
6 2 (3.922%) ITIL V3
6 2 (3.922%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.804%) SQL
2 3 (5.882%) C
3 2 (3.922%) VB
4 1 (1.961%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (37.25%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (23.53%) Degree
2 12 (23.53%) CCNP
2 12 (23.53%) CCIE
3 4 (7.843%) CCNA
3 4 (7.843%) HND
4 3 (5.882%) CISSP
4 3 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.882%) CCSP
5 2 (3.922%) MCSA
5 2 (3.922%) MCP
6 1 (1.961%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.882%) SLA
2 1 (1.961%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.922%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.961%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.961%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.961%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (7.843%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.961%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (1.961%) SCCM
Vendors
1 28 (54.90%) Cisco
2 11 (21.57%) Riverbed
3 10 (19.61%) Citrix
4 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
4 8 (15.69%) Remedy
5 6 (11.76%) VMware
5 6 (11.76%) SAP
6 5 (9.804%) HP
7 4 (7.843%) SonicWALL
8 3 (5.882%) Juniper
9 2 (3.922%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.922%) Nortel
9 2 (3.922%) Avaya
9 2 (3.922%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.961%) NetApp
10 1 (1.961%) EMC
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