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

The first table below looks at the demand for SDH 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 SDH 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
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
Rank 109 98 -
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -
Contract jobs citing SDH 11 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.451% 0.264% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.135% 2.222% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £276 £340 £350
% change year-on-year
-18.75% -2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
- +61.76%
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%
SDH
UK

SDH
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland SDH Jobs Demand Trend

SDH
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland SDH Daily Rate Trend

SDH
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland SDH Hourly Rate Trend

SDH
Top 18 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (100.00%) ATM
1 11 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 8 (72.73%) Ericsson
3 7 (63.64%) WAN
3 7 (63.64%) Nortel
4 4 (36.36%) 3G
5 3 (27.27%) HND
5 3 (27.27%) 2G
5 3 (27.27%) 2.5G
5 3 (27.27%) Cramer
5 3 (27.27%) Network Design
5 3 (27.27%) Network Planning
6 2 (18.18%) B2B
6 2 (18.18%) BT
7 1 (9.091%) Mapinfo
7 1 (9.091%) MS Access
7 1 (9.091%) Radio Access Network

SDH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 11 (100.00%) ATM
2 7 (63.64%) WAN
3 4 (36.36%) 3G
4 3 (27.27%) 2G
4 3 (27.27%) 2.5G
5 1 (9.091%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MS Access
General
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Transmission Planner
2 2 (18.18%) Transmission Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Transmission Planning Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Network Planner
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Network Design
1 3 (27.27%) Network Planning
2 2 (18.18%) B2B
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) HND
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Ericsson
2 7 (63.64%) Nortel
3 3 (27.27%) Cramer
4 2 (18.18%) BT
5 1 (9.091%) Mapinfo
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