Scotland Server Engineer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Server Engineer role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Server Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salford Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	114
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching contract IT job ads	22	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.930 %	0.488 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£203	-
Average daily rate	£215	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£228	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£224	£283
% change on same period last year	-20.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.22	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£22.61	£22.25
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.04	£26.94
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	2366	3483
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.122 %	3.469 %
Daily rates quoted	532	696
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£301
Average daily rate	£315	£317
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	155	202
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.67	£18.66
Average hourly rate	£22.68	£19.73
% change on same period last year	+14.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.69	£20.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Server Engineer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Server Engineer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Engineer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Aberdeen	+9	16	£170	-
Edinburgh	+2	1	-	-
Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-
Glasgow	+8	1	£350	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Server Engineer 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 Server Engineer in their job title.

1 20 (60.61 %) Microsoft 1 20 (60.61 %) Active Directory 2 18 (54.55 %) Windows 3 16 (48.48 %) Windows Server 2003 4 14 (42.42 %) VMware 4 14 (42.42 %) Citrix 5 9 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 6 8 (24.24 %) MS Excel 6 8 (24.24 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 6 (18.18 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 5 (15.15 %) Cisco 8 5 (15.15 %) Windows 2000 8 5 (15.15 %) Clustering 8 5 (15.15 %) NetBackup 9 3 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003

9 3 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 9 3 (9.091 %) Migration 9 3 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 9 3 (9.091 %) Intranet 9 3 (9.091 %) Internet 9 3 (9.091 %) SAN 9 3 (9.091 %) VERITAS 9 3 (9.091 %) Remedy 9 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 9 3 (9.091 %) SQL 9 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 9 3 (9.091 %) IBM 9 3 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (9.091 %) Windows NT 9 3 (9.091 %) Windows XP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Server Engineer 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 Server Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.030 %) ADO 1 1 (3.030 %) COM+ 1 1 (3.030 %) XML 1 1 (3.030 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 9 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.030 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (24.24 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (9.091 %) Intranet 1 3 (9.091 %) Internet 1 3 (9.091 %) SAN 1 3 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (6.061 %) LAN 2 2 (6.061 %) WAN 2 2 (6.061 %) DNS 3 1 (3.030 %) VLAN 3 1 (3.030 %) VPN 3 1 (3.030 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 1 (3.030 %) Auditing 1 1 (3.030 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 5 (15.15 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.030 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 18 (54.55 %) Windows 2 16 (48.48 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (24.24 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 5 (15.15 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (9.091 %) Windows Vista 5 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 5 3 (9.091 %) Windows NT 5 3 (9.091 %) Windows XP 6 1 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (3.030 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) Migration 2 2 (6.061 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.061 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (6.061 %) Incident Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL 2 1 (3.030 %) C 2 1 (3.030 %) C++ 2 1 (3.030 %) VB 2 1 (3.030 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.030 %) MCSA 1 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 20 (60.61 %) Active Directory 2 6 (18.18 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (15.15 %) NetBackup 4 3 (9.091 %) Backup Exec 5 2 (6.061 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 2 (6.061 %) ARCserve 2 1 (3.030 %) MOM	Vendors 1 20 (60.61 %) Microsoft 2 14 (42.42 %) VMware 2 14 (42.42 %) Citrix 3 5 (15.15 %) Cisco 4 3 (9.091 %) VERITAS 4 3 (9.091 %) Remedy 4 3 (9.091 %) IBM 5 2 (6.061 %) HP 6 1 (3.030 %) Symantec 6 1 (3.030 %) Red Hat 6 1 (3.030 %) Sybase