Scotland Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Scotland region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bletchley Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chalfont St Giles Chathill Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	37
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	52	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.104 %
As % of the category below	4.479 %	7.573 %
Daily rates quoted	14	36
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£241
Average daily rate	£346	£249
% change on same period last year	+39.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£257
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£324
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£51.00
Average hourly rate	£11.00	£60.17
% change on same period last year	-81.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£69.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+8.37 %
General Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1161	1228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.490 %	1.380 %
Daily rates quoted	308	281
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£308
Average daily rate	£375	£322
% change on same period last year	+16.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.92	£25.63
Average hourly rate	£20.23	£27.88
% change on same period last year	-27.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.54	£30.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.74	£26.10
% change on same period last year	-1.35 %
Telecoms UK

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.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms across the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Telecoms 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 Telecoms across the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Scotland region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Glasgow	+13	19	£416	+52.80 %
2	Edinburgh	-20	15	£226	-7.78 %
3	Aberdeen	-11	14	£533	+357.79 %
4	West Lothian	-1	2	-	-

Telecoms UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms.

1 27 (26.47 %) Cisco 2 22 (21.57 %) Windows 3 16 (15.69 %) VoIP 4 15 (14.71 %) LAN 4 15 (14.71 %) Microsoft 5 14 (13.73 %) WAN 6 13 (12.75 %) Unix 6 13 (12.75 %) Finance 7 12 (11.76 %) MPLS 8 11 (10.78 %) Cisco Certification 9 10 (9.804 %) CCNA 10 9 (8.824 %) CCNP 11 8 (7.843 %) Intec 11 8 (7.843 %) VERITAS 11 8 (7.843 %) Shell Script

11 8 (7.843 %) Sun 11 8 (7.843 %) Active Directory 11 8 (7.843 %) Solaris 11 8 (7.843 %) Oracle 11 8 (7.843 %) Billing 12 7 (6.863 %) Oracle Application Server 12 7 (6.863 %) Oracle RMAN 12 7 (6.863 %) SQL Server 12 7 (6.863 %) MySQL 12 7 (6.863 %) Oracle 9i 12 7 (6.863 %) SLA 12 7 (6.863 %) Oracle 10g 12 7 (6.863 %) TCP/IP 12 7 (6.863 %) Workflow 13 6 (5.882 %) Avaya

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (1.961 %) HTML 1 2 (1.961 %) JSP 1 2 (1.961 %) Hibernate 1 2 (1.961 %) Spring 1 2 (1.961 %) AJAX 2 1 (0.980 %) .NET 2 1 (0.980 %) J2EE 2 1 (0.980 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 7 (6.863 %) Oracle Application Server 2 4 (3.922 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (2.941 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (1.961 %) WebLogic 4 2 (1.961 %) JBoss 4 2 (1.961 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.980 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (0.980 %) GroupWise 5 1 (0.980 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (0.980 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 5 (4.902 %) MS Office 2 4 (3.922 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.961 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.961 %) SunGard Vivista 2 1 (0.980 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 16 (15.69 %) VoIP 2 15 (14.71 %) LAN 3 14 (13.73 %) WAN 4 12 (11.76 %) MPLS 5 7 (6.863 %) TCP/IP 6 6 (5.882 %) PBX 6 6 (5.882 %) OSPF 6 6 (5.882 %) BGP 7 5 (4.902 %) VPN 7 5 (4.902 %) DNS 8 4 (3.922 %) SDH 8 4 (3.922 %) Firewall 8 4 (3.922 %) Wireless 9 3 (2.941 %) CTI 9 3 (2.941 %) Nortel Meridian 9 3 (2.941 %) PSTN 9 3 (2.941 %) ISDN 10 2 (1.961 %) GSM 10 2 (1.961 %) SNMP 10 2 (1.961 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (6.863 %) MySQL 1 7 (6.863 %) SQL Server 1 7 (6.863 %) Oracle 9i 1 7 (6.863 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2000 2 6 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (3.922 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 1 (0.980 %) TestDirector	General 1 13 (12.75 %) Finance 2 8 (7.843 %) Billing 3 3 (2.941 %) Insurance 3 3 (2.941 %) Retail 4 2 (1.961 %) Banking 4 2 (1.961 %) Education 4 2 (1.961 %) Government 5 1 (0.980 %) Health 5 1 (0.980 %) Chemicals 5 1 (0.980 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (0.980 %) Electronics 5 1 (0.980 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 11 (10.78 %) Analyst 2 9 (8.824 %) Administrator 3 7 (6.863 %) DBA 3 7 (6.863 %) Oracle DBA 4 6 (5.882 %) Project Manager 4 6 (5.882 %) Support Analyst 4 6 (5.882 %) Telecoms Engineer 5 5 (4.902 %) Network Engineer 5 5 (4.902 %) Support Engineer 6 4 (3.922 %) 2nd Line Support 6 4 (3.922 %) Telecoms Analyst 6 4 (3.922 %) Voice Analyst 6 4 (3.922 %) Cisco Engineer 7 3 (2.941 %) Senior Technical Analyst 7 3 (2.941 %) Technical Analyst 7 3 (2.941 %) SQL DBA 7 3 (2.941 %) Provisioning Engineer 7 3 (2.941 %) Telecoms Project Manager 7 3 (2.941 %) Applications Support 7 3 (2.941 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.941 %) IVR 2 1 (0.980 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 1 (0.980 %) PDA 2 1 (0.980 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.980 %) Blackberry 2 1 (0.980 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 22 (21.57 %) Windows 2 13 (12.75 %) Unix 3 8 (7.843 %) Solaris 4 5 (4.902 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (4.902 %) Windows NT 5 3 (2.941 %) Windows XP 5 3 (2.941 %) Linux 6 2 (1.961 %) Windows Mobile 7 1 (0.980 %) NetWare 7 1 (0.980 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (6.863 %) Workflow 2 6 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (4.902 %) Project Management 3 5 (4.902 %) Change Management 3 5 (4.902 %) ITIL 4 4 (3.922 %) Migration 5 3 (2.941 %) Network Planning 6 2 (1.961 %) Supplier Management 6 2 (1.961 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (0.980 %) Manual Testing 7 1 (0.980 %) Data Migration 7 1 (0.980 %) Automated Testing
Programming Languages 1 8 (7.843 %) Shell Script 2 4 (3.922 %) SQL 3 2 (1.961 %) VBScript 3 2 (1.961 %) VB 3 2 (1.961 %) Java 4 1 (0.980 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 11 (10.78 %) Cisco Certification 2 10 (9.804 %) CCNA 3 9 (8.824 %) CCNP 4 5 (4.902 %) CCVP 5 3 (2.941 %) Degree 6 1 (0.980 %) Microsoft Certification 6 1 (0.980 %) Check Point Certification 6 1 (0.980 %) CCIP 6 1 (0.980 %) MCSE 6 1 (0.980 %) PhD 6 1 (0.980 %) CCDA 6 1 (0.980 %) CCDP 6 1 (0.980 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (6.863 %) SLA	System Software 1 8 (7.843 %) Active Directory 2 7 (6.863 %) Oracle RMAN 3 6 (5.882 %) NetBackup 4 1 (0.980 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 2 (1.961 %) MIMEsweeper 2 1 (0.980 %) MOM 2 1 (0.980 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 27 (26.47 %) Cisco 2 15 (14.71 %) Microsoft 3 8 (7.843 %) Sun 3 8 (7.843 %) Oracle 3 8 (7.843 %) VERITAS 3 8 (7.843 %) Intec 4 6 (5.882 %) Avaya 5 5 (4.902 %) Nortel 6 4 (3.922 %) Business Objects 6 4 (3.922 %) SAP 6 4 (3.922 %) Cramer 7 3 (2.941 %) Mapinfo 7 3 (2.941 %) Red Hat 7 3 (2.941 %) Novell 8 2 (1.961 %) Nokia 8 2 (1.961 %) SunGard 8 2 (1.961 %) CheckPoint 9 1 (0.980 %) BT 9 1 (0.980 %) Mitel 9 1 (0.980 %) Fujitsu