The first table below looks at the demand for Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services over the 3 months to 24 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 System Software 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Terminal Services
Rank 116 106 110
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +4
Contract jobs citing Terminal Services 2 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% 0.150% 0.036%
As % of the System Software category 1.183% 2.083% 0.442%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £363 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £340 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.75 £12.61 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+24.95% -9.96%
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
169 192 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 6.929% 7.218% 8.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 92 62
Average daily rate £350 £313 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £16.20 £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.50 £35.00 £73.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Terminal Services
UK

Terminal Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Terminal Services across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Scotland Terminal Services Jobs Demand Trend

Terminal Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Terminal Services Daily Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Terminal Services Hourly Rate Trend

Terminal Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Terminal Services within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Glasgow -15 1 - -
Terminal Services
UK

Terminal Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (62.50%) Citrix
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) VBScript
5 3 (37.50%) IIS
5 3 (37.50%) C
5 3 (37.50%) Lotus
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
5 3 (37.50%) Lotus Notes
5 3 (37.50%) HP
5 3 (37.50%) XenApp
5 3 (37.50%) Clustering
5 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (37.50%) SCCM
5 3 (37.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (37.50%) Sophos
5 3 (37.50%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (25.00%) Network Security
6 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (25.00%) DFS Replication
6 2 (25.00%) WMI

Terminal Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Terminal Services 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 Terminal Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) IIS
1 3 (37.50%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (37.50%) DHCP
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) SMS
5 1 (12.50%) Intranet
5 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MS Access
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Support
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Thin Client
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
4 1 (12.50%) Windows NT
4 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
4 1 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (12.50%) ERP
2 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) VBScript
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) VB
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) XenApp
3 2 (25.00%) DFS Replication
4 1 (12.50%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
1 3 (37.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (25.00%) WMI
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) Lotus
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Sophos
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle