The first table below looks at the demand for VLAN 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 VLAN over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Rank 115 100 109
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +9
Contract jobs citing VLAN 4 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.160% 0.335% 0.105%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.569% 2.609% 1.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
Average daily rate £315 £326 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £325 £322
% change year-on-year
-8.07% +0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £30.57 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.84% +52.85%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
255 345 292
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.18% 12.83% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 134 79
Average daily rate £330 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 26 24
Average hourly rate £32.25 £30.41 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.05% +84.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.20 £16.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
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VLAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland VLAN Jobs Demand Trend

VLAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland VLAN Daily Rate Trend

VLAN
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland VLAN Hourly Rate Trend

VLAN
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLAN within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Aberdeen -2 3 £315 -3.81% 1
Edinburgh - 1 - - 1
Renfrewshire - - - -
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VLAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing VLAN 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 VLAN.

1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) HP
3 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
4 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) Extranet
5 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (20.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
5 1 (20.00%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (20.00%) MSI
5 1 (20.00%) InstallShield
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Streaming Video
5 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (20.00%) Intranet
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) LDAP
5 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) SQL

VLAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing VLAN 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 VLAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 1 (20.00%) Extranet
4 1 (20.00%) Intranet
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) LDAP
4 1 (20.00%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
1 1 (20.00%) InstallShield
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Web Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Web Hosting Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Technician
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Streaming Video
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VB
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) HP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
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