Scotland WAN Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Wide Area Network (WAN) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAN over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Wide Area Network (WAN)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hull Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Prescot Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochester Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	46
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	46	94
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.095 %
As % of the category below	15.33 %	20.30 %
Daily rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£272
Average daily rate	£281	£287
% change on same period last year	-2.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£301
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£320
% change on same period last year	+1.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.50	£14.74
Average hourly rate	£13.75	£14.74
% change on same period last year	-6.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£14.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.24	£26.14
% change on same period last year	-18.76 %
Communications & Networking Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	300	463
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.400 %	0.468 %
Daily rates quoted	60	85
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£348
Average daily rate	£308	£358
% change on same period last year	-14.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.32	£18.73
Average hourly rate	£26.37	£19.84
% change on same period last year	+32.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.43	£20.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
WAN 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAN across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking 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 WAN 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 WAN across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 WAN 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 WAN across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 WAN within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	-6	15	£375	-
Glasgow	+6	9	£271	+8.33 %
Renfrewshire	-	7	-	-
Edinburgh	-6	4	-	-
Highlands	-	3	£230	-
South Ayrshire	-	1	£225	-
Dundee	+6	1	£325	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing WAN 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 WAN.

1 85 (81.73 %) LAN 2 57 (54.81 %) Cisco 3 41 (39.42 %) Windows 4 36 (34.62 %) Cisco Certification 5 27 (25.96 %) Active Directory 6 25 (24.04 %) CCNP 7 19 (18.27 %) VPN 7 19 (18.27 %) Firewall 8 16 (15.38 %) Microsoft 8 16 (15.38 %) MS Office 8 16 (15.38 %) VoIP 9 15 (14.42 %) Telecoms 9 15 (14.42 %) Migration 10 14 (13.46 %) Windows 2000 10 14 (13.46 %) Citrix

11 13 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 12 11 (10.58 %) Project Management 12 11 (10.58 %) MS Excel 12 11 (10.58 %) Windows XP 12 11 (10.58 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 10 (9.615 %) MS Exchange 14 8 (7.692 %) Stakeholder Management 14 8 (7.692 %) CCVP 14 8 (7.692 %) Wireless 15 7 (6.731 %) Workflow 15 7 (6.731 %) Finance 15 7 (6.731 %) Change Management 15 7 (6.731 %) SLA 15 7 (6.731 %) CCIE 15 7 (6.731 %) Supplier Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing WAN 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 WAN. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (0.962 %) .NET 1 1 (0.962 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (0.962 %) SOAP 1 1 (0.962 %) WebServices 1 1 (0.962 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 11 (10.58 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (9.615 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (5.769 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (2.885 %) IIS 4 3 (2.885 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (0.962 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 16 (15.38 %) MS Office 2 11 (10.58 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.962 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 85 (81.73 %) LAN 2 19 (18.27 %) VPN 2 19 (18.27 %) Firewall 3 16 (15.38 %) VoIP 4 8 (7.692 %) Wireless 5 6 (5.769 %) BGP 5 6 (5.769 %) IPCC 5 6 (5.769 %) Network Security 6 5 (4.808 %) OSPF 6 5 (4.808 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (3.846 %) SAN 7 4 (3.846 %) EIGRP 8 3 (2.885 %) MPLS 8 3 (2.885 %) SSL 8 3 (2.885 %) Ethernet 8 3 (2.885 %) ATM 9 2 (1.923 %) ISDN 9 2 (1.923 %) DHCP 9 2 (1.923 %) SONET 9 2 (1.923 %) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (0.962 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (0.962 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 15 (14.42 %) Telecoms 2 7 (6.731 %) Finance 3 4 (3.846 %) Education 4 2 (1.923 %) Government 5 1 (0.962 %) Legal 5 1 (0.962 %) Retail 5 1 (0.962 %) FMCG 5 1 (0.962 %) Back Office 5 1 (0.962 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 16 (15.38 %) Analyst 2 14 (13.46 %) Cisco Engineer 3 10 (9.615 %) Project Manager 4 8 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 5 7 (6.731 %) Consultant 5 7 (6.731 %) Network Technician 6 6 (5.769 %) Desktop Support 6 6 (5.769 %) 2nd Line Support 7 4 (3.846 %) 3rd Line Support 7 4 (3.846 %) Support Engineer 7 4 (3.846 %) Infrastructure Engineer 7 4 (3.846 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 4 (3.846 %) Service Manager 7 4 (3.846 %) Network Engineer 7 4 (3.846 %) Delivery Manager 7 4 (3.846 %) VoIP Engineer 7 4 (3.846 %) Voice Engineer 8 3 (2.885 %) Infrastructure Consultant 8 3 (2.885 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 3 (2.885 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.885 %) Client/Server 2 2 (1.923 %) IVR 2 2 (1.923 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (0.962 %) Taxonomies 3 1 (0.962 %) French Language 3 1 (0.962 %) Replication 3 1 (0.962 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 41 (39.42 %) Windows 2 14 (13.46 %) Windows 2000 3 13 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 11 (10.58 %) Windows XP 5 6 (5.769 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.962 %) NetWare 6 1 (0.962 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (14.42 %) Migration 2 11 (10.58 %) Project Management 3 8 (7.692 %) Stakeholder Management 4 7 (6.731 %) Workflow 4 7 (6.731 %) Supplier Management 4 7 (6.731 %) Change Management 5 6 (5.769 %) ITIL 6 5 (4.808 %) Service Management 7 4 (3.846 %) Service Delivery 7 4 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (3.846 %) Test Management 8 3 (2.885 %) Incident Management 9 2 (1.923 %) Disaster Recovery 9 2 (1.923 %) Network Design 9 2 (1.923 %) Security Cleared 10 1 (0.962 %) ITSM 10 1 (0.962 %) Security Management 10 1 (0.962 %) Configuration Management 10 1 (0.962 %) Problem Management 10 1 (0.962 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (3.846 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 36 (34.62 %) Cisco Certification 2 25 (24.04 %) CCNP 3 8 (7.692 %) CCVP 4 7 (6.731 %) CCIE 5 5 (4.808 %) CCSP 5 5 (4.808 %) CCNA 5 5 (4.808 %) CCDA 5 5 (4.808 %) MCSE 5 5 (4.808 %) Microsoft Certification 6 4 (3.846 %) CCDP 7 3 (2.885 %) MCP 8 2 (1.923 %) Degree 9 1 (0.962 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 1 (0.962 %) Check Point Certification 9 1 (0.962 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.962 %) HNC 9 1 (0.962 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (6.731 %) SLA	System Software 1 27 (25.96 %) Active Directory 2 5 (4.808 %) VMware ESX 3 4 (3.846 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 3 (2.885 %) NetBackup 5 2 (1.923 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 1 (0.962 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 3 (2.885 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 57 (54.81 %) Cisco 2 16 (15.38 %) Microsoft 3 14 (13.46 %) Citrix 4 6 (5.769 %) SAP 4 6 (5.769 %) VMware 5 5 (4.808 %) CheckPoint 6 4 (3.846 %) Nortel 7 3 (2.885 %) HP 7 3 (2.885 %) VERITAS 8 2 (1.923 %) Siemens 8 2 (1.923 %) Juniper 8 2 (1.923 %) Nokia 8 2 (1.923 %) Mitel 8 2 (1.923 %) Blue Coat 9 1 (0.962 %) Fujitsu 9 1 (0.962 %) Altiris 9 1 (0.962 %) Novell 9 1 (0.962 %) CommVault 9 1 (0.962 %) Symantec 9 1 (0.962 %) Intel