The first table below looks at the demand for Wireless 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 Wireless 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Wireless
Rank 98 99 103
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Contract jobs citing Wireless 20 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.820% 0.414% 0.290%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.874% 3.354% 3.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 6
Average daily rate £275 £375 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% -3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £375 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £375 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -5.30%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
254 328 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.41% 12.33% 9.482%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 134 75
Average daily rate £358 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £239 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £420 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 26
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Wireless Jobs Demand Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Wireless Daily Rate Trend

Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Wireless across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Wireless Daily Rate Histogram

Wireless
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Wireless Hourly Rate Trend

Wireless
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Wireless 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
Aberdeen +6 5 £311 -
Glasgow - 5 - -
West Lothian -5 4 £275 -26.66%
Edinburgh +8 3 - -
Stirling - 2 - -
Wireless
UK

Wireless
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 26 (50.98%) Cisco
2 22 (43.14%) LAN
3 20 (39.22%) WAN
3 20 (39.22%) VPN
3 20 (39.22%) Telecoms
4 17 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
5 14 (27.45%) BGP
6 13 (25.49%) EIGRP
6 13 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (25.49%) Firewall
7 12 (23.53%) CCIE
7 12 (23.53%) Time Management
8 11 (21.57%) Riverbed
8 11 (21.57%) CCNP
8 11 (21.57%) Broadband
8 11 (21.57%) Windows
9 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
9 10 (19.61%) VoIP
9 10 (19.61%) IP Telephony
9 10 (19.61%) Degree
10 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
11 8 (15.69%) 3G
11 8 (15.69%) MGCP
11 8 (15.69%) H.323
11 8 (15.69%) ITIL
11 8 (15.69%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (13.73%) Citrix
13 6 (11.76%) Nortel
13 6 (11.76%) Avaya

Wireless
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (7.843%) CSS
1 4 (7.843%) HTML
1 4 (7.843%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (7.843%) HTML5
1 4 (7.843%) CSS3
2 1 (1.961%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.922%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (1.961%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.961%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) MS Office
2 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (11.76%) SAP CCM
1 6 (11.76%) SAP GTS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (43.14%) LAN
2 20 (39.22%) WAN
2 20 (39.22%) VPN
3 17 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (27.45%) BGP
5 13 (25.49%) EIGRP
5 13 (25.49%) Firewall
6 11 (21.57%) Broadband
7 10 (19.61%) VoIP
7 10 (19.61%) IP Telephony
8 8 (15.69%) 3G
8 8 (15.69%) MGCP
8 8 (15.69%) H.323
8 8 (15.69%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (11.76%) WLAN
9 6 (11.76%) IPv6
10 5 (9.804%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (9.804%) MPLS
11 4 (7.843%) Internet
11 4 (7.843%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.843%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (7.843%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.961%) Subversion
General
1 20 (39.22%) Telecoms
2 5 (9.804%) Retail
3 3 (5.882%) Finance
4 2 (3.922%) Back Office
4 2 (3.922%) Marketing
4 2 (3.922%) Dutch Language
5 1 (1.961%) French Language
5 1 (1.961%) German Language
5 1 (1.961%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.961%) Banking
5 1 (1.961%) Electronics
5 1 (1.961%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (11.76%) Designer
4 5 (9.804%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.843%) Software Developer
5 4 (7.843%) Developer
5 4 (7.843%) Web Developer
5 4 (7.843%) Applications Developer
5 4 (7.843%) Communications Engineer
5 4 (7.843%) Web Applications Developer
6 3 (5.882%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (5.882%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (3.922%) Analyst
7 2 (3.922%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (3.922%) Network Support
7 2 (3.922%) Voice Specialist
8 1 (1.961%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (1.961%) Firmware Engineer
8 1 (1.961%) Network Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Smartcard
1 6 (11.76%) Smartphone
2 4 (7.843%) Interactive TV
2 4 (7.843%) IPTV
2 4 (7.843%) Video on Demand
3 2 (3.922%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (3.922%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.922%) Photography
4 1 (1.961%) CMDB
4 1 (1.961%) CCTV
4 1 (1.961%) PKI
4 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.961%) EPoS
4 1 (1.961%) EMV
4 1 (1.961%) Firmware
4 1 (1.961%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Windows
2 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (11.76%) Linux
4 2 (3.922%) Mac OS X
4 2 (3.922%) UNIX
4 2 (3.922%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.961%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.961%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) Time Management
2 8 (15.69%) ITIL
3 6 (11.76%) Data Management
4 4 (7.843%) PRINCE2
4 4 (7.843%) MVC
4 4 (7.843%) Scrum
4 4 (7.843%) Network Management
4 4 (7.843%) Web Application Development
5 3 (5.882%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (5.882%) Change Management
5 3 (5.882%) Configuration Management
5 3 (5.882%) Project Management
6 2 (3.922%) E-Commerce
6 2 (3.922%) Migration
6 2 (3.922%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (3.922%) Customer Insight
6 2 (3.922%) ITIL V3
7 1 (1.961%) Change Control
7 1 (1.961%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.961%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.843%) JavaScript
1 4 (7.843%) Ruby
2 3 (5.882%) C
2 3 (5.882%) MATLAB
3 1 (1.961%) VBScript
3 1 (1.961%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (23.53%) CCIE
3 11 (21.57%) CCNP
4 10 (19.61%) Degree
5 3 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.922%) MCP
7 1 (1.961%) CCNA
7 1 (1.961%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.922%) SLA
2 1 (1.961%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (7.843%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.922%) VMware ESX
3 2 (3.922%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.922%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.961%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) SCCM
1 6 (11.76%) SCOM
2 4 (7.843%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.961%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Cisco
2 11 (21.57%) Riverbed
3 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
4 7 (13.73%) Citrix
5 6 (11.76%) Nortel
5 6 (11.76%) Avaya
5 6 (11.76%) Remedy
5 6 (11.76%) SAP
6 5 (9.804%) CheckPoint
7 4 (7.843%) SonicWALL
8 3 (5.882%) VMware
8 3 (5.882%) Lotus
9 2 (3.922%) EMC
10 1 (1.961%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.961%) Brocade
10 1 (1.961%) Intel
10 1 (1.961%) Apple
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