The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Local Government in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Local Government over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our General category for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Local Government
Rank - 145 155
Permanent jobs citing Local Government 0 9 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.262% 0.029%
As % of the General category - 0.675% 0.062%
Number of salaries quoted 0 9 1
Average salary - £85,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +277.77%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
All of the General Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1396 1334 1610
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 44.60% 38.79% 46.83%
Number of salaries quoted 799 906 1185
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Local Government
UK

Local Government
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Local Government across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Scotland Local Government Jobs Demand Trend

Local Government
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Local Government across the Scotland region.

Scotland Local Government Salary Trend

Local Government
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Local Government 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Local Government.

1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (16.67%) Sun
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) EMC
4 1 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (16.67%) Veritas
4 1 (16.67%) Legato
4 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
4 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
4 1 (16.67%) Solaris
4 1 (16.67%) Apache

Local Government
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Local Government also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Local Government. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint Server
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Programme Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL
1 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Change Management
1 1 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Legato
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 1 (16.67%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) EMC
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) Northgate
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle