The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Rackspace products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Rackspace over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Scotland region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Rackspace.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rackspace
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Rackspace 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year
-38.46% -13.33%
All Vendors
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1571 1653 1611
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 50.27% 48.01% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 974 1150 1202
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £59,375
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Rackspace
UK

Rackspace
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace.

1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Jetty
4 1 (25.00%) NAS
4 1 (25.00%) Replication
4 1 (25.00%) Clustering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Java EE
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Servlets
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (25.00%) CGI

Rackspace
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Rackspace 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 Rackspace. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Java EE
1 1 (25.00%) Servlets
1 1 (25.00%) CGI
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Jetty
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle