The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Ab Initio products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Ab Initio over the 3 months to 21 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 Edinburgh 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Ab Initio Software Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Ab Initio
Rank 52 61 69
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +8
Contract jobs citing Ab Initio 5 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.611% 0.365% 0.231%
As % of the Vendors category 1.724% 1.159% 0.708%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
Average daily rate £479 £358 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.91% -10.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £381 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.98% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £72.50 - -
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
290 345 424
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.41% 31.45% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 148 167
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £450 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 18
Average hourly rate £20.25 £16.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.56% +4.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £14.75 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £23.75 £21.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Ab Initio
Scotland

Ab Initio
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Ab Initio across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Edinburgh Ab Initio Jobs Demand Trend

Ab Initio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Ab Initio Daily Rate Trend

Ab Initio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Ab Initio 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 Ab Initio.

1 7 (63.64%) ETL
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) IBM
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) OLAP
3 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (27.27%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
4 2 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (18.18%) Investment Management
4 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
4 2 (18.18%) Banking
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
4 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.091%) Informatica
5 1 (9.091%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (9.091%) ERwin
5 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
5 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
5 1 (9.091%) Retail
5 1 (9.091%) Migration

Ab Initio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Ab Initio 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 Ab Initio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 1 (9.091%) PowerPivot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) OLAP
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) ERwin
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Retail
3 1 (9.091%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
1 7 (63.64%) Ab Initio Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Designer
3 2 (18.18%) ETL Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Lead Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
1 2 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
1 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
2 3 (27.27%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Automated Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Investment Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.091%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (9.091%) TOGAF
4 1 (9.091%) Content Management
4 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Data Architecture
4 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (9.091%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (9.091%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.091%) Informatica
4 1 (9.091%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (9.091%) DataFlux