The first table below looks at the demand for assyst skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited assyst 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 Business Applications category 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Axios Systems assyst
Rank 53 61 59
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Contract jobs citing assyst 4 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.480% 0.184% 0.695%
As % of the Business Applications category 13.33% 5.128% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £118 £203 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.72% -26.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £135 £225 £275
% change year-on-year
-40.00% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £22.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +50.00%
All Business Applications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
30 39 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.601% 3.588% 4.788%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 31
Average daily rate £425 £325 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £450 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £430 £420
% change year-on-year
-1.16% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
assyst
Scotland

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh assyst Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh assyst Daily Rate Trend

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh assyst Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (100.00%) MS Office
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) MCP
3 3 (60.00%) Internet
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
5 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) MS Office
2 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) MCP
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix