The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blog 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blogs
Rank 55 64 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Blog 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.122% 0.092% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.671% 0.680% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £150 £160 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £325 £275
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £14.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
149 147 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.15% 13.52% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 64 75
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £200 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £40.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-68.95% +196.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Blog
Scotland

Blog
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Blog Jobs Demand Trend

Blog
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Blog Daily Rate Trend

Blog
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Blog 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 Blog.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Extranet
1 1 (100.00%) PaintShop Pro
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media

Blog
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) PaintShop Pro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Extranet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dreamweaver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Web Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript