Edinburgh BT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of BT products and/or services in IT contracts within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BT over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Maidstone Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Peterborough Preston Reigate Solihull South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	66
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.080 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£367
% change on same period last year	-10.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.87	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-34.64 %
Vendors Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	344	463
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.459 %	0.462 %
Daily rates quoted	71	92
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£307
Average daily rate	£349	£326
% change on same period last year	+6.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.95	£21.67
Average hourly rate	£19.33	£22.62
% change on same period last year	-14.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.70	£23.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within BT Group plc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BT across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing BT 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 BT.

1 1 (50.00 %) VBScript 1 1 (50.00 %) VB 1 1 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (50.00 %) DHCP 1 1 (50.00 %) DNS 1 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (50.00 %) TestDirector 1 1 (50.00 %) MIMEsweeper 1 1 (50.00 %) DAB 1 1 (50.00 %) Telecoms 1 1 (50.00 %) Finance 1 1 (50.00 %) IT Governance 1 1 (50.00 %) User Acceptance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing BT 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 BT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (50.00 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 1 (50.00 %) DHCP 1 1 (50.00 %) DNS 1 1 (50.00 %) DAB
Development Applications 1 1 (50.00 %) TestDirector	General 1 1 (50.00 %) Telecoms 1 1 (50.00 %) Finance
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) IT Governance 1 1 (50.00 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 1 (50.00 %) VBScript 1 1 (50.00 %) VB
Systems Management 1 1 (50.00 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft