The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cloud Computing over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.249% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.389% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £461
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -18.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
144 146 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.93% 13.27% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 64 75
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.50% -11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Cloud Computing
Scotland

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Cloud Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing.

1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) OO
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) WAI
2 2 (40.00%) Zend
2 2 (40.00%) Zend Framework
2 2 (40.00%) Drupal
2 2 (40.00%) PHP5
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) Google Maps API
2 2 (40.00%) SEO
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) W3C
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
2 2 (40.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Twitter
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Game Development

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) Zend Framework
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (20.00%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Drupal Developer
2 2 (40.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Games Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) W3C
2 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OO
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) SEO
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) Game Development
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (40.00%) PHP5
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) WAI
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Zend
1 2 (40.00%) Twitter