Computer Science Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Computer Science 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 53 60 58
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 4 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.488% 0.456% 1.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.667% 3.378% 7.330%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £313 £275 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% +44.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.25 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-2.41% -11.42%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 150 148 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.32% 13.49% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 65 75
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £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 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 £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
Computer Science
Scotland

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 4 (44.44%) .NET
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (22.22%) DevExpress
5 2 (22.22%) MVC
5 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
5 2 (22.22%) C#
6 1 (11.11%) C++
6 1 (11.11%) Java
6 1 (11.11%) PHP
6 1 (11.11%) C
6 1 (11.11%) OO
6 1 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (11.11%) Project Management
6 1 (11.11%) MySQL
6 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (11.11%) Migration
6 1 (11.11%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
1 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Programmer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Programmer
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst Programmer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst Programmer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
1 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) DevExpress
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