The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
Continual Improvement
Rank 52 59 50
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -9
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 4 6 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.487% 0.552% 1.820%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.716% 0.825% 2.749%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 17
Average daily rate £438 £448 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.23% -0.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £426 £342
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.01 £25.00 £31.15
% change year-on-year
-19.98% -19.74%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
559 727 873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.09% 66.88% 66.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 362 475
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £249 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.26 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £38.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Continuous Improvement
Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Continuous Improvement Hourly Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (41.67%) Project Management
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) SOA
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 2 (16.67%) Lean Six Sigma
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) SAS
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Star Schema
3 2 (16.67%) Informatica
3 2 (16.67%) Middleware
3 2 (16.67%) Six Sigma
3 2 (16.67%) RTP
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Teradata
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (8.333%) Change Management
4 1 (8.333%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (8.333%) Genesys
4 1 (8.333%) Chordiant
4 1 (8.333%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (8.333%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) SAS
2 1 (8.333%) WordPress
2 1 (8.333%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.333%) Legal
3 1 (8.333%) Retail
3 1 (8.333%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Change Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (8.333%) PMO Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Project Management
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 2 (16.67%) Lean Six Sigma
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Six Sigma
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.333%) Change Management
4 1 (8.333%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.333%) UML
4 1 (8.333%) CRM
4 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) eTOM
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (8.333%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Informatica
1 2 (16.67%) Teradata
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Genesys
2 1 (8.333%) Chordiant