The first table below looks at the demand for Data Analytics 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 Data Analytics over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Analytics
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £375 £284
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +32.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
561 737 855
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.92% 66.76% 66.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 367 468
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 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 £20.50 £38.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Data Analytics
Scotland

Data Analytics
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Analytics 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 Data Analytics.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Highcharts JS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Gephi

Data Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Analytics 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 Data Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Highcharts JS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gephi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Scala