The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Consultant role 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 Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Consultant
Rank 55 64 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Consultant 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.123% 0.090% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.131% 0.096% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £575 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.08% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £413 £450
% change year-on-year
-6.06% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £13.05 £127.50
% change year-on-year
- -89.76%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
761 1040 1269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 93.95% 94.03% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 520 626
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +56.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.41 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Data Consultant
Scotland

Data Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Consultant across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Data Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Data Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Data Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Data Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Data Consultant in their job title 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 with Data Consultant in their job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Hyperion
1 2 (50.00%) DRM
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (25.00%) Gephi
2 1 (25.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML

Data Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Data Consultant in their job title 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 with Data Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) Highcharts JS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gephi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DRM
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (25.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Hyperion