The first table below looks at the demand for Data Management 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 Management over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Management
Rank 50 57 56
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Management 7 6 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.840% 0.552% 0.927%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.226% 0.825% 1.400%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
Average daily rate £350 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £295 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £455 £606
UK excluding London average daily rate £419 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+4.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.93 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-53.07% +18.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 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 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Data Management
Scotland

Data Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Data Management Jobs Demand Trend

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Data Management Daily Rate Trend

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Data Management Hourly Rate Trend

Data Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Management 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 Management.

1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
3 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (23.53%) Business Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
4 4 (23.53%) Data Mining
5 3 (17.65%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (17.65%) XQuery
5 3 (17.65%) C#
5 3 (17.65%) Windows
5 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
5 3 (17.65%) XML
5 3 (17.65%) XSL
5 3 (17.65%) .NET
5 3 (17.65%) Banking
5 3 (17.65%) XPath
5 3 (17.65%) Financial Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (11.76%) Master Data Management
6 2 (11.76%) Metadata Management
6 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2013
6 2 (11.76%) Cadis
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) MDX
6 2 (11.76%) DataFlux

Data Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) XML
1 3 (17.65%) XSL
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint 2013
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (23.53%) Data Mining
3 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (11.76%) QlikView
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (11.76%) OLAP
4 2 (11.76%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Front Office
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 1 (5.882%) Retail
4 1 (5.882%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Excel Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Graduate
5 1 (5.882%) Excel VBA Developer
5 1 (5.882%) MI Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Process Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Junior
5 1 (5.882%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
1 2 (11.76%) Data Conversion
1 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Business Analysis
2 3 (17.65%) ETL
2 3 (17.65%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) Master Data Management
3 2 (11.76%) Metadata Management
3 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
3 2 (11.76%) System Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Management
3 2 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Data Modelling
3 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.882%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.882%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.882%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (5.882%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
3 3 (17.65%) XQuery
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) XPath
4 2 (11.76%) VB
5 1 (5.882%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Cadis
1 2 (11.76%) DataFlux
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) Business Objects
1 2 (11.76%) Trillium
1 2 (11.76%) Informatica
2 1 (5.882%) Charles River
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) HP
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