The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of DataFlux products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DataFlux 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within SAS DataFlux.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
DataFlux
Rank 54 - 66
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DataFlux 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.247% - 0.224%
As % of the Vendors category 0.692% - 0.680%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £413 £538
% change year-on-year
-15.15% -23.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
289 353 441
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.68% 31.92% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 154 176
Average daily rate £375 £356 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £445 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 18
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +4.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £14.75 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £23.75 £21.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
DataFlux
Scotland

DataFlux
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh DataFlux Jobs Demand Trend

DataFlux
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh DataFlux Daily Rate Trend

DataFlux
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing DataFlux 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 DataFlux.

1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (66.67%) Master Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) MDX
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (66.67%) QlikView
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Conversion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (66.67%) Trillium
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server

DataFlux
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing DataFlux 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 DataFlux. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2013
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) OLAP
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) DTS
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mining
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle OLAP
1 2 (66.67%) QlikView
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ERwin
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Conversion
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) Master Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (33.33%) Inmon Methodology
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Business Objects
2 2 (66.67%) Trillium
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Ab Initio