Edinburgh Degree Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts within the Edinburgh region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bletchley Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Hungerford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Lichfield Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Pontypridd Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	48
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	17	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	25.37 %	15.15 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£150
Average daily rate	-	£181
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£213
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£319
% change on same period last year	+1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.84	£27.68
% change on same period last year	-3.04 %
Qualifications Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	67	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.086 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£280
Average daily rate	£362	£288
% change on same period last year	+25.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.64
Average hourly rate	-	£17.18
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.74	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
Degree Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Degree across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Degree across the Edinburgh region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Degree also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Degree.

1 8 (30.77 %) SAP 1 8 (30.77 %) SAP SD 1 8 (30.77 %) Finance 1 8 (30.77 %) Billing 2 5 (19.23 %) Project Management 3 4 (15.38 %) Banking 4 3 (11.54 %) Temenos Globus 4 3 (11.54 %) Management Information System 4 3 (11.54 %) Temenos T24 4 3 (11.54 %) Misys 4 3 (11.54 %) Temenos 4 3 (11.54 %) Calypso 4 3 (11.54 %) Unix 4 3 (11.54 %) Windows 4 3 (11.54 %) C++

4 3 (11.54 %) C 5 2 (7.692 %) C# 5 2 (7.692 %) .NET 5 2 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (7.692 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (7.692 %) Client/Server 5 2 (7.692 %) Health 5 2 (7.692 %) Subversion 5 2 (7.692 %) VC++ 5 2 (7.692 %) Problem Management 5 2 (7.692 %) Mathematics 5 2 (7.692 %) Statistics 6 1 (3.846 %) Misys Equation 6 1 (3.846 %) IT Governance 6 1 (3.846 %) Mentor Graphics

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Degree also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (7.692 %) .NET 2 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (3.846 %) WebServices 2 1 (3.846 %) XML 2 1 (3.846 %) Motif 2 1 (3.846 %) X-Windows 2 1 (3.846 %) HTML	Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Project 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Excel 1 1 (3.846 %) MS Visio 1 1 (3.846 %) ArcInfo
Business Applications 1 8 (30.77 %) SAP SD 2 3 (11.54 %) Temenos Globus 2 3 (11.54 %) Temenos T24 3 1 (3.846 %) Misys Equation	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) VPN 1 1 (3.846 %) Intranet 1 1 (3.846 %) Firewall 1 1 (3.846 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.846 %) RDBMS 1 1 (3.846 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 2 (7.692 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (7.692 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (7.692 %) Subversion
General 1 8 (30.77 %) Finance 1 8 (30.77 %) Billing 2 4 (15.38 %) Banking 3 2 (7.692 %) Health 4 1 (3.846 %) Education 4 1 (3.846 %) Insurance 4 1 (3.846 %) International Banking	Job Titles 1 5 (19.23 %) Project Manager 2 3 (11.54 %) Developer 2 3 (11.54 %) Systems Manager 3 2 (7.692 %) Software Engineer 3 2 (7.692 %) C++ Software Engineer 3 2 (7.692 %) Implementation Manager 3 2 (7.692 %) Implementation Project Manager 3 2 (7.692 %) C Software Engineer 4 1 (3.846 %) Web Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) C Developer 4 1 (3.846 %) Hardware Engineer 4 1 (3.846 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (3.846 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (3.846 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (3.846 %) Analyst 4 1 (3.846 %) Technical Support 4 1 (3.846 %) Administrator 4 1 (3.846 %) Service Manager 4 1 (3.846 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (11.54 %) Management Information System 2 2 (7.692 %) Client/Server 2 2 (7.692 %) Statistics 2 2 (7.692 %) Mathematics 3 1 (3.846 %) Physics 3 1 (3.846 %) Computer Science 3 1 (3.846 %) Mainframe 3 1 (3.846 %) e-Health 3 1 (3.846 %) SecurID	Operating Systems 1 3 (11.54 %) Unix 1 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2 1 (3.846 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (19.23 %) Project Management 2 2 (7.692 %) Problem Management 3 1 (3.846 %) Information Management 3 1 (3.846 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (3.846 %) IT Governance 3 1 (3.846 %) Resource Management 3 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (3.846 %) CAD 3 1 (3.846 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (11.54 %) C++ 1 3 (11.54 %) C 2 2 (7.692 %) C# 2 2 (7.692 %) VC++ 3 1 (3.846 %) Java 3 1 (3.846 %) SQL 3 1 (3.846 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.846 %) CNA 1 1 (3.846 %) CNE 1 1 (3.846 %) Novell Certification 1 1 (3.846 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) COBIT
System Software 1 1 (3.846 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 8 (30.77 %) SAP 2 3 (11.54 %) Misys 2 3 (11.54 %) Temenos 2 3 (11.54 %) Calypso 3 1 (3.846 %) Intel 3 1 (3.846 %) Citrix 3 1 (3.846 %) Lucent 3 1 (3.846 %) Alcatel 3 1 (3.846 %) ESRI 3 1 (3.846 %) Mentor Graphics