Edinburgh DirectX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft DirectX skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DirectX over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft DirectX
Location Brighton Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Hertfordshire London South East South West Stevenage UK West Sussex	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
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Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.17	£38.00
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Application Development Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	185	348
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.263 %	0.351 %
Daily rates quoted	40	46
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£295
Average daily rate	£407	£303
% change on same period last year	+34.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£438	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.20	£37.67
Average hourly rate	£28.40	£38.08
% change on same period last year	-25.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.60	£38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.18	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
DirectX 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.

DirectX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DirectX across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.