The first table below looks at the demand for DOM 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 DOM over the 3 months to 22 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 Application Development 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Document Object Model (DOM)
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DOM 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.121% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.556% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £625 £255
% change year-on-year
-42.00% +145.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £19.26 -
% change year-on-year
+107.68% -
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
180 130 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.79% 11.78% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 57 61
Average daily rate £325 £305 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.55% -7.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
DOM
Scotland

DOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh DOM Jobs Demand Trend

DOM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh DOM Daily Rate Trend

DOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing DOM 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 DOM.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) SAX
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) TeamSite
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) WAI
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3

DOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing DOM 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 DOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) SAX
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) TeamSite
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) FogBugz
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) WAI
1 1 (100.00%) Section 508
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP