The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance 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 terms in our General 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
Financial
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 275 585 728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 33.01% 53.82% 56.22%
As % of the General category 68.92% 77.90% 79.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 302 384
Average daily rate £425 £365 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.43% +0.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £529 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £12.27 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.99% -28.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £10.40 £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £19.80 £106.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
-7.50% -9.09%
All of the General Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
399 751 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 47.90% 69.09% 70.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 381 478
Average daily rate £425 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £265 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £522 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 7
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.27 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.35% -27.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £7.50 £10.00 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £32.00 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Finance
Scotland

Finance
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Finance Jobs Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 172 (32.70%) Banking
2 108 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 73 (13.88%) Project Management
4 64 (12.17%) Asset Management
5 62 (11.79%) SQL
6 59 (11.22%) Oracle
7 51 (9.696%) Retail
8 47 (8.935%) Migration
9 41 (7.795%) Business Analysis
10 39 (7.414%) Data Warehouse
11 36 (6.844%) User Acceptance Testing
12 34 (6.464%) Windows
13 33 (6.274%) UNIX
14 30 (5.703%) ETL
15 29 (5.513%) Microsoft
15 29 (5.513%) Investment Management
16 27 (5.133%) Investment Banking
17 25 (4.753%) SAS
17 25 (4.753%) MS Excel
18 23 (4.373%) PRINCE2
18 23 (4.373%) SQL Server
18 23 (4.373%) Retail Banking
19 21 (3.992%) Financial Institution
19 21 (3.992%) PL/SQL
19 21 (3.992%) IBM
19 21 (3.992%) ISEB
20 20 (3.802%) Data Modelling
20 20 (3.802%) MS Office
21 19 (3.612%) Change Management
21 19 (3.612%) Programme Management

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (2.852%) .NET
2 14 (2.662%) WebSphere
3 9 (1.711%) XML
4 8 (1.521%) jQuery
5 7 (1.331%) Web Services
6 6 (1.141%) CSS
6 6 (1.141%) HTML
7 5 (0.951%) Application Packaging
7 5 (0.951%) Middleware
7 5 (0.951%) ASP.NET
8 3 (0.570%) JSF
8 3 (0.570%) SOAP
8 3 (0.570%) J2EE
8 3 (0.570%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (0.380%) HTML5
9 2 (0.380%) JSR 286
9 2 (0.380%) CSS3
9 2 (0.380%) JDBC
9 2 (0.380%) COM
9 2 (0.380%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 25 (4.753%) SAS
2 18 (3.422%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.711%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (1.331%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.141%) WebSphere Portal
6 5 (0.951%) Apache
6 5 (0.951%) Tomcat
7 4 (0.760%) TeamSite
8 3 (0.570%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.570%) CMS
9 2 (0.380%) LiveSite
9 2 (0.380%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.380%) SharePoint 2013
9 2 (0.380%) CICS
9 2 (0.380%) PowerExchange
9 2 (0.380%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.380%) WebSphere Process Server
10 1 (0.190%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.190%) WebSphere Message Broker
10 1 (0.190%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 25 (4.753%) MS Excel
2 20 (3.802%) MS Office
3 11 (2.091%) MS PowerPoint
4 10 (1.901%) MS Project
5 3 (0.570%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.380%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.190%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.190%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.281%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (1.711%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (0.760%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (0.760%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (0.760%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.570%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.380%) Front Arena
5 2 (0.380%) HFM
6 1 (0.190%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.190%) Sentinel
6 1 (0.190%) MultiFonds
6 1 (0.190%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.662%) TCP/IP
2 10 (1.901%) HTTP
3 7 (1.331%) DNS
4 4 (0.760%) SSL
4 4 (0.760%) SAN
4 4 (0.760%) LDAP
4 4 (0.760%) Intranet
4 4 (0.760%) Firewall
5 3 (0.570%) Internet
5 3 (0.570%) LAN
5 3 (0.570%) SMS
5 3 (0.570%) WAN
6 2 (0.380%) NAS
6 2 (0.380%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.380%) DHCP
6 2 (0.380%) MPLS
6 2 (0.380%) RTP
6 2 (0.380%) Connectrix
6 2 (0.380%) Network Security
7 1 (0.190%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.414%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (4.373%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.901%) Data Mining
3 10 (1.901%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (1.711%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (1.711%) Oracle Reports
5 8 (1.521%) Oracle BI EE
5 8 (1.521%) Oracle 8/8i
5 8 (1.521%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (1.141%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.141%) Oracle Discoverer
7 5 (0.951%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (0.760%) PowerCenter
8 4 (0.760%) OLAP
8 4 (0.760%) SQLPlus
9 3 (0.570%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (0.570%) BusinessObjects XI
9 3 (0.570%) Oracle 9i
9 3 (0.570%) DTS
9 3 (0.570%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (1.141%) Oracle Forms
1 6 (1.141%) MSI
2 3 (0.570%) Subversion
2 3 (0.570%) InstallShield
2 3 (0.570%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (0.570%) Wise Package Studio
3 2 (0.380%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.380%) TestDirector
3 2 (0.380%) ERwin
4 1 (0.190%) JIRA
4 1 (0.190%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.190%) NUnit
4 1 (0.190%) Maven
4 1 (0.190%) Xcode
4 1 (0.190%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.190%) ProC
4 1 (0.190%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.190%) FogBugz
4 1 (0.190%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.190%) MSTest
General
1 172 (32.70%) Banking
2 51 (9.696%) Retail
3 27 (5.133%) Investment Banking
4 23 (4.373%) Retail Banking
5 21 (3.992%) Financial Institution
6 12 (2.281%) Marketing
7 10 (1.901%) Front Office
8 5 (0.951%) Advertising
8 5 (0.951%) Publishing
9 4 (0.760%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.760%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (0.570%) Legal
11 2 (0.380%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.190%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.190%) French Language
12 1 (0.190%) German Language
12 1 (0.190%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.190%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 171 (32.51%) Analyst
2 102 (19.39%) Project Manager
3 69 (13.12%) Business Analyst
4 45 (8.555%) Developer
5 42 (7.985%) Architect
6 29 (5.513%) Test Analyst
7 25 (4.753%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.373%) Infrastructure Manager
9 22 (4.183%) Consultant
10 21 (3.992%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 21 (3.992%) Data Analyst
11 17 (3.232%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (3.042%) Systems Analyst
13 14 (2.662%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.662%) Designer
14 12 (2.281%) PMO Analyst
14 12 (2.281%) Financial Business Analyst
15 11 (2.091%) Senior Project Manager
15 11 (2.091%) Programme Manager
16 10 (1.901%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.232%) Mainframe
2 11 (2.091%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.141%) Data Integration
4 5 (0.951%) Credit Risk
5 4 (0.760%) Replication
5 4 (0.760%) Clustering
6 3 (0.570%) Computer Science
6 3 (0.570%) IBM Mainframe
6 3 (0.570%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.380%) FMCG
7 2 (0.380%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.380%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.380%) N-Tier
7 2 (0.380%) HACMP
7 2 (0.380%) W3C
7 2 (0.380%) Symmetrix
7 2 (0.380%) EMC Centera
7 2 (0.380%) Data Conversion
7 2 (0.380%) Celerra
7 2 (0.380%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 34 (6.464%) Windows
2 33 (6.274%) UNIX
3 11 (2.091%) Linux
4 10 (1.901%) AIX
5 8 (1.521%) Windows 7
5 8 (1.521%) Solaris
6 7 (1.331%) Windows XP
7 5 (0.951%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.760%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.760%) HPUX
9 3 (0.570%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.380%) Android
10 2 (0.380%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.380%) zOS
10 2 (0.380%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (20.53%) Stakeholder Management
2 73 (13.88%) Project Management
3 64 (12.17%) Asset Management
4 47 (8.935%) Migration
5 41 (7.795%) Business Analysis
6 36 (6.844%) User Acceptance Testing
7 30 (5.703%) ETL
8 29 (5.513%) Investment Management
9 23 (4.373%) PRINCE2
10 20 (3.802%) Data Modelling
11 19 (3.612%) Change Management
11 19 (3.612%) Programme Management
12 17 (3.232%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (3.232%) Data Analysis
13 16 (3.042%) Project Planning
14 15 (2.852%) Test Scripting
15 13 (2.471%) Change Control
15 13 (2.471%) CRM
16 12 (2.281%) UML
17 11 (2.091%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 62 (11.79%) SQL
2 21 (3.992%) PL/SQL
3 11 (2.091%) Java
4 10 (1.901%) Shell Script
5 9 (1.711%) C#
5 9 (1.711%) VBA
5 9 (1.711%) VB
6 7 (1.331%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.141%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.141%) Perl
8 5 (0.951%) VB.NET
9 4 (0.760%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.570%) VBScript
11 2 (0.380%) C
12 1 (0.190%) XPath
12 1 (0.190%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.190%) JCL
12 1 (0.190%) COBOL
12 1 (0.190%) REXX
Qualifications
1 21 (3.992%) ISEB
2 15 (2.852%) Degree
3 12 (2.281%) ISTQB
4 7 (1.331%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (0.570%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.570%) IBM Certification
6 2 (0.380%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.380%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.380%) PMP
7 1 (0.190%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (0.190%) MBA
7 1 (0.190%) CCIE
7 1 (0.190%) CCNP
7 1 (0.190%) CCNA
7 1 (0.190%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.901%) QA
2 3 (0.570%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.570%) Solvency II
3 2 (0.380%) FATCA
3 2 (0.380%) WAI
4 1 (0.190%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.190%) Basel II
4 1 (0.190%) SLA
4 1 (0.190%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.190%) Section 508
4 1 (0.190%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (1.901%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.331%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (1.331%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.141%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (1.141%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.951%) SRDF
5 4 (0.760%) XenApp
6 2 (0.380%) NFS
7 1 (0.190%) Novell eDirectory
7 1 (0.190%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.190%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.190%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.190%) RACF
7 1 (0.190%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.190%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 16 (3.042%) HP Quality Center
2 11 (2.091%) SCCM
3 9 (1.711%) Tivoli
4 6 (1.141%) Data Guard
5 3 (0.570%) EMC NetWorker
5 3 (0.570%) ZENworks
5 3 (0.570%) Tivoli Monitoring
6 2 (0.380%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.380%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (0.380%) Netcool
6 2 (0.380%) EMC TimeFinder
6 2 (0.380%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.380%) Oracle Statspack
7 1 (0.190%) SCOM
7 1 (0.190%) Legato
7 1 (0.190%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
7 1 (0.190%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 59 (11.22%) Oracle
2 29 (5.513%) Microsoft
3 21 (3.992%) IBM
4 13 (2.471%) Citrix
5 12 (2.281%) Informatica
6 11 (2.091%) Teradata
7 9 (1.711%) Charles River
7 9 (1.711%) Salesforce.com
7 9 (1.711%) Hyperion
7 9 (1.711%) Business Objects
8 8 (1.521%) VMware
9 7 (1.331%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.331%) HP
10 6 (1.141%) Cadis
11 5 (0.951%) JBoss
12 3 (0.570%) DataFlux
12 3 (0.570%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.570%) TIBCO
12 3 (0.570%) Novell
12 3 (0.570%) Veritas
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