The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Financial Institution in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Financial Institution over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Financial Institution
Rank 50 41 36
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -5
Contract jobs citing Financial Institution 8 22 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.996% 2.000% 2.219%
As % of the General category 2.156% 2.876% 3.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 18
Average daily rate £375 £353 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% +17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £312 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £425 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £378 £400
% change year-on-year
-0.66% -5.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £12.27 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -27.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £22.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-6.81% +29.41%
All of the General Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
371 765 921
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 46.20% 69.55% 70.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 391 486
Average daily rate £425 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £270 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £482 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 8
Average hourly rate £11.00 £12.89 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.62% -24.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £7.50 £10.00 £9.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £29.75 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -5.66%
Financial Institution
Scotland

Financial Institution
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Financial Institution Jobs Demand Trend

Financial Institution
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Financial Institution Daily Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Financial Institution Hourly Rate Trend

Financial Institution
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Financial Institution 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 Financial Institution.

1 21 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) IBM
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Migration
2 3 (14.29%) Fund Accounting
2 3 (14.29%) SIEM
2 3 (14.29%) Change Control
3 2 (9.524%) SRDF
3 2 (9.524%) Hedge funds
3 2 (9.524%) NAS
3 2 (9.524%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (9.524%) EMC NetWorker
3 2 (9.524%) jQuery
3 2 (9.524%) Celerra
3 2 (9.524%) Test Management
3 2 (9.524%) NetApp
3 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (9.524%) Informatica
3 2 (9.524%) HTML
3 2 (9.524%) NFS
3 2 (9.524%) EMC
3 2 (9.524%) SAN
3 2 (9.524%) CSS
3 2 (9.524%) UNIX
3 2 (9.524%) Windows
3 2 (9.524%) AIX
3 2 (9.524%) HPUX
3 2 (9.524%) Solaris
3 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.524%) PL/SQL

Financial Institution
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) HTML
1 2 (9.524%) CSS
1 2 (9.524%) jQuery
2 1 (4.762%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (4.762%) SAS
1 1 (4.762%) CICS
1 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Portal
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) SAN
1 2 (9.524%) Connectrix
1 2 (9.524%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.762%) Data Mining
1 1 (4.762%) TOAD
1 1 (4.762%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) TestDirector
1 1 (4.762%) LoadRunner
1 1 (4.762%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 3 (14.29%) Developer
1 3 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (9.524%) Test Manager
2 2 (9.524%) Administrator
3 1 (4.762%) Data Analyst
3 1 (4.762%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (4.762%) Informatica Developer
3 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (4.762%) SAS Developer
3 1 (4.762%) Web Developer
3 1 (4.762%) Consultant
3 1 (4.762%) Data Architect
3 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (4.762%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (4.762%) Senior Manager
3 1 (4.762%) UI Designer
3 1 (4.762%) Designer
3 1 (4.762%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Replication
1 2 (9.524%) Symmetrix
1 2 (9.524%) EMC Centera
1 2 (9.524%) Celerra
1 2 (9.524%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.762%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.762%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) UNIX
1 2 (9.524%) Windows
1 2 (9.524%) AIX
1 2 (9.524%) HPUX
1 2 (9.524%) Solaris
1 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (14.29%) Migration
1 3 (14.29%) Fund Accounting
1 3 (14.29%) SIEM
1 3 (14.29%) Change Control
2 2 (9.524%) Risk Analysis
2 2 (9.524%) Test Management
2 2 (9.524%) Data Modelling
2 2 (9.524%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.762%) UML
3 1 (4.762%) ETL
3 1 (4.762%) Project Management
3 1 (4.762%) Process Management
3 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (4.762%) Data Management
3 1 (4.762%) Document Management
3 1 (4.762%) Requirements Management
3 1 (4.762%) Project Planning
3 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (4.762%) Data Migration
3 1 (4.762%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.524%) PL/SQL
1 2 (9.524%) SQL
2 1 (4.762%) COBOL
2 1 (4.762%) Java
System Software
1 2 (9.524%) NFS
1 2 (9.524%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 2 (9.524%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (9.524%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (9.524%) NetBackup
1 2 (9.524%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (4.762%) SCOM
2 1 (4.762%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) IBM
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.524%) EMC
2 2 (9.524%) Informatica
2 2 (9.524%) NetApp
2 2 (9.524%) Symantec
2 2 (9.524%) Brocade
2 2 (9.524%) Oracle
3 1 (4.762%) BMC
3 1 (4.762%) HP