The first table below looks at the demand for IBM InfoSphere 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 IBM InfoSphere over the 3 months to 21 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM InfoSphere
Rank 56 63 70
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +7
Contract jobs citing IBM InfoSphere 1 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.122% 0.182% 0.154%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.704% 1.439% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £750
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £438
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
142 139 176
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.34% 12.67% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 70
Average daily rate £375 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £70.00 £16.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+337.50% +10.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
IBM InfoSphere
Scotland

IBM InfoSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IBM InfoSphere across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Edinburgh IBM InfoSphere Jobs Demand Trend

IBM InfoSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh IBM InfoSphere Daily Rate Trend

IBM InfoSphere
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing IBM InfoSphere 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 IBM InfoSphere.

1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Solvency II
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ERwin
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) XSD
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Star Schema

IBM InfoSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing IBM InfoSphere 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 IBM InfoSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) XSD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM