The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Manager in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Infrastructure Manager
Rank 40 29 56
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 17 37 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.076% 3.373% 1.234%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.208% 3.585% 1.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 7
Average daily rate £438 £415 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.42% +3.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £367 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £519 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+60.00% +20.00%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
770 1032 1229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.02% 94.07% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 508 608
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.60% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.70 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Manager
Scotland

Infrastructure Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Infrastructure Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Infrastructure Manager Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Edinburgh Infrastructure Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Infrastructure Manager in their job title 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 with Infrastructure Manager in their job title.

1 23 (69.70%) Finance
2 19 (57.58%) Banking
3 12 (36.36%) Project Management
4 10 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (21.21%) Mainframe
5 7 (21.21%) PRINCE2
6 5 (15.15%) Oracle
7 4 (12.12%) UNIX
7 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (9.091%) WebSphere
8 3 (9.091%) Time Management
8 3 (9.091%) Migration
9 2 (6.061%) Firewall
9 2 (6.061%) Retail
9 2 (6.061%) Retail Banking
9 2 (6.061%) Service Delivery
9 2 (6.061%) IBM
9 2 (6.061%) ATM
10 1 (3.030%) SLA
10 1 (3.030%) SQL
10 1 (3.030%) Windows
10 1 (3.030%) AIX
10 1 (3.030%) Linux
10 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
10 1 (3.030%) E-Commerce
10 1 (3.030%) SAN
10 1 (3.030%) BMC
10 1 (3.030%) CheckPoint
10 1 (3.030%) PRINCE
10 1 (3.030%) Intranet

Infrastructure Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Infrastructure Manager in their job title 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 with Infrastructure Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (9.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.061%) Firewall
1 2 (6.061%) ATM
2 1 (3.030%) SAN
2 1 (3.030%) Intranet
2 1 (3.030%) Internet
General
1 23 (69.70%) Finance
2 19 (57.58%) Banking
3 2 (6.061%) Retail
3 2 (6.061%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.030%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.030%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Mainframe
2 1 (3.030%) iSeries
2 1 (3.030%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (3.030%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) UNIX
2 1 (3.030%) Windows
2 1 (3.030%) AIX
2 1 (3.030%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Project Management
2 10 (30.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (21.21%) PRINCE2
4 3 (9.091%) Time Management
4 3 (9.091%) Migration
5 2 (6.061%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.030%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.030%) PRINCE
6 1 (3.030%) Change Management
6 1 (3.030%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.030%) Service Management
6 1 (3.030%) Supplier Management
6 1 (3.030%) Change Control
6 1 (3.030%) Project Planning
6 1 (3.030%) Data Management
6 1 (3.030%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (3.030%) ITSM
6 1 (3.030%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.030%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (3.030%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.030%) Tivoli
1 1 (3.030%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle
2 2 (6.061%) IBM
3 1 (3.030%) BMC
3 1 (3.030%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.030%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.030%) EMC
3 1 (3.030%) Citrix