Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Internet 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 Internet over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Edinburgh region.

 Internet
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank493545
Rank change year-on-year
Down-14Up+10
Matching contract IT job ads1069
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh1.120 %1.149 %1.103 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category21.74 %10.17 %11.84 %
Daily rates quoted114
Average daily rate£265£135£333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+96.29 %-59.39 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£315£340£309
% change year-on-year
-7.350 %+10.03 %
Hourly rates quoted010
Average hourly rate-£7.50-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.25£18.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-20.83 %-10.00 %
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
465976
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh5.151 %11.30 %9.314 %
Daily rates quoted121817
Average daily rate£265£308£306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.82 %+0.400 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£231£180£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£365£450£349
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£325
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %+3.840 %
Hourly rates quoted146
Average hourly rate£8.00£22.50£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-64.44 %+15.38 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£24.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+4.160 %-12.72 %
Internet ScotlandInternet
Scotland

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.

Internet
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Internet across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Edinburgh Internet Demand Trend

Internet
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Internet Daily Rate Trend

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Internet Hourly Rate Trend

Internet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Internet 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 Internet.

115 (45.45 %)SQL
213 (39.39 %)JavaScript
213 (39.39 %)Oracle
213 (39.39 %)XML
312 (36.36 %)CSS
312 (36.36 %)Web Services
411 (33.33 %)Python
411 (33.33 %)HTML
411 (33.33 %)Oracle 9i
411 (33.33 %)Oracle 10g
411 (33.33 %)GIS
411 (33.33 %)ESRI
411 (33.33 %)Oracle Spatial
510 (30.30 %)Finance
510 (30.30 %)ArcSDE
510 (30.30 %)ArcIMS
510 (30.30 %)C#
510 (30.30 %).NET
68 (24.24 %)J2EE
68 (24.24 %)Java
68 (24.24 %).NET Framework
77 (21.21 %)ArcObjects
77 (21.21 %)OO
77 (21.21 %)E-business
86 (18.18 %)Government
94 (12.12 %)Banking
94 (12.12 %)Cisco
103 (9.091 %)TestDirector
103 (9.091 %)CheckPoint
103 (9.091 %)DNS

Internet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Internet 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 Internet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
113 (39.39 %)XML
212 (36.36 %)CSS
212 (36.36 %)Web Services
311 (33.33 %)HTML
410 (30.30 %).NET
58 (24.24 %)J2EE
58 (24.24 %).NET Framework
67 (21.21 %)ArcObjects
73 (9.091 %)ASP.NET
81 (3.030 %)WCF
81 (3.030 %)Silverlight
81 (3.030 %)LINQ
81 (3.030 %)Flash
81 (3.030 %)ASP
81 (3.030 %)XHTML
81 (3.030 %)DOM
81 (3.030 %)XSLT
81 (3.030 %)AJAX
81 (3.030 %)WinForms
81 (3.030 %)Middleware
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (33.33 %)Oracle Spatial
210 (30.30 %)ArcSDE
210 (30.30 %)ArcIMS
32 (6.061 %)MS Exchange
41 (3.030 %)Exchange Server 2007
41 (3.030 %)CICS
41 (3.030 %)IIS
41 (3.030 %)Exchange Server 5.5
41 (3.030 %)Exchange Server 2003
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (6.061 %)MS Office
21 (3.030 %)MS Visio
21 (3.030 %)Photoshop
21 (3.030 %)MS Project
21 (3.030 %)MS Excel
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (9.091 %)DNS
13 (9.091 %)Firewall
13 (9.091 %)Intranet
22 (6.061 %)WAN
22 (6.061 %)DHCP
22 (6.061 %)SNMP
22 (6.061 %)VPN
31 (3.030 %)Network Security
31 (3.030 %)Cisco ASA
31 (3.030 %)HTTPS
31 (3.030 %)SSL
31 (3.030 %)TCP/IP
31 (3.030 %)FTP
31 (3.030 %)HTTP
31 (3.030 %)SMTP
31 (3.030 %)Broadband
31 (3.030 %)Wireless
31 (3.030 %)MPLS
31 (3.030 %)OSPF
31 (3.030 %)BGP
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (33.33 %)Oracle 9i
111 (33.33 %)Oracle 10g
111 (33.33 %)GIS
21 (3.030 %)Data Mining
21 (3.030 %)SQL Server
21 (3.030 %)DB2
21 (3.030 %)MySQL
21 (3.030 %)SQL Server 2005
21 (3.030 %)SQL Server Integration Services
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (9.091 %)TestDirector
22 (6.061 %)Selenium
31 (3.030 %)Dreamweaver
31 (3.030 %)Visual Studio
31 (3.030 %)VSS/SourceSafe
31 (3.030 %)FrontPage
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
110 (30.30 %)Finance
26 (18.18 %)Government
34 (12.12 %)Banking
42 (6.061 %)Retail
42 (6.061 %)Pensions
42 (6.061 %)Online Banking
42 (6.061 %)Marketing
51 (3.030 %)Insurance
51 (3.030 %)Retail Banking
51 (3.030 %)Health
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
115 (45.45 %)Developer
211 (33.33 %)GIS Developer
39 (27.27 %)Analyst
44 (12.12 %)Business Analyst
53 (9.091 %)Senior Analyst
62 (6.061 %)Systems Analyst
62 (6.061 %)Web Developer
62 (6.061 %)Project Manager
62 (6.061 %)Support Engineer
62 (6.061 %)Senior Business Analyst
62 (6.061 %)Cisco Engineer
62 (6.061 %)Banking Business Analyst
71 (3.030 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
71 (3.030 %)Network Design Consultant
71 (3.030 %)Cisco Support
71 (3.030 %)Operations Analyst
71 (3.030 %)Field Support Engineer
71 (3.030 %)Field Engineer
71 (3.030 %)Pre Sales Consultant
71 (3.030 %)Senior C# Developer
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (3.030 %)RIA
11 (3.030 %)IBM Mainframe
11 (3.030 %)Dutch Language
11 (3.030 %)Russian Language
11 (3.030 %)AS400
11 (3.030 %)Mainframe
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (9.091 %)Windows
21 (3.030 %)Windows Server 2003
21 (3.030 %)MVS
21 (3.030 %)AIX
21 (3.030 %)UNIX
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (21.21 %)OO
17 (21.21 %)E-business
23 (9.091 %)E-Commerce
23 (9.091 %)Stakeholder Management
23 (9.091 %)Service Delivery
32 (6.061 %)Agile Software Development
32 (6.061 %)Business Analysis
32 (6.061 %)Automated Testing
32 (6.061 %)Use Case
41 (3.030 %)Product Management
41 (3.030 %)Project Planning
41 (3.030 %)Web Development
41 (3.030 %)Operations Management
41 (3.030 %)ERP
41 (3.030 %)RAD
41 (3.030 %)CRM
41 (3.030 %)Network Design
41 (3.030 %)Business Continuity
41 (3.030 %)Change Management
41 (3.030 %)Identity Management
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
115 (45.45 %)SQL
213 (39.39 %)JavaScript
311 (33.33 %)Python
410 (30.30 %)C#
58 (24.24 %)Java
62 (6.061 %)PHP
71 (3.030 %)PHP5
71 (3.030 %)T-SQL
71 (3.030 %)VB.NET
71 (3.030 %)C
71 (3.030 %)XAML
71 (3.030 %)JCL
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (6.061 %)Cisco Certification
21 (3.030 %)CCIE
21 (3.030 %)CCNA
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (3.030 %)QA
11 (3.030 %)SLA
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (3.030 %)Active Directory
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113 (39.39 %)Oracle
211 (33.33 %)ESRI
34 (12.12 %)Cisco
43 (9.091 %)CheckPoint
52 (6.061 %)Juniper
61 (3.030 %)NetSuite
61 (3.030 %)IBM
61 (3.030 %)Microsoft
61 (3.030 %)Novell
61 (3.030 %)HP
61 (3.030 %)Chordiant
61 (3.030 %)SAP