The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Investment Banking 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank 31 45 61
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +16
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 27 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.297% 1.823% 0.848%
As % of the General category 7.124% 2.621% 1.201%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 9
Average daily rate £475 £390 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.79% +11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £373 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £455 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £389 £388
% change year-on-year
+9.32% +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year
-31.81% -68.11%
All of the General Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
379 763 916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 46.28% 69.55% 70.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 387 487
Average daily rate £425 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £265 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £524 £475 £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 £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Investment Banking
Scotland

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Investment Banking Daily Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Edinburgh Investment Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Investment Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 38 (100.00%) Banking
2 26 (68.42%) Finance
3 23 (60.53%) Asset Management
4 7 (18.42%) Project Management
4 7 (18.42%) SQL
5 6 (15.79%) CRM
5 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (15.79%) Degree
5 6 (15.79%) Investment Management
6 5 (13.16%) Cadis
6 5 (13.16%) Business Analysis
6 5 (13.16%) Fund Management
6 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
6 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
6 5 (13.16%) Salesforce.com
7 4 (10.53%) Front Office
7 4 (10.53%) XML
7 4 (10.53%) Java
7 4 (10.53%) Oracle
7 4 (10.53%) Retail Banking
7 4 (10.53%) Retail
7 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (7.895%) Content Management
8 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (7.895%) Migration
8 3 (7.895%) Data Modelling
8 3 (7.895%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (7.895%) MS Excel
8 3 (7.895%) Change Management
8 3 (7.895%) Management Information System

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (10.53%) XML
2 2 (5.263%) jQuery
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.263%) JSR 286
2 2 (5.263%) Middleware
2 2 (5.263%) SOAP
2 2 (5.263%) Web Services
2 2 (5.263%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.263%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.263%) Ajax
2 2 (5.263%) Spring
2 2 (5.263%) JSF
3 1 (2.632%) Silverlight
3 1 (2.632%) JSON
3 1 (2.632%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.632%) .NET
3 1 (2.632%) J2EE
3 1 (2.632%) REST
3 1 (2.632%) Worklight
3 1 (2.632%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.263%) WebSphere Portal
1 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (2.632%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (2.632%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.263%) MS Office
3 1 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.632%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (2.632%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.632%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.632%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.632%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (5.263%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.263%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle Discoverer
5 2 (5.263%) OLAP
6 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (2.632%) DTS
6 1 (2.632%) MS Access
6 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.632%) NUnit
2 1 (2.632%) Subversion
2 1 (2.632%) MSTest
2 1 (2.632%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 38 (100.00%) Banking
2 26 (68.42%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Front Office
3 4 (10.53%) Retail Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Retail
4 2 (5.263%) Back Office
4 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.263%) Games
5 1 (2.632%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Business Analyst
3 7 (18.42%) Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
5 4 (10.53%) Consultant
6 3 (7.895%) CRM Business Analyst
6 3 (7.895%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (7.895%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Project Manager
6 3 (7.895%) Designer
6 3 (7.895%) CRM Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Lead Designer
7 2 (5.263%) Data Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) Data Warehouse Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Business Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) E-Business Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.895%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.263%) Open Source
3 1 (2.632%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.632%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.632%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.632%) PMI
3 1 (2.632%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.632%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.263%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Asset Management
2 7 (18.42%) Project Management
3 6 (15.79%) CRM
3 6 (15.79%) Investment Management
4 5 (13.16%) Business Analysis
4 5 (13.16%) Fund Management
5 3 (7.895%) Content Management
5 3 (7.895%) Migration
5 3 (7.895%) Data Modelling
5 3 (7.895%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (7.895%) Change Management
5 3 (7.895%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (7.895%) Unit Testing
6 2 (5.263%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.263%) Multithreading
6 2 (5.263%) Configuration Management
6 2 (5.263%) ETL
6 2 (5.263%) Workflow
6 2 (5.263%) Release Management
7 1 (2.632%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 4 (10.53%) Java
3 2 (5.263%) Scala
3 2 (5.263%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.263%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.263%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.632%) VBA
4 1 (2.632%) C#
4 1 (2.632%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 1 (2.632%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (2.632%) MBA
2 1 (2.632%) ISEB
2 1 (2.632%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.632%) IBM Certification
2 1 (2.632%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) FATCA
System Software
1 2 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.263%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Cadis
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.16%) Salesforce.com
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (5.263%) Charles River
3 2 (5.263%) IBM
3 2 (5.263%) VMware
4 1 (2.632%) thinkFolio
4 1 (2.632%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.632%) Siebel
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Posted: 15 May 2013