The first table below looks at the demand for Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 17 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 Application Platforms 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Lotus Notes
Rank 54 59 64
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +5
Contract jobs citing Lotus Notes 2 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.247% 0.542% 0.373%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.408% 3.871% 3.311%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £280 £250
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.25 £15.50 £12.42
% change year-on-year
-8.06% +24.79%
All Application Platforms
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
142 155 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.53% 14.01% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 64 53
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £134 £201 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £451
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
Average hourly rate £19.75 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.29% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £11.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.25 £13.90 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Lotus Notes
Scotland

Lotus Notes
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Lotus Notes across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Edinburgh Lotus Notes Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Lotus Notes Daily Rate Trend

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Lotus Notes Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes.

1 12 (100.00%) Lotus
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
3 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
4 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
4 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (33.33%) vSphere
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL V2
5 4 (33.33%) VMware
5 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (33.33%) Postini
5 4 (33.33%) SCOM
5 4 (33.33%) CommVault
5 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
5 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) MS Office
6 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
7 1 (8.333%) Mainframe
7 1 (8.333%) Firewall
7 1 (8.333%) Finance
7 1 (8.333%) Apple
7 1 (8.333%) zOS
7 1 (8.333%) MAINVIEW
7 1 (8.333%) RACF
7 1 (8.333%) Remedy
7 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000
7 1 (8.333%) Lotus Domino

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (8.333%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.333%) VPN
1 1 (8.333%) Firewall
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Support Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Programmer
4 1 (8.333%) Lotus Notes Developer
4 1 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (8.333%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 1 (8.333%) zOS
4 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000
4 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL V2
2 1 (8.333%) Software Deployment
2 1 (8.333%) Incident Management
2 1 (8.333%) Time Management
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (8.333%) RACF
3 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (8.333%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Lotus
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Postini
3 4 (33.33%) CommVault
4 1 (8.333%) HP
4 1 (8.333%) Citrix
4 1 (8.333%) CA
4 1 (8.333%) Apple
4 1 (8.333%) Remedy
4 1 (8.333%) Cisco
4 1 (8.333%) IBM