The first table below looks at the demand for MTS 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 MTS 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)
Rank 55 64 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing MTS 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.244% 0.091% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.351% 0.662% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
148 151 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.07% 13.76% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 53
Average daily rate £343 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £134 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £430 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
Average hourly rate £20.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.14% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.70 £11.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.30 £13.90 £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
MTS
Scotland

MTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh MTS Jobs Demand Trend

MTS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) Telerik
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (33.33%) Sitefinity
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET

MTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Sitefinity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Data Services
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
1 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Business Objects
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Telerik