The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Performance Improvement
Rank - 64 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.091% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.136% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £195 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £400 £308
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +30.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
553 733 861
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.52% 66.82% 66.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 364 475
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.07 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Performance Improvement
Scotland

Performance Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Improvement across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh Performance Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Performance Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Performance Improvement
Top 15 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) WebTrends
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Drupal
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics

Performance Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) WebTrends
1 3 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google