Edinburgh Physics Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Physics skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Physics over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Physics
Location Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Hampshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leicestershire London Loughborough Middlesex North West Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth South East South West St Albans Stevenage Surrey UK Warrington	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	71
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.685 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£392
% change on same period last year	+2.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.82	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+74.73 %
Miscellaneous Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	151	146
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.211 %	0.147 %
Daily rates quoted	29	31
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£363
Average daily rate	£327	£382
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£345
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.15	£23.85
Average hourly rate	£17.85	£26.28
% change on same period last year	-32.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.54	£28.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.83	£26.95
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
Physics Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Physics
Demand Trend

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