Edinburgh Reference Data Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Reference Data skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Reference Data over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedfordshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London Dunstable East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Hertfordshire Liverpool London Luton Merseyside Midlands North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire South West UK	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	59
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	3.200 %
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	£298	£283
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
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	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Database & Business Intelligence Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	183	250
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.244 %	0.253 %
Daily rates quoted	32	45
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£302
Average daily rate	£290	£312
% change on same period last year	-7.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£55.95	£31.56
Average hourly rate	£59.58	£32.35
% change on same period last year	+84.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£63.20	£33.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Reference Data 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Reference Data across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data.

1 1 (100.00 %) Project Management 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Management 1 1 (100.00 %) GoldenSource

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Reference Data 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 Reference Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Architect 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Architect	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Project Management 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Management
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) GoldenSource