The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term SaaS in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SaaS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Rank 60 - 71
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SaaS 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.220% - 0.075%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.379% - 0.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £449 £485
% change year-on-year
-5.29% -7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £20.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+90.00% -11.11%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
145 145 194
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 15.97% 13.60% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 60 65
Average daily rate £375 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £180 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £534
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £28.79 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.86% +23.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.96 £13.67 £7.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.88 £40.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
SaaS
Scotland

SaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh SaaS Jobs Demand Trend

SaaS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh SaaS Daily Rate Trend

SaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SaaS 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 SaaS.

1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) WinForms
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008

SaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing SaaS 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 SaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) WinForms
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
General
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft