The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Salesforce.com products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Salesforce.com over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Salesforce.com, Inc (SFDC).

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Salesforce.com
Rank 44 51 69
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +18
Contract jobs citing Salesforce.com 11 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.332% 0.634% 0.155%
As % of the Vendors category 3.754% 2.011% 0.474%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £388 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £390
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year
-40.00% -
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
293 348 422
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.47% 31.52% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 151 164
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £247 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £444 £496
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 19
Average hourly rate £20.25 £17.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.11% +11.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £13.65 £13.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £25.25 £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Salesforce.com
Scotland

Salesforce.com
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Salesforce.com Jobs Demand Trend

Salesforce.com
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Salesforce.com Daily Rate Trend

Salesforce.com
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Salesforce.com across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Edinburgh Salesforce.com Daily Rate Histogram

Salesforce.com
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Salesforce.com 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 Salesforce.com.

1 12 (70.59%) CRM
2 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) Asset Management
3 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 5 (29.41%) Investment Banking
4 4 (23.53%) Retail
4 4 (23.53%) Marketing
5 3 (17.65%) Visualforce
5 3 (17.65%) Apex Code
5 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (11.76%) Java
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
6 2 (11.76%) .NET
6 2 (11.76%) CSS
6 2 (11.76%) SOAP
6 2 (11.76%) XML
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) Ajax
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (11.76%) Web 2.0
6 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.76%) jQuery
6 2 (11.76%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
7 1 (5.882%) Data Architecture

Salesforce.com
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Salesforce.com 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 Salesforce.com. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) Visualforce
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) SOAP
2 2 (11.76%) XML
2 2 (11.76%) Ajax
2 2 (11.76%) jQuery
2 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) SugarCRM
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) PowerPivot
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) OLAP
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Investment Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 4 (23.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Business Analyst
1 7 (41.18%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) CRM Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (29.41%) CRM Business Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Financial Business Analyst
5 3 (17.65%) Financial Services Business Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Report Writer
6 1 (5.882%) Designer
6 1 (5.882%) Salesforce.com Consultant
6 1 (5.882%) CRM Architect
6 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Salesforce.com Business Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Consultant
6 1 (5.882%) Lead Designer
6 1 (5.882%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) CRM
2 9 (52.94%) Asset Management
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (5.882%) Data Architecture
5 1 (5.882%) Business Development
5 1 (5.882%) Content Management
5 1 (5.882%) Migration
5 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.882%) ETL
5 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Apex Code
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.882%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) Ab Initio
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle
2 1 (5.882%) IBM