Edinburgh Symbian Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symbian products and/or services in IT contracts within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Symbian over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bath Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East Anglia East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire London Manchester Middlesex North West Portsmouth Reading Scotland Somerset South East South West Staines Surrey Thames Valley UK Warrington	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
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Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£356
% change on same period last year	-6.89 %
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	£35.50	£38.71
% change on same period last year	-8.28 %
Vendors Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	292	396
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.385 %	0.420 %
Daily rates quoted	60	92
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£296
Average daily rate	£342	£309
% change on same period last year	+10.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.74	£24.16
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£24.63
% change on same period last year	-20.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.26	£25.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
Symbian 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Symbian Ltd.

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Demand Trend

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

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Symbian 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 Symbian.

1 10 (100.00 %) Quicktime 1 10 (100.00 %) OpenGL 1 10 (100.00 %) DirectX 1 10 (100.00 %) C 1 10 (100.00 %) C++ 1 10 (100.00 %) Multimedia 2 9 (90.00 %) Embedded C++ 2 9 (90.00 %) Symbian OS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Symbian 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 Symbian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (100.00 %) OpenGL 1 10 (100.00 %) DirectX	Applications 1 10 (100.00 %) Quicktime
General 1 10 (100.00 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 10 (100.00 %) Senior Consultant 1 10 (100.00 %) Consultant 1 10 (100.00 %) Technical Consultant 1 10 (100.00 %) Senior Technical Consultant
Operating Systems 1 9 (90.00 %) Symbian OS	Programming Languages 1 10 (100.00 %) C 1 10 (100.00 %) C++ 2 9 (90.00 %) Embedded C++