The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Leader role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Lead
Rank 54 62 67
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Leader 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.247% 0.271% 0.149%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.263% 0.288% 0.158%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £419 £400
% change year-on-year
-4.53% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.22 - £37.50
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
761 1040 1269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 93.95% 94.03% 94.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 520 626
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 35
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% +56.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.41 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Leader
Scotland

Technical Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Technical Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Technical Leader Daily Rate Trend

Technical Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Technical Leader in their job title 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 with Technical Leader in their job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (20.00%) Taleo
5 1 (10.00%) Brocade
5 1 (10.00%) Application Packaging
5 1 (10.00%) SCCM
5 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata Management
5 1 (10.00%) Network Design
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (10.00%) SAN
5 1 (10.00%) Informatica
5 1 (10.00%) Nokia
5 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) VRRP
5 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling

Technical Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Technical Leader in their job title 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 with Technical Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (20.00%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) VRRP
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) ERP
1 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (10.00%) Network Design
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCIE
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) PeopleSoft
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Informatica
3 1 (10.00%) Nokia
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Brocade