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Technical Specialist Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title 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 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Specialist
Rank 57 59 62
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 5 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.551% 0.469% 0.751%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.584% 0.495% 0.803%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £300 £400 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -23.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £22.88
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 856 1011 1245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.27% 94.84% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 475 609
Average daily rate £391 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.19% -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 30
Average hourly rate £13.93 £20.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.35% +30.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £9.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.40 £32.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Specialist
Scotland

Technical Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Technical Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Technical Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Specialist across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Technical Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (28.57%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
3 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
3 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (21.43%) Clustering
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) SCCM
3 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
3 3 (21.43%) Application Packaging
4 2 (14.29%) High Availability
4 2 (14.29%) Essbase
4 2 (14.29%) HP
4 2 (14.29%) SAN
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) IBM
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
5 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
5 1 (7.143%) CRM
5 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.143%) ERP
5 1 (7.143%) Solaris
5 1 (7.143%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (7.143%) SAP
5 1 (7.143%) EJB
5 1 (7.143%) XML
5 1 (7.143%) XSL

Technical Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Technical Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (21.43%) Application Packaging
2 1 (7.143%) EJB
2 1 (7.143%) XML
2 1 (7.143%) XSL
2 1 (7.143%) .NET
2 1 (7.143%) J2EE
2 1 (7.143%) JSF
2 1 (7.143%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (7.143%) LAN
2 1 (7.143%) WAN
2 1 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.143%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Essbase
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.143%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle BI EE
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 1 (7.143%) Retail
3 1 (7.143%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Clustering
2 1 (7.143%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows XP
2 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (7.143%) Solaris
4 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (7.143%) CRM
3 1 (7.143%) ERP
3 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) Java
1 1 (7.143%) Perl
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) CCNP
1 1 (7.143%) CCNA
1 1 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) VMware ESX
2 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.143%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
2 1 (7.143%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) HP
1 2 (14.29%) IBM
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (7.143%) SAP
2 1 (7.143%) Hyperion
2 1 (7.143%) Informatica
2 1 (7.143%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (7.143%) EMC
2 1 (7.143%) Citrix
2 1 (7.143%) VMware
2 1 (7.143%) Brocade
Mainframe Hardware Technical Specialist
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Our banking client are looking for a highly skilled Mainframe Hardware Technical Specialist to join their Edinburgh based team for a 3 month initial contract. Purpose of the...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 14 June 2013
Web Analyst/Web Consultant/Technical Specialist
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will be assisting large-scale system change projects for a specific corporate web-based system, which is used by many different stakeholders in the business. Applicants should...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Technical Specialist / Solution Designer (Infrastructure)
Edinburgh, Scotland
To be successful in this role you will have worked within large enterprise environments and have - Prior experience of mid / large data centre migrations- Demonstrable Infrastructure Design & Delivery...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 4 June 2013
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