The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio 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 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 thinkFolio Limited.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
thinkFolio
Rank 55 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 1 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.123% 0.542% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.346% 1.700% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £388 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £550 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
+37.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
289 353 441
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 35.68% 31.92% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 154 176
Average daily rate £375 £356 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £518 £445 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 18
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +4.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £14.75 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £23.75 £21.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
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Scotland

thinkFolio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh thinkFolio Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh thinkFolio Daily Rate Trend

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio.

1 3 (100.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Fund Management
2 2 (66.67%) Charles River
2 2 (66.67%) Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) ISEB
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cadis
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking

thinkFolio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Sentinel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Fund Management
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Charles River
2 1 (33.33%) Cadis