The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Twitter 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 Twitter 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 Twitter, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Twitter
Rank 54 57 70
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +13
Contract jobs citing Twitter 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.121% 0.091% 0.077%
As % of the Vendors category 0.341% 0.287% 0.237%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £160 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -45.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 - -
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%
Twitter
Scotland

Twitter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Twitter Jobs Demand Trend

Twitter
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Twitter Daily Rate Trend

Twitter
Top 23 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) W3C
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) WAI
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
1 2 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Drupal
1 2 (100.00%) PHP5
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Google Maps API
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Information Architecture

Twitter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Drupal Developer
1 2 (100.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) W3C
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
1 2 (100.00%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Zend