Edinburgh WAI Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WAI over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Location Bristol City of London East of England Edinburgh England Halifax Hertfordshire Lancashire London North West South West UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
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
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£264	£309
% change on same period last year	-14.54 %
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	-	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-
Quality Assurance & Compliance Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	20	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	12	9
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£368
Average daily rate	£282	£392
% change on same period last year	-28.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£358
% change on same period last year	+6.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.63
% change on same period last year	-8.73 %
WAI 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.

WAI
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WAI across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.