The first table below looks at the demand for Worklight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Worklight 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 of the Application Development category 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
IBM Worklight
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Worklight 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.247% - -
As % of the Application Development category 1.136% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 128 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.73% 11.57% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 59 61
Average daily rate £314 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.20% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Worklight
Scotland

Worklight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Worklight Jobs Demand Trend

Worklight
Top 24 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (100.00%) JSF
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Portal
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) JSR 286
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (66.67%) IBM Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management

Worklight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) JSF
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) JSON
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) JSR 286
3 1 (33.33%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere Portal
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere Process Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Developer
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Architect
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Portal Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Portal Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM