The first table below looks at the demand for XDE 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 XDE 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 Development Applications 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 Rational Rose XDE
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing XDE 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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 Development Applications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
67 60 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.272% 5.425% 5.975%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 27 45
Average daily rate £350 £325 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
XDE
Scotland

XDE
Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
1 1 (100.00%) RequisitePro
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control

XDE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Project
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
1 1 (100.00%) RequisitePro
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Banking Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft