The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 20 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 Glasgow 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 IBM Lotus Software.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lotus
Rank 65 53 51
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -2
Contract jobs citing Lotus 13 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.374% 0.766% 1.166%
As % of the Vendors category 2.935% 1.765% 2.186%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £120 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+129.16% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £295 £260
% change year-on-year
+5.08% +13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.50 £68.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-78.90% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-6.45% +24.00%
All Vendors
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
443 340 366
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.83% 43.42% 53.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 160 187
Average daily rate £338 £303 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.57% -13.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £444 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 28 12
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.90 £35.00 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Lotus
Scotland

Lotus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Lotus Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Lotus Daily Rate Trend

Lotus
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Lotus across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Lotus Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Lotus 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 Lotus.

1 21 (91.30%) Lotus Notes
2 15 (65.22%) Lotus Domino
3 8 (34.78%) RAD
3 8 (34.78%) Change Management
3 8 (34.78%) QA
3 8 (34.78%) Unit Testing
4 7 (30.43%) Windows
5 6 (26.09%) MS Office
5 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
5 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
6 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (21.74%) Finance
7 4 (17.39%) Windows XP
7 4 (17.39%) ITIL
7 4 (17.39%) MCP
8 3 (13.04%) MCSE
8 3 (13.04%) German Language
8 3 (13.04%) MCDST
9 2 (8.696%) PDA
9 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
9 2 (8.696%) Dutch Language
9 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
9 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (8.696%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (8.696%) Hyper-V
9 2 (8.696%) VMware
9 2 (8.696%) VMware ESX
9 2 (8.696%) Wireless
9 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
9 2 (8.696%) WAN

Lotus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 21 (91.30%) Lotus Notes
2 15 (65.22%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.348%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) MS Office
2 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) WAN
1 2 (8.696%) Wireless
2 1 (4.348%) NAS
2 1 (4.348%) SAN
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) German Language
3 2 (8.696%) Dutch Language
4 1 (4.348%) French Language
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
1 6 (26.09%) Analyst
1 6 (26.09%) Lotus Notes Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Lotus Notes Administrator
3 4 (17.39%) Programmer
4 2 (8.696%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (8.696%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (8.696%) Service Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Domino Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Domino Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) IT Support
5 1 (4.348%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 1 (4.348%) Helpdesk Technician
5 1 (4.348%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) PDA
1 2 (8.696%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows XP
3 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) RAD
1 8 (34.78%) Change Management
1 8 (34.78%) Unit Testing
2 4 (17.39%) ITIL
3 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
4 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.348%) Project Management
4 1 (4.348%) OpenUP
4 1 (4.348%) ITIL V3
4 1 (4.348%) Migration
4 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (17.39%) MCP
3 3 (13.04%) MCSE
3 3 (13.04%) MCDST
4 1 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.696%) VMware ESX
2 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.696%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.696%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.348%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.696%) Intel
2 2 (8.696%) VMware
3 1 (4.348%) IBM
3 1 (4.348%) Citrix
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