The first table below looks at the demand for Analytics skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Analytics over the 3 months to 21 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Scotland 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Analytics
Rank 100 97 91
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 22 12 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.890% 0.454% 0.913%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.308% 0.708% 1.360%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 13
Average daily rate £233 £263 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.42% -36.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £200 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £360 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £331 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-11.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -75.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+89.39% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1682 1696 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.04% 64.17% 67.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 863 956
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 66 48
Average hourly rate £20.50 £22.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.89% -22.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Analytics across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland Analytics Jobs Demand Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Analytics Daily Rate Trend

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Analytics across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland Analytics Daily Rate Histogram

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Analytics Hourly Rate Trend

Analytics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -2 19 £233 -
Edinburgh +4 2 £375 +87.50%
Dundee - 1 £140 -
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Analytics 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 Analytics.

1 17 (42.50%) C#
2 15 (37.50%) Oracle
3 13 (32.50%) Java
4 11 (27.50%) C++
4 11 (27.50%) Perl
4 11 (27.50%) Sybase
4 11 (27.50%) Fixed Income
4 11 (27.50%) C++/CLI
5 10 (25.00%) Marketing
5 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (25.00%) CSS
6 9 (22.50%) jQuery
6 9 (22.50%) Web Analytics
7 8 (20.00%) Google
7 8 (20.00%) HTML
8 7 (17.50%) Google Analytics
8 7 (17.50%) Drupal
9 6 (15.00%) SQL
9 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
9 6 (15.00%) .NET
9 6 (15.00%) XML
9 6 (15.00%) Finance
10 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
10 5 (12.50%) Project Management
10 5 (12.50%) PHP
11 4 (10.00%) MySQL
11 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET
11 4 (10.00%) MS Excel
11 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
11 4 (10.00%) Intranet

Analytics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Analytics 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 Analytics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (25.00%) CSS
2 9 (22.50%) jQuery
3 8 (20.00%) HTML
4 6 (15.00%) .NET
4 6 (15.00%) XML
5 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET
5 4 (10.00%) Ajax
6 3 (7.500%) WCF
6 3 (7.500%) Web Services
6 3 (7.500%) XSLT
7 2 (5.000%) JSON
7 2 (5.000%) HTML5
8 1 (2.500%) Highcharts JS
8 1 (2.500%) Apache Sling
8 1 (2.500%) OSGi
8 1 (2.500%) MapReduce
8 1 (2.500%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (2.500%) Spring
8 1 (2.500%) Lucene
8 1 (2.500%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) Drupal
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (7.500%) Umbraco
4 2 (5.000%) CMS
5 1 (2.500%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (2.500%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.500%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.500%) ESB
5 1 (2.500%) SAS
5 1 (2.500%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.500%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.500%) MS Office
2 3 (7.500%) Photoshop
3 1 (2.500%) Gephi
Business Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Google Analytics
2 4 (10.00%) WebTrends
3 1 (2.500%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Intranet
2 2 (5.000%) VLAN
3 1 (2.500%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) MySQL
3 2 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.000%) QlikView
3 2 (5.000%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.500%) Big Data
4 1 (2.500%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.500%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.500%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.500%) TOAD
4 1 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (7.500%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (2.500%) ProC
General
1 10 (25.00%) Marketing
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.500%) Banking
5 1 (2.500%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.500%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (45.00%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) C++ Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Senior SharePoint Developer
4 4 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
5 3 (7.500%) Designer
6 2 (5.000%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) SEO Specialist
6 2 (5.000%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) Technical Design Authority
7 1 (2.500%) Development Consultant
7 1 (2.500%) Excel Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Excel VBA Developer
7 1 (2.500%) MI Analyst
7 1 (2.500%) Project Coordinator
7 1 (2.500%) Communications Manager
7 1 (2.500%) Data Warehouse Analyst
7 1 (2.500%) IT Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Fixed Income
2 3 (7.500%) Social Media
2 3 (7.500%) Copywriting
2 3 (7.500%) W3C
3 2 (5.000%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.500%) Visualisation
4 1 (2.500%) Data Integration
4 1 (2.500%) Mathematics
4 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.500%) Ontologies
4 1 (2.500%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Web Analytics
2 5 (12.50%) Project Management
3 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (10.00%) Migration
3 4 (10.00%) Service Management
4 3 (7.500%) Performance Improvement
4 3 (7.500%) Content Management
4 3 (7.500%) Data Analysis
4 3 (7.500%) SEO
4 3 (7.500%) User Experience Design
5 2 (5.000%) OO
5 2 (5.000%) Data Modelling
5 2 (5.000%) ETL
5 2 (5.000%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (5.000%) Pay per click
5 2 (5.000%) Software Engineering
5 2 (5.000%) Web Application Development
6 1 (2.500%) Data Analytics
6 1 (2.500%) Business Analytics
6 1 (2.500%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) C#
2 13 (32.50%) Java
3 11 (27.50%) C++
3 11 (27.50%) Perl
3 11 (27.50%) C++/CLI
4 10 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 5 (12.50%) PHP
7 2 (5.000%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.000%) VBA
8 1 (2.500%) Ruby
8 1 (2.500%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (7.500%) Degree
2 3 (7.500%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.000%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Oracle
2 11 (27.50%) Sybase
3 8 (20.00%) Google
4 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (10.00%) Adobe
6 2 (5.000%) Symantec
6 2 (5.000%) VMware
6 2 (5.000%) Altiris
7 1 (2.500%) Alterian
7 1 (2.500%) NCR
7 1 (2.500%) Business Objects