The first table below looks at the demand for Business Development 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 Business Development over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Development
Rank 122 109 107
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -2
Contract jobs citing Business Development 1 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.040% 0.038% 0.175%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.059% 0.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £313 £350
% change year-on-year
+36.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
+30.76% +96.96%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1749 1691 1881
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.32% 63.50% 65.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 820 995
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 58 43
Average hourly rate £19.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.15 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Business Development
UK

Business Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Business Development Jobs Demand Trend

Business Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Business Development Daily Rate Trend

Business Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Business Development Hourly Rate Trend

Business Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Development within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Aberdeen - - - -
Edinburgh - - - - 3
Glasgow - - - -
Fife - - - -
Business Development
UK

Business Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Business Development 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 Business Development.

1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) SugarCRM
3 1 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) JSP
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) OO

Business Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Business Development 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 Business Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) JDBC
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) Servlets
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SugarCRM
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) TOAD
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Business Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (25.00%) CRM Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Advisor
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce.com Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) CRM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) RAD
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (25.00%) MKS