The first table below looks at the demand for Business Intelligence 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 Intelligence 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Business Intelligence (BI)
Rank 61 50 25
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -25
Contract jobs citing Business Intelligence 56 61 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.306% 2.298% 4.324%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.384% 3.561% 6.453%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 57
Average daily rate £400 £394 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.58% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £230 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £450 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
Average hourly rate £70.00 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £23.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+72.04% -28.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1655 1713 1844
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.16% 64.52% 67.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 874 956
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 £260 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 66 49
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.75 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% -21.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.10 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Business Intelligence Jobs Demand Trend

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Business Intelligence Daily Rate Trend

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Scotland Business Intelligence Daily Rate Histogram

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Business Intelligence Hourly Rate Trend

Business Intelligence
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Intelligence within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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
Edinburgh +5 20 £450 +5.88%
Glasgow -27 16 £321 -19.68%
West Lothian +8 9 £425 -
Aberdeen +2 5 £215 -
North Lanarkshire +1 2 £499 -
Renfrewshire -8 2 £285 -
Fife -2 1 - -
Stirling -10 1 £400 -
Business Intelligence
UK

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Business Intelligence 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 Intelligence.

1 60 (42.25%) SQL
2 46 (32.39%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (30.99%) Finance
3 44 (30.99%) Oracle
4 42 (29.58%) Microsoft
5 39 (27.46%) SQL Server
6 37 (26.06%) ETL
7 31 (21.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 30 (21.13%) Business Objects
9 28 (19.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 22 (15.49%) PL/SQL
11 19 (13.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 18 (12.68%) Data Analysis
13 17 (11.97%) Data Modelling
14 16 (11.27%) MS Excel
14 16 (11.27%) Informatica
15 15 (10.56%) SharePoint
15 15 (10.56%) OLAP
16 13 (9.155%) Oracle BI EE
17 12 (8.451%) Business Analysis
17 12 (8.451%) SAP
18 11 (7.746%) Web Services
18 11 (7.746%) CSS
18 11 (7.746%) .NET
18 11 (7.746%) T-SQL
18 11 (7.746%) BusinessObjects
19 10 (7.042%) Management Information System
19 10 (7.042%) Telecoms
19 10 (7.042%) Oracle 11g
19 10 (7.042%) Visualisation

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (7.746%) .NET
1 11 (7.746%) CSS
1 11 (7.746%) Web Services
2 9 (6.338%) XML
3 7 (4.930%) JSON
3 7 (4.930%) jQuery
3 7 (4.930%) HTML5
4 6 (4.225%) Highcharts JS
4 6 (4.225%) Ajax
5 4 (2.817%) HTML
5 4 (2.817%) JDBC
6 3 (2.113%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.408%) JSP
7 2 (1.408%) Servlets
7 2 (1.408%) SOAP
7 2 (1.408%) EJB
7 2 (1.408%) Spring
7 2 (1.408%) JSF
7 2 (1.408%) XMLBeans
7 2 (1.408%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 15 (10.56%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.225%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (3.521%) SAS
4 2 (1.408%) PowerExchange
4 2 (1.408%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.408%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.704%) MTS
5 1 (0.704%) ESB
5 1 (0.704%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.704%) CICS
5 1 (0.704%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 16 (11.27%) MS Excel
2 7 (4.930%) MS Office
3 6 (4.225%) Gephi
4 2 (1.408%) InfoPath
4 2 (1.408%) MS Project
5 1 (0.704%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.704%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.704%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 6 (4.225%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.113%) Agresso
3 2 (1.408%) SmartPlant
4 1 (0.704%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.704%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.704%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.704%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.704%) SAP GTS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.704%) HTTP
1 1 (0.704%) Internet
1 1 (0.704%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (32.39%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (27.46%) SQL Server
3 31 (21.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (19.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (13.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 15 (10.56%) OLAP
7 13 (9.155%) Oracle BI EE
8 11 (7.746%) BusinessObjects
9 10 (7.042%) Oracle 11g
10 9 (6.338%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (6.338%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 7 (4.930%) SQL Server 2008
12 6 (4.225%) BusinessObjects XI
12 6 (4.225%) SQL Server 2012
12 6 (4.225%) SAP Data Services
13 5 (3.521%) QlikView
13 5 (3.521%) Data Mart
13 5 (3.521%) Oracle 10g
14 4 (2.817%) Star Schema
14 4 (2.817%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (1.408%) Maven
2 1 (0.704%) Subversion
General
1 44 (30.99%) Finance
2 10 (7.042%) Telecoms
3 9 (6.338%) Banking
3 9 (6.338%) Retail
4 5 (3.521%) Marketing
5 3 (2.113%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.408%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.408%) Publishing
7 1 (0.704%) Legal
7 1 (0.704%) Back Office
7 1 (0.704%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 45 (31.69%) Developer
2 43 (30.28%) Analyst
3 25 (17.61%) Business Analyst
4 19 (13.38%) Consultant
4 19 (13.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 12 (8.451%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 12 (8.451%) Designer
6 10 (7.042%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 9 (6.338%) SQL Developer
8 8 (5.634%) Business Developer
8 8 (5.634%) SQL Server Developer
9 7 (4.930%) Oracle Developer
10 6 (4.225%) Architect
10 6 (4.225%) Business Consultant
11 5 (3.521%) Business Intelligence Specialist
11 5 (3.521%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.521%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.817%) Project Manager
12 4 (2.817%) SharePoint Architect
12 4 (2.817%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.042%) Management Information System
1 10 (7.042%) Visualisation
2 4 (2.817%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.113%) N-Tier
4 2 (1.408%) Mathematics
4 2 (1.408%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.408%) Data Conversion
4 2 (1.408%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.704%) iSeries
5 1 (0.704%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.704%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.704%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.634%) UNIX
2 4 (2.817%) Windows
3 2 (1.408%) Linux
3 2 (1.408%) zOS
4 1 (0.704%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.704%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.704%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.06%) ETL
2 18 (12.68%) Data Analysis
3 17 (11.97%) Data Modelling
4 12 (8.451%) Business Analysis
5 9 (6.338%) Dimensional Modelling
5 9 (6.338%) Asset Management
6 8 (5.634%) OO
6 8 (5.634%) Project Management
7 7 (4.930%) CRM
7 7 (4.930%) Migration
7 7 (4.930%) Scrum
8 6 (4.225%) TDD
8 6 (4.225%) Content Management
8 6 (4.225%) ERP
8 6 (4.225%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (4.225%) Investment Management
8 6 (4.225%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (4.225%) Statistical Analysis
8 6 (4.225%) Kimball Methodology
8 6 (4.225%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 60 (42.25%) SQL
2 22 (15.49%) PL/SQL
3 11 (7.746%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.634%) Java
4 8 (5.634%) VBA
5 7 (4.930%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.817%) C#
7 3 (2.113%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.408%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.704%) Ruby
9 1 (0.704%) Scala
9 1 (0.704%) ABAP
9 1 (0.704%) COBOL
9 1 (0.704%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (6.338%) Degree
2 4 (2.817%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.113%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.113%) MCSE
3 3 (2.113%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.113%) CIMA
4 1 (0.704%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.704%) PMP
4 1 (0.704%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.704%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.113%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.704%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.704%) MetaFrame
1 1 (0.704%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (0.704%) Data Guard
1 1 (0.704%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 44 (30.99%) Oracle
2 42 (29.58%) Microsoft
3 30 (21.13%) Business Objects
4 16 (11.27%) Informatica
5 12 (8.451%) SAP
6 9 (6.338%) Cognos
7 8 (5.634%) Ab Initio
8 6 (4.225%) Netezza
9 4 (2.817%) Teradata
10 3 (2.113%) Siebel
11 2 (1.408%) Trillium
11 2 (1.408%) DataFlux
11 2 (1.408%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.704%) Salesforce.com
12 1 (0.704%) MicroStrategy
12 1 (0.704%) IBM
12 1 (0.704%) Adobe
12 1 (0.704%) Citrix
12 1 (0.704%) Hyperion
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