Scotland Business Intelligence Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Business Intelligence (BI) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Business Intelligence over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Business Intelligence (BI)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Andover Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bognor Regis Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire Chorley City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	89
Rank change on same period last year	+41
Matching contract IT job ads	48	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.038 %
As % of the category below	4.629 %	2.551 %
Daily rates quoted	13	5
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£350
Average daily rate	£343	£358
% change on same period last year	-4.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£408	£407
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.46	£21.70
% change on same period last year	-14.90 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1037	1372
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.666 %	1.473 %
Daily rates quoted	246	340
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£331
Average daily rate	£364	£344
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	78	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.04	£18.09
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£19.19
% change on same period last year	+15.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.31	£20.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
Business Intelligence UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Business Intelligence
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Trend

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

Business Intelligence
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Business Intelligence across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

Business Intelligence
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+21	18	£341	-0.17 %
Edinburgh	+20	9	£420	+15.06 %
Aberdeen	-	2	-	-
Renfrewshire	-	1	-	-
Highlands	-	1	£310	-

Business Intelligence UK

Business Intelligence
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, 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 50 (49.02 %) Datawarehouse 2 28 (27.45 %) SQL Server 3 23 (22.55 %) Oracle 3 23 (22.55 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 22 (21.57 %) Cognos 5 19 (18.63 %) Microsoft 6 17 (16.67 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 6 17 (16.67 %) Dimensional Modelling 7 16 (15.69 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 14 (13.73 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 14 (13.73 %) SQL 9 13 (12.75 %) Business Objects 9 13 (12.75 %) BusinessObjects 9 13 (12.75 %) MS Excel 9 13 (12.75 %) SQL Server 2005

9 13 (12.75 %) Finance 10 12 (11.76 %) OLAP 10 12 (11.76 %) SAP 11 10 (9.804 %) ETL 12 9 (8.824 %) Business Analysis 12 9 (8.824 %) Data Modelling 13 8 (7.843 %) Informatica 13 8 (7.843 %) SAP BW 13 8 (7.843 %) SAP BI 13 8 (7.843 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 7 (6.863 %) Manufacturing 15 6 (5.882 %) Oracle 10g 16 5 (4.902 %) Systems Analysis 16 5 (4.902 %) Retail 17 4 (3.922 %) SAS

Business Intelligence
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, 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 3 (2.941 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.922 %) SharePoint 1 4 (3.922 %) SAS 2 2 (1.961 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (0.980 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 13 (12.75 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.961 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 17 (16.67 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (0.980 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (0.980 %) SAP FI 2 1 (0.980 %) Hyperion Enterprise 2 1 (0.980 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.980 %) LDAP 1 1 (0.980 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (49.02 %) Datawarehouse 2 28 (27.45 %) SQL Server 3 23 (22.55 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 16 (15.69 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 14 (13.73 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 13 (12.75 %) SQL Server 2005 6 13 (12.75 %) BusinessObjects 7 12 (11.76 %) OLAP 8 10 (9.804 %) ETL 9 8 (7.843 %) SAP BW 9 8 (7.843 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 8 (7.843 %) SAP BI 10 6 (5.882 %) Oracle 10g 11 4 (3.922 %) DB2 11 4 (3.922 %) Oracle BI EE 12 3 (2.941 %) SQL Server 2000 13 2 (1.961 %) Oracle Reports 13 2 (1.961 %) Oracle 9i 13 2 (1.961 %) DTS 13 2 (1.961 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 1 (0.980 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 13 (12.75 %) Finance 2 7 (6.863 %) Manufacturing 3 5 (4.902 %) Retail 4 2 (1.961 %) Chemicals 4 2 (1.961 %) Health 4 2 (1.961 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (1.961 %) Auditing 5 1 (0.980 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (0.980 %) Electronics 5 1 (0.980 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (0.980 %) Marketing 5 1 (0.980 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 41 (40.20 %) Developer 2 35 (34.31 %) Analyst 3 22 (21.57 %) Business Analyst 4 17 (16.67 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 5 16 (15.69 %) Cognos Developer 6 10 (9.804 %) Datawarehouse Developer 6 10 (9.804 %) Consultant 7 8 (7.843 %) SQL Server Developer 7 8 (7.843 %) SQL Developer 8 7 (6.863 %) Business Intelligence Developer 9 5 (4.902 %) SAP Consultant 9 5 (4.902 %) Project Manager 10 4 (3.922 %) Data Analyst 11 3 (2.941 %) Oracle Developer 11 3 (2.941 %) Business Developer 11 3 (2.941 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 11 3 (2.941 %) Oracle Analyst 11 3 (2.941 %) SAP BI Consultant 12 2 (1.961 %) Hyperion Analyst 12 2 (1.961 %) Report Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.961 %) Management Information System 2 1 (0.980 %) Data Protection Act 2 1 (0.980 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (0.980 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 1 (0.980 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (16.67 %) Dimensional Modelling 2 9 (8.824 %) Data Modelling 2 9 (8.824 %) Business Analysis 3 5 (4.902 %) Systems Analysis 4 3 (2.941 %) Project Management 5 2 (1.961 %) ERP 5 2 (1.961 %) System Testing 5 2 (1.961 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (0.980 %) Data Protection 6 1 (0.980 %) Data Mapping 6 1 (0.980 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (0.980 %) Performance Management 6 1 (0.980 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (0.980 %) Resource Management 6 1 (0.980 %) SWOT Analysis 6 1 (0.980 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (0.980 %) Service Management 6 1 (0.980 %) Change Management 6 1 (0.980 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (0.980 %) ITSM
Programming Languages 1 14 (13.73 %) SQL 2 4 (3.922 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (2.941 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (0.980 %) VB.NET 4 1 (0.980 %) C 4 1 (0.980 %) Java	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.980 %) Basel II
Vendors 1 23 (22.55 %) Oracle 2 22 (21.57 %) Cognos 3 19 (18.63 %) Microsoft 4 13 (12.75 %) Business Objects 5 12 (11.76 %) SAP 6 8 (7.843 %) Informatica 7 3 (2.941 %) Hyperion 8 1 (0.980 %) JD Edwards 8 1 (0.980 %) Ab Initio 8 1 (0.980 %) Teradata