Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of CA products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CA over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Scotland region.

 CA
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank8236100
Rank change year-on-year
Down-46Up+64
Matching contract IT job ads10424
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland0.513 %2.844 %0.141 %
As % of the Vendors category1.370 %6.204 %0.327 %
Daily rates quoted181
Average daily rate£350£475£250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.31 %+90.00 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£318£450£400
% change year-on-year
-29.44 %+12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted0180
Average hourly rate-£41.50-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£46.50£42.50£52.50
% change year-on-year
+9.410 %-19.04 %
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
7306771223
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland37.47 %45.84 %43.15 %
Daily rates quoted243167231
Average daily rate£325£330£324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.510 %+1.930 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£223£170£176
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£500£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£350£360
% change year-on-year
-5.710 %-2.770 %
Hourly rates quoted3563103
Average hourly rate£18.30£34.00£13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.17 %+151.85 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£10.50£9.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£30.75£42.50£35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£21.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %+5.000 %
CA UKCA
UK

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within CA, Inc.

CA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing CA across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Scotland CA Demand Trend

CA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland CA Daily Rate Trend

CA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland CA Hourly Rate Trend

CA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CA within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EdinburghDown-325£350-26.31 %
HighlandsNew entry-1--
CA UKCA
UK

CA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing CA 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 CA.

15 (41.67 %)Unicenter
24 (33.33 %)XML
24 (33.33 %)Progress
24 (33.33 %)SonicMQ
24 (33.33 %)Java
24 (33.33 %)OpenView
24 (33.33 %)HP
24 (33.33 %)ESB
24 (33.33 %)Sonic ESB
33 (25.00 %)Mainframe
33 (25.00 %)Finance
42 (16.67 %)CIMA
42 (16.67 %)ACCA
42 (16.67 %)DCOM
51 (8.333 %)IBM Mainframe
51 (8.333 %)ERD
51 (8.333 %)iSeries
51 (8.333 %)XenServer
51 (8.333 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
51 (8.333 %)AutoSys
51 (8.333 %)ERwin
51 (8.333 %)Replication
51 (8.333 %)Clustering
51 (8.333 %)Banking
51 (8.333 %)Network Design
51 (8.333 %)Degree
51 (8.333 %)Microsoft Certification
51 (8.333 %)SQL Server
51 (8.333 %)VMS
51 (8.333 %)OpenVMS

CA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing CA 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 CA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (33.33 %)XML
22 (16.67 %)DCOM
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (33.33 %)SonicMQ
14 (33.33 %)ESB
14 (33.33 %)Sonic ESB
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (8.333 %)MS Excel
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (8.333 %)TCP/IP
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (8.333 %)SQL Server
11 (8.333 %)ETL
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (8.333 %)ERwin
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (25.00 %)Finance
21 (8.333 %)Banking
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14 (33.33 %)Developer
14 (33.33 %)Analyst
14 (33.33 %)Consultant
14 (33.33 %)Progress Developer
22 (16.67 %)DBA
22 (16.67 %)Mainframe DBA
31 (8.333 %)Environment Analyst
31 (8.333 %)Junior
31 (8.333 %)Junior Analyst
31 (8.333 %)Senior Analyst
31 (8.333 %)Network Analyst
31 (8.333 %)Data Modeller
31 (8.333 %)Financial Analyst
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (25.00 %)Mainframe
21 (8.333 %)IBM Mainframe
21 (8.333 %)iSeries
21 (8.333 %)Replication
21 (8.333 %)Clustering
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (8.333 %)VMS
11 (8.333 %)OpenVMS
11 (8.333 %)UNIX
11 (8.333 %)Windows
11 (8.333 %)Linux
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (8.333 %)ERD
11 (8.333 %)Network Design
11 (8.333 %)SSADM
11 (8.333 %)Data Modelling
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (33.33 %)Java
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (16.67 %)CIMA
12 (16.67 %)ACCA
21 (8.333 %)Degree
21 (8.333 %)Microsoft Certification
21 (8.333 %)MCSE
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (8.333 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (8.333 %)XenServer
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (41.67 %)Unicenter
24 (33.33 %)OpenView
31 (8.333 %)AutoSys
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (33.33 %)Progress
14 (33.33 %)HP
21 (8.333 %)IBM
21 (8.333 %)Microsoft