Scotland CAD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 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 CAD over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Chesterfield City of London Coventry Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Filton Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent London Luton Manchester Midlands Newport North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sevenoaks South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	118
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	1	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.096 %	0.437 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	£239
% change on same period last year	+15.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-16.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.25	£28.39
% change on same period last year	-4.01 %
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 %
CAD 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.

CAD
Demand Trend

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

CAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

CAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CAD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAD 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	+16	1	-	-

CAD UK

CAD
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing CAD 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 CAD.

1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) Electric 1 1 (33.33 %) PDA 1 1 (33.33 %) Statistics 1 1 (33.33 %) QA 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Security 1 1 (33.33 %) Spreadsheet

CAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing CAD 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 CAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Security
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) CAD Technician
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) PDA 1 1 (33.33 %) Statistics	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C++ 1 1 (33.33 %) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) QA