The first table below looks at the demand for Control-M 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 Control-M over the 3 months to 23 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 Systems Management 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
BMC Control-M
Rank 111 107 106
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Contract jobs citing Control-M 9 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.369% 0.038% 0.355%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.028% 0.521% 4.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
Average daily rate £425 - £336
UK excluding London average daily rate £408 £375 £288
% change year-on-year
+8.73% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £36.50
All Systems Management
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
179 192 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.333% 7.275% 8.813%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 102 93
Average daily rate £370 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.97% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 8
Average hourly rate £82.89 £25.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+231.54% +21.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.77 £25.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £150.00 £35.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Control-M
UK

Control-M
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Control-M across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Scotland Control-M Jobs Demand Trend

Control-M
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Control-M Daily Rate Trend

Control-M
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Control-M within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Stirling - 9 £425 -
Control-M
UK

Control-M
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Control-M 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 Control-M.

1 9 (69.23%) Banking
2 8 (61.54%) WebSphere
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
3 7 (53.85%) Test Scripting
3 7 (53.85%) WebSphere MQ
4 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
4 6 (46.15%) Finance
4 6 (46.15%) IBM
4 6 (46.15%) QuickTest Pro
5 5 (38.46%) UNIX
5 5 (38.46%) Java
5 5 (38.46%) Cadis
5 5 (38.46%) Selenium
6 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
6 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
6 4 (30.77%) VB
6 4 (30.77%) VBA
6 4 (30.77%) Perl
6 4 (30.77%) Solaris
6 4 (30.77%) Linux
6 4 (30.77%) Sun
6 4 (30.77%) HP
7 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (23.08%) Data Management
7 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
7 3 (23.08%) QA

Control-M
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Control-M 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 Control-M. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (61.54%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.692%) .NET
2 1 (7.692%) J2EE
2 1 (7.692%) HTML
2 1 (7.692%) CSS
2 1 (7.692%) JDBC
2 1 (7.692%) JSP
2 1 (7.692%) Servlets
2 1 (7.692%) XML
2 1 (7.692%) XSLT
2 1 (7.692%) Spring
2 1 (7.692%) Ajax
2 1 (7.692%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (7.692%) MQSeries
2 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.692%) TOAD
3 1 (7.692%) RDBMS
3 1 (7.692%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (38.46%) Selenium
3 1 (7.692%) ClearCase
3 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.692%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.692%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 9 (69.23%) Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Investment Banking
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
1 8 (61.54%) Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 1 (7.692%) Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Manual Tester
3 1 (7.692%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Tester
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Automation Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Automated Tester
3 1 (7.692%) Middle Office Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Derivative
2 1 (7.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (7.692%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) UNIX
2 4 (30.77%) Solaris
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Test Scripting
2 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Automated Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
3 3 (23.08%) Data Management
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) OO
4 1 (7.692%) RAD
4 1 (7.692%) ETL
4 1 (7.692%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
3 4 (30.77%) VB
3 4 (30.77%) VBA
3 4 (30.77%) Perl
4 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.692%) C#
4 1 (7.692%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) IBM
2 5 (38.46%) Cadis
3 4 (30.77%) Sun
3 4 (30.77%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle
4 1 (7.692%) Sybase
4 1 (7.692%) MKS
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