The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Digital Media in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Digital Media over the 3 months to 17 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Media
Rank 117 103 113
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +10
Contract jobs citing Digital Media 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.123% 0.076% 0.036%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.503% 0.463% 0.255%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £270 - £210
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £25.50 -
% change year-on-year
-43.13% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
597 432 392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.48% 16.31% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 183 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £195 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.48 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £32.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Digital Media
UK

Digital Media
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Digital Media across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Scotland Digital Media Jobs Demand Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Digital Media Daily Rate Trend

Digital Media
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Digital Media across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Digital Media Daily Rate Histogram

Digital Media
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Digital Media Hourly Rate Trend

Digital Media
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Media within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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 +10 2 £150 -
West Lothian - 1 £390 -
Digital Media
UK

Digital Media
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media.

1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (50.00%) LINQ
1 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceStack
2 3 (37.50%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) APMP
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) Social Media
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) CSS3
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) SMS
4 1 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Intranet
4 1 (12.50%) Extranet
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) PaintShop Pro
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) CMS

Digital Media
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Digital Media 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 Digital Media. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) LINQ
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceStack
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Symfony
3 1 (12.50%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
1 1 (12.50%) PaintShop Pro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SMS
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
1 1 (12.50%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Web Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Web Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Blog
1 1 (12.50%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (37.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) APMP
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Netezza
1 1 (12.50%) Zend