Scotland DRM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Digital Rights Management (DRM) 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 DRM over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Location Birmingham City of London England Leeds London North West Scotland UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£329	-
% change on same period last year	-
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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 %
DRM 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.

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Demand Trend

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

DRM
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 2 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00 %) Management Information System 1 1 (100.00 %) Information Management

DRM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Management Information System

Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Information Management