The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EMV in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EMV 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV)
Rank - 106 -
Contract jobs citing EMV 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.076% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.450% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £422 £395 £425
% change year-on-year
+6.89% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
608 444 404
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.91% 16.82% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 188 177
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £197 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £522
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 19
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 £11.40 £13.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £34.50 £161.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
EMV
UK

EMV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland EMV Jobs Demand Trend

EMV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) EPoS
1 3 (100.00%) Smartcard
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Insight
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) ADSL
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) MPLS
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing

EMV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) ADSL
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) MPLS
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) HSRP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) EPoS
1 3 (100.00%) Smartcard
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Insight
1 2 (66.67%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL V3
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) SonicWALL