The first table below looks at the demand for Enterprise Architecture 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 Enterprise Architecture over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Enterprise Architecture
Rank 93 91 106
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +15
Contract jobs citing Enterprise Architecture 25 19 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.025% 0.714% 0.181%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.493% 1.109% 0.270%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 5 3
Average daily rate £481 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.31% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £385 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £463 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £488 £463
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +5.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £23.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £57.75 -
% change year-on-year
-17.74% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1674 1713 1854
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.63% 64.40% 67.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 868 956
Average daily rate £365 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 67 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% -24.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.30 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Enterprise Architecture
UK

Enterprise Architecture
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Enterprise Architecture across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland Enterprise Architecture Jobs Demand Trend

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Enterprise Architecture Daily Rate Trend

Enterprise Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland Enterprise Architecture Daily Rate Histogram

Enterprise Architecture
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Architecture within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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 +17 17 £481 +13.23%
Renfrewshire - 4 £513 -
Glasgow -17 3 £440 +10.00%
Enterprise Architecture
UK

Enterprise Architecture
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Enterprise Architecture 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 Enterprise Architecture.

1 14 (34.15%) Stakeholder Management
1 14 (34.15%) Banking
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
3 9 (21.95%) Windows
3 9 (21.95%) Windows XP
3 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (21.95%) Asset Management
3 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
3 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (21.95%) Security Architecture
4 8 (19.51%) Lumension
4 8 (19.51%) Investment Management
4 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
4 8 (19.51%) Telecoms
4 8 (19.51%) Validation
4 8 (19.51%) Data Mining
5 7 (17.07%) Finance
6 6 (14.63%) Manufacturing
6 6 (14.63%) ERP
6 6 (14.63%) Java
6 6 (14.63%) SaaS
6 6 (14.63%) Zachman Framework
6 6 (14.63%) TOGAF
7 5 (12.20%) Bourne shell
7 5 (12.20%) Korn
7 5 (12.20%) Perl
7 5 (12.20%) VBScript
7 5 (12.20%) Solaris
7 5 (12.20%) Release Management
8 4 (9.756%) Linux

Enterprise Architecture
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Enterprise Architecture 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 Enterprise Architecture. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.439%) JDBC
1 1 (2.439%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.439%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.439%) LDAP
1 1 (2.439%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.439%) RDBMS
General
1 14 (34.15%) Banking
2 8 (19.51%) Telecoms
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
4 6 (14.63%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.317%) Retail Banking
5 3 (7.317%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (73.17%) Architect
2 23 (56.10%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Technical Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Senior Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.878%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (4.878%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.878%) Information Security Engineer
5 1 (2.439%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.439%) Analyst
5 1 (2.439%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.439%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) SaaS
2 4 (9.756%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.317%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.439%) Open Source
4 1 (2.439%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Windows
1 9 (21.95%) Windows XP
1 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2003
1 9 (21.95%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (12.20%) Solaris
3 4 (9.756%) Linux
4 1 (2.439%) UNIX
4 1 (2.439%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (34.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (21.95%) Asset Management
2 9 (21.95%) Security Architecture
3 8 (19.51%) Investment Management
3 8 (19.51%) Validation
4 6 (14.63%) ERP
4 6 (14.63%) Zachman Framework
4 6 (14.63%) TOGAF
5 5 (12.20%) Release Management
6 3 (7.317%) Service Management
6 3 (7.317%) Supplier Management
6 3 (7.317%) Information Security
7 2 (4.878%) Project Management
8 1 (2.439%) MVC
8 1 (2.439%) Migration
8 1 (2.439%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (2.439%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Java
2 5 (12.20%) Bourne shell
2 5 (12.20%) Korn
2 5 (12.20%) Perl
2 5 (12.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.317%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.439%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.439%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.439%) MOM
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Lumension
3 3 (7.317%) McAfee
4 1 (2.439%) JBoss
4 1 (2.439%) Oracle
4 1 (2.439%) VMware
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