The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equity Derivative in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Equity Derivative 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
Equity Derivatives
Rank 110 103 110
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +7
Contract jobs citing Equity Derivative 10 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.410% 0.076% 0.143%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.675% 0.463% 1.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
Average daily rate £525 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £313 £366
10% offered a daily rate of more than £565 £313 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £313 £375
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -16.66%
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
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%
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Equity Derivative Jobs Demand Trend

Equity Derivative
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Equity Derivative Daily Rate Trend

Equity Derivative
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Equity Derivative 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
Glasgow -12 9 £550 -
Equity Derivative
UK

Equity Derivative
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (90.48%) Java
1 19 (90.48%) Derivative
2 14 (66.67%) Sybase
2 14 (66.67%) UNIX
3 11 (52.38%) Shell Script
4 10 (47.62%) Linux
4 10 (47.62%) Finance
5 9 (42.86%) C#
5 9 (42.86%) SQL
6 8 (38.10%) C++
7 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
7 6 (28.57%) Sybase IQ
7 6 (28.57%) Perl
8 5 (23.81%) Banking
8 5 (23.81%) Investment Banking
8 5 (23.81%) QA
9 4 (19.05%) Electronic Trading
9 4 (19.05%) Spring
9 4 (19.05%) Regression Testing
9 4 (19.05%) VB
9 4 (19.05%) Windows
9 4 (19.05%) JUnit
9 4 (19.05%) J2SE
9 4 (19.05%) JMS
10 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
10 3 (14.29%) OO
10 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
10 3 (14.29%) Sun
10 3 (14.29%) DB2
10 3 (14.29%) Solaris

Equity Derivative
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (19.05%) J2SE
1 4 (19.05%) JMS
1 4 (19.05%) Spring
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (9.524%) J2EE
3 2 (9.524%) SOAP
3 2 (9.524%) JSON
3 2 (9.524%) RESTful
3 2 (9.524%) Smart GWT
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Sybase IQ
2 3 (14.29%) DB2
2 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.524%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.524%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.524%) Data Mining
4 1 (4.762%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JUnit
2 2 (9.524%) Eclipse
2 2 (9.524%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (9.524%) Maven
2 2 (9.524%) JIRA
3 1 (4.762%) Selenium
3 1 (4.762%) TestComplete
3 1 (4.762%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.762%) ClearCase
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.762%) Legal
3 1 (4.762%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (66.67%) Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Java Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Sybase Developer
4 4 (19.05%) C++ Developer
4 4 (19.05%) C# Developer
4 4 (19.05%) C++/Java Developer
4 4 (19.05%) C++/C# Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.524%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.524%) Analyst
7 1 (4.762%) Test Analyst
7 1 (4.762%) Consultant
7 1 (4.762%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (4.762%) Team Leader
7 1 (4.762%) Development Team Leader
7 1 (4.762%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (4.762%) QA Analyst
7 1 (4.762%) Java Applications Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 19 (90.48%) Derivative
2 3 (14.29%) Market Risk
3 2 (9.524%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.762%) Mathematics
4 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) UNIX
2 10 (47.62%) Linux
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
4 3 (14.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Risk Management
2 4 (19.05%) Regression Testing
2 4 (19.05%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (14.29%) Manual Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 3 (14.29%) OO
3 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Release Management
4 2 (9.524%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Code Coverage
4 2 (9.524%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.524%) Workflow
4 2 (9.524%) Migration
4 2 (9.524%) System Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Business Analysis
4 2 (9.524%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.762%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) Java
2 11 (52.38%) Shell Script
3 9 (42.86%) C#
3 9 (42.86%) SQL
4 8 (38.10%) C++
5 6 (28.57%) Perl
6 4 (19.05%) VB
7 3 (14.29%) VBA
7 3 (14.29%) Korn
8 2 (9.524%) Scala
8 2 (9.524%) Bash shell
8 2 (9.524%) Jython
8 2 (9.524%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) Control-M
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Sybase
2 3 (14.29%) Sun