Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Finance over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Scotland region.

 Financial
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank122
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1No change0
Matching contract IT job ads681313676
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland34.96 %21.19 %23.85 %
As % of the General category69.49 %57.22 %64.14 %
Daily rates quoted23475180
Average daily rate£325£363£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.27 %+11.53 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£202£201£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£454£500£513
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£384£390
% change year-on-year
-8.850 %-1.530 %
Hourly rates quoted13612
Average hourly rate£13.00£31.25£13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.40 %+135.84 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£20.25£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£24.50£44.00£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£21.50£22.50
% change year-on-year
-6.970 %-4.440 %
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
9805471054
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland50.31 %37.03 %37.19 %
Daily rates quoted341128278
Average daily rate£325£359£348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.400 %+3.230 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£205£210£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£375£400
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-6.250 %
Hourly rates quoted261541
Average hourly rate£19.00£22.50£24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.55 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£16.00£8.30
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.50£43.75£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.00£26.75£27.00
% change year-on-year
-10.28 %-0.920 %
Finance UKFinance
UK

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.

Finance
Demand Trend

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

Scotland Finance Demand Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Finance Daily Rate Trend

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Scotland Finance Daily Rate Histogram

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Finance Hourly Rate Trend

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Finance across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Scotland Finance Hourly Rate Histogram

Finance
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EdinburghNo change0462£325-13.33 %
GlasgowUp+6147£325+18.18 %
StirlingNew entry-3£381-
FifeDown-22--
HighlandsNew entry-1--
AberdeenshireNew entry-1--
Finance UKFinance
UK

Finance
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Finance 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 Finance.

1280 (23.28 %)Banking
2182 (15.13 %)Stakeholder Management
3141 (11.72 %)Pensions
4112 (9.310 %)Project Management
5109 (9.061 %)Oracle
695 (7.897 %)Business Analysis
794 (7.814 %)SQL
886 (7.149 %)Retail
981 (6.733 %)Change Management
1079 (6.567 %)C
1171 (5.902 %)PRINCE2
1266 (5.486 %)Java
1364 (5.320 %)Insurance
1364 (5.320 %)Retail Banking
1462 (5.154 %)MS Excel
1559 (4.904 %)Migration
1652 (4.323 %)UNIX
1746 (3.824 %)MS PowerPoint
1746 (3.824 %)User Acceptance Testing
1845 (3.741 %)IBM
1944 (3.658 %)Microsoft
1944 (3.658 %)MS Project
2040 (3.325 %)XML
2040 (3.325 %)WebSphere
2138 (3.159 %).NET
2237 (3.076 %)Windows
2237 (3.076 %)Business Intelligence
2334 (2.826 %)MS Visio
2334 (2.826 %)MS Office
2433 (2.743 %)Datawarehouse

Finance
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Finance 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 Finance. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
140 (3.325 %)XML
140 (3.325 %)WebSphere
238 (3.159 %).NET
322 (1.829 %)J2EE
417 (1.413 %)Spring
515 (1.247 %)Middleware
611 (0.914 %)ASP.NET
710 (0.831 %)HTML
89 (0.748 %)CSS
89 (0.748 %)XSLT
97 (0.582 %)Flash
106 (0.499 %)XML Schema
106 (0.499 %)Adobe Flex
115 (0.416 %)JMS
115 (0.416 %)DCOM
115 (0.416 %)Struts
124 (0.333 %)JSP
124 (0.333 %)Swing
124 (0.333 %)AJAX
124 (0.333 %)SWT
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
125 (2.078 %)SharePoint
216 (1.330 %)SAS
312 (0.998 %)ESB
410 (0.831 %)WebSphere Application Server
59 (0.748 %)MQSeries
59 (0.748 %)Tomcat
67 (0.582 %)CMS
76 (0.499 %)IIS
76 (0.499 %)Apache
76 (0.499 %)WebSphere MQ
85 (0.416 %)Lotus Notes
94 (0.333 %)Lotus Domino
94 (0.333 %)MS Exchange
103 (0.249 %)WebSphere Message Broker
103 (0.249 %)AquaLogic
103 (0.249 %)Mule
103 (0.249 %)Sonic ESB
112 (0.166 %)IBM HTTP Server
112 (0.166 %)CICS
112 (0.166 %)BizTalk Server
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
162 (5.154 %)MS Excel
246 (3.824 %)MS PowerPoint
344 (3.658 %)MS Project
434 (2.826 %)MS Visio
434 (2.826 %)MS Office
55 (0.416 %)Photoshop
64 (0.333 %)CA Clarity
73 (0.249 %)Spreadsheet
82 (0.166 %)DOC1
91 (0.083 %)SPSS
91 (0.083 %)Acrobat
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
122 (1.829 %)Oracle Financials
28 (0.665 %)Oracle EBS
35 (0.416 %)Oracle General Ledger
35 (0.416 %)Oracle Applications
43 (0.249 %)Dynamics CRM
43 (0.249 %)Oracle HRMS
52 (0.166 %)BASE24
52 (0.166 %)Microsoft CRM
52 (0.166 %)SAP MM
52 (0.166 %)Oracle EBS R12
52 (0.166 %)SAP Oil and Gas
52 (0.166 %)InvestOne
61 (0.083 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
61 (0.083 %)Dynamics NAV
61 (0.083 %)SAP BPC
61 (0.083 %)AquaLogic BPM
61 (0.083 %)Navision
61 (0.083 %)Oracle 11i
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (0.831 %)Internet
25 (0.416 %)Intranet
25 (0.416 %)Firewall
34 (0.333 %)ATM
34 (0.333 %)LAN
34 (0.333 %)WAN
34 (0.333 %)TCP/IP
43 (0.249 %)SAN
43 (0.249 %)VPN
43 (0.249 %)HTTP
43 (0.249 %)VoIP
52 (0.166 %)FTP
52 (0.166 %)Network Security
61 (0.083 %)Extranet
61 (0.083 %)BIG-IP
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
133 (2.743 %)Datawarehouse
229 (2.411 %)SQL Server
320 (1.663 %)ETL
418 (1.496 %)BusinessObjects
516 (1.330 %)DB2
69 (0.748 %)Oracle 10g
77 (0.582 %)SQL Server 2005
77 (0.582 %)Data Cleansing
77 (0.582 %)Oracle BI EE
77 (0.582 %)RDBMS
77 (0.582 %)Oracle 8/8i
86 (0.499 %)Oracle Reports
95 (0.416 %)MySQL
104 (0.333 %)Oracle 9i
104 (0.333 %)MS Access
104 (0.333 %)DataStage
113 (0.249 %)Reference Data
122 (0.166 %)OLAP
122 (0.166 %)TOAD
122 (0.166 %)SAP BI
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
132 (2.660 %)TestDirector
27 (0.582 %)FrontPage
27 (0.582 %)ClearCase
36 (0.499 %)JUnit
36 (0.499 %)QuickTest Pro
45 (0.416 %)Selenium
45 (0.416 %)Eclipse
45 (0.416 %)Visual Studio
54 (0.333 %)Maven
54 (0.333 %)Ant
54 (0.333 %)LoadRunner
54 (0.333 %)WinRunner
63 (0.249 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
63 (0.249 %)Dreamweaver
72 (0.166 %)NUnit
72 (0.166 %)CruiseControl
72 (0.166 %)Subversion
72 (0.166 %)ERwin
72 (0.166 %)RequisitePro
72 (0.166 %)Flex Builder
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1280 (23.28 %)Banking
2141 (11.72 %)Pensions
386 (7.149 %)Retail
464 (5.320 %)Insurance
464 (5.320 %)Retail Banking
523 (1.912 %)Financial Institution
622 (1.829 %)Marketing
719 (1.579 %)Investment Banking
811 (0.914 %)Back Office
910 (0.831 %)General Ledger
108 (0.665 %)Legal
117 (0.582 %)Front Office
117 (0.582 %)Health
126 (0.499 %)Construction
135 (0.416 %)Auditing
135 (0.416 %)Corporate Banking
135 (0.416 %)Billing
135 (0.416 %)Advertising
135 (0.416 %)Telecoms
144 (0.333 %)Home Office
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1496 (41.23 %)Analyst
2279 (23.19 %)Business Analyst
3158 (13.13 %)Project Manager
4119 (9.892 %)Developer
599 (8.229 %)Architect
658 (4.821 %)Test Analyst
753 (4.406 %)Programme Manager
849 (4.073 %)Senior Analyst
945 (3.741 %)Solutions Architect
1044 (3.658 %)Consultant
1135 (2.909 %)PMO Analyst
1234 (2.826 %)Test Manager
1331 (2.577 %)Java Developer
1428 (2.328 %)Senior Manager
1428 (2.328 %)Senior Business Analyst
1428 (2.328 %)Financial Business Analyst
1527 (2.244 %)Business Manager
1623 (1.912 %)Systems Analyst
1722 (1.829 %)Change Analyst
1821 (1.746 %)Data Analyst
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
128 (2.328 %)Mainframe
213 (1.081 %)Credit Risk
213 (1.081 %)IVR
310 (0.831 %)Equities
47 (0.582 %)iSeries
47 (0.582 %)Client/Server
47 (0.582 %)Clustering
54 (0.333 %)Management Information System
54 (0.333 %)Replication
54 (0.333 %)Blackberry
54 (0.333 %)Derivative
63 (0.249 %)IBM Mainframe
63 (0.249 %)AS400
72 (0.166 %)E-Learning
72 (0.166 %)Tandem
72 (0.166 %)Symmetrix DMX
72 (0.166 %)Multithreading
72 (0.166 %)Data Extraction
81 (0.083 %)Market Risk
81 (0.083 %)CCTV
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
152 (4.323 %)UNIX
237 (3.076 %)Windows
315 (1.247 %)Solaris
414 (1.164 %)AIX
513 (1.081 %)Linux
64 (0.333 %)NetWare
64 (0.333 %)Windows Server 2003
64 (0.333 %)zOS
72 (0.166 %)Windows 2000 Server
72 (0.166 %)Red Hat Linux
72 (0.166 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
81 (0.083 %)Windows Server 2008
81 (0.083 %)Windows 7
81 (0.083 %)MVS
81 (0.083 %)VMS
81 (0.083 %)OpenVMS
81 (0.083 %)Windows XP
81 (0.083 %)Windows 2000
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1182 (15.13 %)Stakeholder Management
2112 (9.310 %)Project Management
395 (7.897 %)Business Analysis
481 (6.733 %)Change Management
571 (5.902 %)PRINCE2
659 (4.904 %)Migration
746 (3.824 %)User Acceptance Testing
837 (3.076 %)Business Intelligence
932 (2.660 %)Agile Software Development
932 (2.660 %)Data Migration
1030 (2.494 %)GAP Analysis
1030 (2.494 %)E-Commerce
1128 (2.328 %)ITIL
1227 (2.244 %)Data Analysis
1324 (1.995 %)Risk Management
1421 (1.746 %)Project Planning
1421 (1.746 %)Resource Management
1421 (1.746 %)Test Scripting
1421 (1.746 %)Asset Management
1520 (1.663 %)UML
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
194 (7.814 %)SQL
279 (6.567 %)C
366 (5.486 %)Java
424 (1.995 %)C#
514 (1.164 %)PL/SQL
613 (1.081 %)VB
613 (1.081 %)JavaScript
710 (0.831 %)VB.NET
89 (0.748 %)COBOL
97 (0.582 %)Shell Script
97 (0.582 %)Perl
106 (0.499 %)AWK
106 (0.499 %)VBA
115 (0.416 %)JCL
115 (0.416 %)C++
115 (0.416 %)VB6
123 (0.249 %)PHP
132 (0.166 %)Jython
132 (0.166 %)PeopleCode
132 (0.166 %)SQR
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
122 (1.829 %)ISEB
215 (1.247 %)Degree
312 (0.998 %)PRINCE2 Certification
45 (0.416 %)CISSP
54 (0.333 %)MCSE
54 (0.333 %)Microsoft Certification
63 (0.249 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
63 (0.249 %)PMI Certification
63 (0.249 %)ITIL Certification
63 (0.249 %)ACCA
63 (0.249 %)CIMA
72 (0.166 %)CEH
72 (0.166 %)Sun Certification
72 (0.166 %)PMP
81 (0.083 %)MCIPD
81 (0.083 %)APMP
81 (0.083 %)IBM Certification
81 (0.083 %)Cisco Certification
81 (0.083 %)RHCE
81 (0.083 %)CCNP
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
114 (1.164 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
211 (0.914 %)QA
37 (0.582 %)Basel II
43 (0.249 %)SLA
51 (0.083 %)ISO27001
51 (0.083 %)COBIT
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (0.416 %)Active Directory
21 (0.083 %)OpenSSO
21 (0.083 %)NDS
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
114 (1.164 %)HP Quality Center
27 (0.582 %)Tivoli
33 (0.249 %)MSI
42 (0.166 %)ZENworks
42 (0.166 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
42 (0.166 %)Sun Identity Manager
51 (0.083 %)SCOM
51 (0.083 %)EMC NetWorker
51 (0.083 %)AutoSys
51 (0.083 %)Novell Identity Manager
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1109 (9.061 %)Oracle
245 (3.741 %)IBM
344 (3.658 %)Microsoft
419 (1.579 %)Cognos
518 (1.496 %)Business Objects
616 (1.330 %)MicroStrategy
616 (1.330 %)Planview
713 (1.081 %)PeopleSoft
812 (0.998 %)Sybase
812 (0.998 %)HP
812 (0.998 %)Nortel
911 (0.914 %)Avaya
911 (0.914 %)Chordiant
1010 (0.831 %)Citrix
1010 (0.831 %)Genesys
119 (0.748 %)SAP
128 (0.665 %)Sun
128 (0.665 %)Lotus
137 (0.582 %)Novell
146 (0.499 %)Salesforce.com