The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hedge funds in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hedge funds 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hedge fund
Rank - 105 109
Contract jobs citing Hedge funds 0 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.188% 0.072%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 1.119% 0.510%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 -
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +31.34%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
612 447 392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 25.09% 16.80% 14.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 188 170
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £197 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
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 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Hedge funds
UK

Hedge funds
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Hedge funds Jobs Demand Trend

Hedge funds
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Hedge funds Daily Rate Trend

Hedge funds
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
1 2 (66.67%) Connectrix
1 2 (66.67%) Symmetrix
1 2 (66.67%) EMC Centera
1 2 (66.67%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) HPUX
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
1 2 (66.67%) Brocade
1 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (66.67%) Celerra
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis

Hedge funds
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Connectrix
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
1 2 (66.67%) Symmetrix
1 2 (66.67%) EMC Centera
1 2 (66.67%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) AIX
1 2 (66.67%) HPUX
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (66.67%) EMC TimeFinder
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
1 2 (66.67%) Brocade