Investment Banking Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Investment Banking in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Investment Banking over the 3 months to 22 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 General 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Banking
Rank 42 37 64
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +27
Contract jobs citing Investment Banking 92 76 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 3.713% 2.840% 1.679%
As % of the General category 8.663% 5.238% 3.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 56 29
Average daily rate £425 £381 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.47% +8.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £450 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £390 £375
% change year-on-year
+8.97% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £69.00
% change year-on-year
-31.81% -68.11%
All of the General Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 1062 1451 1521
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 42.86% 54.22% 55.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 743 805
Average daily rate £389 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.06% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £479 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 19
Average hourly rate £14.00 £14.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.86 £9.90 £10.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.20 £33.50 £41.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Investment Banking Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Investment Banking Daily Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Investment Banking across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland Investment Banking Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Banking
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Investment Banking Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Banking
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Banking within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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 +9 29 £475 +21.79%
Stirling 0 27 £375 +36.36%
Glasgow -28 22 £425 +6.25%
Investment Banking
UK

Investment Banking
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking.

1 136 (100.00%) Banking
2 62 (45.59%) Finance
3 55 (40.44%) SQL
4 36 (26.47%) Java
5 27 (19.85%) UNIX
5 27 (19.85%) Asset Management
6 22 (16.18%) XML
6 22 (16.18%) SQL Server
7 17 (12.50%) C#
8 16 (11.76%) Spring
8 16 (11.76%) Sybase
9 15 (11.03%) Oracle
9 15 (11.03%) Cadis
10 13 (9.559%) .NET
10 13 (9.559%) Shell Script
10 13 (9.559%) Business Analysis
10 13 (9.559%) Agile Software Development
11 12 (8.824%) C++
11 12 (8.824%) VBA
11 12 (8.824%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (8.088%) Linux
12 11 (8.088%) Perl
12 11 (8.088%) HP
12 11 (8.088%) Back Office
12 11 (8.088%) Hibernate
12 11 (8.088%) Degree
12 11 (8.088%) Multithreading
13 10 (7.353%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (7.353%) Unit Testing
13 10 (7.353%) IBM

Investment Banking
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Investment Banking 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 Investment Banking. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (16.18%) XML
2 16 (11.76%) Spring
3 13 (9.559%) .NET
4 11 (8.088%) Hibernate
5 7 (5.147%) WebSphere
6 6 (4.412%) WPF
6 6 (4.412%) JSP
7 5 (3.676%) jQuery
7 5 (3.676%) Struts
7 5 (3.676%) XML Messaging
7 5 (3.676%) Java SE
7 5 (3.676%) Ajax
8 4 (2.941%) Web Services
8 4 (2.941%) CSS
9 3 (2.206%) JDBC
9 3 (2.206%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.206%) SOAP
9 3 (2.206%) J2EE
9 3 (2.206%) XSLT
9 3 (2.206%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.941%) WebSphere MQ
1 4 (2.941%) MQSeries
1 4 (2.941%) Tomcat
1 4 (2.941%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (2.206%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.471%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (1.471%) Apache
3 2 (1.471%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (0.735%) IIS
4 1 (0.735%) WebSphere Process Server
4 1 (0.735%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (7.353%) MS Visio
2 6 (4.412%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.471%) MS Office
3 2 (1.471%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.735%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.735%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.735%) MS Project
4 1 (0.735%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.735%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.735%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.471%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.471%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.735%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.676%) HTTP
2 1 (0.735%) NAS
2 1 (0.735%) SMS
2 1 (0.735%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.824%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (6.618%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (5.882%) RDBMS
5 7 (5.147%) TOAD
5 7 (5.147%) SQL Server 2000
5 7 (5.147%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (3.676%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.676%) DTS
6 5 (3.676%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (3.676%) Oracle 11g
7 4 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (2.206%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.206%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.206%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (2.206%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (1.471%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (1.471%) QlikView
9 2 (1.471%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 7 (5.147%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (2.941%) Selenium
3 3 (2.206%) ClearCase
4 2 (1.471%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.471%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.471%) JUnit
5 1 (0.735%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.735%) Firebug
5 1 (0.735%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.735%) MSTest
5 1 (0.735%) Ant
5 1 (0.735%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.735%) NUnit
5 1 (0.735%) Subversion
5 1 (0.735%) Maven
General
1 136 (100.00%) Banking
2 62 (45.59%) Finance
3 11 (8.088%) Back Office
4 8 (5.882%) Front Office
5 7 (5.147%) Retail
6 6 (4.412%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.206%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.206%) Games
8 1 (0.735%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.735%) Billing
8 1 (0.735%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (39.71%) Analyst
2 44 (32.35%) Developer
3 36 (26.47%) Business Analyst
4 17 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 13 (9.559%) Test Analyst
6 10 (7.353%) Technical Analyst
6 10 (7.353%) Technical Business Analyst
7 8 (5.882%) Senior Developer
8 7 (5.147%) C++ Developer
9 6 (4.412%) Development Specialist
10 5 (3.676%) CRM Analyst
10 5 (3.676%) Architect
10 5 (3.676%) Consultant
10 5 (3.676%) Applications Developer
10 5 (3.676%) C++/Java Developer
10 5 (3.676%) CRM Business Analyst
11 4 (2.941%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 4 (2.941%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.941%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (2.941%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.618%) Derivative
2 8 (5.882%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.147%) Reference Data
4 5 (3.676%) Equity Derivative
5 3 (2.206%) Data Integration
5 3 (2.206%) Open Source
5 3 (2.206%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.206%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.206%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.471%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.471%) PMI
7 1 (0.735%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.735%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.735%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.735%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 27 (19.85%) UNIX
2 11 (8.088%) Linux
3 10 (7.353%) Windows
3 10 (7.353%) Solaris
4 2 (1.471%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (19.85%) Asset Management
2 13 (9.559%) Business Analysis
2 13 (9.559%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (8.088%) Multithreading
4 10 (7.353%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (7.353%) Unit Testing
4 10 (7.353%) Project Management
4 10 (7.353%) UML
5 9 (6.618%) CRM
5 9 (6.618%) Test Scripting
5 9 (6.618%) Use Case
6 8 (5.882%) Workflow
6 8 (5.882%) Data Modelling
6 8 (5.882%) Investment Management
7 7 (5.147%) Risk Management
7 7 (5.147%) Migration
7 7 (5.147%) Fund Management
8 6 (4.412%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (4.412%) Process Management
8 6 (4.412%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 55 (40.44%) SQL
2 36 (26.47%) Java
3 17 (12.50%) C#
4 13 (9.559%) Shell Script
5 12 (8.824%) C++
5 12 (8.824%) VBA
6 11 (8.088%) Perl
7 10 (7.353%) VB
8 8 (5.882%) Scala
9 5 (3.676%) VB.NET
9 5 (3.676%) Python
10 4 (2.941%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.206%) JavaScript
12 2 (1.471%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.088%) Degree
2 5 (3.676%) PMI Certification
3 4 (2.941%) PMP
4 3 (2.206%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.471%) MBA
5 2 (1.471%) ISEB
6 1 (0.735%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.735%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.735%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.735%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.882%) MiFID
2 7 (5.147%) QA
3 1 (0.735%) FATCA
System Software
1 2 (1.471%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.471%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.735%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 8 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (4.412%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (11.76%) Sybase
2 15 (11.03%) Oracle
2 15 (11.03%) Cadis
3 11 (8.088%) HP
4 10 (7.353%) IBM
5 7 (5.147%) Sun
5 7 (5.147%) Salesforce.com
6 6 (4.412%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.412%) Pega
7 2 (1.471%) VMware
7 2 (1.471%) Informatica
7 2 (1.471%) Charles River
8 1 (0.735%) Advent
8 1 (0.735%) Siebel
8 1 (0.735%) Citrix
8 1 (0.735%) Intel
8 1 (0.735%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.735%) thinkFolio
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