The first table below looks at the demand for Investment Management 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 Investment Management 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Investment Management
Rank 74 76 83
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +7
Contract jobs citing Investment Management 46 30 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.886% 1.133% 1.105%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.766% 1.752% 1.652%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 24
Average daily rate £450 £475 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +35.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £315 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £560 £487
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £450 £369
% change year-on-year
+5.55% +22.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1663 1712 1877
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.18% 64.63% 66.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 879 976
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 64 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.40 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Investment Management Jobs Demand Trend

Investment Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Investment Management Daily Rate Trend

Investment Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Investment Management across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Investment Management Daily Rate Histogram

Investment Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Investment Management Hourly Rate Trend

Investment Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Investment Management 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
Edinburgh +27 34 £450 -7.69%
Glasgow -25 4 £338 -15.62%
Stirling -9 2 £425 -
Investment Management
UK

Investment Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 44 (62.86%) Asset Management
2 42 (60.00%) Finance
3 17 (24.29%) Business Analysis
4 12 (17.14%) SQL
5 11 (15.71%) Charles River
6 10 (14.29%) Front Office
6 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (12.86%) Banking
8 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (10.00%) Investment Banking
9 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
10 6 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (8.571%) Cadis
11 5 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (7.143%) Data Analysis
11 5 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (5.714%) Wealth Management
12 4 (5.714%) thinkFolio
12 4 (5.714%) Migration
12 4 (5.714%) Data Modelling
12 4 (5.714%) ETL
12 4 (5.714%) CRM
12 4 (5.714%) OLAP
12 4 (5.714%) Project Management
13 3 (4.286%) Back Office
13 3 (4.286%) BPR
13 3 (4.286%) MS Office
13 3 (4.286%) .NET
13 3 (4.286%) Oracle
13 3 (4.286%) SQL Server

Investment Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (4.286%) .NET
1 3 (4.286%) XML
2 2 (2.857%) Cocoon
3 1 (1.429%) WPF
3 1 (1.429%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 1 (1.429%) XSD
3 1 (1.429%) XSLT
3 1 (1.429%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.857%) Apache
1 2 (2.857%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.857%) TeamSite
1 2 (2.857%) LiveSite
2 1 (1.429%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.429%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.286%) MS Office
1 3 (4.286%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.857%) LatentZero
2 1 (1.429%) Sentinel
2 1 (1.429%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (1.429%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.857%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (7.143%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (5.714%) OLAP
3 3 (4.286%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.286%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.429%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.429%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.429%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 1 (1.429%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (1.429%) NUnit
1 1 (1.429%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.429%) MSTest
1 1 (1.429%) Hudson
General
1 42 (60.00%) Finance
2 10 (14.29%) Front Office
3 9 (12.86%) Banking
4 7 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.286%) Back Office
6 2 (2.857%) Publishing
6 2 (2.857%) Marketing
7 1 (1.429%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (51.43%) Analyst
2 23 (32.86%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.86%) Architect
3 9 (12.86%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.714%) Test Analyst
5 4 (5.714%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (5.714%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (5.714%) Change Manager
5 4 (5.714%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (4.286%) Systems Support Analyst
6 3 (4.286%) Systems Support
6 3 (4.286%) Support Analyst
6 3 (4.286%) Applications Support
6 3 (4.286%) Consultant
6 3 (4.286%) Lead Business Analyst
7 2 (2.857%) Designer
7 2 (2.857%) Agile Test Analyst
7 2 (2.857%) Change Project Manager
7 2 (2.857%) Transformation Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.857%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (2.857%) Equities
1 2 (2.857%) Visualisation
2 1 (1.429%) PMI
2 1 (1.429%) Derivative
2 1 (1.429%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.429%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.857%) UNIX
2 1 (1.429%) Windows
2 1 (1.429%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (62.86%) Asset Management
2 17 (24.29%) Business Analysis
3 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
5 6 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (7.143%) Data Analysis
7 4 (5.714%) Migration
7 4 (5.714%) Wealth Management
7 4 (5.714%) CRM
7 4 (5.714%) Data Modelling
7 4 (5.714%) ETL
7 4 (5.714%) Project Management
8 3 (4.286%) BPR
8 3 (4.286%) Software Testing
8 3 (4.286%) Systems Analysis
8 3 (4.286%) Data Management
8 3 (4.286%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (4.286%) Test Scripting
9 2 (2.857%) Performance Management
9 2 (2.857%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.14%) SQL
2 2 (2.857%) C#
3 1 (1.429%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.429%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.429%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.429%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (2.857%) Degree
2 1 (1.429%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (1.429%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (1.429%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.857%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) Charles River
2 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.571%) Cadis
4 4 (5.714%) thinkFolio
5 3 (4.286%) Oracle
6 2 (2.857%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.429%) IBM
Edinburgh, Midlothian
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Aston Carter
Rate: £400 - £500 per day + depending on experience
Posted: 14 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Direct experience managing and implementing Oracle e-Business Suite technical enhancements, expansions and upgrade projects... - Strong PL/SQL development skills... - Configuration management, key user management, stakeholder and service...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £350.00 - £370 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013