Scotland Lotus Notes Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM Lotus Notes skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Lotus Notes over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM Lotus Notes
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Godalming Guisborough Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Ipswich Kilmarnock Knottingley Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	86
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	37	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	10.05 %	10.42 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£160	£318
Average daily rate	£170	£334
% change on same period last year	-49.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£180	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£230
% change on same period last year	+19.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£20.38
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£20.97
% change on same period last year	-23.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£21.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.58	£17.27
% change on same period last year	+1.81 %
Application Platforms Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	368	451
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.485 %	0.478 %
Daily rates quoted	62	60
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£299
Average daily rate	£318	£313
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.18	£20.42
Average hourly rate	£18.80	£22.32
% change on same period last year	-15.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.42	£24.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Lotus Notes UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Lotus Notes
Demand Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lotus Notes
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Lotus Notes within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+2	11	-	-
Aberdeen	+7	7	-	-
Edinburgh	+7	6	-	-
East Ayrshire	-1	1	-	-

Lotus Notes UK

Lotus Notes
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes.

1 65 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 27 (41.54 %) Windows 3 22 (33.85 %) MS Office 4 18 (27.69 %) Finance 5 14 (21.54 %) LotusScript 5 14 (21.54 %) JavaScript 5 14 (21.54 %) Lotus Domino 6 13 (20.00 %) IBM 6 13 (20.00 %) Java 6 13 (20.00 %) Windows XP 7 11 (16.92 %) IBM Certification 8 10 (15.38 %) Microsoft 9 8 (12.31 %) Active Directory 10 6 (9.231 %) Microsoft Certification 11 5 (7.692 %) MCSE

12 4 (6.154 %) MCDST 12 4 (6.154 %) MS Excel 12 4 (6.154 %) Windows NT 12 4 (6.154 %) MCP 12 4 (6.154 %) Citrix 12 4 (6.154 %) Mainframe 13 3 (4.615 %) HP 13 3 (4.615 %) Education 13 3 (4.615 %) Windows 2000 14 2 (3.077 %) OpenView 14 2 (3.077 %) DHCP 14 2 (3.077 %) TCP/IP 14 2 (3.077 %) WINS 14 2 (3.077 %) DNS 14 2 (3.077 %) ITIL

Lotus Notes
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Lotus Notes 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 Lotus Notes. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (3.077 %) HTML 2 1 (1.538 %) .NET 2 1 (1.538 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 14 (21.54 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (1.538 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.538 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.538 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (1.538 %) IIS
Applications 1 22 (33.85 %) MS Office 2 4 (6.154 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.538 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.538 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.538 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.077 %) DHCP 1 2 (3.077 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (3.077 %) WINS 1 2 (3.077 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.538 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 1 (1.538 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 18 (27.69 %) Finance 2 3 (4.615 %) Education 3 1 (1.538 %) Banking 3 1 (1.538 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.538 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 28 (43.08 %) Analyst 2 18 (27.69 %) Developer 3 17 (26.15 %) Service Analyst 3 17 (26.15 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 17 (26.15 %) Lotus Notes Developer 4 8 (12.31 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 7 (10.77 %) Administrator 6 5 (7.692 %) 1st Line Support 6 5 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 6 5 (7.692 %) Domino Developer 7 4 (6.154 %) Helpdesk Support 8 3 (4.615 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 9 2 (3.077 %) 2nd Line Support 9 2 (3.077 %) Desktop Support 9 2 (3.077 %) Server Analyst 9 2 (3.077 %) Operations Analyst 10 1 (1.538 %) Lotus Notes Administrator 10 1 (1.538 %) Excel Developer 10 1 (1.538 %) Excel VBA Developer 10 1 (1.538 %) Report Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.154 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.538 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.538 %) PDA 2 1 (1.538 %) German Language 2 1 (1.538 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 27 (41.54 %) Windows 2 13 (20.00 %) Windows XP 3 4 (6.154 %) Windows NT 4 3 (4.615 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (3.077 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (1.538 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (3.077 %) ITIL 2 1 (1.538 %) Service Management 2 1 (1.538 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (1.538 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 14 (21.54 %) JavaScript 1 14 (21.54 %) LotusScript 2 13 (20.00 %) Java 3 1 (1.538 %) Formula Language 3 1 (1.538 %) C# 3 1 (1.538 %) C++ 3 1 (1.538 %) DHTML 3 1 (1.538 %) Perl 3 1 (1.538 %) SQL 3 1 (1.538 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.538 %) VB 3 1 (1.538 %) VB.NET 3 1 (1.538 %) VBA 3 1 (1.538 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 11 (16.92 %) IBM Certification 2 6 (9.231 %) Microsoft Certification 3 5 (7.692 %) MCSE 4 4 (6.154 %) MCP 4 4 (6.154 %) MCDST
System Software 1 8 (12.31 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.538 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 2 (3.077 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.538 %) ServiceCenter
Vendors 1 65 (100.00 %) Lotus 2 13 (20.00 %) IBM 3 10 (15.38 %) Microsoft 4 4 (6.154 %) Citrix 5 3 (4.615 %) HP 6 1 (1.538 %) Dell 6 1 (1.538 %) Oracle 6 1 (1.538 %) Cisco