The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lotus 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within IBM Lotus Software.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lotus
Rank 99 87 94
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +7
Contract jobs citing Lotus 21 18 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.861% 0.680% 0.713%
As % of the Vendors category 1.895% 1.751% 1.646%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 1
Average daily rate £275 £114 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+141.22% -56.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £295 £260
% change year-on-year
+8.47% +13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
Average hourly rate £14.75 £21.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.58% +51.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.15 £16.80 £10.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.35 £91.50 £17.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.75 £15.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-4.83% +24.00%
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1108 1028 1215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.43% 38.81% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 464 525
Average daily rate £363 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.40% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 52 56
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +51.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.70 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £33.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Lotus
UK

Lotus
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Lotus Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Lotus Daily Rate Trend

Lotus
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Scotland Lotus Daily Rate Histogram

Lotus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Lotus Hourly Rate Trend

Lotus
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lotus 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
Glasgow -13 13 £275 +129.16%
Edinburgh +7 4 £375 -
Midlothian - 2 - -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £450 -
Lotus
UK

Lotus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 46 (85.19%) Lotus Notes
2 22 (40.74%) Windows
3 17 (31.48%) Lotus Domino
3 17 (31.48%) Active Directory
4 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
5 13 (24.07%) SharePoint
5 13 (24.07%) Finance
6 12 (22.22%) RAD
6 12 (22.22%) Web Services
7 9 (16.67%) MS Office
7 9 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (16.67%) Change Management
7 9 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (14.81%) CAML
8 8 (14.81%) SharePoint 2010
8 8 (14.81%) VMware
8 8 (14.81%) Document Management
8 8 (14.81%) QA
8 8 (14.81%) jQuery
8 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
8 8 (14.81%) Intranet
8 8 (14.81%) Citrix
8 8 (14.81%) CSS
8 8 (14.81%) XML
8 8 (14.81%) XSLT
8 8 (14.81%) ITIL
8 8 (14.81%) C#
8 8 (14.81%) HTML
8 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
8 8 (14.81%) .NET

Lotus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (22.22%) Web Services
2 8 (14.81%) XML
2 8 (14.81%) XSLT
2 8 (14.81%) HTML
2 8 (14.81%) .NET
2 8 (14.81%) CSS
2 8 (14.81%) jQuery
2 8 (14.81%) CAML
3 4 (7.407%) JSR 286
3 4 (7.407%) JAX-WS
3 4 (7.407%) JSF
3 4 (7.407%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 46 (85.19%) Lotus Notes
2 17 (31.48%) Lotus Domino
3 13 (24.07%) SharePoint
4 8 (14.81%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (11.11%) MS Exchange
6 5 (9.259%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (7.407%) WebSphere Portal
7 4 (7.407%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (7.407%) FileNet
8 3 (5.556%) IIS
9 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (1.852%) CICS
9 1 (1.852%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (16.67%) MS Office
2 7 (12.96%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) Intranet
2 5 (9.259%) HTTP
3 4 (7.407%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.407%) DNS
3 4 (7.407%) LDAP
3 4 (7.407%) DHCP
4 3 (5.556%) WAN
4 3 (5.556%) Wireless
5 2 (3.704%) NAS
5 2 (3.704%) SAN
6 1 (1.852%) VPN
6 1 (1.852%) SMS
6 1 (1.852%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.407%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (7.407%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 13 (24.07%) Finance
2 3 (5.556%) German Language
3 2 (3.704%) Dutch Language
4 1 (1.852%) French Language
4 1 (1.852%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.852%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.852%) Banking
4 1 (1.852%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Developer
1 19 (35.19%) Analyst
2 9 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 8 (14.81%) SharePoint Developer
4 7 (12.96%) Lotus Notes Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Service Analyst
5 6 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 6 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
6 5 (9.259%) Administrator
6 5 (9.259%) Programmer
6 5 (9.259%) Lotus Notes Administrator
6 5 (9.259%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 4 (7.407%) WebSphere Developer
8 2 (3.704%) IT Support
8 2 (3.704%) Desktop Analyst
8 2 (3.704%) Domino Developer
8 2 (3.704%) Domino Administrator
8 2 (3.704%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.704%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 2 (3.704%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Kindle
2 4 (7.407%) Clustering
3 3 (5.556%) Blackberry
3 3 (5.556%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.704%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.704%) PDA
5 1 (1.852%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.852%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.852%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 22 (40.74%) Windows
2 9 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (14.81%) Windows XP
4 4 (7.407%) Linux
5 2 (3.704%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.852%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.852%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (22.22%) RAD
2 9 (16.67%) Change Management
3 8 (14.81%) Document Management
3 8 (14.81%) Unit Testing
3 8 (14.81%) ITIL
3 8 (14.81%) OOP
4 7 (12.96%) OO
5 4 (7.407%) ITIL V2
5 4 (7.407%) Content Management
6 3 (5.556%) Incident Management
6 3 (5.556%) Network Load Balancing
7 2 (3.704%) Migration
7 2 (3.704%) Time Management
7 2 (3.704%) Project Management
8 1 (1.852%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.852%) ERP
8 1 (1.852%) PRINCE2
8 1 (1.852%) OpenUP
8 1 (1.852%) ITIL V3
8 1 (1.852%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) C#
1 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.556%) SQL
2 3 (5.556%) C
3 1 (1.852%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (9.259%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (7.407%) MCP
3 3 (5.556%) MCSE
3 3 (5.556%) MCDST
4 1 (1.852%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) QA
2 7 (12.96%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.852%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (31.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.407%) Hyper-V
2 4 (7.407%) XenApp
2 4 (7.407%) vSphere
2 4 (7.407%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (5.556%) Terminal Services
3 3 (5.556%) VMware ESX
3 3 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.704%) Terminal Server
5 1 (1.852%) ISA Server
5 1 (1.852%) RACF
5 1 (1.852%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 5 (9.259%) SCOM
2 4 (7.407%) SCCM
2 4 (7.407%) Tivoli
3 3 (5.556%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (1.852%) MOM
4 1 (1.852%) MAINVIEW
4 1 (1.852%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.81%) Citrix
2 8 (14.81%) VMware
3 7 (12.96%) IBM
4 4 (7.407%) CommVault
4 4 (7.407%) Postini
5 3 (5.556%) Sophos
6 2 (3.704%) Intel
7 1 (1.852%) CA
7 1 (1.852%) Apple
7 1 (1.852%) Symantec
7 1 (1.852%) Remedy
7 1 (1.852%) Cisco
7 1 (1.852%) HP
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