The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mathematics in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mathematics 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
Mathematics (Maths)
Rank 89 109 85
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -24
Contract jobs citing Mathematics 29 1 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.189% 0.038% 0.941%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.739% 0.224% 6.633%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £276 £363 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.79% +85.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.42 £13.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
-4.46% -22.38%
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%
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Mathematics Jobs Demand Trend

Mathematics
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Mathematics Daily Rate Trend

Mathematics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Mathematics Hourly Rate Trend

Mathematics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mathematics within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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 - 14 £325 -
Edinburgh +14 9 £240 -33.79%
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Mathematics
UK

Mathematics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (37.14%) C
2 12 (34.29%) C++
2 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
3 11 (31.43%) Finance
4 9 (25.71%) Java
5 7 (20.00%) C#
6 6 (17.14%) SQL
6 6 (17.14%) Physics
6 6 (17.14%) Multithreading
6 6 (17.14%) Banking
7 4 (11.43%) Spring
7 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Scala
7 4 (11.43%) Sybase
7 4 (11.43%) DB2
7 4 (11.43%) UNIX
7 4 (11.43%) Windows
7 4 (11.43%) Linux
7 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
7 4 (11.43%) J2SE
8 3 (8.571%) Flash
8 3 (8.571%) Data Modelling
8 3 (8.571%) Data Mining
8 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
8 3 (8.571%) JUnit
8 3 (8.571%) OO
8 3 (8.571%) Oracle
8 3 (8.571%) SQL Server
8 3 (8.571%) ActionScript
8 3 (8.571%) JavaScript

Mathematics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (11.43%) Spring
1 4 (11.43%) J2SE
2 3 (8.571%) Flash
3 2 (5.714%) MDX
4 1 (2.857%) HTML5
4 1 (2.857%) OSGi
4 1 (2.857%) JMS
4 1 (2.857%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.857%) CSS
4 1 (2.857%) JDBC
4 1 (2.857%) Struts
4 1 (2.857%) Web Services
4 1 (2.857%) XML
4 1 (2.857%) .NET
4 1 (2.857%) HTML
4 1 (2.857%) RESTful
4 1 (2.857%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (2.857%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (2.857%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (2.857%) Apache Sling
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.714%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.714%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (2.857%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.857%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (2.857%) Apache
2 1 (2.857%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.857%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.857%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.857%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.857%) SMS
1 1 (2.857%) DHCP
1 1 (2.857%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) DB2
1 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
2 3 (8.571%) Data Mining
2 3 (8.571%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.714%) QlikView
3 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.714%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (5.714%) OLAP
3 2 (5.714%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.714%) DTS
3 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.857%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.857%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
1 3 (8.571%) JUnit
General
1 11 (31.43%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Banking
3 3 (8.571%) Games
4 2 (5.714%) Front Office
4 2 (5.714%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Customer Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Support Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) C++ Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Analyst
4 3 (8.571%) Programmer
4 3 (8.571%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.714%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.714%) C++ Programmer
5 2 (5.714%) Software Programmer
5 2 (5.714%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Scala Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.857%) Consultant
6 1 (2.857%) Games Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Games Programmer
6 1 (2.857%) 3D Software Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Development Consultant
6 1 (2.857%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
2 6 (17.14%) Physics
3 2 (5.714%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (5.714%) Data Conversion
3 2 (5.714%) Data Integration
3 2 (5.714%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.857%) Mobile Games
4 1 (2.857%) Economics
4 1 (2.857%) Statistics
4 1 (2.857%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) UNIX
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 2 (5.714%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.857%) Android
3 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) Multithreading
2 4 (11.43%) Software Engineering
3 3 (8.571%) Data Modelling
3 3 (8.571%) OO
3 3 (8.571%) Game Development
3 3 (8.571%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (5.714%) MVC
4 2 (5.714%) Data Management
4 2 (5.714%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (5.714%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (5.714%) Data Architecture
4 2 (5.714%) Migration
4 2 (5.714%) ETL
4 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (5.714%) Web Application Development
4 2 (5.714%) Master Data Management
4 2 (5.714%) Metadata Management
5 1 (2.857%) Analytics
5 1 (2.857%) DRM
5 1 (2.857%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) C
2 12 (34.29%) C++
3 9 (25.71%) Java
4 7 (20.00%) C#
5 6 (17.14%) SQL
6 4 (11.43%) Scala
7 3 (8.571%) ActionScript
7 3 (8.571%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.714%) Perl
8 2 (5.714%) T-SQL
8 2 (5.714%) VBA
8 2 (5.714%) ActionScript 3.0
9 1 (2.857%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 3 (8.571%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) Forefront TMG
1 1 (2.857%) ISA Server
1 1 (2.857%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.857%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.857%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) SCCM
1 1 (2.857%) SCOM
1 1 (2.857%) MOM
1 1 (2.857%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.857%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Sybase
2 3 (8.571%) Oracle
3 2 (5.714%) DataFlux
3 2 (5.714%) Business Objects
3 2 (5.714%) Trillium
3 2 (5.714%) Informatica
4 1 (2.857%) Lotus
4 1 (2.857%) Symantec
4 1 (2.857%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.857%) Adobe
4 1 (2.857%) Citrix
4 1 (2.857%) Google
4 1 (2.857%) Alterian
4 1 (2.857%) VMware
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