Scotland MS Visio Contracts

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

Microsoft Visio
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Kendal Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	93
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	41	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	14.75 %	14.18 %
Daily rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum daily rate	£264	£301
Average daily rate	£287	£309
% change on same period last year	-7.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	-
Average hourly rate	£18.67	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.91	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-31.23 %
Applications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	278	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.367 %	0.292 %
Daily rates quoted	48	43
Average minimum daily rate	£235	£243
Average daily rate	£250	£251
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£264	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.56	£14.91
Average hourly rate	£18.32	£16.01
% change on same period last year	+14.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.07	£17.12
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.92	£19.17
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
MS Visio 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.

MS Visio
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Visio across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Visio
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Visio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Visio across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

MS Visio
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Visio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Visio across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

MS Visio
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Visio 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	+19	22	£293	-17.17 %
Edinburgh	+4	11	£276	+2.40 %
Renfrewshire	-	4	-	-
Highlands	-	1	-	-

MS Visio UK

MS Visio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 28 (39.44 %) Finance 2 21 (29.58 %) MS Project 3 17 (23.94 %) Banking 4 14 (19.72 %) MS Office 5 13 (18.31 %) MS Excel 6 12 (16.90 %) Java 7 11 (15.49 %) Microsoft 8 10 (14.08 %) Retail 8 10 (14.08 %) Business Analysis 9 9 (12.68 %) Retail Banking 10 8 (11.27 %) MS PowerPoint 10 8 (11.27 %) WebSphere 10 8 (11.27 %) E-Commerce 10 8 (11.27 %) PRINCE2 11 7 (9.859 %) J2EE

11 7 (9.859 %) Oracle 11 7 (9.859 %) Six Sigma 11 7 (9.859 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 6 (8.451 %) Project Management 12 6 (8.451 %) OO 13 5 (7.042 %) Windows 13 5 (7.042 %) Identity Management 13 5 (7.042 %) Health 13 5 (7.042 %) Data Integration 14 4 (5.634 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 4 (5.634 %) Unix 15 3 (4.225 %) ITIL 15 3 (4.225 %) UML 15 3 (4.225 %) SQL 15 3 (4.225 %) ISO9002

MS Visio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 8 (11.27 %) WebSphere 2 7 (9.859 %) J2EE 3 2 (2.817 %) Hibernate 3 2 (2.817 %) Spring 4 1 (1.408 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.225 %) SharePoint 2 2 (2.817 %) Smallworld 2 2 (2.817 %) IBM HTTP Server 3 1 (1.408 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 21 (29.58 %) MS Project 2 14 (19.72 %) MS Office 3 13 (18.31 %) MS Excel 4 8 (11.27 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (4.225 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 1 (1.408 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.817 %) HTTP 2 1 (1.408 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.817 %) BusinessObjects 1 2 (2.817 %) GIS 2 1 (1.408 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (1.408 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (1.408 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 1 (1.408 %) PVCS 1 1 (1.408 %) TestDirector	General 1 28 (39.44 %) Finance 2 17 (23.94 %) Banking 3 10 (14.08 %) Retail 4 9 (12.68 %) Retail Banking 5 5 (7.042 %) Health 6 3 (4.225 %) Education 7 2 (2.817 %) Insurance 7 2 (2.817 %) Pensions 8 1 (1.408 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (1.408 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 37 (52.11 %) Analyst 2 24 (33.80 %) Business Analyst 3 11 (15.49 %) Architect 4 10 (14.08 %) Applications Architect 5 6 (8.451 %) Enterprise Architect 6 5 (7.042 %) Change Analyst 7 4 (5.634 %) Financial Business Analyst 7 4 (5.634 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 8 3 (4.225 %) Administrator 8 3 (4.225 %) Process Analyst 9 2 (2.817 %) Test Analyst 9 2 (2.817 %) Business Change Analyst 9 2 (2.817 %) Project Manager 9 2 (2.817 %) WebSphere Administrator 9 2 (2.817 %) Project Analyst 9 2 (2.817 %) Installations Engineer 9 2 (2.817 %) Programme Manager 9 2 (2.817 %) PMO Assistant 10 1 (1.408 %) Desktop Manager 10 1 (1.408 %) Desktop Support	Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.042 %) Data Integration 2 3 (4.225 %) Asset Management 2 3 (4.225 %) NHS 3 2 (2.817 %) Mainframe 3 2 (2.817 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.408 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 5 (7.042 %) Windows 2 4 (5.634 %) Unix 3 2 (2.817 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (14.08 %) Business Analysis 2 8 (11.27 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (11.27 %) E-Commerce 3 7 (9.859 %) Six Sigma 3 7 (9.859 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 6 (8.451 %) OO 4 6 (8.451 %) Project Management 5 5 (7.042 %) Identity Management 6 4 (5.634 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (4.225 %) Systems Analysis 7 3 (4.225 %) ITIL 7 3 (4.225 %) UML 8 2 (2.817 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (2.817 %) Change Management 8 2 (2.817 %) GAP Analysis 8 2 (2.817 %) Investment Management 9 1 (1.408 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.408 %) IT Governance 9 1 (1.408 %) Requirements Analysis 9 1 (1.408 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 12 (16.90 %) Java 2 3 (4.225 %) SQL 3 1 (1.408 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (2.817 %) HND 1 2 (2.817 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.408 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (4.225 %) ISO9002 1 3 (4.225 %) SLA 2 1 (1.408 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (1.408 %) COBIT 2 1 (1.408 %) QA	Systems Management 1 3 (4.225 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.408 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (1.408 %) ServiceCenter 2 1 (1.408 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 11 (15.49 %) Microsoft 2 7 (9.859 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.817 %) Business Objects 3 2 (2.817 %) Sun 3 2 (2.817 %) Capita 3 2 (2.817 %) IBM 4 1 (1.408 %) StreamServe 4 1 (1.408 %) LANDesk 4 1 (1.408 %) HP 4 1 (1.408 %) Lotus 4 1 (1.408 %) Lawson 4 1 (1.408 %) PeopleSoft 4 1 (1.408 %) Cisco