The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Open Text 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 Open Text over the 3 months to 21 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 the Open Text Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Text
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Open Text 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £343 £350
% change year-on-year
+38.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1122 1034 1185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.39% 39.12% 43.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 461 511
Average daily rate £365 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £218
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 34 52 55
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 £9.85 £10.00 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £33.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Open Text
UK

Open Text
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Open Text Jobs Demand Trend

Open Text
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Open Text Daily Rate Trend

Open Text
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Open Text 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 Open Text.

1 9 (100.00%) LiveLink
1 9 (100.00%) Document Management
1 9 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (88.89%) Content Management
2 8 (88.89%) Kofax
3 7 (77.78%) Intranet
4 4 (44.44%) Internet
4 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) Java
4 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) IIS
4 4 (44.44%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) XML
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) Apache
4 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
4 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (44.44%) Degree
4 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (44.44%) Windows 7

Open Text
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Open Text 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 Open Text. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) XML
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) LiveLink
2 4 (44.44%) IIS
2 4 (44.44%) Apache
2 4 (44.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Intranet
2 4 (44.44%) Internet
2 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Team Leader
2 7 (77.78%) Support Team Leader
2 7 (77.78%) Systems Support
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Document Management
1 9 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (88.89%) Content Management
3 3 (33.33%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Kofax
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
2 4 (44.44%) Oracle
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