The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Improvement over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Improvement
Rank - 104 111
Contract jobs citing Performance Improvement 0 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.186% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.292% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £366 £290
% change year-on-year
-1.70% +26.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1731 1715 1874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.13% 63.78% 65.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 826 1002
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 62 44
Average hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -15.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Improvement
UK

Performance Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Improvement across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland Performance Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Performance Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Performance Improvement
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Improvement within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh - - - -
Glasgow - - - - 1
Performance Improvement
UK

Performance Improvement
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement.

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) WebTrends
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Drupal
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics

Performance Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Performance Improvement 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 Performance Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) WebTrends
1 3 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google