The first table below looks at the demand for Product Management 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 Product Management 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Product Management
Rank 116 103 109
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +6
Contract jobs citing Product Management 2 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% 0.263% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.119% 0.409% 0.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £451 £445 £358
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.40% +24.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £395 £344
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £543 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-53.33% +127.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1674 1713 1854
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.63% 64.40% 67.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 866 868 956
Average daily rate £365 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 67 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.08% -24.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.30 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Product Management
UK

Product Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Product Management Jobs Demand Trend

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Product Management Daily Rate Trend

Product Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management 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
Edinburgh +2 2 £451 +0.27%
Product Management
UK

Product Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (75.00%) Java
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX
1 6 (75.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (75.00%) N-Tier
1 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (75.00%) Subversion
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
1 6 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) Sybase
3 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 4 (50.00%) Spring
3 4 (50.00%) Maven
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (50.00%) Clustering
3 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (37.50%) Mule
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) Selenium
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) SOA

Product Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) JMS
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (37.50%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Subversion
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 4 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 4 (50.00%) Maven
3 3 (37.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) Selenium
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Project Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) N-Tier
2 4 (50.00%) Clustering
2 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
3 1 (12.50%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) SOA
5 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Sybase
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle