The first table below looks at the demand for Risk 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 Risk Management over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Risk Management
Rank 104 77 62
Rank change year-on-year
-27 -15
Contract jobs citing Risk Management 16 29 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.656% 1.095% 1.961%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.962% 1.694% 2.930%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 32
Average daily rate £340 £363 £426
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.20% -14.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £255 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £425 £595
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £389 £425
% change year-on-year
+9.32% -8.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £14.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+185.71% -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% +4.16%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1663 1712 1877
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.18% 64.63% 66.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 879 976
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 64 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.40 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Risk Management Jobs Demand Trend

Risk Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Risk Management Daily Rate Trend

Risk Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Risk Management across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Risk Management Daily Rate Histogram

Risk Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Risk Management Hourly Rate Trend

Risk Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Risk Management within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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 -12 10 £338 -30.76%
Edinburgh +2 4 £550 +51.72%
Aberdeen -7 2 £413 +23.87%
Perth and Kinross - 1 - -
Risk Management
UK

Risk Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Risk 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 Risk Management.

1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 13 (30.95%) SQL
2 13 (30.95%) Project Management
3 12 (28.57%) Java
4 11 (26.19%) Banking
5 10 (23.81%) Linux
6 9 (21.43%) UNIX
6 9 (21.43%) Shell Script
6 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (19.05%) Derivative
8 7 (16.67%) Investment Banking
8 7 (16.67%) VBA
8 7 (16.67%) Sybase
9 6 (14.29%) VB
9 6 (14.29%) Perl
9 6 (14.29%) Solaris
9 6 (14.29%) Sun
9 6 (14.29%) Regression Testing
9 6 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (14.29%) QA
10 5 (11.90%) Manual Testing
10 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
10 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
10 5 (11.90%) PRINCE2
11 4 (9.524%) Windows
11 4 (9.524%) C#
11 4 (9.524%) Control-M
11 4 (9.524%) Spring
11 4 (9.524%) Change Management
11 4 (9.524%) Migration

Risk Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Risk 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 Risk Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (9.524%) Spring
2 3 (7.143%) .NET
2 3 (7.143%) J2EE
3 1 (2.381%) SOAP
3 1 (2.381%) XML
3 1 (2.381%) JMS
3 1 (2.381%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.381%) GWT
3 1 (2.381%) RESTful
3 1 (2.381%) Smart GWT
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.143%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.381%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Project
1 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.381%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.143%) Firewall
2 2 (4.762%) VPN
2 2 (4.762%) NetScreen
3 1 (2.381%) FTP
3 1 (2.381%) HTTP
3 1 (2.381%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (2.381%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (2.381%) Sybase IQ
1 1 (2.381%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.143%) JUnit
1 3 (7.143%) Eclipse
2 2 (4.762%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (4.762%) Maven
3 1 (2.381%) JIRA
3 1 (2.381%) Selenium
3 1 (2.381%) TestComplete
3 1 (2.381%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.381%) Hudson
3 1 (2.381%) Subversion
3 1 (2.381%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Banking
3 7 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.143%) Retail
5 2 (4.762%) Billing
5 2 (4.762%) Legal
5 2 (4.762%) Retail Banking
5 2 (4.762%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Consultant
4 5 (11.90%) Project Manager
5 4 (9.524%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.143%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.143%) Security Engineer
6 3 (7.143%) Business Manager
6 3 (7.143%) PMO Manager
7 2 (4.762%) PMO Analyst
7 2 (4.762%) Sybase Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (2.381%) IT Project Manager
8 1 (2.381%) Tester
8 1 (2.381%) Programme Manager
8 1 (2.381%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.381%) Delivery Project Manager
8 1 (2.381%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Derivative
2 6 (14.29%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.381%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.381%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.381%) Data Extraction
3 1 (2.381%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.381%) Open Source
3 1 (2.381%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.381%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.381%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 9 (21.43%) UNIX
3 6 (14.29%) Solaris
4 4 (9.524%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Project Management
2 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 5 (11.90%) PRINCE2
4 5 (11.90%) Software Testing
4 5 (11.90%) Manual Testing
4 5 (11.90%) Test Automation
5 4 (9.524%) Migration
5 4 (9.524%) Change Management
6 2 (4.762%) ITIL
6 2 (4.762%) OO
6 2 (4.762%) TDD
6 2 (4.762%) Release Management
6 2 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (4.762%) Unit Testing
6 2 (4.762%) Business Analysis
6 2 (4.762%) Information Security
6 2 (4.762%) Programme Management
6 2 (4.762%) Data Analysis
6 2 (4.762%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) Java
3 9 (21.43%) Shell Script
4 7 (16.67%) VBA
5 6 (14.29%) VB
5 6 (14.29%) Perl
6 4 (9.524%) C#
7 3 (7.143%) C++
8 2 (4.762%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.762%) Python
8 2 (4.762%) Jython
9 1 (2.381%) Korn
9 1 (2.381%) Bash shell
9 1 (2.381%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (7.143%) CISSP
2 2 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.762%) CCSP
2 2 (4.762%) Degree
3 1 (2.381%) ISEB
3 1 (2.381%) PMP
3 1 (2.381%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.381%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (9.524%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Sybase
2 6 (14.29%) Sun
3 3 (7.143%) Juniper
3 3 (7.143%) Cisco
4 2 (4.762%) Oracle
5 1 (2.381%) Sage
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