Solutions Designer Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Solutions Designer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Solutions Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Solution Designer
Rank 106 97 83
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Designer 8 8 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.329% 0.301% 1.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.355% 0.321% 1.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 17
Average daily rate £425 £438 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -2.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £475 £433
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +9.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2251 2492 2593
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.71% 93.86% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1087 1216 1275
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 110 96
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Solutions Designer
UK

Solutions Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Solutions Designer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland Solutions Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Solutions Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Solutions Designer Daily Rate Trend

Solutions Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Solutions Designer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 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 +5 6 - -
Glasgow -19 2 £425 -
Solutions Designer
UK

Solutions Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Solutions Designer in their job title 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 with Solutions Designer in their job title.

1 20 (71.43%) Middleware
2 19 (67.86%) Rational Application Developer
3 18 (64.29%) Java
3 18 (64.29%) UML
3 18 (64.29%) SOA
4 15 (53.57%) CRM
4 15 (53.57%) eTOM
5 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (25.00%) Banking
8 5 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (17.86%) Finance
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.71%) Genesys
9 3 (10.71%) Chordiant
10 2 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
10 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
10 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
10 2 (7.143%) AIX
10 2 (7.143%) HPUX
10 2 (7.143%) Solaris
10 2 (7.143%) Mainframe
10 2 (7.143%) Replication
10 2 (7.143%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (7.143%) WebSphere
10 2 (7.143%) ESB
11 1 (3.571%) Refactoring
11 1 (3.571%) Open Source
11 1 (3.571%) NoSQL
11 1 (3.571%) soapUI

Solutions Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Solutions Designer in their job title 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 with Solutions Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (71.43%) Middleware
2 2 (7.143%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.571%) jQuery
3 1 (3.571%) Ext JS
3 1 (3.571%) Apache CXF
3 1 (3.571%) soapUI
3 1 (3.571%) MapReduce
3 1 (3.571%) SOAP
3 1 (3.571%) Web Services
3 1 (3.571%) XML
3 1 (3.571%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) ESB
2 1 (3.571%) Mule
2 1 (3.571%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (3.571%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.571%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.571%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 19 (67.86%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 7 (25.00%) Banking
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 2 (7.143%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.143%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.143%) Replication
3 1 (3.571%) Ontologies
3 1 (3.571%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) AIX
1 2 (7.143%) HPUX
1 2 (7.143%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) UML
1 18 (64.29%) SOA
2 15 (53.57%) CRM
2 15 (53.57%) eTOM
3 12 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.571%) Analytics
6 1 (3.571%) Refactoring
6 1 (3.571%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.571%) Data Architecture
6 1 (3.571%) Domain-Driven Design
6 1 (3.571%) TDD
6 1 (3.571%) Pair Programming
6 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.571%) Network Design
6 1 (3.571%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.571%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Java
2 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Chordiant
1 3 (10.71%) Genesys
2 2 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle
3 1 (3.571%) IBM
3 1 (3.571%) TIBCO
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