The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design Authority 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 Technical Design Authority in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Authority (TDA)
Rank - 103 114
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Authority 0 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.189% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.202% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
Average daily rate - £420 £429
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £525 £425 £435
% change year-on-year
+23.52% -2.29%
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
2266 2473 2646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.83% 93.71% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1095 1199 1298
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £235
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 56 112 100
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £15.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% +45.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.60 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Design Authority
UK

Technical Design Authority
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Technical Design Authority Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Design Authority
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Technical Design Authority Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design Authority
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Technical Design Authority Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Design Authority
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Technical Design Authority 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 Technical Design Authority in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics

Technical Design Authority
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Technical Design Authority 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 Technical Design Authority in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Altiris