The first table below looks at the demand for TOAD 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 TOAD 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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
Quest TOAD
Rank 105 104 87
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -17
Contract jobs citing TOAD 13 6 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.533% 0.226% 0.869%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.434% 1.217% 4.436%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 15
Average daily rate £363 £268 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.51% -33.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £319 £350
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £33.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
534 493 541
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 21.89% 18.53% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 215 257
Average daily rate £350 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £235 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 14
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.90 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
TOAD
UK

TOAD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TOAD across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Scotland TOAD Jobs Demand Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland TOAD Daily Rate Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TOAD across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland TOAD Daily Rate Histogram

TOAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland TOAD Hourly Rate Trend

TOAD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOAD 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
Stirling -5 8 £363 +20.83%
Glasgow -13 4 £294 +9.90%
Edinburgh - 1 £375 -
TOAD
UK

TOAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) Oracle
3 10 (55.56%) PL/SQL
4 8 (44.44%) XML
4 8 (44.44%) Banking
5 7 (38.89%) Investment Banking
5 7 (38.89%) Use Case
5 7 (38.89%) UML
5 7 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
5 7 (38.89%) HP
6 6 (33.33%) ProC
6 6 (33.33%) Process Management
6 6 (33.33%) Back Office
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (33.33%) Workflow
6 6 (33.33%) Pega
7 5 (27.78%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (27.78%) Reference Data
7 5 (27.78%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (22.22%) XML Messaging
8 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
8 4 (22.22%) MiFID
8 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (16.67%) Finance
9 3 (16.67%) UNIX
9 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
9 3 (16.67%) C
9 3 (16.67%) HTML

TOAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (44.44%) XML
2 4 (22.22%) XML Messaging
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
4 1 (5.556%) Spring
4 1 (5.556%) Ajax
4 1 (5.556%) CSS
4 1 (5.556%) JDBC
4 1 (5.556%) JSP
4 1 (5.556%) Servlets
4 1 (5.556%) XSLT
4 1 (5.556%) J2EE
4 1 (5.556%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Documentum
1 2 (11.11%) Captiva
2 1 (5.556%) Apache
2 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.556%) DOC1
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (11.11%) SQLPlus
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) ProC
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (11.11%) PVCS
4 1 (5.556%) TortoiseSVN
4 1 (5.556%) Rational Application Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Subversion
4 1 (5.556%) ClearCase
4 1 (5.556%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (44.44%) Banking
2 7 (38.89%) Investment Banking
3 6 (33.33%) Back Office
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Business Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Oracle Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Technical Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Analyst Programmer
5 3 (16.67%) Programmer
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst Programmer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 2 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
7 1 (5.556%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Architect
7 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (5.556%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Architect
7 1 (5.556%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.556%) Data Integration
2 1 (5.556%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.556%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) UNIX
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) Solaris
3 1 (5.556%) Linux
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Use Case
1 7 (38.89%) UML
2 6 (33.33%) Process Management
2 6 (33.33%) Workflow
3 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Content Management
5 2 (11.11%) System Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.556%) Change Control
6 1 (5.556%) Analytics
6 1 (5.556%) Matrix Management
6 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.556%) Business Development
6 1 (5.556%) OO
6 1 (5.556%) RAD
6 1 (5.556%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (55.56%) PL/SQL
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) C
4 1 (5.556%) Java
4 1 (5.556%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) MiFID
2 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) vSphere
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (5.556%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Oracle
2 7 (38.89%) HP
3 6 (33.33%) Pega
4 1 (5.556%) Red Gate
4 1 (5.556%) IBM
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.556%) Sun
4 1 (5.556%) Embarcadero
4 1 (5.556%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (5.556%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.556%) MKS
4 1 (5.556%) VMware