Use Case Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Use Case 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 Use Case over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Use Cases
Rank 98 82 93
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +11
Contract jobs citing Use Case 23 23 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.928% 0.859% 0.621%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.362% 1.337% 0.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 10
Average daily rate £350 £400 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £369 £393
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £425 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £400 £413
% change year-on-year
-11.25% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £64.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.38% +5.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1689 1720 1840
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.16% 64.28% 67.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 873 954
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 £262 £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 27 68 49
Average hourly rate £20.50 £24.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.58% -17.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Use Case Jobs Demand Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Use Case Daily Rate Trend

Use Case
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Use Case across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland Use Case Daily Rate Histogram

Use Case
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Use Case Hourly Rate Trend

Use Case
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Use Case within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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 - 8 £350 -
Edinburgh +4 6 £380 -2.56%
Glasgow -19 6 £319 -20.31%
Fife - 1 - -
Use Case
UK

Use Case
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Use Case 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 Use Case.

1 26 (68.42%) UML
2 18 (47.37%) Banking
3 15 (39.47%) Finance
3 15 (39.47%) Business Analysis
4 12 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (28.95%) MS Visio
5 11 (28.95%) BPMN
6 9 (23.68%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (23.68%) HP Quality Center
6 9 (23.68%) Investment Banking
7 8 (21.05%) XML
7 8 (21.05%) SQL
8 7 (18.42%) TOAD
8 7 (18.42%) Back Office
8 7 (18.42%) Workflow
8 7 (18.42%) Reference Data
9 6 (15.79%) Pega
9 6 (15.79%) MiFID
9 6 (15.79%) HP
9 6 (15.79%) Process Management
10 5 (13.16%) Internet
10 5 (13.16%) XML Messaging
10 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
11 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (10.53%) BPEL
11 4 (10.53%) Asset Management
11 4 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
11 4 (10.53%) BPR
11 4 (10.53%) ISO 9001

Use Case
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Use Case 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 Use Case. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (21.05%) XML
2 5 (13.16%) XML Messaging
3 3 (7.895%) .NET
4 1 (2.632%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 11 (28.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.263%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Internet
2 1 (2.632%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) TOAD
2 3 (7.895%) GIS
3 2 (5.263%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.632%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.632%) TestDirector
1 1 (2.632%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (2.632%) RequisitePro
1 1 (2.632%) XDE
1 1 (2.632%) Subversion
1 1 (2.632%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (2.632%) Cucumber
1 1 (2.632%) Selenium
General
1 18 (47.37%) Banking
2 15 (39.47%) Finance
3 9 (23.68%) Investment Banking
4 7 (18.42%) Back Office
5 1 (2.632%) Retail
5 1 (2.632%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (92.11%) Analyst
2 33 (86.84%) Business Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Technical Business Analyst
4 7 (18.42%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Project Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Business Project Manager
6 4 (10.53%) Financial Business Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Business Manager
7 3 (7.895%) IT Business Analyst
7 3 (7.895%) GIS Analyst
7 3 (7.895%) Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) Financial Services Business Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) UAT Test Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) UAT Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) Test Analyst
8 2 (5.263%) Systems Analyst
9 1 (2.632%) Business Process Analyst
9 1 (2.632%) Process Analyst
9 1 (2.632%) Project Analyst
9 1 (2.632%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.263%) SCADA
2 2 (5.263%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) UML
2 15 (39.47%) Business Analysis
3 12 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (28.95%) BPMN
5 9 (23.68%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (18.42%) Workflow
7 6 (15.79%) Process Management
8 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
9 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (10.53%) BPEL
9 4 (10.53%) Asset Management
9 4 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (10.53%) BPR
9 4 (10.53%) Data Modelling
10 3 (7.895%) Test Scripting
11 2 (5.263%) ERD
11 2 (5.263%) System Testing
11 2 (5.263%) Systems Analysis
11 2 (5.263%) Unified Process
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (5.263%) Java
3 1 (2.632%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) MiFID
2 4 (10.53%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.632%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Pega
1 6 (15.79%) HP
2 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle
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Edinburgh, Scotland
My Edinburgh based client currently has a requirement for for a Test Analyst for an initial 3 month duration.
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