The first table below looks at the demand for TOAD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TOAD 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Stirling 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
Quest TOAD
Rank 17 11 19
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +8
Contract jobs citing TOAD 8 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 6.838% 5.263% 2.532%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.51% 20.00% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
Average daily rate £363 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £300 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £300 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £313 £350
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -10.71%
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
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
41 10 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 35.04% 26.32% 17.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 6
Average daily rate £475 £219 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+116.91% -45.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £130 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £613
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £7.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
TOAD
Scotland

TOAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling TOAD Daily Rate Trend

TOAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) Banking
3 7 (77.78%) Investment Banking
3 7 (77.78%) Use Case
3 7 (77.78%) UML
3 7 (77.78%) MS Visio
4 6 (66.67%) Process Management
4 6 (66.67%) Workflow
4 6 (66.67%) HP
4 6 (66.67%) Pega
5 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
5 5 (55.56%) Reference Data
5 5 (55.56%) Back Office
6 4 (44.44%) XML Messaging
6 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (44.44%) MiFID
7 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (22.22%) System Testing
8 2 (22.22%) Ajax
8 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (22.22%) Spring
8 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
8 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
8 2 (22.22%) XSLT
8 2 (22.22%) J2EE
8 2 (22.22%) Oracle
8 2 (22.22%) CSS
8 2 (22.22%) JDBC
8 2 (22.22%) JSP

TOAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 9 (100.00%) XML
2 4 (44.44%) XML Messaging
3 2 (22.22%) Ajax
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) XSLT
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) JDBC
3 2 (22.22%) JSP
3 2 (22.22%) Servlets
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
Applications
1 7 (77.78%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) SQLPlus
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) ClearCase
1 1 (11.11%) Eclipse
1 1 (11.11%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 8 (88.89%) Banking
2 7 (77.78%) Investment Banking
3 5 (55.56%) Back Office
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Business Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Business Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) IT Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Reference Data
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Use Case
1 7 (77.78%) UML
2 6 (66.67%) Process Management
2 6 (66.67%) Workflow
3 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) System Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) OO
6 1 (11.11%) RAD
6 1 (11.11%) Business Development
6 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (11.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) HP
1 6 (66.67%) Pega
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) MKS
Stirlingshire
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