Continuous Improvement Contracts in West Lothian
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 21 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 West Lothian 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 4 10 11
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 8 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 19.51% 3.922% 2.740%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% 6.897% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 1
Average daily rate £343 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.41% +6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £378 £305 £388
% change year-on-year
+23.77% -21.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.01 £25.00 £33.30
% change year-on-year
-19.98% -24.92%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Lothian
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 32 29 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 78.05% 56.86% 52.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 22
Average daily rate £390 £325 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £7.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +210.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Continuous Improvement
Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Lothian Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the West Lothian region.

West Lothian Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 21 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
Livingston +5 8 £343 -19.41%
Continuous Improvement
Scotland

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement.

1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Billing
3 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
3 3 (18.75%) XPath
3 3 (18.75%) FitNesse
3 3 (18.75%) Release Management
3 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) PHP
3 3 (18.75%) Business Objects
3 3 (18.75%) XML
3 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
3 3 (18.75%) XML Schema
3 3 (18.75%) QA
3 3 (18.75%) User Stories
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) Ergonomics
4 2 (12.50%) Change Control
4 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) ASP
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) XML
1 3 (18.75%) XML Schema
2 2 (12.50%) ASP
2 2 (12.50%) CSS
2 2 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (6.250%) JSON
3 1 (6.250%) RESTful
3 1 (6.250%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) ESB
1 1 (6.250%) WordPress
1 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.250%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS Office
2 1 (6.250%) AutoCAD
2 1 (6.250%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) FitNesse
2 1 (6.250%) Maven
2 1 (6.250%) Ant
2 1 (6.250%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.250%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.250%) Selenium
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Team Leader
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Tester
2 2 (12.50%) Web Programmer
2 2 (12.50%) Report Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Programmer
2 2 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Manager
3 1 (6.250%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) QA Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
3 1 (6.250%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Designer
3 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Ergonomics
2 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.250%) VLE
3 1 (6.250%) Open Source
3 1 (6.250%) Digital Media
3 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (18.75%) Scrum
1 3 (18.75%) Release Management
1 3 (18.75%) User Stories
2 2 (12.50%) Change Control
2 2 (12.50%) Project Management
2 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (6.250%) TDD
3 1 (6.250%) Asset Management
3 1 (6.250%) Data Management
3 1 (6.250%) Migration
3 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.250%) Change Management
3 1 (6.250%) Performance Management
3 1 (6.250%) UML
3 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.250%) SOA
3 1 (6.250%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) XPath
2 3 (18.75%) PHP
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
1 3 (18.75%) Business Objects
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
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