The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lotus products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lotus over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Edinburgh region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within IBM Lotus Software.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lotus
Rank 88 - 97
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Lotus 4 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.378% - 0.259%
As % of the Vendors category 0.887% - 0.713%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £18,000 - £23,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £37,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-10.66% +25.00%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
451 579 561
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 42.67% 43.21% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 292 430 407
Average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,150 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Lotus
Scotland

Lotus
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Lotus across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Edinburgh Lotus Jobs Demand Trend

Lotus
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Lotus across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Lotus Salary Trend

Lotus
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Lotus 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Lotus.

1 15 (93.75%) Lotus Notes
2 10 (62.50%) MS Office
3 9 (56.25%) Windows
3 9 (56.25%) MS Exchange
3 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
4 7 (43.75%) Service Delivery
5 6 (37.50%) VMware
5 6 (37.50%) MS Visio
5 6 (37.50%) CommVault
5 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (37.50%) SLA
5 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 6 (37.50%) MS Excel
5 6 (37.50%) ITIL
5 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (37.50%) Postini
5 6 (37.50%) SCCM
5 6 (37.50%) SCOM
5 6 (37.50%) Time Management
5 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (37.50%) MS PowerPoint
5 6 (37.50%) Degree
5 6 (37.50%) vSphere
5 6 (37.50%) ITIL V2
6 5 (31.25%) Finance
7 3 (18.75%) Lync
7 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
7 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
7 3 (18.75%) Windows XP

Lotus
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Lotus also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Lotus. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) XPages
Application Platforms
1 15 (93.75%) Lotus Notes
2 9 (56.25%) MS Exchange
3 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (18.75%) Lync
4 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
5 1 (6.250%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 10 (62.50%) MS Office
2 6 (37.50%) MS Excel
2 6 (37.50%) MS Visio
2 6 (37.50%) MS PowerPoint
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) German Language
2 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) Support Analyst
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (18.75%) Service Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
5 2 (12.50%) IT Support
5 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Technician
6 1 (6.250%) Lotus Notes Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Resource Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Graduate
6 1 (6.250%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
3 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Service Delivery
2 6 (37.50%) Time Management
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 6 (37.50%) ITIL V2
3 1 (6.250%) OO
3 1 (6.250%) Project Management
3 1 (6.250%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) Java
1 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (37.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) SCCM
1 6 (37.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (37.50%) CommVault
1 6 (37.50%) VMware
1 6 (37.50%) Postini
2 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 1 (6.250%) Computacenter