The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Alterian products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Alterian 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 Vendors for the Glasgow 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Alterian.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Alterian
Rank 79 56 -
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -
Contract jobs citing Alterian 1 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.104% 0.647% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.224% 1.466% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £258 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £279 £315
% change year-on-year
-1.34% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
447 341 367
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.71% 44.11% 53.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 159 191
Average daily rate £338 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £445 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 28 11
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.90 £35.00 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Alterian
Scotland

Alterian
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Alterian across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Glasgow Alterian Jobs Demand Trend

Alterian
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Alterian Daily Rate Trend

Alterian
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Alterian 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 Alterian.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Tridion
1 1 (100.00%) DRM
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Lucene
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5

Alterian
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Alterian 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 Alterian. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Lucene
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) OSGi
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Sling
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Tridion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Development Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) DRM
1 1 (100.00%) Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Content Management
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Google