Glasgow Author Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Author role in IT contracts within the Glasgow region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Author in their job title over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Avon Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Bath Berkshire Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West St Albans Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	67
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	9	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.429 %	0.381 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£273
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£291	£312
% change on same period last year	-6.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.43	£25.81
% change on same period last year	-1.46 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	630	1049
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.898 %	1.085 %
Daily rates quoted	173	324
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£307
Average daily rate	£304	£326
% change on same period last year	-6.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	71
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.11	£17.99
Average hourly rate	£17.89	£19.00
% change on same period last year	-5.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.68	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.64	£25.03
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
Author Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Author across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Author across the Glasgow region.

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title.

1 4 (30.77 %) Oracle 1 4 (30.77 %) Electric 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 2 2 (15.38 %) Adobe 2 2 (15.38 %) RoboHelp 2 2 (15.38 %) FrameMaker 2 2 (15.38 %) SQL 3 1 (7.692 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Author in their job title 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 with Author in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 1 2 (15.38 %) RoboHelp 1 2 (15.38 %) FrameMaker	General 1 4 (30.77 %) Electric
Programming Languages 1 2 (15.38 %) SQL 2 1 (7.692 %) C	Vendors 1 4 (30.77 %) Oracle 2 2 (15.38 %) Adobe