The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Computing in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Cloud Computing 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Cloud Computing
Rank - - 53
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 0 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - - 0.873%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 6.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Average daily rate - - £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £425 £465
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
260 138 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.11% 17.58% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 66 60
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £201 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.89 £12.00 £20.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £26.00 £121.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Cloud Computing
Scotland

Cloud Computing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Cloud Computing Jobs Demand Trend

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Cloud Computing Daily Rate Trend

Cloud Computing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing.

1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL V3
3 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
3 2 (33.33%) Smart GWT
3 2 (33.33%) NAS
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Jython
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Maven
3 2 (33.33%) Korn
3 2 (33.33%) Derivative
3 2 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) Lotus
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery

Cloud Computing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Cloud Computing 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 Cloud Computing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) Smart GWT
1 2 (33.33%) RESTful
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) JMS
1 2 (33.33%) J2EE
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) NAS
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
1 2 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) ADSL
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WLAN
2 1 (16.67%) MPLS
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (16.67%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Maven
1 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Back Office
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Java Applications Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Derivative
1 2 (33.33%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Smartcard
2 1 (16.67%) EPoS
2 1 (16.67%) EMV
2 1 (16.67%) Mashup
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL V3
1 2 (33.33%) Release Management
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Workflow
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Code Coverage
1 2 (33.33%) OO
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash shell
1 2 (33.33%) Jython
1 2 (33.33%) Korn
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Lotus
2 2 (33.33%) Sybase
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) SonicWALL