The first table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Degree 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 Qualifications 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Degree
Rank 39 52 43
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -9
Contract jobs citing Degree 42 9 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 4.389% 1.164% 2.339%
As % of the Qualifications category 27.27% 12.50% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 10
Average daily rate £338 £288 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.39% -14.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £265 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £363 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £92.25
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.30 - £26.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.70 - £158.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% -14.28%
All Qualifications
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
154 72 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 16.09% 9.314% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 35 31
Average daily rate £317 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.27% -21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £255 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £361 £388 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 5
Average hourly rate £14.75 £15.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% -62.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £36.70 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
Degree
Scotland

Degree
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Degree Jobs Demand Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Degree Daily Rate Trend

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Degree across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Glasgow Degree Daily Rate Histogram

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Degree Hourly Rate Trend

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 23 (32.86%) Finance
1 23 (32.86%) Java
1 23 (32.86%) SQL Server
2 20 (28.57%) Banking
3 17 (24.29%) C#
4 16 (22.86%) .NET
4 16 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (21.43%) ASP.NET
6 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
6 12 (17.14%) TIBCO
6 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
6 12 (17.14%) Multithreading
6 12 (17.14%) HTML5
7 11 (15.71%) SQL Server 2008
7 11 (15.71%) SQL Server 2005
7 11 (15.71%) SQL
7 11 (15.71%) XML
8 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
8 10 (14.29%) Sybase
8 10 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (12.86%) Tomcat
9 9 (12.86%) SharePoint
9 9 (12.86%) TDD
9 9 (12.86%) MVC
9 9 (12.86%) Web Development
10 8 (11.43%) Spring
11 7 (10.00%) Scrum
11 7 (10.00%) Eclipse
11 7 (10.00%) Adobe
11 7 (10.00%) CSS

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (22.86%) .NET
2 15 (21.43%) ASP.NET
3 12 (17.14%) HTML5
4 11 (15.71%) XML
5 8 (11.43%) Spring
6 7 (10.00%) CSS
6 7 (10.00%) jQuery
7 6 (8.571%) Apache Flex
8 5 (7.143%) HTML
9 3 (4.286%) XML Messaging
9 3 (4.286%) J2EE
9 3 (4.286%) JAXB
9 3 (4.286%) XHTML
9 3 (4.286%) CSS3
9 3 (4.286%) Apache CXF
9 3 (4.286%) YUI
10 2 (2.857%) Velocity
10 2 (2.857%) WCF
10 2 (2.857%) WPF
10 2 (2.857%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 9 (12.86%) Tomcat
1 9 (12.86%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.286%) CMS
2 3 (4.286%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.286%) GlassFish
3 1 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.429%) Apache
3 1 (1.429%) MTS
3 1 (1.429%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.429%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.429%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (1.429%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.286%) InfoPath
1 3 (4.286%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.429%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.429%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.857%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.429%) Firewall
1 1 (1.429%) SAN
1 1 (1.429%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 11 (15.71%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (2.857%) QlikView
4 1 (1.429%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.429%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Eclipse
2 3 (4.286%) Subversion
2 3 (4.286%) CruiseControl
2 3 (4.286%) Bugzilla
2 3 (4.286%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.286%) Trac
2 3 (4.286%) Hudson
2 3 (4.286%) JIRA
General
1 23 (32.86%) Finance
2 20 (28.57%) Banking
3 4 (5.714%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.857%) French Language
4 2 (2.857%) Front Office
4 2 (2.857%) Law
4 2 (2.857%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.429%) Marketing
5 1 (1.429%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (17.14%) Java Developer
3 10 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 9 (12.86%) Analyst
5 6 (8.571%) ScrumMaster
5 6 (8.571%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
7 3 (4.286%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.286%) Tester
8 2 (2.857%) Front-End Web Developer
8 2 (2.857%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.857%) Programme Manager
8 2 (2.857%) Web Developer
8 2 (2.857%) Consultant
8 2 (2.857%) Applications Developer
8 2 (2.857%) Test Engineer
8 2 (2.857%) ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (1.429%) IT Security Analyst
9 1 (1.429%) Technical Business Analyst
9 1 (1.429%) IT Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.14%) Computer Science
2 10 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (8.571%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.286%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.857%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.857%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (2.857%) NHS
5 2 (2.857%) Derivative
6 1 (1.429%) Statistics
6 1 (1.429%) Web 2.0
6 1 (1.429%) Economics
6 1 (1.429%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.429%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.429%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.571%) Windows
2 5 (7.143%) UNIX
3 4 (5.714%) Windows Vista
4 3 (4.286%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.429%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.429%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (17.14%) Multithreading
3 9 (12.86%) TDD
3 9 (12.86%) MVC
3 9 (12.86%) Web Development
4 7 (10.00%) Scrum
4 7 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (5.714%) Time Management
5 4 (5.714%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (5.714%) Validation
5 4 (5.714%) Software Testing
6 3 (4.286%) Data Analysis
6 3 (4.286%) Business Analysis
6 3 (4.286%) Supplier Management
6 3 (4.286%) Content Management
6 3 (4.286%) CRM
7 2 (2.857%) Analytics
7 2 (2.857%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (2.857%) ITIL
7 2 (2.857%) OO
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.86%) Java
2 17 (24.29%) C#
3 11 (15.71%) SQL
4 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.571%) C++
6 5 (7.143%) Perl
7 4 (5.714%) T-SQL
8 3 (4.286%) VBA
9 2 (2.857%) C
9 2 (2.857%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.429%) VB
10 1 (1.429%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (8.571%) ISEB
2 4 (5.714%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.714%) Postgraduate
3 2 (2.857%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.429%) MCSA
4 1 (1.429%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.429%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.143%) QA
2 1 (1.429%) SLA
2 1 (1.429%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.429%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (1.429%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.429%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
1 12 (17.14%) TIBCO
2 10 (14.29%) Sybase
3 7 (10.00%) Adobe
4 2 (2.857%) VMware
5 1 (1.429%) Google
5 1 (1.429%) Alterian
5 1 (1.429%) Oracle
5 1 (1.429%) Cisco
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