The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Equities in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Equities over the 3 months to 20 June 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Equities
Rank 70 54 58
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +4
Contract jobs citing Equities 6 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.660% 0.502% 0.671%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.459% 2.778% 5.814%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
Average daily rate £413 £325 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £325 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £325 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £413 £369
% change year-on-year
+3.03% +11.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - £11.00
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
244 144 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 26.84% 18.07% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 63 54
Average daily rate £400 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £242 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.04 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.13% -33.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.91 £11.75 £25.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.10 £26.00 £173.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Equities
Scotland

Equities
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Equities Jobs Demand Trend

Equities
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Equities Daily Rate Trend

Equities
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Equities across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Glasgow Equities Daily Rate Histogram

Equities
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Equities 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 Equities.

1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) Linux
4 5 (35.71%) Derivative
5 4 (28.57%) UNIX
5 4 (28.57%) Perl
5 4 (28.57%) C#
5 4 (28.57%) Spring
6 3 (21.43%) JUnit
6 3 (21.43%) Sybase
6 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
6 3 (21.43%) OO
6 3 (21.43%) Python
6 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (21.43%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
6 3 (21.43%) Banking
6 3 (21.43%) Fixed Income
7 2 (14.29%) Front Office
7 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (14.29%) JMS
7 2 (14.29%) J2SE
7 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 2 (14.29%) XML
7 2 (14.29%) C++
7 2 (14.29%) .NET
7 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
7 2 (14.29%) KDB

Equities
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (14.29%) JMS
3 2 (14.29%) J2SE
3 2 (14.29%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
4 1 (7.143%) HTML
4 1 (7.143%) CSS
4 1 (7.143%) SOAP
4 1 (7.143%) WSDL
4 1 (7.143%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (7.143%) WPF
4 1 (7.143%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) GemFire
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (7.143%) MS Project
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) KDB
3 1 (7.143%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JUnit
2 1 (7.143%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.143%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) C++ Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Derivative
2 3 (21.43%) Fixed Income
3 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (7.143%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) UNIX
3 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) OO
1 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
2 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.143%) Project Management
3 1 (7.143%) CRM
3 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
3 1 (7.143%) OOD
3 1 (7.143%) SOA
3 1 (7.143%) TDD
3 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (7.143%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (7.143%) Time Management
3 1 (7.143%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (7.143%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Perl
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (14.29%) C++
6 1 (7.143%) VB
6 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) PMP
1 1 (7.143%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Sybase
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
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