The first table below looks at the demand for ERD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ERD over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Entity-Relationship Diagram (ER Diagram)
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ERD 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.322% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.472% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
635 533 475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.06% 67.73% 68.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 284 275
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
ERD
Scotland

ERD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow ERD Jobs Demand Trend

ERD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow ERD Daily Rate Trend

ERD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing ERD 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 ERD.

1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) BPMN
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Unified Process
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) WinForms
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Sybase
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java

ERD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing ERD 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 ERD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) WinForms
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
1 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) BPMN
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
2 2 (50.00%) Unified Process
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase