The first table below looks at the demand for the Flex Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Flex Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Flex Developer
Rank 56 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs requiring a Flex Developer 24 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.548% 0.130% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.691% 0.136% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+23.47% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
892 735 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.69% 95.21% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 350 388
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 37 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.75 £34.54 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Flex Developer
Scotland

Flex Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Flex Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Flex Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Flex Developer Daily Rate Trend

Flex Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Flex Developer 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 Flex Developer in their job title.

1 24 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 24 (100.00%) Apache Flex
2 23 (95.83%) Cairngorm
2 23 (95.83%) HTML5
2 23 (95.83%) Parsley
3 22 (91.67%) Java
3 22 (91.67%) Adobe
4 17 (70.83%) Fixed Income
4 17 (70.83%) Sencha
5 6 (25.00%) Finance
6 5 (20.83%) Business Analysis
7 2 (8.333%) Banking
8 1 (4.167%) Spring
8 1 (4.167%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (4.167%) C#
8 1 (4.167%) DHTML
8 1 (4.167%) HTML
8 1 (4.167%) ActionScript
8 1 (4.167%) Sybase
8 1 (4.167%) DB2
8 1 (4.167%) CSS
8 1 (4.167%) JSP
8 1 (4.167%) OOP
8 1 (4.167%) OO
8 1 (4.167%) Apache
8 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
8 1 (4.167%) IntelliJ
8 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
8 1 (4.167%) Hibernate
8 1 (4.167%) Sencha Touch

Flex Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Flex Developer 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 Flex Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (100.00%) Apache Flex
2 23 (95.83%) Cairngorm
2 23 (95.83%) HTML5
2 23 (95.83%) Parsley
3 1 (4.167%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.167%) Sencha Touch
3 1 (4.167%) jQuery
3 1 (4.167%) Ext JS
3 1 (4.167%) Apache CXF
3 1 (4.167%) DHTML
3 1 (4.167%) HTML
3 1 (4.167%) CSS
3 1 (4.167%) JSP
3 1 (4.167%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.167%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) DB2
1 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.167%) KDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.167%) IntelliJ
1 1 (4.167%) Aptana Studio
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.333%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 17 (70.83%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.167%) RIA
2 1 (4.167%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Business Analysis
2 1 (4.167%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (4.167%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (4.167%) OOP
2 1 (4.167%) OO
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 22 (91.67%) Java
3 1 (4.167%) C#
3 1 (4.167%) ActionScript
Vendors
1 22 (91.67%) Adobe
2 17 (70.83%) Sencha
3 1 (4.167%) Sybase