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This section looks at the demand for Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited FpML over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFinancial Products Markup Language (FpML)
Location
3 months to
21 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank5664
Rank change on same period last yearUp+8
Matching contract IT job ads15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.005 %
As % of the category below0.606 %1.799 %
Daily rates quoted15
Average minimum daily rate£300£355
Average daily rate£330£363
% change on same period last year-9.17 %
Average maximum daily rate£360£371
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£363
% change on same period last year-9.17 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads165278
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.218 %0.277 %
Daily rates quoted6082
Average minimum daily rate£301£323
Average daily rate£318£340
% change on same period last year-6.46 %
Average maximum daily rate£334£356
UK excluding London average daily rate£338£337
% change on same period last year+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted513
Average minimum hourly rate£25.91£23.09
Average hourly rate£30.23£26.74
% change on same period last year+13.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate£34.55£30.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.73£33.29
% change on same period last year-1.67 %
FpML ScotlandFpML
Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

FpML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing FpML across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow FpML Demand Trend

FpML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow FpML Daily Rate Trend

FpML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing FpML 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 FpML.

14 (100.00 %)XML
14 (100.00 %)Java
23 (75.00 %)XQuery
23 (75.00 %)XSLT
23 (75.00 %)UNIX
32 (50.00 %)SQL
32 (50.00 %)Finance
32 (50.00 %)JMS
41 (25.00 %)FTP
41 (25.00 %)IBM
41 (25.00 %)C#
41 (25.00 %)Banking
41 (25.00 %)Spring
41 (25.00 %)Investment Banking
41 (25.00 %)Saxon XSLT
41 (25.00 %)WebSphere
41 (25.00 %)XPath
41 (25.00 %)Computer Science
41 (25.00 %)QA
41 (25.00 %)WebSphere Message Broker
41 (25.00 %)Mule
41 (25.00 %)Data Integration
41 (25.00 %).NET
41 (25.00 %)Oracle
41 (25.00 %)JDBC
41 (25.00 %)WebServices
41 (25.00 %)WebSphere MQ
41 (25.00 %)PolarLake
41 (25.00 %)Project Management
41 (25.00 %)Linux

FpML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing FpML 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 FpML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
14 (100.00 %)XML
23 (75.00 %)XSLT
32 (50.00 %)JMS
41 (25.00 %)Spring
41 (25.00 %)Saxon XSLT
41 (25.00 %)WebSphere
41 (25.00 %).NET
41 (25.00 %)JDBC
41 (25.00 %)WebServices
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (25.00 %)WebSphere Message Broker
11 (25.00 %)Mule
11 (25.00 %)WebSphere MQ
11 (25.00 %)MQSeries
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (25.00 %)FTP
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (50.00 %)Finance
21 (25.00 %)Banking
21 (25.00 %)Investment Banking
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (50.00 %)Developer
21 (25.00 %)Consultant
21 (25.00 %)Technical Project Manager
21 (25.00 %)Java Developer
21 (25.00 %)Technical Manager
21 (25.00 %)Messaging Consultant
21 (25.00 %)Project Manager
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (25.00 %)Computer Science
11 (25.00 %)Data Integration
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
13 (75.00 %)UNIX
21 (25.00 %)Linux
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11 (25.00 %)Project Management
11 (25.00 %)UML
11 (25.00 %)OO
11 (25.00 %)E-Commerce
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
14 (100.00 %)Java
23 (75.00 %)XQuery
32 (50.00 %)SQL
41 (25.00 %)C#
41 (25.00 %)XPath
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (25.00 %)QA
Glasgow IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (25.00 %)IBM
11 (25.00 %)Oracle
11 (25.00 %)PolarLake