The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Front Office in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Front Office 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 terms in our General 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Front Office
Rank 46 53 41
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -12
Contract jobs citing Front Office 34 8 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.553% 1.035% 2.632%
As % of the General category 8.173% 1.869% 5.488%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 10
Average daily rate £413 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £360 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £545 £450 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 -
All of the General Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
416 428 328
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.47% 55.37% 47.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 219 193
Average daily rate £350 £338 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -6.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 1
Average hourly rate £14.50 £9.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% -50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Front Office
Scotland

Front Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Front Office Jobs Demand Trend

Front Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Front Office Daily Rate Trend

Front Office
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Glasgow Front Office Daily Rate Histogram

Front Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Front Office Hourly Rate Trend

Front Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 23 (52.27%) Finance
2 22 (50.00%) C#
3 19 (43.18%) WPF
4 15 (34.09%) Java
5 14 (31.82%) Sybase
5 14 (31.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (29.55%) Multithreading
7 11 (25.00%) SQL
7 11 (25.00%) XML
8 10 (22.73%) .NET
9 9 (20.45%) OO
9 9 (20.45%) MS Excel
10 8 (18.18%) WinForms
10 8 (18.18%) Linux
10 8 (18.18%) UNIX
11 7 (15.91%) C++
11 7 (15.91%) RDBMS
11 7 (15.91%) TDD
11 7 (15.91%) Spring
12 6 (13.64%) Banking
12 6 (13.64%) Perl
12 6 (13.64%) DB2
12 6 (13.64%) JUnit
12 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
12 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
13 5 (11.36%) ETL
13 5 (11.36%) STL
13 5 (11.36%) Hibernate
13 5 (11.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 4 (9.091%) Unit Testing

Front Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (43.18%) WPF
2 11 (25.00%) XML
3 10 (22.73%) .NET
4 8 (18.18%) WinForms
5 7 (15.91%) Spring
6 5 (11.36%) STL
6 5 (11.36%) Hibernate
6 5 (11.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 4 (9.091%) XSLT
8 3 (6.818%) WCF
8 3 (6.818%) Reactive Extensions
9 2 (4.545%) J2SE
9 2 (4.545%) Web Services
10 1 (2.273%) SOAP
10 1 (2.273%) JMS
10 1 (2.273%) LINQ
10 1 (2.273%) HTML5
10 1 (2.273%) Sencha Touch
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.545%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 9 (20.45%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.273%) MS Office
2 1 (2.273%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.545%) HTTP
2 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) RDBMS
2 6 (13.64%) DB2
2 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.273%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) JUnit
2 4 (9.091%) Subversion
2 4 (9.091%) ClearCase
General
1 23 (52.27%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Banking
3 1 (2.273%) Legal
3 1 (2.273%) Billing
3 1 (2.273%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (72.73%) Developer
2 14 (31.82%) C# Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Front Office Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Java Developer
4 7 (15.91%) C++ Developer
4 7 (15.91%) WPF Developer
5 5 (11.36%) Analyst
5 5 (11.36%) .NET Developer
5 5 (11.36%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (9.091%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (9.091%) Senior Developer
6 4 (9.091%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.545%) UI Programmer
7 2 (4.545%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.545%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (4.545%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.545%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (31.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (9.091%) Fixed Income
2 4 (9.091%) N-Tier
3 3 (6.818%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.545%) Mathematics
4 2 (4.545%) Derivative
5 1 (2.273%) Equities
5 1 (2.273%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.273%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.273%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.273%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.273%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.18%) Linux
1 8 (18.18%) UNIX
2 4 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Multithreading
2 9 (20.45%) OO
3 7 (15.91%) TDD
4 6 (13.64%) Data Modelling
5 5 (11.36%) ETL
6 4 (9.091%) Unit Testing
6 4 (9.091%) Wealth Management
6 4 (9.091%) SOA
6 4 (9.091%) UML
7 3 (6.818%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (6.818%) Software Engineering
8 2 (4.545%) Electronic Trading
8 2 (4.545%) Project Management
8 2 (4.545%) Risk Management
9 1 (2.273%) Validation
9 1 (2.273%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (2.273%) OOP
9 1 (2.273%) PRINCE2
9 1 (2.273%) Time Management
9 1 (2.273%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) C#
2 15 (34.09%) Java
3 11 (25.00%) SQL
4 7 (15.91%) C++
5 6 (13.64%) Perl
6 4 (9.091%) Python
7 2 (4.545%) Scala
8 1 (2.273%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.273%) C
8 1 (2.273%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (4.545%) Degree
2 1 (2.273%) PMP
2 1 (2.273%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.545%) FATCA
2 1 (2.273%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Sybase
2 4 (9.091%) Perforce
2 4 (9.091%) Informatica
2 4 (9.091%) Oracle
3 2 (4.545%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.545%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.273%) Sencha
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Due to an upturn in business activity and the birth of recent projects they are currently looking to on-board the following: **Front Office Developer** -Successful candidate will...
TEKsystems
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 19 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
They are not looking for business analysts with a background in testing) - Strong database analysis skills on Sybase and/or DB2, with a proficiency in writing complex SQL...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
They are not looking for business analysts with a background in testing) - Strong database analysis skills on Sybase and/or DB2, with a proficiency in writing complex SQL...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013