Glasgow Handset Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Handsets skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Handset over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Feltham Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Merseyside Middlesex Newbury Newport North West Oxfordshire Reading South East South Wales South West Staines Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Trowbridge UK Wales West Midlands Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	66
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	3.759 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£279
% change on same period last year	+4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£15.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.77	£31.26
% change on same period last year	-11.17 %
Miscellaneous Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	66	133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.138 %
Daily rates quoted	17	40
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£329
Average daily rate	£385	£354
% change on same period last year	+8.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.83	£13.83
Average hourly rate	£17.64	£14.75
% change on same period last year	+19.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.44	£15.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.03	£26.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Handset 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Handset 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 Handset.

1 1 (100.00 %) Java 1 1 (100.00 %) J2ME 1 1 (100.00 %) Cryptography

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Handset 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 Handset. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (100.00 %) J2ME	Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Cryptography
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Java