The first table below looks at the demand for JDBC 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 JDBC over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
Rank 69 57 48
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -9
Contract jobs citing JDBC 9 2 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.951% 0.255% 1.603%
As % of the Application Development category 2.059% 1.053% 4.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £355
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - £35.00
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
437 190 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.19% 24.27% 37.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 85 152
Average daily rate £338 £285 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.42% -18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
JDBC
Scotland

JDBC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow JDBC Jobs Demand Trend

JDBC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow JDBC Daily Rate Trend

JDBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing JDBC 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 JDBC.

1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (90.91%) Oracle
3 19 (86.36%) Spring
3 19 (86.36%) MVC
3 19 (86.36%) SQL
4 18 (81.82%) Agile Software Development
5 17 (77.27%) CSS
5 17 (77.27%) OO
6 16 (72.73%) XML
6 16 (72.73%) JSP
7 15 (68.18%) PL/SQL
7 15 (68.18%) JMS
7 15 (68.18%) Unit Testing
8 14 (63.64%) UNIX
9 13 (59.09%) Struts
10 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
10 12 (54.55%) J2EE
10 12 (54.55%) Banking
10 12 (54.55%) CruiseControl
10 12 (54.55%) iBATIS
10 12 (54.55%) Ajax
10 12 (54.55%) Spring MVC
11 11 (50.00%) Selenium
11 11 (50.00%) Spring Web Flow
11 11 (50.00%) WebSphere
11 11 (50.00%) GWT
11 11 (50.00%) Web Application Development
11 11 (50.00%) Shell Script
11 11 (50.00%) Perl
11 11 (50.00%) XSLT

JDBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (86.36%) Spring
2 17 (77.27%) CSS
3 16 (72.73%) JSP
3 16 (72.73%) XML
4 15 (68.18%) JMS
5 13 (59.09%) Struts
6 12 (54.55%) J2EE
6 12 (54.55%) Ajax
6 12 (54.55%) iBATIS
6 12 (54.55%) Spring MVC
7 11 (50.00%) Spring Web Flow
7 11 (50.00%) GWT
7 11 (50.00%) WebSphere
7 11 (50.00%) XSLT
8 8 (36.36%) HTML
9 6 (27.27%) Hibernate
10 5 (22.73%) Web Services
10 5 (22.73%) Servlets
10 5 (22.73%) JPA
11 4 (18.18%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Apache
1 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.545%) Apache Solr
1 1 (4.545%) Adobe CQ
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) LDAP
1 1 (4.545%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) CruiseControl
2 11 (50.00%) Selenium
3 5 (22.73%) Maven
4 1 (4.545%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (4.545%) Ant
4 1 (4.545%) JUnit
4 1 (4.545%) PVCS
4 1 (4.545%) Eclipse
General
1 12 (54.55%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 2 (9.091%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.091%) Retail
4 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (90.91%) Developer
1 20 (90.91%) Java Developer
2 1 (4.545%) Development Consultant
2 1 (4.545%) Consultant
2 1 (4.545%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.545%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) N-Tier
2 2 (9.091%) W3C
3 1 (4.545%) Clustering
3 1 (4.545%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.545%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) UNIX
2 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) MVC
2 18 (81.82%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (77.27%) OO
4 15 (68.18%) Unit Testing
5 11 (50.00%) Web Application Development
6 6 (27.27%) TDD
7 5 (22.73%) Scrum
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (18.18%) BDD
8 4 (18.18%) UML
9 3 (13.64%) Pair Programming
9 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
10 2 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (9.091%) Web Design
10 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
11 1 (4.545%) DRM
11 1 (4.545%) OOA/OOD
11 1 (4.545%) CRM
11 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
11 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (86.36%) SQL
3 15 (68.18%) PL/SQL
4 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
5 11 (50.00%) Perl
5 11 (50.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) MOM
1 1 (4.545%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 20 (90.91%) Oracle
2 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.545%) Adobe
3 1 (4.545%) HP
3 1 (4.545%) Alterian
3 1 (4.545%) Google
3 1 (4.545%) Sybase
3 1 (4.545%) JBoss