The first table below looks at the demand for JSON 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 JSON over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 58 54 63
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +9
Contract jobs citing JSON 17 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.891% 0.614% 0.130%
As % of the Application Development category 4.370% 2.451% 0.352%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £250 £275 £377
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -27.05%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £314
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £32.00 -
% change year-on-year
-29.18% -
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
389 204 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.27% 25.06% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 90 174
Average daily rate £350 £311 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £26.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
JSON
Scotland

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSON across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow JSON Daily Rate Histogram

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 21 (72.41%) XML
2 17 (58.62%) Java
3 14 (48.28%) JavaScript
3 14 (48.28%) jQuery
4 12 (41.38%) Data Integration
4 12 (41.38%) CSS
4 12 (41.38%) HTML5
4 12 (41.38%) CSS3
5 11 (37.93%) Sencha
6 9 (31.03%) Apple iOS
6 9 (31.03%) REST
6 9 (31.03%) UIKit
6 9 (31.03%) JSP
6 9 (31.03%) SOAP
6 9 (31.03%) HTTP
6 9 (31.03%) Cocoa
6 9 (31.03%) Objective-C
7 7 (24.14%) Xcode
8 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (17.24%) Spring
9 5 (17.24%) Scrum
9 5 (17.24%) Ajax
9 5 (17.24%) Web Services
10 4 (13.79%) Oracle
10 4 (13.79%) MVC
10 4 (13.79%) Tomcat
10 4 (13.79%) Spring MVC
10 4 (13.79%) Kanban
10 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (13.79%) RESTful

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (72.41%) XML
2 14 (48.28%) jQuery
3 12 (41.38%) CSS
3 12 (41.38%) HTML5
3 12 (41.38%) CSS3
4 9 (31.03%) REST
4 9 (31.03%) UIKit
4 9 (31.03%) JSP
4 9 (31.03%) SOAP
4 9 (31.03%) Cocoa
5 5 (17.24%) Spring
5 5 (17.24%) Ajax
5 5 (17.24%) Web Services
6 4 (13.79%) Spring MVC
6 4 (13.79%) RESTful
7 3 (10.34%) WebSockets
7 3 (10.34%) Ext JS
7 3 (10.34%) HTML
8 2 (6.897%) J2SE
8 2 (6.897%) Sencha Touch
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.897%) Lightstreamer
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (31.03%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.897%) RDBMS
1 2 (6.897%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.448%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.448%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Xcode
2 2 (6.897%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.448%) JIRA
3 1 (3.448%) Maven
3 1 (3.448%) Subversion
3 1 (3.448%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (3.448%) Investment Banking
1 1 (3.448%) Banking
1 1 (3.448%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) iOS Developer
3 8 (27.59%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (3.448%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Data Integration
2 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.897%) Blackberry
3 2 (6.897%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (6.897%) iPad
4 1 (3.448%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.448%) Derivative
4 1 (3.448%) Clustering
4 1 (3.448%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.448%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.34%) UNIX
3 2 (6.897%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (17.24%) Scrum
3 4 (13.79%) MVC
3 4 (13.79%) Kanban
4 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
5 2 (6.897%) Web Usability
6 1 (3.448%) Memory Management
6 1 (3.448%) Product Management
6 1 (3.448%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.448%) Multithreading
6 1 (3.448%) Extreme Programming
6 1 (3.448%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.448%) Business Analysis
6 1 (3.448%) TDD
6 1 (3.448%) SOA
6 1 (3.448%) UML
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Java
2 14 (48.28%) JavaScript
3 9 (31.03%) Objective-C
4 2 (6.897%) Perl
4 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.897%) Scala
5 1 (3.448%) SQL
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) Sencha
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 3 (10.34%) Sybase