The first table below looks at the demand for ODBC 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 ODBC over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Rank - - 61
Contract jobs citing ODBC 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - - 0.286%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.758%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £310
% change year-on-year
- -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £14.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -68.88%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
431 184 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.75% 23.83% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 84 157
Average daily rate £338 £283 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.46% -19.28%
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%
ODBC
Scotland

ODBC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow ODBC Jobs Demand Trend

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow ODBC Daily Rate Trend

ODBC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow ODBC Hourly Rate Trend

ODBC
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing ODBC 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 ODBC.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) DCOM
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 2 (100.00%) DTS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance

ODBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing ODBC 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 ODBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) DCOM
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DTS
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Applications Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET