Open Source Contracts in Glasgow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Open Source in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Open Source 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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 Source
Rank 78 55 -
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -
Contract jobs citing Open Source 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.212% 0.648% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.772% 3.731% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £419 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £41.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +23.13%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 259 134 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 27.49% 17.36% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 65 61
Average daily rate £357 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £207 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 5
Average hourly rate £14.00 £24.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.89 £12.50 £23.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.20 £26.00 £121.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Open Source
Scotland

Open Source
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Open Source Jobs Demand Trend

Open Source
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Open Source Daily Rate Trend

Open Source
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Java EE
3 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 2 (33.33%) Clustering
3 2 (33.33%) Games
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) UNIX
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) JDBC
3 2 (33.33%) JBoss
3 2 (33.33%) LDAP
3 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (33.33%) MOM
4 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
4 1 (16.67%) Middleware

Open Source
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Java EE
2 2 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) JMS
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (16.67%) GWT
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Ext JS
3 1 (16.67%) Apache CXF
3 1 (16.67%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) ESB
1 1 (16.67%) Mule
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C++/Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
1 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) MOM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
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