The first table below looks at the demand for Product Management 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 Product Management over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Product Management
Rank - - 63
Contract jobs citing Product Management 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - - 0.144%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £341
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-53.33% +127.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
635 533 475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.06% 67.73% 68.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 284 275
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Product Management
Scotland

Product Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Product Management across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow Product Management Jobs Demand Trend

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Product Management Daily Rate Trend

Product Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Product Management 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 Product Management.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) Sybase
2 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) XML
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
3 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
3 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 4 (66.67%) Spring
3 4 (66.67%) Maven
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Extreme Programming
3 4 (66.67%) Clustering
4 3 (50.00%) Mule
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Selenium
4 3 (50.00%) SOA

Product Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Product Management 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 Product Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) JMS
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 3 (50.00%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
3 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 4 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (66.67%) Clustering
3 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 6 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 4 (66.67%) Extreme Programming
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Sybase
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle