The first table below looks at the demand for the Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Programmer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Programmer
Rank 66 39 58
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 9 20 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.001% 2.457% 0.779%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.073% 2.591% 0.829%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
Average daily rate £285 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.30% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £283 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £425 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.51 £30.25 £28.75
% change year-on-year
+20.69% +5.21%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
839 772 724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 93.33% 94.84% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 351 433
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £236 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 18
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £30.41 £172.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Programmer
Scotland

Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Programmer in their job title 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 with Programmer in their job title.

1 23 (63.89%) Oracle
2 17 (47.22%) SQL
3 16 (44.44%) RDBMS
4 14 (38.89%) PL/SQL
5 12 (33.33%) Finance
6 11 (30.56%) J2EE
6 11 (30.56%) Java
6 11 (30.56%) Unit Testing
7 10 (27.78%) QA
7 10 (27.78%) Change Management
8 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 8 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (19.44%) HTML
9 7 (19.44%) Hibernate
9 7 (19.44%) Spring
9 7 (19.44%) JSF
10 6 (16.67%) Maven
10 6 (16.67%) JSTL
10 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
10 6 (16.67%) JDeveloper
10 6 (16.67%) EJB
10 6 (16.67%) JSP
10 6 (16.67%) Servlets
10 6 (16.67%) Struts
10 6 (16.67%) XML
11 5 (13.89%) Sun
11 5 (13.89%) Sun Certification
11 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
12 4 (11.11%) Lotus
12 4 (11.11%) IBM Notes

Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Programmer in their job title 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 with Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (30.56%) J2EE
2 7 (19.44%) HTML
2 7 (19.44%) Hibernate
2 7 (19.44%) Spring
2 7 (19.44%) JSF
3 6 (16.67%) JSTL
3 6 (16.67%) EJB
3 6 (16.67%) JSP
3 6 (16.67%) Servlets
3 6 (16.67%) Struts
3 6 (16.67%) XML
4 3 (8.333%) WebSphere
5 2 (5.556%) .NET
6 1 (2.778%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.778%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) IBM Notes
1 4 (11.11%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (2.778%) Documentum
2 1 (2.778%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (2.778%) Captiva
2 1 (2.778%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.778%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.556%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (44.44%) RDBMS
2 8 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
4 3 (8.333%) MS Access
4 3 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (8.333%) TOAD
5 1 (2.778%) MySQL
5 1 (2.778%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.778%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Maven
1 6 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 6 (16.67%) JDeveloper
2 2 (5.556%) ProC
2 2 (5.556%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.778%) Ant
3 1 (2.778%) PVCS
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (11.11%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.333%) Credit Risk
2 1 (2.778%) IVR
2 1 (2.778%) RIA
2 1 (2.778%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Unit Testing
2 10 (27.78%) Change Management
3 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
4 3 (8.333%) Matrix Management
4 3 (8.333%) RAD
5 2 (5.556%) UML
5 2 (5.556%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (2.778%) OO
6 1 (2.778%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.778%) MVC
6 1 (2.778%) OOD
6 1 (2.778%) Test Scripting
6 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
6 1 (2.778%) Analytics
6 1 (2.778%) Web Development
6 1 (2.778%) Content Management
6 1 (2.778%) Information Management
6 1 (2.778%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) SQL
2 14 (38.89%) PL/SQL
3 11 (30.56%) Java
4 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.333%) VBScript
5 3 (8.333%) VBA
6 2 (5.556%) C
7 1 (2.778%) C#
7 1 (2.778%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Sun Certification
2 1 (2.778%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (63.89%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) Sun
3 4 (11.11%) Lotus
4 1 (2.778%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.778%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.778%) Google