The first table below looks at the demand for Reactive Extensions 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 Reactive Extensions 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Reactive Extensions (Rx)
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Reactive Extensions 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.322% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.694% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
432 190 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.30% 24.14% 37.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 80 150
Average daily rate £338 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £428
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%
Reactive Extensions
Scotland

Reactive Extensions
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Reactive Extensions across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Glasgow Reactive Extensions Daily Rate Histogram

Reactive Extensions
Top 11 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
2 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (33.33%) TIBCO
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading

Reactive Extensions
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
General
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) WPF Developer
1 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Front Office Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) TIBCO