The first table below looks at the demand for Refactoring 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 Refactoring over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Refactoring
Rank - - 58
Contract jobs citing Refactoring 0 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - - 0.706%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 1.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £343 £309
% change year-on-year
-5.10% +10.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £31.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
639 523 485
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 67.55% 67.66% 68.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 279 281
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £495
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 £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Refactoring
Scotland

Refactoring
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Refactoring Jobs Demand Trend

Refactoring
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Refactoring Daily Rate Trend

Refactoring
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) ESB
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Ext JS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI

Refactoring
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Refactoring 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 Refactoring. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Ext JS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) ESB
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO