The first table below looks at the demand for RESTful 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 RESTful 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
RESTful
Rank 72 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Contract jobs citing RESTful 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.849% 0.130% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.856% 0.543% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £315 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £394
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -17.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
431 184 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.75% 23.83% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 84 157
Average daily rate £338 £283 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.46% -19.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
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%
RESTful
Scotland

RESTful
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow RESTful Jobs Demand Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow RESTful Daily Rate Trend

RESTful
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RESTful across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow RESTful Daily Rate Histogram

RESTful
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (95.45%) Java
1 21 (95.45%) Spring
2 15 (68.18%) Oracle
3 12 (54.55%) Web Services
4 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (50.00%) Scrum
5 10 (45.45%) MVC
5 10 (45.45%) JSON
5 10 (45.45%) Spring MVC
5 10 (45.45%) Kanban
6 7 (31.82%) XML
7 6 (27.27%) SQL
8 5 (22.73%) J2EE
8 5 (22.73%) Tomcat
8 5 (22.73%) Hibernate
9 4 (18.18%) XML Messaging
9 4 (18.18%) Maven
9 4 (18.18%) OO
9 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
9 4 (18.18%) Apache CXF
9 4 (18.18%) jQuery
10 3 (13.64%) JIRA
10 3 (13.64%) HTML5
10 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
10 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (13.64%) C++
10 3 (13.64%) HTML
10 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
10 3 (13.64%) Sybase

RESTful
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 21 (95.45%) Spring
2 12 (54.55%) Web Services
3 10 (45.45%) JSON
3 10 (45.45%) Spring MVC
4 7 (31.82%) XML
5 5 (22.73%) J2EE
5 5 (22.73%) Hibernate
6 4 (18.18%) jQuery
6 4 (18.18%) XML Messaging
6 4 (18.18%) Apache CXF
7 3 (13.64%) HTML5
7 3 (13.64%) CSS
7 3 (13.64%) HTML
7 3 (13.64%) Struts
7 3 (13.64%) JMS
8 2 (9.091%) SOAP
8 2 (9.091%) Smart GWT
8 2 (9.091%) JPA
9 1 (4.545%) OSGi
9 1 (4.545%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.545%) GlassFish
2 1 (4.545%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.545%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (4.545%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) MySQL
2 2 (9.091%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Maven
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
3 2 (9.091%) JUnit
3 2 (9.091%) Eclipse
3 2 (9.091%) Hudson
4 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.545%) CruiseControl
4 1 (4.545%) Subversion
4 1 (4.545%) WATIR
4 1 (4.545%) Selenium
4 1 (4.545%) RSpec
4 1 (4.545%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (9.091%) Finance
1 2 (9.091%) Banking
2 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Developer
2 18 (81.82%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) C++ Developer
3 3 (13.64%) C++/Java Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Build Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Development Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Java Applications Developer
4 1 (4.545%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.091%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (9.091%) Derivative
2 2 (9.091%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (4.545%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.091%) Windows
1 2 (9.091%) Linux
2 1 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Scrum
1 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (45.45%) Kanban
2 10 (45.45%) MVC
3 4 (18.18%) OO
4 3 (13.64%) Workflow
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
5 2 (9.091%) Release Management
5 2 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.091%) Code Coverage
6 1 (4.545%) DRM
6 1 (4.545%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.545%) DSDM
6 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
6 1 (4.545%) SOA
6 1 (4.545%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) C++
5 2 (9.091%) C#
5 2 (9.091%) Python
5 2 (9.091%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.091%) Jython
5 2 (9.091%) Korn
5 2 (9.091%) Bash shell
6 1 (4.545%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Sybase
3 1 (4.545%) JBoss
3 1 (4.545%) Adobe
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.545%) Alterian
3 1 (4.545%) Google
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