The first table below looks at the demand for SAX 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 SAX 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
Simple API for XML (SAX)
Rank - - 63
Contract jobs citing SAX 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow - - 0.144%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
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%
SAX
Scotland

SAX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow SAX Jobs Demand Trend

SAX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow SAX Daily Rate Trend

SAX
Top 20 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) DOM
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) XPath
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) iPhone

SAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) DOM
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Servlets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle