The first table below looks at the demand for Scala 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 Scala 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 of the Programming Languages 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scala
Rank 44 58 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing Scala 31 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.448% 0.123% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.973% 0.339% -
Number of daily rates quoted 19 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £311
% change year-on-year
- +36.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
519 295 337
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 57.73% 36.24% 43.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 135 218
Average daily rate £350 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £221 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
Average hourly rate £11.92 £20.00 £26.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.40% -25.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.86 £11.00 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.33 £20.00 £44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Scala
Scotland

Scala
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Scala Jobs Demand Trend

Scala
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Scala Daily Rate Trend

Scala
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scala across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Glasgow Scala Daily Rate Histogram

Scala
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Scala 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 Scala.

1 24 (70.59%) Java
2 18 (52.94%) Multithreading
3 17 (50.00%) Banking
4 16 (47.06%) Spring
5 13 (38.24%) C#
6 12 (35.29%) Perl
6 12 (35.29%) MongoDB
6 12 (35.29%) WPF
7 10 (29.41%) SQL
7 10 (29.41%) C++
7 10 (29.41%) Hibernate
8 8 (23.53%) Fixed Income
8 8 (23.53%) RDBMS
8 8 (23.53%) UNIX
8 8 (23.53%) Linux
8 8 (23.53%) Python
8 8 (23.53%) Investment Banking
9 7 (20.59%) WCF
9 7 (20.59%) J2SE
9 7 (20.59%) .NET
10 6 (17.65%) Sybase
10 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (14.71%) Mathematics
11 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
11 5 (14.71%) DB2
11 5 (14.71%) JUnit
12 4 (11.76%) TIBCO
12 4 (11.76%) Web Services
12 4 (11.76%) Finance
12 4 (11.76%) Agile Software Development

Scala
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Scala 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 Scala. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (47.06%) Spring
2 12 (35.29%) WPF
3 10 (29.41%) Hibernate
4 7 (20.59%) WCF
4 7 (20.59%) J2SE
4 7 (20.59%) .NET
5 4 (11.76%) Web Services
6 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET
7 2 (5.882%) STL
7 2 (5.882%) JMS
7 2 (5.882%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 2 (5.882%) LINQ
7 2 (5.882%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) MongoDB
2 8 (23.53%) RDBMS
3 5 (14.71%) DB2
4 3 (8.824%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.941%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.941%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JUnit
General
1 17 (50.00%) Banking
2 8 (23.53%) Investment Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.824%) Retail Banking
4 3 (8.824%) Retail
4 3 (8.824%) Games
4 3 (8.824%) Front Office
4 3 (8.824%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (88.24%) Developer
2 21 (61.76%) Java Developer
3 8 (23.53%) C++ Developer
4 6 (17.65%) C++/Java Developer
5 5 (14.71%) Scala Developer
6 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (8.824%) C# Developer
8 2 (5.882%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.882%) Senior Java Developer
9 1 (2.941%) Database Developer
9 1 (2.941%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) Fixed Income
2 5 (14.71%) Mathematics
2 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
3 4 (11.76%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (8.824%) Open Source
5 1 (2.941%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) UNIX
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Multithreading
2 6 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (8.824%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.824%) MVC
5 2 (5.882%) Data Modelling
6 1 (2.941%) Business Analysis
6 1 (2.941%) MVVM
6 1 (2.941%) UML
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) C#
3 12 (35.29%) Perl
4 10 (29.41%) SQL
4 10 (29.41%) C++
5 8 (23.53%) Python
6 3 (8.824%) VB
7 2 (5.882%) VBA
8 1 (2.941%) Haskell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Sybase
2 4 (11.76%) TIBCO
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