The first table below looks at the demand for SWT 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 SWT over the 3 months to 18 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SWT 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.111% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.254% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - £413
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
393 202 278
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.52% 24.97% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 89 165
Average daily rate £350 £308 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% -11.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
SWT
Scotland

SWT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow SWT Jobs Demand Trend

SWT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow SWT Daily Rate Trend

SWT
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing SWT 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 SWT.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) JFace
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse RCP
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) iBATIS
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting

SWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing SWT 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 SWT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
1 3 (100.00%) JFace
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse RCP
2 2 (66.67%) Ant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase
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