The first table below looks at the demand for TopLink 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 TopLink over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle TopLink
Rank 79 - 55
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing TopLink 1 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.104% - 0.585%
As % of the Application Development category 0.227% - 1.544%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £233 £320
% change year-on-year
+18.27% -27.34%
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
440 188 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.98% 24.32% 37.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 83 150
Average daily rate £338 £285 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.42% -18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £277
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%
TopLink
Scotland

TopLink
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow TopLink Jobs Demand Trend

TopLink
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow TopLink Daily Rate Trend

TopLink
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing TopLink 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 TopLink.

1 4 (100.00%) EJB
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) JDBC
1 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) Servlets
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) JSF
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Java EE

TopLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing TopLink 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 TopLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) EJB
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) JDBC
1 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) Servlets
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) JSF
1 4 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (25.00%) PVCS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (50.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Web Design
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) HP