Visual Studio Contracts in Glasgow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Visual Studio 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 Visual Studio 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 Development Applications 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
Microsoft Visual Studio
Rank 71 57 48
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -9
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 9 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.955% 0.389% 2.143%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.317% 5.085% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
Average daily rate £350 £275 £354
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -22.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £275 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £275 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Development Applications
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 123 59 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 13.06% 7.642% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 30 66
Average daily rate £338 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £284 £228 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £353 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Visual Studio
Scotland

Visual Studio
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Visual Studio Jobs Demand Trend

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Visual Studio Daily Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Visual Studio across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow Visual Studio Hourly Rate Trend

Visual Studio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (78.57%) .NET
1 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET
2 10 (71.43%) C#
3 9 (64.29%) .NET Framework
3 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
4 8 (57.14%) SQL
4 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 8 (57.14%) Subversion
4 8 (57.14%) jQuery
5 7 (50.00%) Oracle
6 6 (42.86%) MS Excel
6 6 (42.86%) PL/SQL
6 6 (42.86%) Web Services
6 6 (42.86%) CruiseControl
6 6 (42.86%) MbUnit
7 5 (35.71%) StyleCop
7 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (21.43%) Ajax
8 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
8 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
8 3 (21.43%) XML
8 3 (21.43%) HTML
8 3 (21.43%) CSS
8 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (21.43%) MSBuild
9 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
9 2 (14.29%) Scrum
10 1 (7.143%) MVC
10 1 (7.143%) SEO

Visual Studio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (78.57%) .NET
1 11 (78.57%) ASP.NET
2 9 (64.29%) .NET Framework
3 8 (57.14%) jQuery
4 6 (42.86%) Web Services
5 3 (21.43%) XML
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) Ajax
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
6 1 (7.143%) HTML5
6 1 (7.143%) NHibernate
6 1 (7.143%) XSD
6 1 (7.143%) XSL
6 1 (7.143%) Flash
6 1 (7.143%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.143%) CMS
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.143%) InDesign
2 1 (7.143%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (7.143%) PerformancePoint
2 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Subversion
2 6 (42.86%) MbUnit
2 6 (42.86%) CruiseControl
3 5 (35.71%) StyleCop
4 3 (21.43%) MSBuild
5 1 (7.143%) MSTest
5 1 (7.143%) TeamCity
5 1 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (7.143%) Ant
5 1 (7.143%) Dreamweaver
General
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
1 1 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Build Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) UNIX
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
4 1 (7.143%) MVC
4 1 (7.143%) SEO
4 1 (7.143%) Release Management
4 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
4 1 (7.143%) OO
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) C#
2 9 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 8 (57.14%) SQL
4 6 (42.86%) PL/SQL
5 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.143%) T-SQL
6 1 (7.143%) VBScript
6 1 (7.143%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) Adobe
3 1 (7.143%) Citrix
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