The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Advent products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Advent over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors for the Scotland 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Advent Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Advent
Rank 120 - 109
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Advent 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.040% - 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.089% - 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1122 1048 1183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.28% 39.16% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 470 511
Average daily rate £365 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £211 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 51 55
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.85 £10.00 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Advent
UK

Advent
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Advent across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Scotland Advent Jobs Demand Trend

Advent
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Advent Daily Rate Trend

Advent
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Advent 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 Advent.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) JAXB
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) MetaFrame
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Fireworks
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script

Advent
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Advent 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 Advent. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JAXB
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Advent Geneva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) MetaFrame
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix