Scotland Applications Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts within the Scotland region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camborne Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Cornwall Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	101
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	7	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.369 %	0.734 %
Daily rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£285
Average daily rate	£274	£320
% change on same period last year	-14.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£313
% change on same period last year	-6.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£26.67
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.87	£35.04
% change on same period last year	-20.47 %
Job Titles Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1897	3133
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.048 %	3.365 %
Daily rates quoted	429	610
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£317
Average daily rate	£335	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	166	273
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.72	£18.41
Average hourly rate	£22.91	£19.62
% change on same period last year	+16.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.10	£20.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Applications Developer across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Applications Developer across the Scotland region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Developer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+10	4	£274	-14.82 %
Edinburgh	+21	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Applications Developer in their job title 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 with Applications Developer in their job title.

1 6 (35.29 %) Java 1 6 (35.29 %) SQL 2 4 (23.53 %) Oracle 2 4 (23.53 %) UNIX 2 4 (23.53 %) Finance 3 3 (17.65 %) .NET 3 3 (17.65 %) VB 3 3 (17.65 %) XML 3 3 (17.65 %) C# 3 3 (17.65 %) Sybase 4 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (11.76 %) RDBMS 4 2 (11.76 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (11.76 %) Windows 4 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere

4 2 (11.76 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Applications 5 1 (5.882 %) Oracle ADF 5 1 (5.882 %) WinForms 5 1 (5.882 %) Asset Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Content Management 5 1 (5.882 %) BPEL 5 1 (5.882 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (5.882 %) Music 5 1 (5.882 %) Music Industry 5 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (5.882 %) ERD 5 1 (5.882 %) Oracle BPEL 5 1 (5.882 %) Oracle APEX 5 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Forms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Applications Developer in their job title 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 with Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (17.65 %) .NET 1 3 (17.65 %) XML 2 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (11.76 %) WebSphere 3 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (5.882 %) JSP 3 1 (5.882 %) Struts 3 1 (5.882 %) J2EE 3 1 (5.882 %) XSLT 3 1 (5.882 %) Oracle ADF 3 1 (5.882 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle BPEL
Business Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.882 %) Ethernet 1 1 (5.882 %) HTTP 1 1 (5.882 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (5.882 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.76 %) RDBMS 2 1 (5.882 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 2 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (5.882 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 4 (23.53 %) Finance 2 1 (5.882 %) Music 2 1 (5.882 %) Music Industry	Operating Systems 1 4 (23.53 %) UNIX 2 2 (11.76 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (11.76 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (5.882 %) ERD 2 1 (5.882 %) CRM 2 1 (5.882 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (5.882 %) Asset Management 2 1 (5.882 %) Content Management 2 1 (5.882 %) BPEL 2 1 (5.882 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 6 (35.29 %) SQL 1 6 (35.29 %) Java 2 3 (17.65 %) C# 2 3 (17.65 %) VB 3 2 (11.76 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET 4 1 (5.882 %) PeopleCode
Vendors 1 4 (23.53 %) Oracle 2 3 (17.65 %) Sybase 3 1 (5.882 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (5.882 %) webMethods