Applications Developer Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Applications Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Developer
Rank 116 93 98
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Developer 5 12 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.202% 0.448% 0.438%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.217% 0.478% 0.466%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 8
Average daily rate - £320 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +11.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £306 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.69% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-15.38% -8.23%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2299 2509 2577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.78% 93.76% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1110 1218 1269
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 113 97
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £34.00 £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Applications Developer
UK

Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Applications Developer
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 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -17 4 - -
Aberdeen +1 1 - -
Applications Developer
UK

Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 9 (32.14%) VB
3 9 (32.14%) Finance
4 8 (28.57%) .NET
5 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 7 (25.00%) VB.NET
5 7 (25.00%) C#
5 7 (25.00%) XML
5 7 (25.00%) CSS
5 7 (25.00%) Banking
6 6 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (21.43%) HTML5
6 6 (21.43%) Web Application Development
6 6 (21.43%) Linux
6 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
6 6 (21.43%) Sybase
7 5 (17.86%) HTML
7 5 (17.86%) OO
7 5 (17.86%) Scrum
7 5 (17.86%) Investment Banking
8 4 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (14.29%) Interactive TV
8 4 (14.29%) Retail
8 4 (14.29%) Spring
8 4 (14.29%) Degree
8 4 (14.29%) Ruby
8 4 (14.29%) IPTV
8 4 (14.29%) Smartphone
8 4 (14.29%) MongoDB

Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 7 (25.00%) XML
2 7 (25.00%) CSS
3 6 (21.43%) HTML5
3 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 5 (17.86%) HTML
5 4 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (14.29%) Spring
5 4 (14.29%) CSS3
5 4 (14.29%) DCOM
6 3 (10.71%) XSL
6 3 (10.71%) XSLT
7 2 (7.143%) jQuery
7 2 (7.143%) JSON
7 2 (7.143%) Ajax
7 2 (7.143%) Highcharts JS
7 2 (7.143%) J2EE
7 2 (7.143%) ODBC
7 2 (7.143%) ADO
7 2 (7.143%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) ArcGIS
1 1 (3.571%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Gephi
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Broadband
1 4 (14.29%) Internet
1 4 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (3.571%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.29%) DTS
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (3.571%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (3.571%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.571%) JUnit
2 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.571%) MSBuild
2 1 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.571%) Maven
2 1 (3.571%) JIRA
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (17.86%) Investment Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (3.571%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Interactive TV
1 4 (14.29%) IPTV
1 4 (14.29%) Smartphone
1 4 (14.29%) Video on Demand
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.143%) Computer Science
3 2 (7.143%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.571%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.571%) Streaming Media
4 1 (3.571%) Derivative
4 1 (3.571%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) UNIX
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (7.143%) Android
3 2 (7.143%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Web Application Development
2 5 (17.86%) OO
2 5 (17.86%) Scrum
3 4 (14.29%) MVC
3 4 (14.29%) RAD
4 3 (10.71%) Release Management
4 3 (10.71%) Unit Testing
5 2 (7.143%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (7.143%) Data Analysis
5 2 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (7.143%) Time Management
5 2 (7.143%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (3.571%) Code Coverage
6 1 (3.571%) Project Management
6 1 (3.571%) Workflow
6 1 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.571%) Data Virtualisation
6 1 (3.571%) Mobile Application Development
6 1 (3.571%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (3.571%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 9 (32.14%) VB
4 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 7 (25.00%) C#
5 4 (14.29%) Ruby
6 3 (10.71%) C++
7 2 (7.143%) VB6
7 2 (7.143%) VBA
7 2 (7.143%) PL/SQL
7 2 (7.143%) Python
8 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.571%) Jython
8 1 (3.571%) PHP
8 1 (3.571%) C
8 1 (3.571%) Bash shell
8 1 (3.571%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Sybase
2 2 (7.143%) Oracle
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