Scotland DirectX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft DirectX skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DirectX over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft DirectX
Location Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London East of England East Sussex England Hampshire London North West Oxfordshire Scotland South East UK Warrington West Sussex	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	123
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.118 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£325
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Application Development Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	444	848
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.713 %	0.911 %
Daily rates quoted	113	158
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£318
Average daily rate	£361	£334
% change on same period last year	+8.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.88	£26.43
Average hourly rate	£27.99	£28.02
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.10	£29.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.61
% change on same period last year	-9.61 %
DirectX UK

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.

DirectX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DirectX across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.