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This section looks at the demand for Financial Products Markup Language (FpML) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited FpML over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkFinancial Products Markup Language (FpML)
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank101127
Rank change on same period last yearUp+26
Matching contract IT job ads25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.003 %0.005 %
As % of the category below0.418 %0.662 %
Daily rates quoted15
Average minimum daily rate£300£328
Average daily rate£330£348
% change on same period last year-5.25 %
Average maximum daily rate£360£368
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£348
% change on same period last year-5.25 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Application Development ScotlandApplication Development
Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads478755
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.630 %0.801 %
Daily rates quoted86138
Average minimum daily rate£291£323
Average daily rate£314£340
% change on same period last year-7.68 %
Average maximum daily rate£336£356
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£336
% change on same period last year+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted925
Average minimum hourly rate£20.14£23.73
Average hourly rate£22.06£26.74
% change on same period last year-17.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate£23.98£29.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.44£33.08
% change on same period last year-1.93 %
FpML UKFpML
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.

FpML
Demand Trend

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

Scotland FpML Demand Trend

FpML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland FpML Daily Rate Trend

FpML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing FpML within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 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.

LocationRank 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
GlasgowUp+72£330-5.25 %
FpML UKFpML
UK

FpML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing FpML 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 FpML.

17 (100.00 %)Java
17 (100.00 %)XML
26 (85.71 %)XSLT
35 (71.43 %)Unix
35 (71.43 %)JMS
35 (71.43 %)XQuery
44 (57.14 %)SQL
44 (57.14 %)Finance
53 (42.86 %)WebSphere
53 (42.86 %)Spring
53 (42.86 %)Mule
53 (42.86 %)Data Integration
53 (42.86 %)JDBC
53 (42.86 %)WebSphere MQ
62 (28.57 %)Shell Script
62 (28.57 %)MQSeries
62 (28.57 %)XML Schema
62 (28.57 %)Ant
62 (28.57 %)JUnit
62 (28.57 %)Oracle
62 (28.57 %)OO
62 (28.57 %)Investment Banking
62 (28.57 %)XPath
62 (28.57 %)PolarLake
62 (28.57 %)Project Management
62 (28.57 %)Banking
71 (14.29 %)Subversion
71 (14.29 %)Education
71 (14.29 %)Hibernate
71 (14.29 %)Equities

FpML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing FpML 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 FpML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
17 (100.00 %)XML
26 (85.71 %)XSLT
35 (71.43 %)JMS
43 (42.86 %)JDBC
43 (42.86 %)Spring
43 (42.86 %)WebSphere
52 (28.57 %)XML Schema
61 (14.29 %)SAX
61 (14.29 %)Middleware
61 (14.29 %)Hibernate
61 (14.29 %)WebServices
61 (14.29 %)DOM
61 (14.29 %).NET
61 (14.29 %)JTA
61 (14.29 %)Saxon XSLT
Application Platforms
13 (42.86 %)WebSphere MQ
13 (42.86 %)Mule
22 (28.57 %)MQSeries
31 (14.29 %)Tomcat
31 (14.29 %)ESB
31 (14.29 %)WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
11 (14.29 %)FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
11 (14.29 %)Reference Data
Development Applications
12 (28.57 %)Ant
12 (28.57 %)JUnit
21 (14.29 %)ClearCase
21 (14.29 %)Eclipse
21 (14.29 %)Subversion
General
14 (57.14 %)Finance
22 (28.57 %)Banking
22 (28.57 %)Investment Banking
31 (14.29 %)Education
Job Titles
15 (71.43 %)Developer
22 (28.57 %)Data Integration Developer
31 (14.29 %)Project Manager
31 (14.29 %)Consultant
31 (14.29 %)Technical Project Manager
31 (14.29 %)Senior Developer
31 (14.29 %)Java Developer
31 (14.29 %)Technical Manager
31 (14.29 %)Messaging Consultant
Miscellaneous
13 (42.86 %)Data Integration
21 (14.29 %)Management Information System
21 (14.29 %)Equities
21 (14.29 %)Derivative
21 (14.29 %)Computer Science
Operating Systems
15 (71.43 %)Unix
21 (14.29 %)Linux
Processes & Methodologies
12 (28.57 %)OO
12 (28.57 %)Project Management
21 (14.29 %)UML
21 (14.29 %)E-Commerce
21 (14.29 %)EAI
Programming Languages
17 (100.00 %)Java
25 (71.43 %)XQuery
34 (57.14 %)SQL
42 (28.57 %)Shell Script
42 (28.57 %)XPath
51 (14.29 %)C#
Qualifications
11 (14.29 %)Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
11 (14.29 %)QA
System Software
11 (14.29 %)AquaLogic
Vendors
12 (28.57 %)Oracle
12 (28.57 %)PolarLake
21 (14.29 %)Sybase
21 (14.29 %)IBM
21 (14.29 %)TIBCO
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