The first table below looks at the demand for GWT skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GWT over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Application Development category 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Rank 108 101 110
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +9
Contract jobs citing GWT 12 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.492% 0.151% 0.143%
As % of the Application Development category 1.500% 0.962% 0.716%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £238 - £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £398 £700 £413
% change year-on-year
-43.21% +69.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.13 £31.00 -
% change year-on-year
-25.40% -
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
800 416 559
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 32.80% 15.70% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 186 297
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £25.25 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
GWT
UK

GWT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland GWT Jobs Demand Trend

GWT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland GWT Daily Rate Trend

GWT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland GWT Hourly Rate Trend

GWT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GWT within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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 -14 7 - -
Dundee +8 5 £238 -
GWT
UK

GWT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing GWT 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 GWT.

1 18 (90.00%) Java
1 18 (90.00%) SQL
1 18 (90.00%) OO
2 17 (85.00%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (80.00%) CSS
4 13 (65.00%) Spring
5 12 (60.00%) Banking
5 12 (60.00%) Unit Testing
5 12 (60.00%) PL/SQL
5 12 (60.00%) Oracle
6 11 (55.00%) J2EE
6 11 (55.00%) JMS
6 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
6 11 (55.00%) MVC
6 11 (55.00%) JDBC
6 11 (55.00%) JSP
6 11 (55.00%) Struts
6 11 (55.00%) XML
6 11 (55.00%) XSLT
6 11 (55.00%) UNIX
6 11 (55.00%) Perl
6 11 (55.00%) Web Application Development
6 11 (55.00%) Spring MVC
6 11 (55.00%) Selenium
6 11 (55.00%) Spring Web Flow
6 11 (55.00%) CruiseControl
6 11 (55.00%) Ajax
6 11 (55.00%) WebSphere
6 11 (55.00%) iBATIS

GWT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing GWT 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 GWT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (80.00%) CSS
2 13 (65.00%) Spring
3 11 (55.00%) Ajax
3 11 (55.00%) WebSphere
3 11 (55.00%) iBATIS
3 11 (55.00%) Spring MVC
3 11 (55.00%) Spring Web Flow
3 11 (55.00%) JDBC
3 11 (55.00%) JSP
3 11 (55.00%) Struts
3 11 (55.00%) XML
3 11 (55.00%) XSLT
3 11 (55.00%) JMS
3 11 (55.00%) J2EE
4 6 (30.00%) Ext JS
5 5 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
7 1 (5.000%) HTML5
7 1 (5.000%) REST
7 1 (5.000%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) Apache
1 1 (5.000%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) CruiseControl
1 11 (55.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.000%) Hudson
3 1 (5.000%) PhoneGap
3 1 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 12 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Developer
2 13 (65.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.000%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.000%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Handset
1 1 (5.000%) RIA
1 1 (5.000%) iPhone
1 1 (5.000%) Open Source
1 1 (5.000%) iPad
1 1 (5.000%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) UNIX
2 8 (40.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Android
3 1 (5.000%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) OO
2 17 (85.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (60.00%) Unit Testing
4 11 (55.00%) Web Application Development
4 11 (55.00%) MVC
5 8 (40.00%) TDD
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (25.00%) OOP
7 5 (25.00%) Refactoring
8 1 (5.000%) Pair Programming
8 1 (5.000%) Risk Management
8 1 (5.000%) Scrum
8 1 (5.000%) Project Management
8 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Java
1 18 (90.00%) SQL
2 16 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (60.00%) PL/SQL
4 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
4 11 (55.00%) Perl
5 6 (30.00%) PHP
6 5 (25.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.000%) Microsoft