The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Inversion of Control in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Inversion of Control over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Inversion of Control (IoC)
Rank 121 - 111
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.079% - 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.340% - 0.256%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £300 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £308 £365
% change year-on-year
+17.88% -15.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
589 449 391
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 23.35% 16.86% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 186 169
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £224 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £340 £330
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 40 22
Average hourly rate £15.14 £26.00 £30.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.78% -15.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.27 £12.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.20 £32.50 £172.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -10.00%
Inversion of Control
UK

Inversion of Control
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Inversion of Control Jobs Demand Trend

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Inversion of Control Daily Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Inversion of Control Hourly Rate Trend

Inversion of Control
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Inversion of Control within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow - 2 £300 -
Aberdeen - - - - 1
Inversion of Control
UK

Inversion of Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control.

1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (93.75%) C#
3 14 (87.50%) SQL Server
3 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET
4 11 (68.75%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (68.75%) SQL Server 2008
5 10 (62.50%) Dependency Injection
5 10 (62.50%) InfoPath
6 8 (50.00%) VB.NET
7 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
8 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
8 4 (25.00%) NHS
8 4 (25.00%) SQL
9 3 (18.75%) XML
9 3 (18.75%) Windows
9 3 (18.75%) NHibernate
9 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
9 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
10 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (12.50%) Degree
10 2 (12.50%) WPF
10 2 (12.50%) MVVM
10 2 (12.50%) CSS
10 2 (12.50%) Oracle
10 2 (12.50%) HTML
10 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
10 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
11 1 (6.250%) Front Office
11 1 (6.250%) Finance
11 1 (6.250%) Hibernate

Inversion of Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Inversion of Control 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 Inversion of Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET
3 3 (18.75%) NHibernate
3 3 (18.75%) XML
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
4 2 (12.50%) WPF
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (6.250%) WebSphere
5 1 (6.250%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (6.250%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.250%) WinForms
5 1 (6.250%) HTML5
5 1 (6.250%) Sencha Touch
5 1 (6.250%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 10 (62.50%) InfoPath
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (68.75%) SQL Server 2005
2 11 (68.75%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (6.250%) Front Office
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (6.250%) UI Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior UI Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) WPF Developer
5 1 (6.250%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (6.250%) Fixed Income
2 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (12.50%) MVVM
4 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.250%) OO
4 1 (6.250%) AOP
4 1 (6.250%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) C#
2 8 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.250%) Perl
5 1 (6.250%) Python
5 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) Sybase
2 1 (6.250%) Citrix
2 1 (6.250%) TIBCO
2 1 (6.250%) Sencha