The first table below looks at the demand for JSON 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 JSON over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JSON
Rank 90 101 115
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +14
Contract jobs citing JSON 30 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.229% 0.265% 0.036%
As % of the Application Development category 3.708% 1.703% 0.177%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 0
Average daily rate £340 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year
-43.35% -
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
809 411 564
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.14% 15.57% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 175 292
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 £210 £270
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 6 15 4
Average hourly rate £43.25 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.51% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £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%
JSON
UK

JSON
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland JSON Jobs Demand Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland JSON Daily Rate Trend

JSON
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing JSON across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland JSON Daily Rate Histogram

JSON
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland JSON Hourly Rate Trend

JSON
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JSON within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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 -11 20 £250 -16.66%
Edinburgh - 4 £375 -
West Lothian - 3 £375 -
JSON
UK

JSON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing JSON 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 JSON.

1 39 (70.91%) XML
2 31 (56.36%) Java
3 24 (43.64%) jQuery
4 21 (38.18%) HTML5
4 21 (38.18%) JavaScript
5 19 (34.55%) CSS
5 19 (34.55%) Web Services
6 18 (32.73%) Agile Software Development
6 18 (32.73%) REST
7 16 (29.09%) Scrum
8 14 (25.45%) SOAP
8 14 (25.45%) CSS3
9 13 (23.64%) Ajax
9 13 (23.64%) RESTful
10 12 (21.82%) Apple iOS
10 12 (21.82%) Data Integration
10 12 (21.82%) Objective-C
11 11 (20.00%) MVC
11 11 (20.00%) Oracle
11 11 (20.00%) Sencha
11 11 (20.00%) Spring
12 10 (18.18%) Kanban
12 10 (18.18%) Spring MVC
12 10 (18.18%) OO
13 9 (16.36%) JSP
13 9 (16.36%) SQL
13 9 (16.36%) Cocoa
13 9 (16.36%) HTTP
13 9 (16.36%) UIKit
14 7 (12.73%) Xcode

JSON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing JSON 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 JSON. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (70.91%) XML
2 24 (43.64%) jQuery
3 21 (38.18%) HTML5
4 19 (34.55%) CSS
4 19 (34.55%) Web Services
5 18 (32.73%) REST
6 14 (25.45%) SOAP
6 14 (25.45%) CSS3
7 13 (23.64%) Ajax
7 13 (23.64%) RESTful
8 11 (20.00%) Spring
9 10 (18.18%) Spring MVC
10 9 (16.36%) JSP
10 9 (16.36%) Cocoa
10 9 (16.36%) UIKit
11 5 (9.091%) J2EE
12 4 (7.273%) JSF
12 4 (7.273%) WebSphere
12 4 (7.273%) Highcharts JS
13 3 (5.455%) Worklight
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.273%) WebSphere Portal
1 4 (7.273%) WebSphere Application Server
1 4 (7.273%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.636%) WebSphere Process Server
2 2 (3.636%) Lightstreamer
3 1 (1.818%) Apache
3 1 (1.818%) CMS
3 1 (1.818%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (7.273%) Gephi
2 1 (1.818%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.636%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.636%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.818%) DB2
2 1 (1.818%) MySQL
2 1 (1.818%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Xcode
2 4 (7.273%) Maven
2 4 (7.273%) Eclipse
2 4 (7.273%) Selenium
2 4 (7.273%) FitNesse
2 4 (7.273%) Cucumber
2 4 (7.273%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.455%) Ant
4 2 (3.636%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.818%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.818%) JBehave
5 1 (1.818%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.818%) JIRA
5 1 (1.818%) Subversion
General
1 2 (3.636%) Banking
1 2 (3.636%) Investment Banking
1 2 (3.636%) Finance
Job Titles
1 46 (83.64%) Developer
2 14 (25.45%) Java Developer
3 12 (21.82%) iOS Developer
4 3 (5.455%) Analyst
4 3 (5.455%) Test Analyst
4 3 (5.455%) Architect
4 3 (5.455%) Web Developer
4 3 (5.455%) QA Analyst
4 3 (5.455%) QA Test Analyst
5 2 (3.636%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Tester
6 1 (1.818%) Technical Architect
6 1 (1.818%) Consultant
6 1 (1.818%) Applications Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.818%) .NET Developer
6 1 (1.818%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Automation Tester
6 1 (1.818%) Portal Developer
6 1 (1.818%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Data Integration
2 4 (7.273%) Visualisation
2 4 (7.273%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.455%) Open Source
4 2 (3.636%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (3.636%) iPad
4 2 (3.636%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.818%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.818%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.818%) Clustering
5 1 (1.818%) Derivative
5 1 (1.818%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.455%) UNIX
2 3 (5.455%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (29.09%) Scrum
3 11 (20.00%) MVC
4 10 (18.18%) Kanban
4 10 (18.18%) OO
5 5 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (9.091%) TDD
6 4 (7.273%) Data Analysis
6 4 (7.273%) Statistical Analysis
6 4 (7.273%) BDD
6 4 (7.273%) Web Application Development
6 4 (7.273%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (5.455%) User Stories
7 3 (5.455%) Bug Management
7 3 (5.455%) Data Modelling
8 2 (3.636%) Software Engineering
8 2 (3.636%) Web Usability
8 2 (3.636%) Unit Testing
9 1 (1.818%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (1.818%) Data Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) Java
2 21 (38.18%) JavaScript
3 12 (21.82%) Objective-C
4 9 (16.36%) SQL
5 4 (7.273%) PHP
5 4 (7.273%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.455%) XPath
7 2 (3.636%) Scala
7 2 (3.636%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.636%) Perl
7 2 (3.636%) C#
8 1 (1.818%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (3.636%) IBM Certification
2 1 (1.818%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.273%) QA
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Oracle
1 11 (20.00%) Sencha
2 3 (5.455%) Sybase
2 3 (5.455%) IBM
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