Junior IT Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Junior role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Junior in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Junior
Rank 109 81 96
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 11 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.451% 0.906% 0.642%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.487% 0.965% 0.681%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 12
Average daily rate £225 £400 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.75% +60.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £218 £95
10% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £400 £314
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £250 £190
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +31.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.96 £13.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
+15.07% -33.33%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2260 2488 2644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.66% 93.92% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1098 1220 1303
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £216 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 110 97
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Junior
UK

Junior
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Junior Jobs Demand Trend

Junior
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Junior Daily Rate Trend

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Junior across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Junior Daily Rate Histogram

Junior
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Junior Hourly Rate Trend

Junior
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior 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 -26 5 £275 -31.25%
Edinburgh +2 4 £213 -22.72%
Aberdeen +1 1 £175 -
Junior
UK

Junior
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title.

1 8 (42.11%) XML
2 7 (36.84%) C#
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) .NET
4 5 (26.32%) Windows
5 4 (21.05%) Perl
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
5 4 (21.05%) SOAP
5 4 (21.05%) Python
5 4 (21.05%) Banking
6 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
6 3 (15.79%) XSL
6 3 (15.79%) UNIX
6 3 (15.79%) Linux
6 3 (15.79%) XQuery
6 3 (15.79%) XPath
7 2 (10.53%) HTML
7 2 (10.53%) Java
7 2 (10.53%) MS Office
7 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
7 2 (10.53%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) MS Access
7 2 (10.53%) Front Office
7 2 (10.53%) Degree
8 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
8 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
8 1 (5.263%) VB
8 1 (5.263%) VBA
8 1 (5.263%) Photoshop

Junior
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Junior in their job title 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 with Junior in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (42.11%) XML
2 6 (31.58%) .NET
3 4 (21.05%) SOAP
4 3 (15.79%) XSL
5 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) HTML
6 1 (5.263%) CSS
6 1 (5.263%) ASP
6 1 (5.263%) ISAPI
6 1 (5.263%) WinForms
6 1 (5.263%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.263%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) IIS
1 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.263%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Office
2 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) LAN
1 1 (5.263%) WAN
1 1 (5.263%) SSL
1 1 (5.263%) Intranet
1 1 (5.263%) Internet
1 1 (5.263%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) MS Access
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.263%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (5.263%) Hudson
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Front Office
4 1 (5.263%) Retail
4 1 (5.263%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Grid Computing
1 1 (5.263%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) UNIX
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
1 1 (5.263%) PRINCE
1 1 (5.263%) Six Sigma
1 1 (5.263%) BPR
1 1 (5.263%) Project Management
1 1 (5.263%) Change Management
1 1 (5.263%) MVC
1 1 (5.263%) Migration
1 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (5.263%) Asset Management
1 1 (5.263%) Data Management
1 1 (5.263%) Information Management
1 1 (5.263%) Data Analysis
1 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
1 1 (5.263%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (5.263%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) Perl
4 3 (15.79%) XQuery
4 3 (15.79%) XPath
5 2 (10.53%) Java
6 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
6 1 (5.263%) VB
6 1 (5.263%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) ISEB
2 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Active Directory
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