The first table below looks at the demand for QUnit 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 QUnit 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 Development Applications 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
QUnit
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing QUnit 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.763% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
262 155 270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.74% 5.851% 9.626%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 71 142
Average daily rate £350 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £223 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QUnit
UK

QUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland QUnit Jobs Demand Trend

QUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QUnit 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
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
QUnit
UK

QUnit
Top 12 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Raphaël
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) SQLite

QUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Django
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Raphaël
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQLite
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python