The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Semantic Web in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Semantic Web 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Semantic Web
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic Web 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £383 -
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -
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
597 432 392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 24.48% 16.31% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 183 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £195 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 35 17
Average hourly rate £15.77 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.34% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £11.48 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £32.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Semantic Web
UK

Semantic Web
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Semantic Web Jobs Demand Trend

Semantic Web
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Semantic Web Daily Rate Trend

Semantic Web
Top 29 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSL
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) XQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

Semantic Web
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSL
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) XQuery
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft