Scotland SoftGrid Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Softricity SoftGrid skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SoftGrid over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Softricity SoftGrid
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London East of England England Gloucestershire Hampshire London Manchester North West Reading Rotherham Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Wales Warrington Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£272
% change on same period last year	+18.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.75	£20.37
% change on same period last year	+90.26 %
Business Applications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	174	247
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.245 %	0.250 %
Daily rates quoted	24	55
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£349
Average daily rate	£406	£376
% change on same period last year	+8.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£443	£423
% change on same period last year	+4.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.00	£23.50
Average hourly rate	£19.43	£24.83
% change on same period last year	-21.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.86	£26.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.75	£28.14
% change on same period last year	-12.03 %
SoftGrid UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SoftGrid
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SoftGrid across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

SoftGrid
Daily Rate Trend

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