The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sybase products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sybase over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Sybase, Inc.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sybase
Rank 27 97 85
Rank change year-on-year
+70 -12
Contract jobs citing Sybase 138 13 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 5.470% 0.488% 0.945%
As % of the Vendors category 12.70% 1.188% 2.184%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 7 18
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £315 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £365 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £405 £370
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.25 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year
-84.81% -
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1087 1094 1236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.08% 41.08% 43.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 459 569
Average daily rate £373 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 51 41
Average hourly rate £14.50 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £35.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Sybase
UK

Sybase
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Sybase Jobs Demand Trend

Sybase
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Sybase Daily Rate Trend

Sybase
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sybase across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Scotland Sybase Daily Rate Histogram

Sybase
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Sybase Hourly Rate Trend

Sybase
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sybase within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow +42 116 £388 +19.23% 10
Edinburgh -1 4 £450 - 4
Sybase
UK

Sybase
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Sybase 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 Sybase.

1 180 (74.38%) SQL
2 130 (53.72%) Java
3 105 (43.39%) UNIX
4 91 (37.60%) C#
5 84 (34.71%) Spring
6 77 (31.82%) Multithreading
7 64 (26.45%) Finance
8 56 (23.14%) SQL Server
9 55 (22.73%) Linux
10 50 (20.66%) Fixed Income
11 48 (19.83%) WPF
12 47 (19.42%) Oracle
13 44 (18.18%) XML
14 40 (16.53%) DB2
15 39 (16.12%) Perl
16 38 (15.70%) RDBMS
17 37 (15.29%) JUnit
18 36 (14.88%) Banking
19 33 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
20 29 (11.98%) Windows
20 29 (11.98%) Tomcat
21 27 (11.16%) JMS
22 26 (10.74%) J2SE
22 26 (10.74%) Eclipse
23 24 (9.917%) Hibernate
24 23 (9.504%) Shell Script
24 23 (9.504%) Data Modelling
24 23 (9.504%) OO
24 23 (9.504%) C++
25 22 (9.091%) WinForms

Sybase
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Sybase 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 Sybase. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 84 (34.71%) Spring
2 48 (19.83%) WPF
3 44 (18.18%) XML
4 27 (11.16%) JMS
5 26 (10.74%) J2SE
6 24 (9.917%) Hibernate
7 22 (9.091%) WinForms
8 18 (7.438%) SOAP
9 15 (6.198%) .NET
9 15 (6.198%) jQuery
10 12 (4.959%) RESTful
11 11 (4.545%) Apache CXF
11 11 (4.545%) Web Services
12 9 (3.719%) J2EE
13 7 (2.893%) CSS
14 6 (2.479%) HTML
14 6 (2.479%) XSLT
14 6 (2.479%) HTML5
15 4 (1.653%) Ext JS
15 4 (1.653%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 29 (11.98%) Tomcat
2 8 (3.306%) Mule
3 5 (2.066%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.240%) GlassFish
5 2 (0.826%) Lightstreamer
6 1 (0.413%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (3.719%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.413%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.240%) HTTP
2 2 (0.826%) SAN
2 2 (0.826%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (23.14%) SQL Server
2 40 (16.53%) DB2
3 38 (15.70%) RDBMS
4 8 (3.306%) Sybase IQ
5 6 (2.479%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.479%) Data Mining
6 5 (2.066%) Sybase ASE
7 3 (1.240%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.826%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.826%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (0.413%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.413%) KDB
Development Applications
1 37 (15.29%) JUnit
2 26 (10.74%) Eclipse
3 21 (8.678%) Subversion
4 13 (5.372%) JIRA
5 11 (4.545%) Maven
6 9 (3.719%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.893%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.893%) Selenium
7 7 (2.893%) ClearCase
8 3 (1.240%) Ant
8 3 (1.240%) Bugzilla
8 3 (1.240%) CruiseControl
8 3 (1.240%) Hudson
8 3 (1.240%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (1.240%) Trac
9 2 (0.826%) QuickTest Pro
10 1 (0.413%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.413%) Aptana Studio
10 1 (0.413%) TestComplete
General
1 64 (26.45%) Finance
2 36 (14.88%) Banking
3 19 (7.851%) Front Office
4 15 (6.198%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.413%) Legal
Job Titles
1 192 (79.34%) Developer
2 78 (32.23%) Java Developer
3 64 (26.45%) C# Developer
4 28 (11.57%) WPF Developer
5 26 (10.74%) Analyst
6 17 (7.025%) Senior Developer
7 16 (6.612%) Applications Support
7 16 (6.612%) WinForms Developer
8 15 (6.198%) Support Analyst
8 15 (6.198%) Applications Support Analyst
9 13 (5.372%) C++ Developer
9 13 (5.372%) Sybase Developer
10 9 (3.719%) Senior C# Developer
11 7 (2.893%) ScrumMaster
12 6 (2.479%) Informatica Developer
13 5 (2.066%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.066%) C# .NET Developer
14 4 (1.653%) Java Applications Developer
14 4 (1.653%) Senior Java Developer
14 4 (1.653%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.66%) Fixed Income
2 16 (6.612%) Equity Derivative
3 15 (6.198%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (4.959%) Derivative
5 11 (4.545%) Data Integration
6 10 (4.132%) Computer Science
7 9 (3.719%) N-Tier
8 8 (3.306%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.893%) Market Risk
10 6 (2.479%) Mathematics
11 4 (1.653%) Clustering
12 3 (1.240%) Equities
13 2 (0.826%) Blackberry
13 2 (0.826%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.826%) iPad
14 1 (0.413%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 105 (43.39%) UNIX
2 55 (22.73%) Linux
3 29 (11.98%) Windows
4 6 (2.479%) Solaris
5 3 (1.240%) Windows XP
5 3 (1.240%) Windows Vista
6 2 (0.826%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.413%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (31.82%) Multithreading
2 33 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
3 23 (9.504%) OO
3 23 (9.504%) Data Modelling
4 19 (7.851%) Scrum
5 15 (6.198%) ITIL
6 14 (5.785%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (5.372%) Unit Testing
8 12 (4.959%) Analytics
9 11 (4.545%) Extreme Programming
10 10 (4.132%) UML
10 10 (4.132%) ETL
10 10 (4.132%) Test Automation
11 9 (3.719%) Electronic Trading
12 8 (3.306%) User Acceptance Testing
13 7 (2.893%) Business Analysis
13 7 (2.893%) Migration
13 7 (2.893%) Risk Management
14 6 (2.479%) SOA
15 5 (2.066%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 180 (74.38%) SQL
2 130 (53.72%) Java
3 91 (37.60%) C#
4 39 (16.12%) Perl
5 23 (9.504%) C++
5 23 (9.504%) Shell Script
6 18 (7.438%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.959%) VB
7 12 (4.959%) C++/CLI
8 8 (3.306%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.479%) Scala
10 5 (2.066%) Python
11 4 (1.653%) VBA
11 4 (1.653%) Jython
11 4 (1.653%) Korn
12 3 (1.240%) Bash shell
13 2 (0.826%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.826%) VBScript
13 2 (0.826%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.413%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 19 (7.851%) Degree
2 2 (0.826%) SC Cleared
2 2 (0.826%) Security Cleared
2 2 (0.826%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.198%) SLA
2 10 (4.132%) QA
3 1 (0.413%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.413%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.413%) Control-M
Vendors
1 47 (19.42%) Oracle
2 12 (4.959%) Informatica
3 4 (1.653%) Perforce
3 4 (1.653%) ION Trading
3 4 (1.653%) Sencha
3 4 (1.653%) Microsoft
4 3 (1.240%) Avaloq
5 2 (0.826%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.826%) Sun
5 2 (0.826%) Temenos
5 2 (0.826%) CA
5 2 (0.826%) JBoss
6 1 (0.413%) IBM
6 1 (0.413%) SAP
6 1 (0.413%) VMware
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