The first table below looks at the demand for Tridion 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 Tridion 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 Business 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
SDL Tridion
Rank 119 104 -
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -
Contract jobs citing Tridion 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.041% 0.038% -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.909% 0.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
- -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £12.86
All Business Applications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
110 150 234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 4.510% 5.663% 8.342%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 84 125
Average daily rate £425 £445 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.49% +11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £304 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £600 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 11
Average hourly rate £12.50 £10.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+64.92% +14.60%
Tridion
UK

Tridion
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Tridion Jobs Demand Trend

Tridion
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Tridion Daily Rate Trend

Tridion
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tridion 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 -20 1 - -
Tridion
UK

Tridion
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) CMS
2 3 (75.00%) Content Management
2 3 (75.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) XHTML
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) OSGi
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Sling
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) Alterian
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Solr
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Content Management
4 1 (25.00%) DRM
4 1 (25.00%) Lucene
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering

Tridion
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) XHTML
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) ASP
4 1 (25.00%) JDBC
4 1 (25.00%) Struts
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) Lucene
4 1 (25.00%) Spring
4 1 (25.00%) OSGi
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Sling
4 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) DRM
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Alterian
1 1 (25.00%) Google