The first table below looks at the demand for Visualforce 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 Visualforce over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Development 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Salesforce.com Visualforce
Rank - 107 113
Contract jobs citing Visualforce 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.076% 0.110%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.478% 0.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 -
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
820 418 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.17% 15.82% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 184 289
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.95 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.70 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Visualforce
UK

Visualforce
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Visualforce Jobs Demand Trend

Visualforce
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Visualforce Daily Rate Trend

Visualforce
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Visualforce 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 Visualforce.

1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce.com
1 3 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Web 2.0
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) SOAP
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) CRM

Visualforce
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Visualforce 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 Visualforce. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Apex Code
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Salesforce.com