Scotland Web Development Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Development skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Web Development over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Carlisle Cheshire Chessington City of London Clapham Colchester Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnham Gerrards Cross Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kendal Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Portsmouth Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	78
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	17	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	1.541 %	3.125 %
Daily rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum daily rate	£203	£293
Average daily rate	£224	£298
% change on same period last year	-24.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£245	£303
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£312
% change on same period last year	+6.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.75	£28.47
% change on same period last year	+11.50 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1103	1600
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.470 %	1.619 %
Daily rates quoted	285	344
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£324
Average daily rate	£319	£339
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.71	£24.82
Average hourly rate	£22.79	£26.42
% change on same period last year	-13.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.87	£28.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Web Development across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Development across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	-11	11	£228	-24.73 %
Glasgow	+3	2	£260	-8.91 %
Dundee	-	1	£175	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Web Development 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 Web Development.

1 32 (68.09 %) .NET 2 20 (42.55 %) HTML 3 19 (40.43 %) C# 4 18 (38.30 %) ASP.NET 5 16 (34.04 %) SQL 6 15 (31.91 %) JavaScript 7 14 (29.79 %) CSS 7 14 (29.79 %) WebServices 8 12 (25.53 %) Microsoft 9 11 (23.40 %) SQL Server 9 11 (23.40 %) Visual Studio 10 10 (21.28 %) Windows 11 9 (19.15 %) Active Directory 11 9 (19.15 %) XML 11 9 (19.15 %) VB.NET

12 8 (17.02 %) WinForms 12 8 (17.02 %) Crystal Reports 13 6 (12.77 %) XSL 13 6 (12.77 %) DHTML 13 6 (12.77 %) Java 13 6 (12.77 %) ASP 13 6 (12.77 %) AJAX 13 6 (12.77 %) Finance 14 5 (10.64 %) Web Design 14 5 (10.64 %) Legal 14 5 (10.64 %) Retail Banking 14 5 (10.64 %) Banking 14 5 (10.64 %) Retail 14 5 (10.64 %) Content Management 14 5 (10.64 %) PHP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Web Development 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 Web Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 32 (68.09 %) .NET 2 20 (42.55 %) HTML 3 18 (38.30 %) ASP.NET 4 14 (29.79 %) CSS 4 14 (29.79 %) WebServices 5 9 (19.15 %) XML 6 8 (17.02 %) WinForms 7 6 (12.77 %) AJAX 7 6 (12.77 %) XSL 7 6 (12.77 %) ASP 8 4 (8.511 %) XHTML 9 3 (6.383 %) Hibernate 9 3 (6.383 %) J2EE 9 3 (6.383 %) JSP 9 3 (6.383 %) Struts 9 3 (6.383 %) Spring 10 2 (4.255 %) SWT 10 2 (4.255 %) ADO.NET 10 2 (4.255 %) TopLink 10 2 (4.255 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.511 %) SharePoint 1 4 (8.511 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 3 (6.383 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (2.128 %) Smallworld 3 1 (2.128 %) CMS 3 1 (2.128 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (8.511 %) MS Excel 2 3 (6.383 %) Photoshop 3 1 (2.128 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.255 %) LDAP 1 2 (4.255 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.128 %) Internet 2 1 (2.128 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (23.40 %) SQL Server 2 8 (17.02 %) Crystal Reports 3 4 (8.511 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (4.255 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (4.255 %) MySQL 4 2 (4.255 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (2.128 %) GIS 5 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (2.128 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 11 (23.40 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (8.511 %) FrontPage 3 2 (4.255 %) Eclipse 3 2 (4.255 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (2.128 %) XPEDITER 4 1 (2.128 %) CruiseControl 4 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (2.128 %) Flash 4 1 (2.128 %) ClearCase 4 1 (2.128 %) JUnit	General 1 6 (12.77 %) Finance 2 5 (10.64 %) Legal 2 5 (10.64 %) Banking 2 5 (10.64 %) Retail 2 5 (10.64 %) Retail Banking 3 4 (8.511 %) Publishing 4 3 (6.383 %) Graphic Design 5 1 (2.128 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (2.128 %) Government 5 1 (2.128 %) Health 5 1 (2.128 %) Insurance 5 1 (2.128 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 36 (76.60 %) Developer 2 23 (48.94 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (19.15 %) Web Developer 3 9 (19.15 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 8 (17.02 %) Team Leader 4 8 (17.02 %) .NET Team Leader 5 5 (10.64 %) Senior Developer 6 4 (8.511 %) Java Developer 6 4 (8.511 %) .NET Web Developer 6 4 (8.511 %) Senior .NET Developer 7 3 (6.383 %) Senior ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) Web Development Manager 8 2 (4.255 %) Web Manager 8 2 (4.255 %) Lead Developer 8 2 (4.255 %) Development Manager 8 2 (4.255 %) Analyst 9 1 (2.128 %) Test Analyst 9 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Developer 9 1 (2.128 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.255 %) Derivative 1 2 (4.255 %) Interest Rate Derivative 2 1 (2.128 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 10 (21.28 %) Windows 2 3 (6.383 %) Linux 3 2 (4.255 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (10.64 %) Web Design 1 5 (10.64 %) Content Management 2 4 (8.511 %) UML 3 2 (4.255 %) OO 3 2 (4.255 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (4.255 %) OOD 3 2 (4.255 %) Project Planning 3 2 (4.255 %) Use Case 3 2 (4.255 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.128 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (2.128 %) System Testing 4 1 (2.128 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 19 (40.43 %) C# 2 16 (34.04 %) SQL 3 15 (31.91 %) JavaScript 4 9 (19.15 %) VB.NET 5 6 (12.77 %) DHTML 5 6 (12.77 %) Java 6 5 (10.64 %) PHP 7 4 (8.511 %) VBScript 8 3 (6.383 %) VBA 9 2 (4.255 %) VB 9 2 (4.255 %) Transact-SQL 10 1 (2.128 %) C++ 10 1 (2.128 %) COBOL 10 1 (2.128 %) ActionScript 10 1 (2.128 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 4 (8.511 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (4.255 %) Degree 2 2 (4.255 %) MCAD 2 2 (4.255 %) MCDBA 3 1 (2.128 %) ISEB
System Software 1 9 (19.15 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 12 (25.53 %) Microsoft 2 4 (8.511 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.255 %) Sybase 3 2 (4.255 %) Adobe