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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Web Services 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 Web Services over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Scotland region.

 Web Services
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank563338
Rank change year-on-year
Down-23Up+5
Matching contract IT job ads364571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland1.848 %3.047 %2.505 %
As % of the Application Development category7.759 %14.20 %12.28 %
Daily rates quoted13710
Average daily rate£350£250£318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00 %-21.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£270£245£296
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£398£420£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£325£343
% change year-on-year
-7.690 %-5.100 %
Hourly rates quoted020
Average hourly rate-£33.75-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£33.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.180 %-3.570 %
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
464317578
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland23.82 %21.46 %20.40 %
Daily rates quoted16967132
Average daily rate£320£275£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.36 %-21.42 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£165£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£450£430
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted91713
Average hourly rate£31.50£22.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00 %-25.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.15£10.50£17.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£34.55£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
Web Services UKWeb Services
UK

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.

Web Services
Demand Trend

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

Scotland Web Services Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Web Services Daily Rate Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Scotland Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Web Services Hourly Rate Trend

Web Services
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Services within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
GlasgowDown-415£323+7.50 %
EdinburghDown-247£290-
AberdeenNew entry-5£368-
FifeUp+33--
North LanarkshireNew entry-3--
Scottish BordersNew entry-1£350-
Web Services UKWeb Services
UK

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Web Services 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 Services.

138 (58.46 %)XML
231 (47.69 %)Java
329 (44.62 %)Oracle
425 (38.46 %).NET
425 (38.46 %)SQL
523 (35.38 %)CSS
619 (29.23 %)J2EE
718 (27.69 %)JavaScript
718 (27.69 %)C#
718 (27.69 %)HTML
814 (21.54 %)SQL Server
814 (21.54 %)ASP.NET
913 (20.00 %)Oracle 10g
1012 (18.46 %)SOA
1012 (18.46 %)Internet
1111 (16.92 %)GIS
1111 (16.92 %)ESRI
1111 (16.92 %)Oracle 9i
1111 (16.92 %)Python
1111 (16.92 %)Oracle Spatial
1210 (15.38 %)ArcSDE
1210 (15.38 %)ArcIMS
139 (13.85 %)JBoss
139 (13.85 %)PL/SQL
139 (13.85 %)WebSphere
139 (13.85 %).NET Framework
148 (12.31 %)Spring
157 (10.77 %)ESB
157 (10.77 %)ArcObjects
157 (10.77 %)XHTML

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Web Services 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 Services. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
138 (58.46 %)XML
225 (38.46 %).NET
323 (35.38 %)CSS
419 (29.23 %)J2EE
518 (27.69 %)HTML
614 (21.54 %)ASP.NET
79 (13.85 %)WebSphere
79 (13.85 %).NET Framework
88 (12.31 %)Spring
97 (10.77 %)ArcObjects
97 (10.77 %)XHTML
106 (9.231 %)JSF
115 (7.692 %)jQuery
115 (7.692 %)RichFaces
115 (7.692 %)JSP
124 (6.154 %)SOAP
124 (6.154 %)XSLT
124 (6.154 %)AJAX
133 (4.615 %)LINQ
133 (4.615 %)Middleware
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (16.92 %)Oracle Spatial
210 (15.38 %)ArcSDE
210 (15.38 %)ArcIMS
37 (10.77 %)ESB
37 (10.77 %)OpenEdge
46 (9.231 %)WebSphere MQ
46 (9.231 %)Tomcat
46 (9.231 %)WebSphere Message Broker
53 (4.615 %)Oracle Workflow
62 (3.077 %)ATG Dynamo
62 (3.077 %)QuickPlace
62 (3.077 %)IIS
62 (3.077 %)Lotus Domino
62 (3.077 %)Apache
62 (3.077 %)WebSphere Portal
71 (1.538 %)SharePoint
71 (1.538 %)ColdFusion
71 (1.538 %)WebLogic
71 (1.538 %)LiveLink
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (3.077 %)MS Excel
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (3.077 %)Oracle EBS
12 (3.077 %)Oracle General Ledger
12 (3.077 %)Oracle EBS R12
21 (1.538 %)SAP R/3
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
112 (18.46 %)Internet
22 (3.077 %)Firewall
31 (1.538 %)LAN
31 (1.538 %)WAN
31 (1.538 %)Intranet
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
114 (21.54 %)SQL Server
213 (20.00 %)Oracle 10g
311 (16.92 %)GIS
311 (16.92 %)Oracle 9i
46 (9.231 %)DataStage
46 (9.231 %)SQL Server 2005
53 (4.615 %)SQL Server 2008
62 (3.077 %)Oracle Reports
62 (3.077 %)RDBMS
62 (3.077 %)Oracle 11g
71 (1.538 %)BusinessObjects
71 (1.538 %)SQLPlus
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (9.231 %)Eclipse
16 (9.231 %)JUnit
16 (9.231 %)Visual Studio
23 (4.615 %)CruiseControl
23 (4.615 %)NUnit
31 (1.538 %)CheckStyle
31 (1.538 %)Subversion
31 (1.538 %)TeamCity
31 (1.538 %)JDeveloper
31 (1.538 %)Oracle Forms
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (9.231 %)Government
23 (4.615 %)Finance
23 (4.615 %)Marketing
32 (3.077 %)General Ledger
41 (1.538 %)Investment Banking
41 (1.538 %)Banking
41 (1.538 %)Home Office
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
149 (75.38 %)Developer
211 (16.92 %)GIS Developer
310 (15.38 %)Java Developer
46 (9.231 %)Senior Developer
46 (9.231 %)Analyst
46 (9.231 %)WebSphere Developer
55 (7.692 %).NET Developer
55 (7.692 %)C# Developer
64 (6.154 %)Progress Analyst Programmer
64 (6.154 %)Programmer
64 (6.154 %)Analyst Programmer
64 (6.154 %)Web Developer
64 (6.154 %)Progress Programmer
73 (4.615 %)Senior C# Developer
73 (4.615 %)Architect
73 (4.615 %)Progress Developer
73 (4.615 %)ASP.NET Developer
82 (3.077 %)Team Leader
82 (3.077 %)Technical Team Leader
82 (3.077 %)Oracle Developer
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
16 (9.231 %)N-Tier
22 (3.077 %)Replication
31 (1.538 %)Web 2.0
31 (1.538 %)RIA
31 (1.538 %)Mashup
31 (1.538 %)Clustering
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (9.231 %)UNIX
16 (9.231 %)Solaris
24 (6.154 %)Windows
33 (4.615 %)Linux
41 (1.538 %)Windows Server 2008
41 (1.538 %)Windows Server 2003
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
112 (18.46 %)SOA
27 (10.77 %)OO
27 (10.77 %)E-business
34 (6.154 %)Migration
43 (4.615 %)Agile Software Development
43 (4.615 %)Web Accessibility
43 (4.615 %)Web Development
43 (4.615 %)Online Marketing
43 (4.615 %)Web Design
43 (4.615 %)Workflow
52 (3.077 %)Scrum
52 (3.077 %)Extreme Programming
52 (3.077 %)E-Commerce
52 (3.077 %)Data Migration
52 (3.077 %)TDD
52 (3.077 %)Asset Management
52 (3.077 %)BPEL
52 (3.077 %)Requirements Analysis
61 (1.538 %)Business Analysis
61 (1.538 %)Content Management
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
131 (47.69 %)Java
225 (38.46 %)SQL
318 (27.69 %)JavaScript
318 (27.69 %)C#
411 (16.92 %)Python
59 (13.85 %)PL/SQL
65 (7.692 %)VB.NET
74 (6.154 %)T-SQL
74 (6.154 %)C
83 (4.615 %)XPath
83 (4.615 %)VB
92 (3.077 %)LotusScript
92 (3.077 %)Shell Script
92 (3.077 %)Perl
92 (3.077 %)VBScript
92 (3.077 %)VB6
101 (1.538 %)ABAP
101 (1.538 %)PHP
101 (1.538 %)PeopleCode
101 (1.538 %)SQR
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (3.077 %)Degree
21 (1.538 %)SC Cleared
21 (1.538 %)Security Cleared
21 (1.538 %)Microsoft Certification
Scotland IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
129 (44.62 %)Oracle
211 (16.92 %)ESRI
39 (13.85 %)JBoss
47 (10.77 %)Progress
47 (10.77 %)IBM
53 (4.615 %)Microsoft
62 (3.077 %)ATG
62 (3.077 %)Lotus
71 (1.538 %)Cisco
71 (1.538 %)Veritas
71 (1.538 %)Sybase
71 (1.538 %)Business Objects
71 (1.538 %)PeopleSoft
71 (1.538 %)SAP
71 (1.538 %)Kofax