Web Services Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first 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 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services
Rank 53 57 42
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -15
Contract jobs citing Web Services 72 50 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.952% 1.888% 2.888%
As % of the Application Development category 9.000% 12.02% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 14 42
Average daily rate £369 £310 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.95% -11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £226 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £492 £420 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Average hourly rate - £32.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -18.75%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 800 416 559
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 32.80% 15.70% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 186 297
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 £275
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 7 16 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 £30.00 £25.25 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 Jobs Demand Trend

Web Services
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Services across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Web Services Daily Rate Histogram

Web Services
Hourly Rate Trend

This 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 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 +4 35 £355 +1.42%
Edinburgh +7 20 £325 +6.55%
Stirling -2 9 £475 +5.44%
Aberdeen - 2 £385 -
Midlothian - 2 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Web Services
UK

Web Services
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

1 78 (52.35%) XML
2 77 (51.68%) Java
3 58 (38.93%) SQL
4 51 (34.23%) JavaScript
5 45 (30.20%) .NET
6 43 (28.86%) CSS
6 43 (28.86%) C#
6 43 (28.86%) HTML
6 43 (28.86%) Oracle
6 43 (28.86%) jQuery
7 41 (27.52%) Spring
8 39 (26.17%) Agile Software Development
9 31 (20.81%) Scrum
9 31 (20.81%) SQL Server
10 30 (20.13%) Finance
11 28 (18.79%) Hibernate
11 28 (18.79%) OO
12 26 (17.45%) Tomcat
13 25 (16.78%) PL/SQL
14 24 (16.11%) Ajax
15 23 (15.44%) SOAP
16 22 (14.77%) JSON
16 22 (14.77%) MVC
17 21 (14.09%) Subversion
18 20 (13.42%) ASP.NET
19 19 (12.75%) HTML5
20 18 (12.08%) Linux
20 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
20 18 (12.08%) JSF
21 17 (11.41%) Maven

Web Services
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 78 (52.35%) XML
2 45 (30.20%) .NET
3 43 (28.86%) HTML
3 43 (28.86%) CSS
3 43 (28.86%) jQuery
4 41 (27.52%) Spring
5 28 (18.79%) Hibernate
6 24 (16.11%) Ajax
7 23 (15.44%) SOAP
8 22 (14.77%) JSON
9 20 (13.42%) ASP.NET
10 19 (12.75%) HTML5
11 18 (12.08%) JSF
12 17 (11.41%) XSLT
13 16 (10.74%) JMS
13 16 (10.74%) RESTful
14 14 (9.396%) .NET Framework
15 12 (8.054%) WebSphere
15 12 (8.054%) XML Schema
16 11 (7.383%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 26 (17.45%) Tomcat
2 17 (11.41%) Apache
3 12 (8.054%) SharePoint
4 11 (7.383%) WebSphere Application Server
4 11 (7.383%) SharePoint 2010
5 10 (6.711%) WebSphere Portal
6 8 (5.369%) Lotus Notes
6 8 (5.369%) TIBCO EMS
7 7 (4.698%) ESB
7 7 (4.698%) CMS
7 7 (4.698%) Mule
8 5 (3.356%) Oracle Coherence
9 4 (2.685%) FileNet
9 4 (2.685%) Umbraco
10 3 (2.013%) PowerExchange
11 2 (1.342%) IIS
12 1 (0.671%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.671%) TeamSite
12 1 (0.671%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.671%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (4.698%) MS Excel
2 6 (4.027%) Gephi
3 1 (0.671%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.671%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (0.671%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.671%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (0.671%) Tridion
1 1 (0.671%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.383%) Intranet
2 4 (2.685%) LDAP
2 4 (2.685%) HTTP
3 2 (1.342%) Internet
4 1 (0.671%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (20.81%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.040%) RDBMS
3 7 (4.698%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.356%) Oracle 10g
4 5 (3.356%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.685%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (2.685%) DB2
5 4 (2.685%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (2.013%) MySQL
6 3 (2.013%) PowerCenter
6 3 (2.013%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.342%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (1.342%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.342%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (1.342%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.342%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.342%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.671%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.671%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.671%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 21 (14.09%) Subversion
2 17 (11.41%) Maven
3 13 (8.725%) Visual Studio
4 12 (8.054%) Eclipse
5 10 (6.711%) Jenkins
6 9 (6.040%) Selenium
7 8 (5.369%) CruiseControl
7 8 (5.369%) JIRA
8 6 (4.027%) MbUnit
8 6 (4.027%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.027%) JUnit
9 5 (3.356%) StyleCop
10 4 (2.685%) Rational Application Developer
10 4 (2.685%) Ant
10 4 (2.685%) Mercurial
11 3 (2.013%) Eclipse RCP
12 2 (1.342%) Git (software)
12 2 (1.342%) PVCS
12 2 (1.342%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.671%) JMeter
General
1 30 (20.13%) Finance
2 16 (10.74%) Banking
3 6 (4.027%) Retail
4 5 (3.356%) Games
4 5 (3.356%) Interactive Media
5 4 (2.685%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.342%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.342%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.342%) Front Office
7 1 (0.671%) Electronics
7 1 (0.671%) Legal
7 1 (0.671%) Publishing
7 1 (0.671%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.671%) Marketing
7 1 (0.671%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 115 (77.18%) Developer
2 50 (33.56%) Java Developer
3 16 (10.74%) Senior Developer
4 15 (10.07%) .NET Developer
5 11 (7.383%) Software Engineer
5 11 (7.383%) SharePoint Developer
6 10 (6.711%) .NET Software Engineer
7 8 (5.369%) WebSphere Developer
7 8 (5.369%) Software Developer
7 8 (5.369%) Analyst
7 8 (5.369%) C# Software Engineer
8 7 (4.698%) Web Developer
8 7 (4.698%) UI Developer
8 7 (4.698%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (4.698%) UI Programmer
9 6 (4.027%) Senior UI Developer
10 5 (3.356%) Architect
10 5 (3.356%) Test Manager
10 5 (3.356%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (3.356%) Interactive Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.725%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (6.711%) N-Tier
3 7 (4.698%) Kindle
4 6 (4.027%) NHS
4 6 (4.027%) Visualisation
5 5 (3.356%) IPTV
5 5 (3.356%) Mainframe
5 5 (3.356%) Clustering
5 5 (3.356%) Interactive TV
6 4 (2.685%) W3C
6 4 (2.685%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.013%) Social Network
7 3 (2.013%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.013%) Web 2.0
8 2 (1.342%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.342%) Open Source
8 2 (1.342%) Computer Science
9 1 (0.671%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.671%) Mathematics
9 1 (0.671%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.08%) Linux
2 14 (9.396%) UNIX
3 6 (4.027%) Windows
4 5 (3.356%) Android
5 4 (2.685%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.671%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.671%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.17%) Agile Software Development
2 31 (20.81%) Scrum
3 28 (18.79%) OO
4 22 (14.77%) MVC
5 16 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (9.396%) Multithreading
7 13 (8.725%) Unit Testing
7 13 (8.725%) Web Application Development
8 11 (7.383%) Kanban
8 11 (7.383%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (7.383%) OOP
9 10 (6.711%) UML
9 10 (6.711%) Data Modelling
9 10 (6.711%) SOA
10 9 (6.040%) Content Management
10 9 (6.040%) Document Management
11 8 (5.369%) Extreme Programming
11 8 (5.369%) TDD
11 8 (5.369%) ETL
12 7 (4.698%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (51.68%) Java
2 58 (38.93%) SQL
3 51 (34.23%) JavaScript
4 43 (28.86%) C#
5 25 (16.78%) PL/SQL
6 12 (8.054%) XPath
7 10 (6.711%) PHP
8 7 (4.698%) T-SQL
8 7 (4.698%) Ruby
9 6 (4.027%) ActionScript
9 6 (4.027%) Scala
10 4 (2.685%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.013%) C
12 2 (1.342%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.342%) XQuery
13 1 (0.671%) ActionScript 3.0
13 1 (0.671%) Bash shell
13 1 (0.671%) Python
13 1 (0.671%) XAML
13 1 (0.671%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (4.698%) Degree
2 4 (2.685%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.342%) IBM Certification
3 2 (1.342%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.671%) HND
4 1 (0.671%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.698%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.013%) QA
3 2 (1.342%) WCAG
4 1 (0.671%) WAI
4 1 (0.671%) Section 508
System Software
1 4 (2.685%) Tivoli Directory Server
2 1 (0.671%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.671%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.685%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.671%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 43 (28.86%) Oracle
2 18 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 12 (8.054%) Informatica
3 12 (8.054%) Lotus
4 10 (6.711%) Sybase
4 10 (6.711%) IBM
5 9 (6.040%) TIBCO
6 4 (2.685%) Telerik
6 4 (2.685%) JBoss
7 3 (2.013%) Adobe
7 3 (2.013%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.013%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.342%) HP
9 1 (0.671%) Citrix
9 1 (0.671%) BEA
9 1 (0.671%) Sun
9 1 (0.671%) VMware
9 1 (0.671%) Alterian
9 1 (0.671%) Google
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