The first table below looks at the demand for WSDL 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 WSDL over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
Rank 120 105 105
Rank change year-on-year
-15 0
Contract jobs citing WSDL 3 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.119% 0.188% 0.245%
As % of the Application Development category 0.403% 1.144% 1.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
Average daily rate - £400 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £380 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
745 437 605
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 29.53% 16.41% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 181 329
Average daily rate £350 £314 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.55% -10.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 5
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £30.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £32.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
WSDL
UK

WSDL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland WSDL Jobs Demand Trend

WSDL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland WSDL Daily Rate Trend

WSDL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WSDL within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -14 3 - - 1
West Lothian - - - -
WSDL
UK

WSDL
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing WSDL 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 WSDL.

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Equities
3 1 (33.33%) Front Office
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) J2SE
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit

WSDL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing WSDL 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 WSDL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) J2SE
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Sybase
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