The first table below looks at the demand for the Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 Job Titles advertised for the Stirling 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Developer
Rank 3 2 14
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 28 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 30.11% 37.04% 8.696%
As % of the Job Titles category 33.33% 40.82% 9.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 3
Average daily rate £425 £275 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.54% -42.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £183 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £415 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Job Titles
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
84 49 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 90.32% 90.74% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 59
Average daily rate £350 £325 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -27.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £138 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 £24.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Developer
Scotland

Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Developer across the Stirling region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Stirling Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Stirling Developer Daily Rate Trend

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Developer across the Stirling region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Stirling Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling region that cited Developer in their job title 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 with Developer in their job title.

1 25 (50.00%) Java
2 21 (42.00%) SQL
2 21 (42.00%) XML
3 16 (32.00%) Finance
4 15 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 15 (30.00%) Linux
5 13 (26.00%) Oracle
6 11 (22.00%) Banking
6 11 (22.00%) CSS
6 11 (22.00%) PHP
6 11 (22.00%) HTML
6 11 (22.00%) Web Application Development
7 10 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 10 (20.00%) Web Services
7 10 (20.00%) Scrum
8 9 (18.00%) Spring
8 9 (18.00%) Interactive TV
8 9 (18.00%) IPTV
8 9 (18.00%) Sybase
8 9 (18.00%) Cadis
9 8 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (16.00%) Flash
9 8 (16.00%) UNIX
9 8 (16.00%) ActionScript
9 8 (16.00%) Data Analysis
10 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking
10 7 (14.00%) Hibernate
10 7 (14.00%) T-SQL
10 7 (14.00%) Data Mining
10 7 (14.00%) SQL Server 2008

Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling region that cited Developer in their job title 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 with Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (42.00%) XML
2 11 (22.00%) CSS
2 11 (22.00%) HTML
3 10 (20.00%) Web Services
4 9 (18.00%) Spring
5 8 (16.00%) Flash
6 7 (14.00%) Hibernate
7 6 (12.00%) CSS3
7 6 (12.00%) HTML5
7 6 (12.00%) Java SE
8 5 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
8 5 (10.00%) jQuery
8 5 (10.00%) WebSphere
8 5 (10.00%) XSLT
9 4 (8.000%) J2EE
9 4 (8.000%) JSP
9 4 (8.000%) Silverlight
9 4 (8.000%) Java EE
10 3 (6.000%) Ajax
10 3 (6.000%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.000%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.000%) Drupal
2 1 (2.000%) MQSeries
2 1 (2.000%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.000%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.000%) Fireworks
2 1 (2.000%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.000%) Internet
1 4 (8.000%) Broadband
1 4 (8.000%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (8.000%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.00%) Data Mining
2 7 (14.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (10.00%) DTS
4 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.000%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (6.000%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.000%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (6.000%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (4.000%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.000%) TOAD
7 1 (2.000%) SQLPlus
7 1 (2.000%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (6.000%) Subversion
3 2 (4.000%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.000%) Firebug
4 1 (2.000%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.000%) JUnit
4 1 (2.000%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 16 (32.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.00%) Banking
3 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Interactive Media
4 5 (10.00%) Games
5 4 (8.000%) Retail
6 1 (2.000%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.000%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Interactive TV
1 9 (18.00%) IPTV
2 8 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (8.000%) Video on Demand
3 4 (8.000%) Equities
3 4 (8.000%) Smartphone
3 4 (8.000%) Derivative
4 1 (2.000%) SWIFT
4 1 (2.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.00%) Linux
2 8 (16.00%) UNIX
3 2 (4.000%) Debian
3 2 (4.000%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Web Application Development
2 10 (20.00%) Scrum
3 8 (16.00%) Data Analysis
4 6 (12.00%) ETL
4 6 (12.00%) MVC
5 4 (8.000%) Waterfall
5 4 (8.000%) BDD
5 4 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (8.000%) TDD
6 3 (6.000%) Business Analysis
6 3 (6.000%) RAD
6 3 (6.000%) Unit Testing
7 2 (4.000%) OO
7 2 (4.000%) Migration
7 2 (4.000%) Multithreading
8 1 (2.000%) Web Development
8 1 (2.000%) Business Development
8 1 (2.000%) Workflow
8 1 (2.000%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (2.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Java
2 21 (42.00%) SQL
3 11 (22.00%) PHP
4 10 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 8 (16.00%) ActionScript
6 7 (14.00%) T-SQL
7 5 (10.00%) Ruby
8 4 (8.000%) XPath
9 3 (6.000%) PL/SQL
10 1 (2.000%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.000%) Python
10 1 (2.000%) VBA
10 1 (2.000%) Perl
10 1 (2.000%) C#
10 1 (2.000%) ActionScript 3.0
System Software
1 1 (2.000%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 1 (2.000%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Oracle
2 9 (18.00%) Sybase
2 9 (18.00%) Cadis
3 2 (4.000%) IBM
3 2 (4.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.000%) MKS
4 1 (2.000%) Murex
4 1 (2.000%) Citrix
4 1 (2.000%) TIBCO
4 1 (2.000%) JBoss
4 1 (2.000%) Twitter
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