The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 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 Aberdeen 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 24 - 24
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML 1 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 0.714% - 2.174%
As % of the Application Development category 3.333% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £250 - £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
30 13 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 21.43% 6.667% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 15
Average daily rate £325 £300 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -14.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £328 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £75.00 - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Scotland

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing XML 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 XML.

1 13 (100.00%) CSS
2 12 (92.31%) HTML
2 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
2 12 (92.31%) Intranet
2 12 (92.31%) Document Management
3 9 (69.23%) jQuery
4 8 (61.54%) Lotus
4 8 (61.54%) Lotus Notes
4 8 (61.54%) SharePoint
4 8 (61.54%) .NET
4 8 (61.54%) Web Services
4 8 (61.54%) XSLT
4 8 (61.54%) C#
4 8 (61.54%) OOP
4 8 (61.54%) CAML
4 8 (61.54%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (53.85%) Finance
5 7 (53.85%) Kindle
5 7 (53.85%) OO
5 7 (53.85%) ISO 9001
6 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (30.77%) Citrix
6 4 (30.77%) Apache
6 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (30.77%) Internet
6 4 (30.77%) Kofax

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing XML 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 XML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
2 12 (92.31%) HTML
3 9 (69.23%) jQuery
4 8 (61.54%) .NET
4 8 (61.54%) Web Services
4 8 (61.54%) XSLT
4 8 (61.54%) CAML
5 1 (7.692%) HTML5
5 1 (7.692%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 8 (61.54%) Lotus Notes
1 8 (61.54%) SharePoint
1 8 (61.54%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
2 4 (30.77%) IIS
2 4 (30.77%) LiveLink
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) Intranet
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Systems Support
3 4 (30.77%) Team Leader
3 4 (30.77%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Kindle
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
1 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (30.77%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Document Management
2 8 (61.54%) OOP
3 7 (53.85%) OO
4 4 (30.77%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (30.77%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
2 8 (61.54%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 1 (7.692%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Lotus
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) Kofax
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 4 (30.77%) Open Text