The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 21 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 Abingdon 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 6 - 7
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Abingdon 3.846% - 16.13%
As % of the Application Development category 16.67% - 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £288
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
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
Abingdon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Abingdon 23.08% 10.81% 35.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £400 - £291
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Oxfordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Abingdon 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 Abingdon region.

Abingdon 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 Abingdon region.

Abingdon XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Abingdon 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Symfony
1 1 (50.00%) Zend
1 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (50.00%) PHP5
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Abingdon 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
1 1 (50.00%) Symfony
1 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Process Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Project Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Zend