Basildon XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Basildon region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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Rank	11	16
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	7	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	36.84 %	12.50 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£400
Average daily rate	£285	£450
% change on same period last year	-36.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£30.00
% change on same period last year	+30.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.30	£33.12
% change on same period last year	+3.57 %
Application Development Basildon
Matching contract IT job ads	19	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.032 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£418
Average daily rate	£292	£445
% change on same period last year	-34.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£471
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£37.85
Average hourly rate	£37.25	£37.85
% change on same period last year	-1.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.50	£37.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.72	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.69 %
XML Essex

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Basildon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon 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 14 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 13 (92.86 %) WebSphere 3 12 (85.71 %) SQL 3 12 (85.71 %) UNIX 4 9 (64.29 %) Java 5 8 (57.14 %) Oracle 5 8 (57.14 %) OO 6 7 (50.00 %) Marketing 7 6 (42.86 %) FatWire 7 6 (42.86 %) HTTP 7 6 (42.86 %) HTML 7 6 (42.86 %) JSP 7 6 (42.86 %) SOAP 7 6 (42.86 %) Struts 7 6 (42.86 %) WebServices

8 5 (35.71 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 5 (35.71 %) Linux 8 5 (35.71 %) Shell Script 9 4 (28.57 %) Automotive 9 4 (28.57 %) CMS 9 4 (28.57 %) Content Management 9 4 (28.57 %) RAD 9 4 (28.57 %) CSS 9 4 (28.57 %) JDBC 9 4 (28.57 %) Ant 9 4 (28.57 %) JavaScript 9 4 (28.57 %) Perl 10 3 (21.43 %) Windows 10 3 (21.43 %) XML Schema 10 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon 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 14 (100.00 %) J2EE 2 13 (92.86 %) WebSphere 3 6 (42.86 %) HTML 3 6 (42.86 %) JSP 3 6 (42.86 %) SOAP 3 6 (42.86 %) Struts 3 6 (42.86 %) WebServices 4 4 (28.57 %) CSS 4 4 (28.57 %) JDBC 5 3 (21.43 %) XML Schema 6 2 (14.29 %) JRules 6 2 (14.29 %) XSLT 7 1 (7.143 %) SAX	Application Platforms 1 5 (35.71 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 4 (28.57 %) CMS 3 1 (7.143 %) JBoss
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 6 (42.86 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (7.143 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 4 (28.57 %) Ant 2 3 (21.43 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 2 3 (21.43 %) Log4j
General 1 7 (50.00 %) Marketing 2 4 (28.57 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 11 (78.57 %) Developer 2 4 (28.57 %) J2EE Developer 3 3 (21.43 %) Trainer 3 3 (21.43 %) Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) Report Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Developer Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 12 (85.71 %) UNIX 2 5 (35.71 %) Linux 3 3 (21.43 %) Windows 4 1 (7.143 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (57.14 %) OO 2 4 (28.57 %) Content Management 2 4 (28.57 %) RAD 3 3 (21.43 %) Validation 4 2 (14.29 %) Internet Marketing 4 2 (14.29 %) CRM 4 2 (14.29 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 12 (85.71 %) SQL 2 9 (64.29 %) Java 3 5 (35.71 %) Shell Script 4 4 (28.57 %) JavaScript 4 4 (28.57 %) Perl 5 3 (21.43 %) Korn 6 1 (7.143 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) Degree	Vendors 1 8 (57.14 %) Oracle 2 6 (42.86 %) FatWire 3 3 (21.43 %) ILOG 4 1 (7.143 %) Business Objects