The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke 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 31 13 20
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +7
Contract jobs citing XML 9 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 4.545% 8.791% 4.472%
As % of the Application Development category 10.34% 20.25% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
Average daily rate £400 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -3.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
Average hourly rate £39.00 - £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
87 79 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 43.94% 43.41% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 26 25
Average daily rate £350 £363 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -5.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 13
Average hourly rate £39.00 £20.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -42.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Hampshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 19 (90.48%) TDD
2 16 (76.19%) Web Services
3 15 (71.43%) OO
3 15 (71.43%) Subversion
4 14 (66.67%) C#
5 12 (57.14%) SQL
5 12 (57.14%) Selenium
5 12 (57.14%) WCF
5 12 (57.14%) BDD
5 12 (57.14%) SpecFlow
6 11 (52.38%) .NET
6 11 (52.38%) Java
7 9 (42.86%) Windows
8 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
8 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET
8 8 (38.10%) MySQL
8 8 (38.10%) T-SQL
8 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2000
8 8 (38.10%) WSDL
8 8 (38.10%) XML Schema
8 8 (38.10%) LINQ
8 8 (38.10%) jQuery
8 8 (38.10%) Kanban
8 8 (38.10%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (38.10%) ReSharper
8 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (38.10%) MVC
8 8 (38.10%) Scrum
8 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2008

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 16 (76.19%) Web Services
2 12 (57.14%) WCF
3 11 (52.38%) .NET
4 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET
4 8 (38.10%) WSDL
4 8 (38.10%) XML Schema
4 8 (38.10%) LINQ
4 8 (38.10%) jQuery
4 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 7 (33.33%) Apache Axis
5 7 (33.33%) Swing
5 7 (33.33%) J2SE
5 7 (33.33%) Java RMI
6 4 (19.05%) HTML
7 2 (9.524%) MooTools
7 2 (9.524%) Ajax
7 2 (9.524%) XSLT
8 1 (4.762%) SOAP
8 1 (4.762%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 7 (33.33%) ESB
2 4 (19.05%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (9.524%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (9.524%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
1 8 (38.10%) MySQL
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2000
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (71.43%) Subversion
2 12 (57.14%) Selenium
2 12 (57.14%) SpecFlow
3 8 (38.10%) ReSharper
3 8 (38.10%) Git (software)
4 7 (33.33%) Eclipse
4 7 (33.33%) JUnit
5 4 (19.05%) WATIR
5 4 (19.05%) FitNesse
5 4 (19.05%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (4.762%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Developer
2 8 (38.10%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 8 (38.10%) .NET Developer
2 8 (38.10%) C# Developer
2 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET Developer
2 8 (38.10%) C# .NET Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Agile .NET Developer
2 8 (38.10%) Agile C# Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Java Swing Developer
5 4 (19.05%) Team Leader
5 4 (19.05%) Test Team Leader
5 4 (19.05%) Analyst
5 4 (19.05%) Test Analyst
6 2 (9.524%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Lead Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) TDD
2 15 (71.43%) OO
3 12 (57.14%) BDD
4 8 (38.10%) Kanban
4 8 (38.10%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (38.10%) MVC
4 8 (38.10%) Scrum
5 7 (33.33%) OOD
6 4 (19.05%) SOA
7 3 (14.29%) Integration Testing
8 2 (9.524%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) C#
2 12 (57.14%) SQL
3 11 (52.38%) Java
4 8 (38.10%) T-SQL
5 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (19.05%) Perl
6 4 (19.05%) C++
6 4 (19.05%) C
6 4 (19.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 2 (9.524%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Software AG
1 7 (33.33%) webMethods
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (9.524%) Microsoft