XML Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire 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 25 22 11
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -11
Contract jobs citing XML 6 10 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.158% 3.676% 11.38%
As % of the Application Development category 15.00% 20.83% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 14
Average daily rate £350 £325 £204
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +59.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £244 £158
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £353 £354
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
Search 11 XML jobs in Bedfordshire
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 40 48 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 21.05% 17.65% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 28 40
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
East of England

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton -4 5 £338 -3.57%
Bedford - 1 £413 -
XML
East of England

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 (70.00%) Web Services
2 12 (60.00%) .NET
2 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (50.00%) C#
4 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (45.00%) Internet
4 9 (45.00%) .NET Framework
5 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (40.00%) Windows
6 7 (35.00%) SQL
7 6 (30.00%) TDD
8 5 (25.00%) DOC1
8 5 (25.00%) Change Management
8 5 (25.00%) HP
8 5 (25.00%) PrintSoft PReS
8 5 (25.00%) Exstream
9 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (20.00%) AOP
9 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (20.00%) Refactoring
9 4 (20.00%) QA
9 4 (20.00%) N-Tier
9 4 (20.00%) SOA
9 4 (20.00%) OO
9 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
9 4 (20.00%) Project Management
10 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
10 3 (15.00%) SharePoint

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 (70.00%) Web Services
2 12 (60.00%) .NET
3 9 (45.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) WCF
4 2 (10.00%) JSON
4 2 (10.00%) XSLT
4 2 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (5.000%) Cocoa
5 1 (5.000%) XML Schema
5 1 (5.000%) J2ME
5 1 (5.000%) J2EE
5 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.000%) CSS
5 1 (5.000%) Ajax
5 1 (5.000%) NHibernate
5 1 (5.000%) WF
5 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (5.000%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Papyrus
2 2 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (10.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.000%) IIS
3 1 (5.000%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (5.000%) Exstream Dialogue
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) DOC1
1 5 (25.00%) PrintSoft PReS
2 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (10.00%) MySQL
6 1 (5.000%) GIS
6 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.000%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (5.000%) SQLite
6 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (10.00%) Xcode
3 1 (5.000%) NUnit
3 1 (5.000%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.000%) Subversion
3 1 (5.000%) PhoneGap
3 1 (5.000%) Appcelerator Titanium
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) XML Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Junior
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Change Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.000%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Junior Web Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Business Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) iPhone
3 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.000%) Social Media
3 1 (5.000%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) TDD
2 5 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) AOP
3 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 4 (20.00%) SOA
3 4 (20.00%) OO
3 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) OOP
5 2 (10.00%) Web Development
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.000%) MVC
6 1 (5.000%) Workflow
6 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.000%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) PHP
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.000%) Objective-C
5 1 (5.000%) VB
5 1 (5.000%) VBA
5 1 (5.000%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) HP
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.000%) Google
4 1 (5.000%) XMPie
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