The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XAML over the 3 months to 20 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 Programming Languages category for the Berkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 114 - 122
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XAML 5 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.206% - 0.205%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.660% - 0.649%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £500 - £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £480 - £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 - £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 - -
All Programming Languages
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
758 673 925
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.15% 21.96% 31.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 323 366
Average daily rate £375 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £431
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 12 92
Average hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £18.50 £32.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XAML
South East

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XAML across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Berkshire XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire XAML Daily Rate Trend

XAML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Reading - 3 - -
Bracknell - 1 £475 -
XAML
South East

XAML
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Phone
3 4 (50.00%) MVVM
3 4 (50.00%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) Silverlight
4 3 (37.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (37.50%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) WPF
5 2 (25.00%) C++
5 2 (25.00%) Photoshop
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Phone 7
6 1 (12.50%) Windows Phone 8
6 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 1 (12.50%) .NET
6 1 (12.50%) MVC
6 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
6 1 (12.50%) Finance
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Expression Blend
6 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 2 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Expression Blend
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Photoshop Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Phone
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Phone 7
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) MVVM
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Reading, Berkshire
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Posted: 16 May 2013