Birmingham XSL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XSL over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Milton Keynes Newport North West Reading Reigate Scotland South East South Wales South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex UK Wales West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	56
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.941 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£275
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£346
% change on same period last year	-12.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.90	£34.20
% change on same period last year	-6.72 %
Application Development Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	97	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.194 %	0.213 %
Daily rates quoted	30	37
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£267
Average daily rate	£394	£301
% change on same period last year	+30.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£334
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.23	£27.78
Average hourly rate	£28.30	£32.64
% change on same period last year	-13.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.37	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.27	£31.42
% change on same period last year	-10.04 %
XSL West Midlands

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.

XSL
Demand Trend

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

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSL
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing XSL 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 XSL.

1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) VB 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance 1 2 (100.00 %) VB6

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing XSL 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 XSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst Programmer 1 2 (100.00 %) Programmer 1 2 (100.00 %) VB Analyst Programmer	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) VB 1 2 (100.00 %) VB6