The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 17 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 Bracknell 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 17 22 20
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -2
Contract jobs citing XML 20 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 8.584% 3.472% 3.911%
As % of the Application Development category 58.82% 20.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 4
Average daily rate £425 £360 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.05% +10.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £17.33 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
34 25 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 14.59% 17.36% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 9
Average daily rate £425 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
Average hourly rate £17.33 £28.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.12% +86.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Berkshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 26 (96.30%) HTML
2 25 (92.59%) JavaScript
3 19 (70.37%) SQL
4 16 (59.26%) Java
4 16 (59.26%) CSS
4 16 (59.26%) JSP
4 16 (59.26%) E-Commerce
5 15 (55.56%) Ajax
5 15 (55.56%) J2EE
6 14 (51.85%) JUnit
6 14 (51.85%) EJB
6 14 (51.85%) JMS
6 14 (51.85%) WebSphere
6 14 (51.85%) JSTL
7 13 (48.15%) IBM
8 10 (37.04%) Retail
9 7 (25.93%) Marketing
9 7 (25.93%) Digital Marketing
9 7 (25.93%) Flash
10 4 (14.81%) XSLT
11 3 (11.11%) Performance Testing
11 3 (11.11%) Automated Testing
11 3 (11.11%) Software Testing
12 2 (7.407%) RAD
12 2 (7.407%) Web Development
12 2 (7.407%) UNIX
12 2 (7.407%) Adobe
12 2 (7.407%) ETL
12 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET
12 2 (7.407%) Oracle

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 26 (96.30%) HTML
2 16 (59.26%) CSS
2 16 (59.26%) JSP
3 15 (55.56%) J2EE
3 15 (55.56%) Ajax
4 14 (51.85%) WebSphere
4 14 (51.85%) JSTL
4 14 (51.85%) EJB
4 14 (51.85%) JMS
5 7 (25.93%) Flash
6 4 (14.81%) XSLT
7 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET
7 2 (7.407%) .NET
8 1 (3.704%) ADO.NET
8 1 (3.704%) JDBC
8 1 (3.704%) EDI
8 1 (3.704%) Servlets
8 1 (3.704%) XSL
8 1 (3.704%) XML Schema
8 1 (3.704%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.407%) Magento
2 1 (3.704%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
1 2 (7.407%) DB2
2 1 (3.704%) MS Access
2 1 (3.704%) TOAD
2 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) JUnit
General
1 10 (37.04%) Retail
2 7 (25.93%) Marketing
3 1 (3.704%) Finance
3 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (96.30%) Developer
2 12 (44.44%) WebSphere Developer
3 9 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Systems Developer
5 2 (7.407%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.407%) E-Commerce Web Developer
6 1 (3.704%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.704%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.704%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Consultant
6 1 (3.704%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.704%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.704%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.407%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) E-Commerce
2 7 (25.93%) Digital Marketing
3 3 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 3 (11.11%) Automated Testing
3 3 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 2 (7.407%) Web Development
4 2 (7.407%) ETL
4 2 (7.407%) RAD
5 1 (3.704%) HOOD
5 1 (3.704%) MVC
5 1 (3.704%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) JavaScript
2 19 (70.37%) SQL
3 16 (59.26%) Java
4 2 (7.407%) PHP
4 2 (7.407%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.704%) C#
5 1 (3.704%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.704%) VB.NET
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) IBM
2 2 (7.407%) Adobe
2 2 (7.407%) Oracle
3 1 (3.704%) Lotus