The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML 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 Application Development category for the Buckinghamshire 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 Markup Language (XML)
Rank 32 31 40
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +9
Contract jobs citing XML 41 46 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 5.131% 4.559% 3.700%
As % of the Application Development category 19.71% 23.83% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 23 15
Average daily rate £425 £308 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.21% -10.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £291 £267 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £373 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
208 193 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.03% 19.13% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 103 104
Average daily rate £325 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
South East

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +1 25 £463 +54.16%
High Wycombe -2 2 £338 +5.46%
Gerrards Cross - 2 £188 -
Marlow -2 1 - -
Bletchley - 1 - -
Aylesbury - 1 - -
Iver - 1 £300 -
XML
South East

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 25 (37.88%) Web Services
2 22 (33.33%) .NET
3 19 (28.79%) C#
4 18 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 18 (27.27%) CSS
5 16 (24.24%) UML
5 16 (24.24%) Agile Software Development
6 15 (22.73%) SQL
7 14 (21.21%) Oracle
7 14 (21.21%) XSLT
7 14 (21.21%) JMS
8 13 (19.70%) HTML
8 13 (19.70%) Java
8 13 (19.70%) Finance
8 13 (19.70%) Ajax
9 12 (18.18%) SOA
9 12 (18.18%) OO
9 12 (18.18%) SOAP
10 11 (16.67%) SQL Server
10 11 (16.67%) WSDL
10 11 (16.67%) Middleware
10 11 (16.67%) MVC
10 11 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (15.15%) jQuery
11 10 (15.15%) Scrum
11 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
12 9 (13.64%) BPEL
13 8 (12.12%) Web 2.0
13 8 (12.12%) JSON
13 8 (12.12%) Eclipse

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 25 (37.88%) Web Services
2 22 (33.33%) .NET
3 18 (27.27%) CSS
4 14 (21.21%) XSLT
4 14 (21.21%) JMS
5 13 (19.70%) Ajax
5 13 (19.70%) HTML
6 12 (18.18%) SOAP
7 11 (16.67%) Middleware
7 11 (16.67%) WSDL
8 10 (15.15%) jQuery
9 8 (12.12%) JSON
9 8 (12.12%) JDBC
10 7 (10.61%) J2EE
10 7 (10.61%) ASP.NET
10 7 (10.61%) Spring
10 7 (10.61%) REST
11 6 (9.091%) Dojo
11 6 (9.091%) WCF
11 6 (9.091%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 8 (12.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (10.61%) Oracle Service Bus
3 6 (9.091%) SharePoint
3 6 (9.091%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (4.545%) ESB
4 3 (4.545%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (3.030%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.515%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.515%) Drupal
6 1 (1.515%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.515%) CMS
6 1 (1.515%) Kentico
6 1 (1.515%) SilverStripe
Applications
1 6 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.545%) MS Office
3 2 (3.030%) Photoshop
3 2 (3.030%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (3.030%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (3.030%) SAP CRM
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.515%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.12%) HTTP
1 8 (12.12%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.545%) SMTP
3 2 (3.030%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.61%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (7.576%) MySQL
3 5 (7.576%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (7.576%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (4.545%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (1.515%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 1 (1.515%) BODI
7 1 (1.515%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.515%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.515%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.515%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.515%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (12.12%) Eclipse
3 7 (10.61%) Ant
4 5 (7.576%) JDeveloper
5 3 (4.545%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.030%) Maven
7 1 (1.515%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (1.515%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.515%) Subversion
7 1 (1.515%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (1.515%) JUnit
7 1 (1.515%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (19.70%) Finance
2 7 (10.61%) Retail
3 3 (4.545%) Banking
4 2 (3.030%) Spanish Language
4 2 (3.030%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.515%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.515%) Marketing
5 1 (1.515%) Automotive
5 1 (1.515%) Legal
5 1 (1.515%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.515%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (54.55%) Developer
2 11 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 9 (13.64%) Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) Architect
4 7 (10.61%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (9.091%) Lead Developer
5 6 (9.091%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.091%) C# Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Oracle SOA Developer
6 5 (7.576%) SOA Developer
6 5 (7.576%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (6.061%) JavaScript Developer
7 4 (6.061%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.061%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.061%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.545%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.545%) Administrator
8 3 (4.545%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.545%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Web 2.0
2 6 (9.091%) Open Source
3 2 (3.030%) NHS
4 1 (1.515%) IVR
4 1 (1.515%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.515%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.515%) SaaS
4 1 (1.515%) Statistics
4 1 (1.515%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.091%) Linux
2 5 (7.576%) Windows
3 3 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.030%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.515%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (1.515%) UNIX
5 1 (1.515%) AIX
5 1 (1.515%) Solaris
5 1 (1.515%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.24%) UML
1 16 (24.24%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (18.18%) OO
2 12 (18.18%) SOA
3 11 (16.67%) MVC
4 10 (15.15%) Scrum
5 9 (13.64%) BPEL
6 7 (10.61%) Workflow
6 7 (10.61%) CRM
6 7 (10.61%) Use Case
6 7 (10.61%) Unit Testing
6 7 (10.61%) Software Architecture
7 6 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
8 5 (7.576%) Data Modelling
8 5 (7.576%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (6.061%) Web Development
9 4 (6.061%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (6.061%) Automation Testing
9 4 (6.061%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.79%) C#
2 18 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 15 (22.73%) SQL
4 13 (19.70%) Java
5 7 (10.61%) XPath
6 6 (9.091%) ActionScript
6 6 (9.091%) ActionScript 2.0
7 5 (7.576%) XQuery
7 5 (7.576%) Perl
7 5 (7.576%) PHP
8 4 (6.061%) C++
9 3 (4.545%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.545%) Bash shell
10 2 (3.030%) ABAP
11 1 (1.515%) VB6
11 1 (1.515%) Groovy
11 1 (1.515%) VB
11 1 (1.515%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.515%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.545%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.030%) ISEB
2 2 (3.030%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.515%) MCP
3 1 (1.515%) MCAD
3 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.515%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (1.515%) MCITP
3 1 (1.515%) MCPD
3 1 (1.515%) Degree
3 1 (1.515%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.545%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.515%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (1.515%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.515%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 2 (3.030%) SCOM
1 2 (3.030%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (21.21%) Oracle
2 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.061%) Business Objects
4 3 (4.545%) Dundas
4 3 (4.545%) IBM
4 3 (4.545%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (3.030%) SAP
5 2 (3.030%) Adobe
6 1 (1.515%) HP
6 1 (1.515%) VMware
6 1 (1.515%) Capita
6 1 (1.515%) Omniture
6 1 (1.515%) JBoss
6 1 (1.515%) Ektron