Buckinghamshire XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	24
Rank change on same period last year	-30
Matching contract IT job ads	28	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.087 %
As % of the category below	17.28 %	22.14 %
Daily rates quoted	11	19
Average minimum daily rate	£414	£296
Average daily rate	£432	£312
% change on same period last year	+38.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	16
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£29.03
Average hourly rate	-	£30.56
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£32.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£32.71
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Application Development Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	162	393
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.216 %	0.392 %
Daily rates quoted	52	99
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£275
Average daily rate	£392	£292
% change on same period last year	+33.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.38	£31.17
Average hourly rate	£38.75	£32.18
% change on same period last year	+20.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.13	£33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
XML South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section 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 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	-25	8	£350	+1.44 %
Aylesbury	-5	3	-	-

XML South East

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 41 (43.62 %) HTML 2 36 (38.30 %) .NET 3 35 (37.23 %) SQL 4 34 (36.17 %) Java 5 33 (35.11 %) Oracle 6 30 (31.91 %) Windows 7 28 (29.79 %) JavaScript 8 27 (28.72 %) SQL Server 9 21 (22.34 %) J2EE 10 20 (21.28 %) C# 10 20 (21.28 %) WebServices 11 19 (20.21 %) Security Cleared 12 17 (18.09 %) UML 12 17 (18.09 %) C 12 17 (18.09 %) ASP

13 16 (17.02 %) XSLT 13 16 (17.02 %) JSP 13 16 (17.02 %) Spring 14 15 (15.96 %) JUnit 14 15 (15.96 %) Microsoft 15 14 (14.89 %) Eclipse 15 14 (14.89 %) Internet 15 14 (14.89 %) Ant 16 13 (13.83 %) AJAX 16 13 (13.83 %) WebSphere 17 12 (12.77 %) Content Management 17 12 (12.77 %) Hibernate 17 12 (12.77 %) CSS 17 12 (12.77 %) ASP.NET 17 12 (12.77 %) VB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 41 (43.62 %) HTML 2 36 (38.30 %) .NET 3 21 (22.34 %) J2EE 4 20 (21.28 %) WebServices 5 17 (18.09 %) ASP 6 16 (17.02 %) JSP 6 16 (17.02 %) XSLT 6 16 (17.02 %) Spring 7 13 (13.83 %) AJAX 7 13 (13.83 %) WebSphere 8 12 (12.77 %) Hibernate 8 12 (12.77 %) ASP.NET 8 12 (12.77 %) CSS 9 10 (10.64 %) EJB 10 9 (9.574 %) EDI 11 7 (7.447 %) Servlets 12 6 (6.383 %) SOAP 13 5 (5.319 %) XSL 14 4 (4.255 %) JMS 14 4 (4.255 %) EDIFACT	Application Platforms 1 9 (9.574 %) BizTalk Server 2 7 (7.447 %) CMS 3 5 (5.319 %) JBoss 3 5 (5.319 %) Tomcat 3 5 (5.319 %) MQSeries 4 4 (4.255 %) Apache 5 3 (3.191 %) ColdFusion MX 5 3 (3.191 %) SharePoint 5 3 (3.191 %) ColdFusion 6 2 (2.128 %) IIS 6 2 (2.128 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 2 (2.128 %) ArcGIS 7 1 (1.064 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 1 (1.064 %) TeamSite
Applications 1 9 (9.574 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.191 %) Photoshop 3 1 (1.064 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.064 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.064 %) Fireworks 3 1 (1.064 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 6 (6.383 %) Oracle Financials 2 4 (4.255 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 14 (14.89 %) Internet 2 9 (9.574 %) Intranet 3 3 (3.191 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (28.72 %) SQL Server 2 11 (11.70 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 11 (11.70 %) Oracle 10g 3 10 (10.64 %) MySQL 4 6 (6.383 %) Oracle Reports 4 6 (6.383 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (4.255 %) JasperReports 6 2 (2.128 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (1.064 %) GIS 7 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 1 (1.064 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (1.064 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 1 (1.064 %) Oracle OLAP 7 1 (1.064 %) DB2 7 1 (1.064 %) OLAP 7 1 (1.064 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (1.064 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (1.064 %) DTS 7 1 (1.064 %) ETL 7 1 (1.064 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 15 (15.96 %) JUnit 2 14 (14.89 %) Ant 2 14 (14.89 %) Eclipse 3 10 (10.64 %) Rational Rose 4 7 (7.447 %) FrontPage 5 4 (4.255 %) ProC 5 4 (4.255 %) Flash 5 4 (4.255 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (1.064 %) Oracle Forms 6 1 (1.064 %) JDeveloper	General 1 10 (10.64 %) Finance 2 8 (8.511 %) Government 3 2 (2.128 %) Retail 4 1 (1.064 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.064 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.064 %) Advertising 4 1 (1.064 %) Games 4 1 (1.064 %) Banking 4 1 (1.064 %) Electric 4 1 (1.064 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.064 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 62 (65.96 %) Developer 2 18 (19.15 %) Analyst 3 16 (17.02 %) Java Developer 4 14 (14.89 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 9 (9.574 %) Applications Developer 6 7 (7.447 %) Oracle Developer 6 7 (7.447 %) .NET Developer 6 7 (7.447 %) C# Developer 6 7 (7.447 %) Web Developer 6 7 (7.447 %) Support Analyst 7 6 (6.383 %) Team Leader 8 5 (5.319 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 5 (5.319 %) Consultant 8 5 (5.319 %) J2EE Developer 9 4 (4.255 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 4 (4.255 %) EDI Analyst 10 3 (3.191 %) Web Analyst 10 3 (3.191 %) Programmer 10 3 (3.191 %) Lead Developer 10 3 (3.191 %) ColdFusion Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (7.447 %) Management Information System 2 5 (5.319 %) AS400 2 5 (5.319 %) German Language 3 4 (4.255 %) French Language 4 3 (3.191 %) Data Integration 5 2 (2.128 %) Mainframe 6 1 (1.064 %) E-Learning 6 1 (1.064 %) PKI 6 1 (1.064 %) Computer Science 6 1 (1.064 %) Client/Server 6 1 (1.064 %) EMV 6 1 (1.064 %) W3C 6 1 (1.064 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 30 (31.91 %) Windows 2 11 (11.70 %) AIX 2 11 (11.70 %) Linux 2 11 (11.70 %) UNIX 3 9 (9.574 %) Windows NT 3 9 (9.574 %) Windows XP 4 8 (8.511 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (2.128 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.064 %) SUSE 6 1 (1.064 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (1.064 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (20.21 %) Security Cleared 2 17 (18.09 %) UML 3 12 (12.77 %) Content Management 4 11 (11.70 %) RUP 4 11 (11.70 %) DV Cleared 5 9 (9.574 %) SC Cleared 6 6 (6.383 %) Migration 7 5 (5.319 %) ERP 7 5 (5.319 %) PRINCE2 7 5 (5.319 %) SSADM 8 4 (4.255 %) Incident Management 8 4 (4.255 %) Requirements Analysis 9 3 (3.191 %) Validation 9 3 (3.191 %) Agile Software Development 9 3 (3.191 %) OO 9 3 (3.191 %) Data Modelling 9 3 (3.191 %) Business Intelligence 9 3 (3.191 %) B2B 10 2 (2.128 %) Project Management 10 2 (2.128 %) DSDM
Programming Languages 1 35 (37.23 %) SQL 2 34 (36.17 %) Java 3 28 (29.79 %) JavaScript 4 20 (21.28 %) C# 5 17 (18.09 %) C 6 12 (12.77 %) C++ 6 12 (12.77 %) VB 7 11 (11.70 %) PHP 7 11 (11.70 %) PL/SQL 8 9 (9.574 %) VB.NET 8 9 (9.574 %) VB6 9 7 (7.447 %) VBScript 10 6 (6.383 %) Perl 11 4 (4.255 %) Delphi 11 4 (4.255 %) FoxPro (VFP) 12 3 (3.191 %) Transact-SQL 13 2 (2.128 %) ActionScript 14 1 (1.064 %) Embedded C 14 1 (1.064 %) PowerHouse 14 1 (1.064 %) Lingo	Qualifications 1 3 (3.191 %) Degree 2 2 (2.128 %) MCSD 2 2 (2.128 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.255 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 33 (35.11 %) Oracle 2 15 (15.96 %) Microsoft 3 10 (10.64 %) BEA 4 7 (7.447 %) Tridion 5 5 (5.319 %) TIBCO 5 5 (5.319 %) Mercator 6 4 (4.255 %) webMethods 6 4 (4.255 %) Baan 7 3 (3.191 %) Adobe 8 2 (2.128 %) SAP 8 2 (2.128 %) IBM 9 1 (1.064 %) Business Objects 9 1 (1.064 %) Ericsson 9 1 (1.064 %) Informatica 9 1 (1.064 %) Nokia 9 1 (1.064 %) Interwoven 9 1 (1.064 %) Sony