The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 33 27 17
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -10
Contract jobs citing XML 6 22 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.829% 5.213% 8.429%
As % of the Application Development category 8.108% 13.84% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
Average daily rate £280 £305 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.19% -18.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +3.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 159 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.56% 37.68% 38.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 80 53
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £213 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.70 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Cambridgeshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 19 (63.33%) HTML
2 18 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (50.00%) CSS
4 14 (46.67%) SQL
4 14 (46.67%) Java
5 11 (36.67%) jQuery
6 9 (30.00%) Web Services
6 9 (30.00%) MVC
7 8 (26.67%) PHP
7 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET
7 8 (26.67%) Linux
7 8 (26.67%) C#
7 8 (26.67%) .NET
8 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
8 7 (23.33%) UNIX
8 7 (23.33%) SOAP
9 6 (20.00%) Windows
9 6 (20.00%) MySQL
9 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
9 6 (20.00%) Ajax
9 6 (20.00%) JIRA
10 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
10 5 (16.67%) Scrum
10 5 (16.67%) JSON
10 5 (16.67%) OO
10 5 (16.67%) Apache
10 5 (16.67%) CMS
10 5 (16.67%) ISEB
10 5 (16.67%) Memcached

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 19 (63.33%) HTML
2 15 (50.00%) CSS
3 11 (36.67%) jQuery
4 9 (30.00%) Web Services
5 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET
5 8 (26.67%) .NET
6 7 (23.33%) SOAP
7 6 (20.00%) Ajax
8 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
8 5 (16.67%) JSON
8 5 (16.67%) Memcached
9 4 (13.33%) Node.js
9 4 (13.33%) CSS3
9 4 (13.33%) Symfony
9 4 (13.33%) RESTful
9 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (13.33%) Java EE
10 3 (10.00%) Spring
10 3 (10.00%) Hibernate
10 3 (10.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) Apache
1 5 (16.67%) CMS
2 4 (13.33%) concrete5
3 3 (10.00%) WordPress
3 3 (10.00%) Drupal
4 2 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (6.667%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.333%) IIS
5 1 (3.333%) Documentum
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Photoshop
1 2 (6.667%) GIMP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Intranet
1 2 (6.667%) Extranet
2 1 (3.333%) Network Security
2 1 (3.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) MySQL
3 4 (13.33%) Redis
3 4 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) Git (software)
2 4 (13.33%) Subversion
3 3 (10.00%) JSUnit
4 1 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.333%) Selenium
4 1 (3.333%) JMeter
4 1 (3.333%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.333%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (3.333%) QUnit
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
1 3 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.333%) Electronics
2 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) PHP Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.667%) UI Programmer
6 2 (6.667%) Applications Developer
6 2 (6.667%) UI Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Agile Test Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Web Applications Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Test Development Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Tester
7 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.333%) Streaming Media
2 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.333%) Taxonomies
2 1 (3.333%) Animation
2 1 (3.333%) E-Learning
2 1 (3.333%) W3C
2 1 (3.333%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) UNIX
3 6 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) MVC
2 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (16.67%) Scrum
3 5 (16.67%) OO
4 4 (13.33%) SEO
4 4 (13.33%) OOP
4 4 (13.33%) TDD
4 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
5 3 (10.00%) OOD
6 2 (6.667%) Workflow
6 2 (6.667%) Process Management
6 2 (6.667%) Compatibility Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Content Management
6 2 (6.667%) Information Management
6 2 (6.667%) Logistics
7 1 (3.333%) Business Analysis
7 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Content Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Java
3 8 (26.67%) PHP
3 8 (26.67%) C#
4 4 (13.33%) PHP5
5 3 (10.00%) Ruby
5 3 (10.00%) Python
6 2 (6.667%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.667%) Perl
7 1 (3.333%) C++
7 1 (3.333%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (3.333%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.333%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) ISA Server
1 1 (3.333%) Varnish
1 1 (3.333%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) HP
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
1 4 (13.33%) Zend
2 1 (3.333%) VMware
2 1 (3.333%) Perforce
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Required Technical Skills HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / jQuery, jQuery UI, XML / JSON / AJAX, etc... ASP.NET / C# UI design skills / good at functional design, usability, etc. Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator...
Psonar Ltd
Rate: From £200 to £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013