Cambridge XSL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) skills within the Cambridge 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Sussex Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	54
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.901 %	2.581 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£349
% change on same period last year	+1.93 %
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	£39.78	£24.29
% change on same period last year	+63.74 %
Application Development Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	111	155
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.146 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	30	28
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£287
Average daily rate	£337	£294
% change on same period last year	+14.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.38	£34.37
Average hourly rate	£30.15	£35.71
% change on same period last year	-15.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.92	£37.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
XSL Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

XSL
Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (100.00 %) PHP 1 1 (100.00 %) MySQL 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) MySQL
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) PHP