The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XAML 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 Programming Languages category for the Canary Wharf 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 Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank - 46 60
Contract jobs citing XAML 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - 0.785% 0.194%
As % of the Programming Languages category - 1.657% 0.417%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £650 £750
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 - -
All Programming Languages
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
165 181 240
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 42.42% 47.38% 46.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 128 190
Average daily rate £600 £538 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.62% -2.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XAML
London

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XAML across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Canary Wharf XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XAML across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf XAML Daily Rate Trend

XAML
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) Expression Blend

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing XAML 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 XAML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Expression Blend
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight Developer
1 1 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#