The first table below looks at the demand for XML 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 XML over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 26 21 21
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs citing XML 26 33 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 6.736% 8.730% 9.320%
As % of the Application Development category 21.67% 26.61% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 33
Average daily rate £600 £600 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £449 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £662 £710
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 124 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.09% 32.80% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 78 135
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
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 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
London

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 20 (54.05%) SQL
1 20 (54.05%) XSLT
2 18 (48.65%) C#
3 17 (45.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (40.54%) C++
5 14 (37.84%) Derivative
6 13 (35.14%) OO
7 12 (32.43%) Java
7 12 (32.43%) Banking
8 11 (29.73%) Linux
9 10 (27.03%) Oracle
9 10 (27.03%) SQL Server
9 10 (27.03%) Spring
10 9 (24.32%) Investment Banking
10 9 (24.32%) Multithreading
10 9 (24.32%) Front Office
10 9 (24.32%) VBA
11 8 (21.62%) HTML
11 8 (21.62%) WCF
11 8 (21.62%) DataSynapse
11 8 (21.62%) Degree
12 7 (18.92%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (18.92%) Finance
13 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
13 6 (16.22%) UNIX
13 6 (16.22%) Technical Architecture
13 6 (16.22%) Analytics
14 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
14 5 (13.51%) Maven
14 5 (13.51%) Hibernate

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 20 (54.05%) XSLT
2 10 (27.03%) Spring
3 8 (21.62%) HTML
3 8 (21.62%) WCF
4 5 (13.51%) Hibernate
5 4 (10.81%) JMS
5 4 (10.81%) Java EE
6 3 (8.108%) Java SE
6 3 (8.108%) WebSphere
6 3 (8.108%) Murex Flex
6 3 (8.108%) LAMP
6 3 (8.108%) CSS
7 2 (5.405%) XML Schema
7 2 (5.405%) Web Services
7 2 (5.405%) XSD
7 2 (5.405%) CSS3
8 1 (2.703%) EJB 3.0
8 1 (2.703%) Ajax
8 1 (2.703%) JSF
8 1 (2.703%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Apache
1 4 (10.81%) WebLogic
1 4 (10.81%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (2.703%) Lync
2 1 (2.703%) Captiva
2 1 (2.703%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
2 1 (2.703%) IIS
2 1 (2.703%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.108%) Murex MxG2000
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) HTTP
2 1 (2.703%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.108%) MySQL
3 1 (2.703%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Maven
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) Hudson
3 2 (5.405%) Xcode
4 1 (2.703%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 1 (2.703%) Ant
General
1 12 (32.43%) Banking
2 9 (24.32%) Investment Banking
2 9 (24.32%) Front Office
3 7 (18.92%) Finance
4 3 (8.108%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (8.108%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.703%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 29 (78.38%) Developer
2 13 (35.14%) C# Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Java Developer
4 7 (18.92%) Analyst
5 3 (8.108%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Mobile Developer
6 2 (5.405%) iOS Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Payments Business Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) XML Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Equity Derivatives Business Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) Client Relationship Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Excel Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Business Support Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.703%) Developer Analyst
7 1 (2.703%) Relationships Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 17 (45.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (37.84%) Derivative
3 4 (10.81%) Grid Computing
4 3 (8.108%) Mathematics
5 2 (5.405%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.703%) Open Source
6 1 (2.703%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.703%) Wiki
6 1 (2.703%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.703%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 6 (16.22%) UNIX
3 2 (5.405%) Windows
3 2 (5.405%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) OO
2 9 (24.32%) Multithreading
3 7 (18.92%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (16.22%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (16.22%) Analytics
5 5 (13.51%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (13.51%) TDD
5 5 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (10.81%) Performance Testing
6 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.108%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.108%) Risk Management
8 2 (5.405%) E-Commerce
8 2 (5.405%) Scrum
9 1 (2.703%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.703%) Software Architecture
9 1 (2.703%) Data Transformation
9 1 (2.703%) Unit Testing
9 1 (2.703%) Data Migration
9 1 (2.703%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 18 (48.65%) C#
3 15 (40.54%) C++
4 12 (32.43%) Java
5 9 (24.32%) VBA
6 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
7 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 4 (10.81%) Bash shell
8 3 (8.108%) XPath
8 3 (8.108%) Perl
8 3 (8.108%) PL/SQL
9 2 (5.405%) VB
9 2 (5.405%) Objective-C
10 1 (2.703%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Oracle
2 8 (21.62%) DataSynapse
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.108%) Sybase
4 3 (8.108%) Murex
4 3 (8.108%) Adobe
5 1 (2.703%) Aveksa
5 1 (2.703%) Reuters
5 1 (2.703%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.703%) Symantec