The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 23 29
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +6
Contract jobs citing XML 3 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.630% 5.333% 2.479%
As % of the Application Development category 13.04% 23.08% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
Average daily rate £200 £313 £254
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.00% +23.03%
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
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
23 52 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 12.50% 23.11% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 20
Average daily rate £325 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £36.25 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
South Wales

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 6 (54.55%) HTML
1 6 (54.55%) jQuery
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
3 4 (36.36%) .NET
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 4 (36.36%) Java
3 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 4 (36.36%) Web Services
3 4 (36.36%) UNIX
3 4 (36.36%) Ajax
4 3 (27.27%) Content Management
4 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (27.27%) VB.NET
4 3 (27.27%) PHP
4 3 (27.27%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) Web Development
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Open Source
5 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
5 2 (18.18%) Hudson
5 2 (18.18%) CSS3
5 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
5 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (18.18%) Ruby
5 2 (18.18%) Perl
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) Linux

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 6 (54.55%) HTML
1 6 (54.55%) jQuery
2 4 (36.36%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) Ajax
3 2 (18.18%) CSS3
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) XSL
3 2 (18.18%) Middleware
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.091%) Flash
4 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
4 1 (9.091%) HTML5
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
4 1 (9.091%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.091%) IIS
2 1 (9.091%) Kentico
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Photoshop
1 1 (9.091%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
2 1 (9.091%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
1 2 (18.18%) Hudson
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Junior Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Junior Software Developer
4 1 (9.091%) UML Business Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Junior
4 1 (9.091%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Open Source
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.091%) Web 2.0
2 1 (9.091%) NHS
2 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
2 1 (9.091%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) UNIX
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Content Management
1 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (27.27%) Web Development
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
2 2 (18.18%) OO
2 2 (18.18%) TDD
3 1 (9.091%) Data Management
3 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) RUP
3 1 (9.091%) SOA
3 1 (9.091%) ETL
3 1 (9.091%) UML
3 1 (9.091%) Data Governance
3 1 (9.091%) Master Data Management
3 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) VB.NET
3 3 (27.27%) PHP
3 3 (27.27%) C#
4 2 (18.18%) Ruby
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
5 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) ISEB
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Talend