The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheltenham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 12 13 6
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -7
Contract jobs citing XML 5 37 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 6.757% 13.65% 18.00%
As % of the Application Development category 26.32% 43.02% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 12
Average daily rate £325 £425 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +37.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £335 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £465 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
19 86 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 25.68% 31.73% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 41 18
Average daily rate £325 £475 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.57% +58.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £386 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £713 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Gloucestershire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle
3 5 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 5 (50.00%) CSS
3 5 (50.00%) XSL
3 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) Web Development
3 5 (50.00%) System Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Kanban
4 4 (40.00%) Degree
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) C#
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (30.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) TDD
6 1 (10.00%) VB6
6 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (10.00%) XSLT
6 1 (10.00%) XSD
6 1 (10.00%) MS Office
6 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 5 (50.00%) .NET
1 5 (50.00%) CSS
1 5 (50.00%) XSL
1 5 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) XSD
3 1 (10.00%) LINQ
3 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (10.00%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (20.00%) Programmer
4 2 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (10.00%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Scrum
1 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (50.00%) Web Development
1 5 (50.00%) System Testing
1 5 (50.00%) Kanban
2 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (10.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (40.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) VB
4 1 (10.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft