Cheshire XML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	24
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	72	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	32.14 %	20.09 %
Daily rates quoted	18	8
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£319
Average daily rate	£293	£341
% change on same period last year	-14.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£28.75	£28.38
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£32.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.87	£32.76
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	224	224
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.318 %	0.226 %
Daily rates quoted	36	35
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£308
Average daily rate	£328	£325
% change on same period last year	+0.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.13	£29.12
Average hourly rate	£30.85	£31.48
% change on same period last year	-1.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.57	£33.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.18	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
XML North West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XML across the Cheshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Cheshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	+17	21	£353	-
Warrington	-1	7	£175	-35.18 %
Alderley Edge	-5	4	£213	-
Nantwich	-	3	-	-
Macclesfield	0	2	£325	-
Crewe	-	1	-	-
Wilmslow	-1	1	-	-

XML North West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 68 (53.54 %) Java 2 59 (46.46 %) HTML 3 53 (41.73 %) CSS 4 52 (40.94 %) Oracle 5 50 (39.37 %) WebServices 6 42 (33.07 %) SQL 7 39 (30.71 %) .NET 8 34 (26.77 %) JavaScript 9 32 (25.20 %) J2EE 10 30 (23.62 %) SOAP 11 28 (22.05 %) Windows 12 27 (21.26 %) JSP 13 26 (20.47 %) C# 13 26 (20.47 %) Finance 14 25 (19.69 %) Hibernate

15 24 (18.90 %) SQL Server 16 23 (18.11 %) ASP.NET 16 23 (18.11 %) Swing 17 22 (17.32 %) C++ 18 20 (15.75 %) WSDL 18 20 (15.75 %) Microsoft 18 20 (15.75 %) JAX-RPC 19 19 (14.96 %) ASP 19 19 (14.96 %) Spring 20 18 (14.17 %) PL/SQL 20 18 (14.17 %) OO 21 16 (12.60 %) UNIX 21 16 (12.60 %) XHTML 22 15 (11.81 %) UML 23 14 (11.02 %) XSLT

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 59 (46.46 %) HTML 2 53 (41.73 %) CSS 3 50 (39.37 %) WebServices 4 39 (30.71 %) .NET 5 32 (25.20 %) J2EE 6 30 (23.62 %) SOAP 7 27 (21.26 %) JSP 8 25 (19.69 %) Hibernate 9 23 (18.11 %) Swing 9 23 (18.11 %) ASP.NET 10 20 (15.75 %) WSDL 10 20 (15.75 %) JAX-RPC 11 19 (14.96 %) Spring 11 19 (14.96 %) ASP 12 16 (12.60 %) XHTML 13 14 (11.02 %) XSLT 13 14 (11.02 %) Middleware 14 13 (10.24 %) AJAX 15 11 (8.661 %) .NET Framework 16 8 (6.299 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 10 (7.874 %) Tuxedo 2 5 (3.937 %) SharePoint 2 5 (3.937 %) CMS 3 4 (3.150 %) IIS 3 4 (3.150 %) Apache 4 3 (2.362 %) WebLogic 5 2 (1.575 %) Documentum 5 2 (1.575 %) ArcSDE 5 2 (1.575 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (1.575 %) ArcIMS 6 1 (0.787 %) SAS 6 1 (0.787 %) Oracle 9iAS 6 1 (0.787 %) ColdFusion 6 1 (0.787 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 10 (7.874 %) MS Office 2 6 (4.724 %) MS Excel 3 4 (3.150 %) Photoshop 4 2 (1.575 %) ImageReady 4 2 (1.575 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (0.787 %) Doxygen	Business Applications 1 2 (1.575 %) Navision 2 1 (0.787 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 5 (3.937 %) Intranet 2 4 (3.150 %) HTTP 3 2 (1.575 %) TELNET 4 1 (0.787 %) SSL 4 1 (0.787 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (18.90 %) SQL Server 2 12 (9.449 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (8.661 %) Oracle Reports 4 9 (7.087 %) Oracle 9i 5 8 (6.299 %) Oracle 10g 5 8 (6.299 %) MySQL 6 4 (3.150 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (3.150 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.787 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (0.787 %) Informix 7 1 (0.787 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 1 (0.787 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 9 (7.087 %) Flash 1 9 (7.087 %) Eclipse 2 8 (6.299 %) Dreamweaver 3 7 (5.512 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (5.512 %) JIRA 4 6 (4.724 %) Oracle Forms 5 4 (3.150 %) Ant 6 3 (2.362 %) Subversion 7 2 (1.575 %) FrontPage 7 2 (1.575 %) Oracle APEX 7 2 (1.575 %) JUnit 7 2 (1.575 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (1.575 %) JBuilder 8 1 (0.787 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.787 %) Selenium	General 1 26 (20.47 %) Finance 2 6 (4.724 %) Banking 2 6 (4.724 %) Government 3 4 (3.150 %) Pharmaceutical 3 4 (3.150 %) Education 4 2 (1.575 %) Health 4 2 (1.575 %) Publishing 5 1 (0.787 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (0.787 %) Construction 5 1 (0.787 %) Multimedia 5 1 (0.787 %) Local Government 5 1 (0.787 %) International Banking 5 1 (0.787 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 72 (56.69 %) Developer 2 23 (18.11 %) Java Developer 3 19 (14.96 %) Software Engineer 4 18 (14.17 %) Analyst 5 14 (11.02 %) Web Developer 6 10 (7.874 %) .NET Developer 6 10 (7.874 %) Programmer 7 7 (5.512 %) Test Analyst 7 7 (5.512 %) Technical Analyst 8 6 (4.724 %) PHP Developer 9 5 (3.937 %) Java Programmer 9 5 (3.937 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 5 (3.937 %) Technical Test Analyst 9 5 (3.937 %) Web Designer 9 5 (3.937 %) Java Software Engineer 9 5 (3.937 %) Analyst Programmer 9 5 (3.937 %) Oracle Developer 10 4 (3.150 %) Applications Developer 10 4 (3.150 %) C# Developer 10 4 (3.150 %) J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.512 %) Replication 1 7 (5.512 %) N-Tier 2 4 (3.150 %) W3C 3 2 (1.575 %) Multithreading 4 1 (0.787 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.787 %) Informatics 4 1 (0.787 %) Chemistry 4 1 (0.787 %) RIA
Operating Systems 1 28 (22.05 %) Windows 2 16 (12.60 %) UNIX 3 6 (4.724 %) Linux 4 1 (0.787 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (0.787 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (0.787 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (14.17 %) OO 2 15 (11.81 %) UML 3 14 (11.02 %) E-Commerce 3 14 (11.02 %) SOA 3 14 (11.02 %) Agile Software Development 4 9 (7.087 %) OOD 5 7 (5.512 %) Content Management 6 6 (4.724 %) Software Testing 6 6 (4.724 %) ITIL 7 5 (3.937 %) e-GIF 8 4 (3.150 %) TDD 8 4 (3.150 %) Integration Testing 9 3 (2.362 %) Web Development 9 3 (2.362 %) Document Management 9 3 (2.362 %) RAD 10 2 (1.575 %) Business Intelligence 10 2 (1.575 %) Migration 10 2 (1.575 %) Configuration Management 10 2 (1.575 %) Use Case 10 2 (1.575 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 68 (53.54 %) Java 2 42 (33.07 %) SQL 3 34 (26.77 %) JavaScript 4 26 (20.47 %) C# 5 22 (17.32 %) C++ 6 18 (14.17 %) PL/SQL 7 13 (10.24 %) PHP 8 11 (8.661 %) VB.NET 9 9 (7.087 %) VB 10 8 (6.299 %) XPath 11 6 (4.724 %) C 12 5 (3.937 %) DHTML 13 4 (3.150 %) Perl 14 3 (2.362 %) Transact-SQL 14 3 (2.362 %) VBScript 14 3 (2.362 %) ActionScript 15 1 (0.787 %) VBA 15 1 (0.787 %) Python 15 1 (0.787 %) VB6 15 1 (0.787 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 7 (5.512 %) ISEB 2 6 (4.724 %) ISTQB 3 2 (1.575 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.150 %) WAI 2 3 (2.362 %) WCAG 3 2 (1.575 %) QA	Vendors 1 52 (40.94 %) Oracle 2 20 (15.75 %) Microsoft 3 4 (3.150 %) Cognos 4 3 (2.362 %) Google 5 2 (1.575 %) ESRI 5 2 (1.575 %) Perforce 5 2 (1.575 %) Adobe 5 2 (1.575 %) BEA 5 2 (1.575 %) Borland 6 1 (0.787 %) Red Hat 6 1 (0.787 %) ILOG 6 1 (0.787 %) Macromedia 6 1 (0.787 %) Spotfire