The first table below looks at the demand for XMetaL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XMetaL over the 3 months to 21 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 Applications category for the City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
JustSystems XMetaL
Rank 201 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XMetaL 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% - -
As % of the Applications category 0.261% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
765 966 1094
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 11.90% 12.29% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 635 763
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 59 70
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.75 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -16.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.85 £11.90 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.95 £35.00 £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
XMetaL
London

XMetaL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XMetaL across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

City of London XMetaL Jobs Demand Trend

XMetaL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XMetaL across the City of London region.

City of London XMetaL Daily Rate Trend

XMetaL
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XMetaL 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 XMetaL.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) VBA
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSL
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (100.00%) RDF
1 3 (100.00%) Publishing
1 3 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 3 (100.00%) Semantic Web
1 3 (100.00%) MarkLogic

XMetaL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XMetaL 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 XMetaL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSL
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) XML Schema
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MarkLogic
General
1 3 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) XML Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 3 (100.00%) Semantic Web
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) VBA