The first table below looks at the demand for XQuery 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 XQuery 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 Programming Languages 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XQuery
Rank 195 211 235
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +24
Contract jobs citing XQuery 8 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.125% 0.089% 0.102%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.300% 0.243% 0.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
Average daily rate £325 £425 £700
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% -39.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £406 £428
% change year-on-year
-13.84% -4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
2664 2885 4138
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 41.76% 36.68% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2061 2166 3141
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 37
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.55% +16.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.39 £15.00 £17.24
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XQuery
London

XQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London XQuery Jobs Demand Trend

XQuery
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London XQuery Daily Rate Trend

XQuery
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XQuery across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London XQuery Daily Rate Histogram

XQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

1 13 (72.22%) XSLT
2 12 (66.67%) Java
3 10 (55.56%) CSS
3 10 (55.56%) MarkLogic
4 9 (50.00%) Publishing
4 9 (50.00%) TDD
4 9 (50.00%) XML
4 9 (50.00%) HTML
5 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
5 8 (44.44%) Apache
5 8 (44.44%) Finance
5 8 (44.44%) RESTful
6 7 (38.89%) Semantic Web
6 7 (38.89%) MVC
6 7 (38.89%) Spring
6 7 (38.89%) Web Services
7 6 (33.33%) JMS
7 6 (33.33%) JSP
7 6 (33.33%) Struts
7 6 (33.33%) J2EE
7 6 (33.33%) MySQL
7 6 (33.33%) Squid
7 6 (33.33%) CIPD
7 6 (33.33%) Spring MVC
7 6 (33.33%) jQuery
7 6 (33.33%) XPath
7 6 (33.33%) JSTL
8 5 (27.78%) Scrum
9 4 (22.22%) Banking
9 4 (22.22%) CMS

XQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XQuery 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 XQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (72.22%) XSLT
2 10 (55.56%) CSS
3 9 (50.00%) XML
3 9 (50.00%) HTML
4 8 (44.44%) RESTful
5 7 (38.89%) Spring
5 7 (38.89%) Web Services
6 6 (33.33%) JMS
6 6 (33.33%) JSP
6 6 (33.33%) Struts
6 6 (33.33%) J2EE
6 6 (33.33%) Spring MVC
6 6 (33.33%) jQuery
6 6 (33.33%) JSTL
7 4 (22.22%) REST
8 3 (16.67%) .NET
8 3 (16.67%) XSD
9 2 (11.11%) Middleware
9 2 (11.11%) JRules
9 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Apache
2 4 (22.22%) CMS
3 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 2 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (5.556%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) MarkLogic
2 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
3 6 (33.33%) MySQL
4 2 (11.11%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.556%) Sqoop
5 1 (5.556%) Big Data
5 1 (5.556%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.556%) Pentaho
5 1 (5.556%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.556%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (5.556%) Maven
General
1 9 (50.00%) Publishing
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) Architect
3 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Data Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Functional Architect
6 1 (5.556%) XML Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Data Mining Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Business Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Applications Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.556%) Data Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Semantic Web
2 3 (16.67%) Data Conversion
2 3 (16.67%) W3C
3 1 (5.556%) SWIFT
3 1 (5.556%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.556%) Ontologies
3 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.556%) Physics
3 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.556%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) UNIX
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) TDD
2 7 (38.89%) MVC
3 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) RDF
5 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
5 2 (11.11%) UML
5 2 (11.11%) SOA
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Kanban
5 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 1 (5.556%) Analytics
6 1 (5.556%) Straight-Through Processing
6 1 (5.556%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.556%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.556%) Cash Management
6 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.556%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) XPath
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) C#
6 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
6 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.556%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) CIPD
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Squid
2 1 (5.556%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Splunk
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Sitecore
2 1 (5.556%) Talend
2 1 (5.556%) Informatica
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