City of London XSD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for XML Schema Definition (XSD) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Fareham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Manchester Norfolk North East North West Reading Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	200	177
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching contract IT job ads	20	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	0.930 %	1.361 %
Daily rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£413
Average daily rate	£467	£432
% change on same period last year	+7.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£483	£451
UK excluding London average daily rate	£385	£452
% change on same period last year	-14.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£41.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£36.69
% change on same period last year	-11.41 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2150	1617
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.835 %	1.715 %
Daily rates quoted	1189	704
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£457
Average daily rate	£436	£493
% change on same period last year	-11.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£529
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.48	£26.98
Average hourly rate	£30.45	£30.26
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.42	£33.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
XSD London

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.

XSD
Demand Trend

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

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XSD across the City of London region.

XSD
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSD across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 28 (96.55 %) XML 2 23 (79.31 %) C# 3 20 (68.97 %) WebServices 4 13 (44.83 %) .NET 5 11 (37.93 %) C++ 5 11 (37.93 %) Java 5 11 (37.93 %) Hibernate 5 11 (37.93 %) Derivative 6 10 (34.48 %) Spring 6 10 (34.48 %) Tangosol 6 10 (34.48 %) Agile Software Development 6 10 (34.48 %) Grid Computing 6 10 (34.48 %) SQL Server 7 9 (31.03 %) XSL 7 9 (31.03 %) Front Office

7 9 (31.03 %) J2SE 7 9 (31.03 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 8 (27.59 %) ASP.NET 8 8 (27.59 %) SQL 9 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 9 6 (20.69 %) OO 9 6 (20.69 %) Microsoft 9 6 (20.69 %) .NET Framework 10 5 (17.24 %) XSLT 10 5 (17.24 %) PL/SQL 11 4 (13.79 %) COM 11 4 (13.79 %) RUP 11 4 (13.79 %) UML 11 4 (13.79 %) OOD 11 4 (13.79 %) E-business

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 28 (96.55 %) XML 2 20 (68.97 %) WebServices 3 13 (44.83 %) .NET 4 11 (37.93 %) Hibernate 5 10 (34.48 %) Spring 6 9 (31.03 %) J2SE 6 9 (31.03 %) XSL 7 8 (27.59 %) ASP.NET 8 6 (20.69 %) .NET Framework 9 5 (17.24 %) XSLT 10 4 (13.79 %) COM 11 3 (10.34 %) ASP 12 2 (6.897 %) J2EE 12 2 (6.897 %) XML Schema 12 2 (6.897 %) WinForms 12 2 (6.897 %) WCF 13 1 (3.448 %) AJAX 13 1 (3.448 %) NHibernate 13 1 (3.448 %) FpML 13 1 (3.448 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint 1 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint Portal Server 2 1 (3.448 %) CMS 2 1 (3.448 %) WebLogic 2 1 (3.448 %) JBoss
Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.897 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (34.48 %) SQL Server 2 4 (13.79 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (6.897 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 3 2 (6.897 %) Oracle Reports 3 2 (6.897 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (6.897 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (6.897 %) Data Mart 4 1 (3.448 %) Reference Data	Development Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (6.897 %) NUnit 2 2 (6.897 %) Selenium 3 1 (3.448 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (3.448 %) Log4Net 3 1 (3.448 %) Ant
General 1 9 (31.03 %) Front Office 2 4 (13.79 %) Retail 3 3 (10.34 %) Investment Banking 3 3 (10.34 %) Banking 4 1 (3.448 %) Finance 4 1 (3.448 %) Government 4 1 (3.448 %) Music 4 1 (3.448 %) Music Industry	Job Titles 1 27 (93.10 %) Developer 2 10 (34.48 %) Java Developer 3 9 (31.03 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (31.03 %) Senior Developer 3 9 (31.03 %) Senior Java Developer 4 5 (17.24 %) C# Developer 5 4 (13.79 %) Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) Analyst Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) Systems Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) Systems Analyst 7 2 (6.897 %) Database Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) SQL Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) PL/SQL Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) WinForms Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) WebLogic Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Credit Risk Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (37.93 %) Derivative 2 10 (34.48 %) Grid Computing 3 9 (31.03 %) Interest Rate Derivative 4 3 (10.34 %) Credit Risk 5 1 (3.448 %) Equity Derivative 5 1 (3.448 %) Fund Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Asset Management 5 1 (3.448 %) N-Tier 5 1 (3.448 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 1 (3.448 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.448 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (34.48 %) Agile Software Development 2 6 (20.69 %) OO 3 4 (13.79 %) RUP 3 4 (13.79 %) OOD 3 4 (13.79 %) UML 3 4 (13.79 %) E-business 4 3 (10.34 %) Data Analysis 4 3 (10.34 %) Web Development 4 3 (10.34 %) Continuous Integration 5 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (6.897 %) MVC 5 2 (6.897 %) CRM 6 1 (3.448 %) Data Modelling 6 1 (3.448 %) SOA 6 1 (3.448 %) Code Coverage 6 1 (3.448 %) Project Management 6 1 (3.448 %) Risk Management 6 1 (3.448 %) OOP 6 1 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (3.448 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 23 (79.31 %) C# 2 11 (37.93 %) C++ 2 11 (37.93 %) Java 3 8 (27.59 %) SQL 4 5 (17.24 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (10.34 %) JavaScript 6 1 (3.448 %) DHTML 6 1 (3.448 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (3.448 %) XQuery
Qualifications 1 2 (6.897 %) MCSD 1 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft Certification	Vendors 1 10 (34.48 %) Tangosol 2 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 2 6 (20.69 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.897 %) Business Objects 3 2 (6.897 %) Siebel 4 1 (3.448 %) BEA