The first table below looks at the demand for XSL 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 XSL 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 Application Development 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
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Rank 178 200 206
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +6
Contract jobs citing XSL 25 18 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.392% 0.229% 0.398%
As % of the Application Development category 1.373% 0.893% 1.423%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 34
Average daily rate £420 £475 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.57% -17.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £336 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £553 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £360 £313
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSL
London

XSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London XSL Jobs Demand Trend

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London XSL Daily Rate Trend

XSL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London XSL Daily Rate Histogram

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London XSL Hourly Rate Trend

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 38 (95.00%) XML
2 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
3 23 (57.50%) .NET
4 20 (50.00%) C#
5 16 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 16 (40.00%) .NET Framework
6 15 (37.50%) SQL
6 15 (37.50%) SharePoint
7 14 (35.00%) ASP.NET
8 12 (30.00%) CSS
8 12 (30.00%) XSLT
8 12 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 12 (30.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 11 (27.50%) SharePoint 2010
9 11 (27.50%) WCF
9 11 (27.50%) Web Services
10 10 (25.00%) Oracle
10 10 (25.00%) MVC
11 9 (22.50%) Systems Analysis
11 9 (22.50%) SQL Server 2005
11 9 (22.50%) Change Management
11 9 (22.50%) E-business
11 9 (22.50%) Volume Testing
11 9 (22.50%) WCAG
11 9 (22.50%) Web Accessibility
12 8 (20.00%) IIS
12 8 (20.00%) Windows
12 8 (20.00%) Apache
13 7 (17.50%) XHTML
13 7 (17.50%) Linux

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 38 (95.00%) XML
2 23 (57.50%) .NET
3 16 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 14 (35.00%) ASP.NET
5 12 (30.00%) CSS
5 12 (30.00%) XSLT
5 12 (30.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 11 (27.50%) WCF
6 11 (27.50%) Web Services
7 7 (17.50%) XHTML
8 6 (15.00%) HTML
8 6 (15.00%) JSP
8 6 (15.00%) JMS
9 5 (12.50%) WSDL
9 5 (12.50%) XML Schema
9 5 (12.50%) ASP
9 5 (12.50%) J2EE
9 5 (12.50%) HTML5
9 5 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 15 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 11 (27.50%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (20.00%) IIS
3 8 (20.00%) Apache
4 5 (12.50%) Tomcat
4 5 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
5 4 (10.00%) Alfresco
6 3 (7.500%) Windows Azure
7 2 (5.000%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (5.000%) WebLogic
7 2 (5.000%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) MS Office
1 4 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.500%) XMetaL
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) Internet
2 3 (7.500%) SSL
2 3 (7.500%) LDAP
2 3 (7.500%) HTTP
3 1 (2.500%) SMTP
3 1 (2.500%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (22.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (17.50%) MySQL
5 4 (10.00%) MS Access
6 3 (7.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (7.500%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (7.500%) MarkLogic
7 2 (5.000%) Siebel EIM
7 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.500%) DTS
8 1 (2.500%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) WinDbg
1 4 (10.00%) Subversion
2 3 (7.500%) JUnit
2 3 (7.500%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (7.500%) Git (software)
2 3 (7.500%) Mercurial
2 3 (7.500%) Redmine
2 3 (7.500%) FogBugz
2 3 (7.500%) Trac
3 1 (2.500%) Ant
3 1 (2.500%) Maven
3 1 (2.500%) JIRA
3 1 (2.500%) jMock
3 1 (2.500%) FishEye
General
1 7 (17.50%) Finance
2 4 (10.00%) Back Office
2 4 (10.00%) Publishing
3 2 (5.000%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.500%) Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Developer
2 9 (22.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 5 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 4 (10.00%) XML Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
5 3 (7.500%) Web Developer
5 3 (7.500%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.500%) Applications Support
5 3 (7.500%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.500%) PHP Developer
5 3 (7.500%) C# Developer
5 3 (7.500%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Knowledge Manager
6 2 (5.000%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.000%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.000%) Architect
7 1 (2.500%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) SWIFT
2 4 (10.00%) Ontologies
2 4 (10.00%) Open Source
2 4 (10.00%) Semantic Web
3 3 (7.500%) Computer Science
4 2 (5.000%) Hedge funds
4 2 (5.000%) DataPower
4 2 (5.000%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.500%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.500%) W3C
5 1 (2.500%) PKI
5 1 (2.500%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.500%) Derivative
5 1 (2.500%) Statistics
5 1 (2.500%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Linux
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (7.500%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.500%) UNIX
5 1 (2.500%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) MVC
2 9 (22.50%) Systems Analysis
2 9 (22.50%) Change Management
2 9 (22.50%) E-business
2 9 (22.50%) Volume Testing
2 9 (22.50%) Web Accessibility
3 5 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (12.50%) Scrum
4 4 (10.00%) Change Control
4 4 (10.00%) Document Management
4 4 (10.00%) RDF
5 3 (7.500%) OO
5 3 (7.500%) Project Management
5 3 (7.500%) Workflow
5 3 (7.500%) Kanban
5 3 (7.500%) MVVM
6 2 (5.000%) Release Management
6 2 (5.000%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (5.000%) Data Mapping
6 2 (5.000%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (50.00%) C#
3 15 (37.50%) SQL
4 7 (17.50%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) VBScript
6 4 (10.00%) XPath
6 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (10.00%) VBA
6 4 (10.00%) C++
7 3 (7.500%) Perl
7 3 (7.500%) PHP
7 3 (7.500%) PHP5
8 2 (5.000%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.500%) VB
9 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.500%) C
9 1 (2.500%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.000%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) WCAG
2 3 (7.500%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 2 (5.000%) ClearTrust
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) IBM
4 4 (10.00%) Plumtree
4 4 (10.00%) Lotus
4 4 (10.00%) JBoss
5 3 (7.500%) Salesforce.com
5 3 (7.500%) Zend
6 2 (5.000%) Siebel
6 2 (5.000%) Sun
6 2 (5.000%) Unisys
7 1 (2.500%) Sybase
City, London
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