City of London XSL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 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 XSL over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Location Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carrickfergus Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Lancashire Leeds Lewes London Luton Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Southwark Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	205	152
Rank change on same period last year	-53
Matching contract IT job ads	15	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	0.698 %	2.968 %
Daily rates quoted	3	34
Average minimum daily rate	£427	£432
Average daily rate	£442	£460
% change on same period last year	-3.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£458	£487
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£324
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.37	£29.55
% change on same period last year	+19.68 %
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 %
XSL 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.

XSL
Demand Trend

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

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSL
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 4 July 2008.

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 26 (96.30 %) XML 2 15 (55.56 %) Oracle 3 11 (40.74 %) .NET 3 11 (40.74 %) SQL 3 11 (40.74 %) Web Development 4 10 (37.04 %) Finance 4 10 (37.04 %) C# 4 10 (37.04 %) HTML 5 9 (33.33 %) SQL Server 5 9 (33.33 %) XSD 6 8 (29.63 %) ASP.NET 6 8 (29.63 %) DHTML 6 8 (29.63 %) UML 6 8 (29.63 %) Oracle Reports 6 8 (29.63 %) Datawarehouse

7 7 (25.93 %) PL/SQL 8 6 (22.22 %) WebServices 8 6 (22.22 %) CSS 8 6 (22.22 %) Microsoft 9 5 (18.52 %) Credit Risk 9 5 (18.52 %) Data Analysis 9 5 (18.52 %) AJAX 9 5 (18.52 %) VBA 9 5 (18.52 %) Sybase 9 5 (18.52 %) JavaScript 9 5 (18.52 %) Unix 10 4 (14.81 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 4 (14.81 %) OOD 10 4 (14.81 %) BusinessObjects 10 4 (14.81 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 26 (96.30 %) XML 2 11 (40.74 %) .NET 3 10 (37.04 %) HTML 4 9 (33.33 %) XSD 5 8 (29.63 %) ASP.NET 6 6 (22.22 %) CSS 6 6 (22.22 %) WebServices 7 5 (18.52 %) AJAX 8 4 (14.81 %) XSLT 8 4 (14.81 %) COM 9 3 (11.11 %) XHTML 9 3 (11.11 %) Dojo 9 3 (11.11 %) GWT 9 3 (11.11 %) DWR 9 3 (11.11 %) YUI 9 3 (11.11 %) jQuery 10 2 (7.407 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (7.407 %) Hibernate 10 2 (7.407 %) WebSphere 10 2 (7.407 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.407 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (3.704 %) WebLogic 2 1 (3.704 %) JBoss 2 1 (3.704 %) MQSeries 2 1 (3.704 %) Documentum 2 1 (3.704 %) Oracle HTTP Server 2 1 (3.704 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 1 (3.704 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.704 %) MS Excel 1 1 (3.704 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.704 %) HTTP 1 1 (3.704 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 8 (29.63 %) Oracle Reports 2 8 (29.63 %) Datawarehouse 3 4 (14.81 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 4 (14.81 %) Oracle 9i 3 4 (14.81 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (14.81 %) Oracle OWB 3 4 (14.81 %) Data Mart 3 4 (14.81 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (3.704 %) MS Access 4 1 (3.704 %) RDBMS 4 1 (3.704 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 2 (7.407 %) Ant 1 2 (7.407 %) JUnit 1 2 (7.407 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (7.407 %) NUnit 1 2 (7.407 %) Selenium 2 1 (3.704 %) jMock 2 1 (3.704 %) Eclipse
General 1 10 (37.04 %) Finance 2 4 (14.81 %) Retail 3 3 (11.11 %) General Ledger 4 2 (7.407 %) Front Office 4 2 (7.407 %) Back Office 5 1 (3.704 %) Marketing 5 1 (3.704 %) Electric 5 1 (3.704 %) Government 5 1 (3.704 %) Health 5 1 (3.704 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 24 (88.89 %) Developer 2 6 (22.22 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (11.11 %) C# Developer 3 3 (11.11 %) JavaScript Developer 4 2 (7.407 %) Oracle Developer 4 2 (7.407 %) Analyst 4 2 (7.407 %) Web Developer 4 2 (7.407 %) Database Developer 5 1 (3.704 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (3.704 %) PL/SQL Developer 5 1 (3.704 %) Access Developer 5 1 (3.704 %) J2EE Architect 5 1 (3.704 %) VBA Developer 5 1 (3.704 %) Developer Analyst 5 1 (3.704 %) .NET Software Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Senior .NET Software Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Senior C# Software Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) C# Web Developer 5 1 (3.704 %) Documentum Analyst 5 1 (3.704 %) Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (18.52 %) Credit Risk 2 4 (14.81 %) Derivative 2 4 (14.81 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 3 (11.11 %) Equity Derivative 4 2 (7.407 %) Equities 5 1 (3.704 %) Credit Derivative 5 1 (3.704 %) Fixed Income	Operating Systems 1 5 (18.52 %) Unix 2 1 (3.704 %) Windows 2 1 (3.704 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (40.74 %) Web Development 2 8 (29.63 %) UML 3 5 (18.52 %) Data Analysis 4 4 (14.81 %) OOD 4 4 (14.81 %) RUP 4 4 (14.81 %) E-business 5 3 (11.11 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (7.407 %) Continuous Integration 7 1 (3.704 %) MVC 7 1 (3.704 %) Risk Management 7 1 (3.704 %) Scrum 7 1 (3.704 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (3.704 %) OO 7 1 (3.704 %) RAD 7 1 (3.704 %) Code Coverage 7 1 (3.704 %) Project Management 7 1 (3.704 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (3.704 %) AOP 7 1 (3.704 %) Business Development 7 1 (3.704 %) Refactoring	Programming Languages 1 11 (40.74 %) SQL 2 10 (37.04 %) C# 3 8 (29.63 %) DHTML 4 7 (25.93 %) PL/SQL 5 5 (18.52 %) JavaScript 5 5 (18.52 %) VBA 6 4 (14.81 %) Java 7 2 (7.407 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (3.704 %) VB.NET 8 1 (3.704 %) C++ 8 1 (3.704 %) XPath
System Software 1 1 (3.704 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 15 (55.56 %) Oracle 2 6 (22.22 %) Microsoft 3 5 (18.52 %) Sybase 4 4 (14.81 %) Business Objects 5 1 (3.704 %) IBM 5 1 (3.704 %) TIBCO 5 1 (3.704 %) Altova