City of London XSLT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for XSL Transformations (XSLT) 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 jobs that have cited XSLT over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	104
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	95	96
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.127 %	0.097 %
As % of the category below	4.408 %	5.604 %
Daily rates quoted	57	45
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£514
Average daily rate	£370	£546
% change on same period last year	-32.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£578
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£370
% change on same period last year	+5.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.63	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.25	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.70	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-13.45 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2155	1713
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.872 %	1.733 %
Daily rates quoted	1252	755
Average minimum daily rate	£395	£454
Average daily rate	£432	£489
% change on same period last year	-11.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£469	£524
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.90	£24.24
Average hourly rate	£32.85	£27.46
% change on same period last year	+19.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.80	£30.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XSLT 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.

XSLT
Demand Trend

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

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XSLT 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 XSLT.

1 202 (95.28 %) XML 2 92 (43.40 %) .NET 3 85 (40.09 %) JavaScript 4 79 (37.26 %) HTML 4 79 (37.26 %) Java 5 78 (36.79 %) SQL 6 73 (34.43 %) C# 7 67 (31.60 %) SQL Server 8 55 (25.94 %) Banking 9 47 (22.17 %) Finance 10 46 (21.70 %) CSS 10 46 (21.70 %) OO 10 46 (21.70 %) WebServices 11 43 (20.28 %) Internet 12 42 (19.81 %) Investment Banking

13 40 (18.87 %) ASP.NET 13 40 (18.87 %) Oracle 14 32 (15.09 %) AJAX 14 32 (15.09 %) ASP 15 30 (14.15 %) Hibernate 16 29 (13.68 %) JSP 16 29 (13.68 %) Linux 16 29 (13.68 %) XHTML 17 27 (12.74 %) UNIX 17 27 (12.74 %) JDBC 18 26 (12.26 %) VB 18 26 (12.26 %) SQL Server 2005 19 25 (11.79 %) SQL Server 2000 20 24 (11.32 %) Perl 20 24 (11.32 %) Agile Software Development

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing XSLT 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 XSLT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 202 (95.28 %) XML 2 92 (43.40 %) .NET 3 79 (37.26 %) HTML 4 46 (21.70 %) CSS 4 46 (21.70 %) WebServices 5 40 (18.87 %) ASP.NET 6 32 (15.09 %) ASP 6 32 (15.09 %) AJAX 7 30 (14.15 %) Hibernate 8 29 (13.68 %) XHTML 8 29 (13.68 %) JSP 9 27 (12.74 %) JDBC 10 19 (8.962 %) J2EE 10 19 (8.962 %) SOAP 11 18 (8.491 %) JMS 11 18 (8.491 %) Java RMI 12 17 (8.019 %) COM+ 12 17 (8.019 %) Spring 13 13 (6.132 %) Struts 14 12 (5.660 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 17 (8.019 %) CMS 2 14 (6.604 %) Tomcat 3 13 (6.132 %) SharePoint 3 13 (6.132 %) WebLogic 3 13 (6.132 %) IIS 3 13 (6.132 %) Apache 4 8 (3.774 %) MQSeries 5 7 (3.302 %) JBoss 5 7 (3.302 %) BizTalk Server 5 7 (3.302 %) WebSphere MQ 6 5 (2.358 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 5 (2.358 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 5 (2.358 %) Documentum 7 4 (1.887 %) Content Management Server 7 4 (1.887 %) TIBCO EMS 8 3 (1.415 %) ESB 8 3 (1.415 %) LiveLink 8 3 (1.415 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (0.943 %) Oracle Workflow 9 2 (0.943 %) WMQI
Applications 1 8 (3.774 %) MS Office 2 6 (2.830 %) MS Excel 3 5 (2.358 %) Photoshop 4 1 (0.472 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.472 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (1.887 %) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking 1 43 (20.28 %) Internet 2 20 (9.434 %) Intranet 3 5 (2.358 %) HTTP 4 3 (1.415 %) LDAP 4 3 (1.415 %) FTP 5 2 (0.943 %) Broadband 6 1 (0.472 %) ADSL 6 1 (0.472 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 67 (31.60 %) SQL Server 2 26 (12.26 %) SQL Server 2005 3 25 (11.79 %) SQL Server 2000 4 17 (8.019 %) RDBMS 5 11 (5.189 %) Oracle 9i 6 7 (3.302 %) SQL Server 7 7 6 (2.830 %) Oracle 10g 8 5 (2.358 %) Datawarehouse 8 5 (2.358 %) MySQL 9 3 (1.415 %) DTS 10 2 (0.943 %) ETL 10 2 (0.943 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 1 (0.472 %) Crystal Reports 11 1 (0.472 %) Oracle OWB
Development Applications 1 21 (9.906 %) Ant 2 14 (6.604 %) Eclipse 3 13 (6.132 %) Log4j 4 10 (4.717 %) Flash 5 9 (4.245 %) Visual Studio 6 8 (3.774 %) Subversion 7 7 (3.302 %) NUnit 7 7 (3.302 %) JUnit 8 4 (1.887 %) WinRunner 8 4 (1.887 %) QuickTest Pro 8 4 (1.887 %) LoadRunner 9 3 (1.415 %) ClearCase 9 3 (1.415 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 3 (1.415 %) Cactus 10 2 (0.943 %) WATIR 10 2 (0.943 %) Selenium 10 2 (0.943 %) Dreamweaver 10 2 (0.943 %) PVCS 10 2 (0.943 %) TestDirector 11 1 (0.472 %) Log4Net	General 1 55 (25.94 %) Banking 2 47 (22.17 %) Finance 3 42 (19.81 %) Investment Banking 4 20 (9.434 %) Front Office 5 15 (7.075 %) Insurance 6 10 (4.717 %) Marketing 7 9 (4.245 %) Back Office 8 7 (3.302 %) Publishing 9 4 (1.887 %) Games 9 4 (1.887 %) Multimedia 10 2 (0.943 %) Music 10 2 (0.943 %) Construction 10 2 (0.943 %) Government 10 2 (0.943 %) Law 11 1 (0.472 %) Advertising 11 1 (0.472 %) Health 11 1 (0.472 %) Education 11 1 (0.472 %) Music Industry 11 1 (0.472 %) Online Games 11 1 (0.472 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 158 (74.53 %) Developer 2 44 (20.75 %) C# Developer 3 37 (17.45 %) Analyst 4 35 (16.51 %) Java Developer 4 35 (16.51 %) .NET Developer 5 25 (11.79 %) Senior Developer 6 23 (10.85 %) Web Developer 7 18 (8.491 %) Support Analyst 8 10 (4.717 %) Senior .NET Developer 8 10 (4.717 %) E-Commerce Support Analyst 8 10 (4.717 %) Web Analyst 9 9 (4.245 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 9 (4.245 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 9 (4.245 %) Senior Analyst 10 8 (3.774 %) Analyst Developer 10 8 (3.774 %) Senior C# Developer 11 7 (3.302 %) Calypso Developer 11 7 (3.302 %) Applications Support 11 7 (3.302 %) Business Analyst 12 6 (2.830 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 22 (10.38 %) Derivative 2 14 (6.604 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 12 (5.660 %) Fixed Income 4 11 (5.189 %) Equity Derivative 5 7 (3.302 %) Credit Risk 6 6 (2.830 %) W3C 7 4 (1.887 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 3 (1.415 %) N-Tier 8 3 (1.415 %) Thin Client 8 3 (1.415 %) Credit Derivative 8 3 (1.415 %) Fat Client 8 3 (1.415 %) Web 2.0 8 3 (1.415 %) Data Integration 9 2 (0.943 %) Multithreading 9 2 (0.943 %) Equities 9 2 (0.943 %) Management Information System 9 2 (0.943 %) Streaming Media 9 2 (0.943 %) Computer Science 10 1 (0.472 %) Social Network 10 1 (0.472 %) Market Risk
Operating Systems 1 29 (13.68 %) Linux 2 27 (12.74 %) UNIX 3 21 (9.906 %) Windows 4 6 (2.830 %) Solaris 5 1 (0.472 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.472 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (21.70 %) OO 2 24 (11.32 %) Agile Software Development 3 22 (10.38 %) Content Management 4 19 (8.962 %) E-Commerce 5 18 (8.491 %) UML 6 17 (8.019 %) SOA 7 13 (6.132 %) Web Development 7 13 (6.132 %) Scrum 8 10 (4.717 %) Workflow 9 7 (3.302 %) Project Management 9 7 (3.302 %) Data Mapping 10 6 (2.830 %) Asset Management 10 6 (2.830 %) Security Cleared 10 6 (2.830 %) Risk Management 11 5 (2.358 %) Validation 11 5 (2.358 %) TDD 11 5 (2.358 %) Unit Testing 12 4 (1.887 %) Investment Management 12 4 (1.887 %) Configuration Management 13 3 (1.415 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 85 (40.09 %) JavaScript 2 79 (37.26 %) Java 3 78 (36.79 %) SQL 4 73 (34.43 %) C# 5 26 (12.26 %) VB 6 24 (11.32 %) Perl 7 21 (9.906 %) VB6 8 16 (7.547 %) VBScript 9 15 (7.075 %) PHP 10 14 (6.604 %) C++ 10 14 (6.604 %) VB.NET 11 13 (6.132 %) PL/SQL 11 13 (6.132 %) XPath 12 12 (5.660 %) DHTML 13 8 (3.774 %) ActionScript 14 7 (3.302 %) Shell Script 15 6 (2.830 %) VC++ 16 5 (2.358 %) Transact-SQL 16 5 (2.358 %) Ruby 17 4 (1.887 %) C	Qualifications 1 12 (5.660 %) Degree 2 4 (1.887 %) ISEB 3 3 (1.415 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (0.943 %) MCSD 4 2 (0.943 %) ISTQB 5 1 (0.472 %) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.358 %) WAI 2 1 (0.472 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (0.943 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.472 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 40 (18.87 %) Oracle 2 15 (7.075 %) Sybase 3 12 (5.660 %) Microsoft 4 9 (4.245 %) Red Hat 5 8 (3.774 %) RedDot 5 8 (3.774 %) Calypso 6 6 (2.830 %) BEA 6 6 (2.830 %) TIBCO 7 5 (2.358 %) SeeBeyond 7 5 (2.358 %) Infragistics 8 4 (1.887 %) Siebel 8 4 (1.887 %) Thunderhead 9 3 (1.415 %) IBM 9 3 (1.415 %) Hummingbird 9 3 (1.415 %) Open Text 9 3 (1.415 %) Blue Coat 10 2 (0.943 %) Empirix 10 2 (0.943 %) Adobe 11 1 (0.472 %) Tridion 11 1 (0.472 %) Google