Colchester XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Colchester 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 XML over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£340
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
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	£33.90	£33.38
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Application Development Colchester
Matching contract IT job ads	14	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.005 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£272
Average daily rate	-	£292
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£312
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.95	-
Average hourly rate	£30.68	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.41	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
XML Essex

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.

XML
Demand Trend

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

XML
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XML across the Colchester region.

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Colchester region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing XML 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 XML.

1 8 (100.00 %) C# 1 8 (100.00 %) .NET 2 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2 7 (87.50 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 3 5 (62.50 %) XSLT 3 5 (62.50 %) HTML 3 5 (62.50 %) N-Tier 3 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (50.00 %) DHTML 4 4 (50.00 %) Visual Studio 4 4 (50.00 %) CSS 5 3 (37.50 %) OO 5 3 (37.50 %) XHTML 5 3 (37.50 %) ECMAScript

5 3 (37.50 %) SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET 5 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 5 3 (37.50 %) DOM 5 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 3 (37.50 %) WCF 6 2 (25.00 %) WSE 6 2 (25.00 %) DotNetNuke 6 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (25.00 %) OOP 6 2 (25.00 %) SAP 6 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 6 2 (25.00 %) LAN 6 2 (25.00 %) WAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing XML 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 XML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (100.00 %) .NET 2 7 (87.50 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (62.50 %) XSLT 3 5 (62.50 %) HTML 4 4 (50.00 %) CSS 5 3 (37.50 %) XHTML 5 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 5 3 (37.50 %) DOM 5 3 (37.50 %) WCF 5 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 2 (25.00 %) WSE 6 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (25.00 %) SAP XI 7 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 7 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 7 1 (12.50 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) BizTalk Server 1 2 (25.00 %) CMS 1 2 (25.00 %) DotNetNuke
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) LAN 1 2 (25.00 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (87.50 %) SQL Server 2 5 (62.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 4 (50.00 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Developer 2 5 (62.50 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (50.00 %) Web Developer 4 3 (37.50 %) .NET Web Developer 5 2 (25.00 %) Architect 5 2 (25.00 %) Systems Architect 5 2 (25.00 %) C# Developer 6 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (12.50 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (62.50 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) OO 2 2 (25.00 %) OOP 3 1 (12.50 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) C# 2 4 (50.00 %) DHTML 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 3 (37.50 %) Transact-SQL 3 3 (37.50 %) VB.NET 3 3 (37.50 %) ECMAScript 4 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript
Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) SAP 2 2 (25.00 %) Cisco