The first table below looks at the demand for XSL skills in IT contracts advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSL over the 3 months to 22 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 County Antrim 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Rank 27 - 41
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XSL 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 1.961% - 0.608%
As % of the Application Development category 4.000% - 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £368 £313
% change year-on-year
-13.60% +17.60%
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
County Antrim
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
100 50 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 49.02% 29.76% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 16 21
Average daily rate £350 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSL
Northern Ireland

XSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim XSL Daily Rate Trend

XSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSL within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Belfast - 4 £300 -
XSL
Northern Ireland

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) ESB
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) InfoPath
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) Ant
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) HttpUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 4 (80.00%) HTML
1 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) J2EE
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) ESB
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Ant
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) HttpUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Jaspersoft