The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 17 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 Crawley 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 14 24 20
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -4
Contract jobs citing XML 10 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 6.667% 4.183% 4.237%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 27.50% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 4
Average daily rate £355 £300 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% -9.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £341 £250 £199
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £438 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
30 40 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 20.00% 15.21% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 9
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
West Sussex

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crawley XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Crawley region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Crawley XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Crawley XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 9 (56.25%) Web Services
2 7 (43.75%) SOAP
3 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) .NET
3 6 (37.50%) WCF
4 5 (31.25%) C#
4 5 (31.25%) WSDL
5 4 (25.00%) XSLT
5 4 (25.00%) IBM
5 4 (25.00%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 4 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
5 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (25.00%) ESB
6 3 (18.75%) Smart Meter
6 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
6 3 (18.75%) SAP
6 3 (18.75%) XSL
6 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
6 3 (18.75%) XMLSpy
7 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 2 (12.50%) SOA
7 2 (12.50%) XSD
7 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 9 (56.25%) Web Services
2 7 (43.75%) SOAP
3 6 (37.50%) .NET
3 6 (37.50%) WCF
4 5 (31.25%) WSDL
5 4 (25.00%) XSLT
5 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 4 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
6 3 (18.75%) XSL
7 2 (12.50%) Ajax
7 2 (12.50%) soapUI
7 2 (12.50%) REST
7 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
7 2 (12.50%) EJB
7 2 (12.50%) HTML
7 2 (12.50%) XSD
7 2 (12.50%) JSON
7 2 (12.50%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) ESB
2 2 (12.50%) Mule
2 2 (12.50%) FileNet
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) XMLSpy
2 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (25.00%) XML Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Systems Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) SOA Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Designer
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Architect
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Technical Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (6.250%) SOA Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Smart Meter
2 1 (6.250%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Use Case
3 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 2 (12.50%) SOA
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.250%) Migration
4 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.250%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.250%) VB
5 1 (6.250%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) MCP
1 1 (6.250%) MCSD
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) IBM
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
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