The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derby region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML 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 Derby 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 Markup Language (XML)
Rank 11 30 26
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -4
Contract jobs citing XML 3 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 5.455% 0.599% 1.546%
As % of the Application Development category 37.50% 2.083% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Derby
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 48 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 14.55% 28.74% 4.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 0
Average daily rate £275 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
Average hourly rate £20.50 £8.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+141.17% -81.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Derbyshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Derby XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 6 (75.00%) HTML
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) WinForms
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VBA
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) C++
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
4 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) WPF
4 2 (25.00%) WF
4 2 (25.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (12.50%) soapUI
5 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (12.50%) LINQ to SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 6 (75.00%) HTML
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) WinForms
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) WPF
3 2 (25.00%) WF
3 2 (25.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (12.50%) soapUI
4 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) LINQ to SQL
4 1 (12.50%) LINQ
4 1 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) SGML
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) XSD
4 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Author
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Author
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Workflow
1 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (25.00%) Web Development
1 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) VBA
3 2 (25.00%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle