Docklands, London XSL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) skills within the Docklands, 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 XSL over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Location Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carrickfergus Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Lancashire Leeds London Luton Manchester Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southwark Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	77
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	25	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	11.96 %	5.571 %
Daily rates quoted	17	18
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£247
Average daily rate	£301	£247
% change on same period last year	+21.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£302	£247
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£339
% change on same period last year	-3.04 %
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	£37.46	£23.74
% change on same period last year	+57.79 %
Application Development Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	209	359
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.279 %	0.363 %
Daily rates quoted	135	203
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£401
Average daily rate	£406	£427
% change on same period last year	-4.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£453
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.90	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£33.55	£24.00
% change on same period last year	+39.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.20	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XSL 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.

XSL
Demand Trend

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

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XSL across the Docklands, London region.

XSL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 46 (97.87 %) XML 2 44 (93.62 %) SQL 2 44 (93.62 %) Oracle 3 35 (74.47 %) Java 4 34 (72.34 %) RUP 5 33 (70.21 %) Oracle 10g 6 32 (68.09 %) PL/SQL 7 30 (63.83 %) OO 8 28 (59.57 %) OOA/OOD 9 25 (53.19 %) Unified Process 9 25 (53.19 %) Altova 9 25 (53.19 %) SOAP 10 23 (48.94 %) MS Project 10 23 (48.94 %) Rational Rose 11 22 (46.81 %) Oracle Application Server

11 22 (46.81 %) RequisitePro 12 21 (44.68 %) IBM 13 20 (42.55 %) UML 13 20 (42.55 %) J2EE 13 20 (42.55 %) Hibernate 14 19 (40.43 %) HTML 14 19 (40.43 %) JSP 14 19 (40.43 %) JavaBeans 15 18 (38.30 %) Oracle 9i 15 18 (38.30 %) JUnit 16 17 (36.17 %) EJB 16 17 (36.17 %) CSS 16 17 (36.17 %) JDBC 16 17 (36.17 %) MS Office 17 16 (34.04 %) Oracle 10gAS

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 46 (97.87 %) XML 2 25 (53.19 %) SOAP 3 20 (42.55 %) J2EE 3 20 (42.55 %) Hibernate 4 19 (40.43 %) JSP 4 19 (40.43 %) JavaBeans 4 19 (40.43 %) HTML 5 17 (36.17 %) EJB 5 17 (36.17 %) CSS 5 17 (36.17 %) JDBC 6 15 (31.91 %) Struts 6 15 (31.91 %) WebServices 7 11 (23.40 %) ODBC 8 10 (21.28 %) Swing 8 10 (21.28 %) CGI 9 7 (14.89 %) JSTL 9 7 (14.89 %) CORBA 10 3 (6.383 %) XSD 11 2 (4.255 %) ASP.NET 11 2 (4.255 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 22 (46.81 %) Oracle Application Server 2 16 (34.04 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 11 (23.40 %) IIS 4 10 (21.28 %) Apache 5 9 (19.15 %) Tomcat 6 6 (12.77 %) Oracle 9iAS 7 1 (2.128 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (2.128 %) Documentum
Applications 1 23 (48.94 %) MS Project 2 17 (36.17 %) MS Office 3 8 (17.02 %) MS Visio 4 2 (4.255 %) Photoshop 5 1 (2.128 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 12 (25.53 %) HTTP 2 11 (23.40 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (14.89 %) IIOP 4 6 (12.77 %) LDAP 5 2 (4.255 %) Internet 6 1 (2.128 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (70.21 %) Oracle 10g 2 18 (38.30 %) Oracle 9i 3 9 (19.15 %) MS Access 4 8 (17.02 %) TOAD 5 7 (14.89 %) Oracle Reports 6 4 (8.511 %) Datawarehouse 6 4 (8.511 %) BusinessObjects 6 4 (8.511 %) Data Mart 7 3 (6.383 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 7 3 (6.383 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 23 (48.94 %) Rational Rose 2 22 (46.81 %) RequisitePro 3 18 (38.30 %) JUnit 4 10 (21.28 %) Eclipse 5 7 (14.89 %) PowerBuilder 5 7 (14.89 %) JDeveloper 6 4 (8.511 %) ClearQuest 7 3 (6.383 %) Ant 8 2 (4.255 %) Visual Studio 9 1 (2.128 %) Dreamweaver 9 1 (2.128 %) NUnit 9 1 (2.128 %) Selenium
General 1 2 (4.255 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 27 (57.45 %) Project Manager 2 17 (36.17 %) Developer 3 8 (17.02 %) J2EE Developer 4 7 (14.89 %) Java Developer 4 7 (14.89 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 4 (8.511 %) SQL Developer 6 3 (6.383 %) PL/SQL Developer 7 2 (4.255 %) Access Developer 7 2 (4.255 %) Oracle Developer 7 2 (4.255 %) Architect 7 2 (4.255 %) Programmer 7 2 (4.255 %) C# Developer 7 2 (4.255 %) Oracle Project Manager 7 2 (4.255 %) Database Developer 7 2 (4.255 %) VBA Developer 8 1 (2.128 %) Graphic Designer 8 1 (2.128 %) C# Web Developer 8 1 (2.128 %) IT Project Manager 8 1 (2.128 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (2.128 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (23.40 %) W3C 2 2 (4.255 %) Credit Risk 3 1 (2.128 %) Cryptography 3 1 (2.128 %) Ergonomics	Operating Systems 1 7 (14.89 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (72.34 %) RUP 2 30 (63.83 %) OO 3 28 (59.57 %) OOA/OOD 4 25 (53.19 %) Unified Process 5 20 (42.55 %) UML 6 16 (34.04 %) Use Case 7 15 (31.91 %) PRINCE2 8 8 (17.02 %) Project Management 8 8 (17.02 %) Web Development 9 7 (14.89 %) OOD 10 6 (12.77 %) Data Analysis 11 3 (6.383 %) Risk Analysis 12 2 (4.255 %) Content Management 12 2 (4.255 %) Business Development 12 2 (4.255 %) SOA 13 1 (2.128 %) Validation 13 1 (2.128 %) Migration 13 1 (2.128 %) Continuous Integration 13 1 (2.128 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 44 (93.62 %) SQL 2 35 (74.47 %) Java 3 32 (68.09 %) PL/SQL 4 15 (31.91 %) JavaScript 5 14 (29.79 %) VBA 6 10 (21.28 %) Perl 6 10 (21.28 %) C 6 10 (21.28 %) C++ 7 9 (19.15 %) VB 8 7 (14.89 %) VB6 9 2 (4.255 %) C# 10 1 (2.128 %) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (17.02 %) ISO9001	Vendors 1 44 (93.62 %) Oracle 2 25 (53.19 %) Altova 3 21 (44.68 %) IBM 4 12 (25.53 %) Macromedia 5 4 (8.511 %) Business Objects 6 1 (2.128 %) Microsoft