The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Dorset 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 28 29 19
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -10
Contract jobs citing XML 6 2 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 2.597% 0.766% 8.000%
As % of the Application Development category 14.63% 3.030% 48.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 13
Average daily rate £313 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.87% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £400 £299
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £334 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41 66 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 17.75% 25.29% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 34
Average daily rate £300 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £206 £346 £277
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
Average hourly rate £165.00 £40.00 £41.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+312.50% -3.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
XML
South West

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bournemouth +4 4 £300 -25.00% 4
Poole - 2 £375 - 1
Shaftesbury - - - -
Weymouth - - - -
Wimborne - - - -
XML
South West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) Web Services
1 5 (50.00%) Ajax
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Struts
3 3 (30.00%) MVC
3 3 (30.00%) JMS
3 3 (30.00%) UML
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) JSP
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (30.00%) Spring
3 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Google
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) JTA
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) GlassFish
4 2 (20.00%) Google Maps API
4 2 (20.00%) JBoss
4 2 (20.00%) Apache

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 5 (50.00%) Web Services
1 5 (50.00%) Ajax
2 4 (40.00%) jQuery
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) JSP
3 3 (30.00%) Spring
3 3 (30.00%) Struts
3 3 (30.00%) JMS
3 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (30.00%) REST
4 2 (20.00%) Google Maps API
4 2 (20.00%) JTA
4 2 (20.00%) Servlets
4 2 (20.00%) SOAP
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) J2EE
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) GlassFish
2 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) Intranet
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) IMAP
2 1 (10.00%) POP3
2 1 (10.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) MySQL
1 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Streaming Media
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Scrum
1 3 (30.00%) UML
1 3 (30.00%) OO
1 3 (30.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Web Design
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (10.00%) Use Case
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Cash Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) JBoss
2 2 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (10.00%) Facebook
3 1 (10.00%) Twitter
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) TIBCO