East Midlands XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	18
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	103	110
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.111 %
As % of the category below	23.73 %	22.31 %
Daily rates quoted	26	16
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£324
Average daily rate	£335	£342
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£338
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.00	£26.70
Average hourly rate	£43.00	£28.54
% change on same period last year	+50.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.00	£30.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.06	£33.04
% change on same period last year	+3.08 %
Application Development East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	434	493
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.578 %	0.499 %
Daily rates quoted	107	55
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£333
Average daily rate	£330	£346
% change on same period last year	-4.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.35	£27.69
Average hourly rate	£34.29	£29.08
% change on same period last year	+17.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.24	£30.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XML England

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	+6	44	£348	+16.59 %
Northamptonshire	+2	20	£332	-6.92 %
Derbyshire	+1	11	-	-
Lincolnshire	+3	6	£340	-
Leicestershire	-4	1	-	-

XML England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 90 (46.88 %) Java 2 79 (41.15 %) .NET 3 73 (38.02 %) SQL 4 61 (31.77 %) Oracle 5 60 (31.25 %) C# 6 59 (30.73 %) HTML 7 55 (28.65 %) SQL Server 8 50 (26.04 %) WebServices 9 45 (23.44 %) JavaScript 10 39 (20.31 %) ASP.NET 11 38 (19.79 %) XSLT 12 28 (14.58 %) J2EE 13 26 (13.54 %) Finance 14 23 (11.98 %) Web Development 14 23 (11.98 %) ASP

14 23 (11.98 %) Uniface 15 21 (10.94 %) Hibernate 16 20 (10.42 %) PL/SQL 17 18 (9.375 %) CSS 17 18 (9.375 %) XML Schema 17 18 (9.375 %) Spring 18 17 (8.854 %) Oracle 10g 18 17 (8.854 %) VB.NET 18 17 (8.854 %) Unit Testing 19 15 (7.813 %) SQL Server 2005 19 15 (7.813 %) JUnit 19 15 (7.813 %) EJB 19 15 (7.813 %) JSP 19 15 (7.813 %) Servlets 19 15 (7.813 %) SQLPlus

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 79 (41.15 %) .NET 2 59 (30.73 %) HTML 3 50 (26.04 %) WebServices 4 39 (20.31 %) ASP.NET 5 38 (19.79 %) XSLT 6 28 (14.58 %) J2EE 7 23 (11.98 %) ASP 8 21 (10.94 %) Hibernate 9 18 (9.375 %) Spring 9 18 (9.375 %) XML Schema 9 18 (9.375 %) CSS 10 15 (7.813 %) EJB 10 15 (7.813 %) JSP 10 15 (7.813 %) Servlets 11 14 (7.292 %) WebSphere 12 12 (6.250 %) XSL 12 12 (6.250 %) AJAX 13 11 (5.729 %) JDBC 14 10 (5.208 %) WSDL 15 9 (4.688 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 14 (7.292 %) WebLogic 2 10 (5.208 %) Apache 2 10 (5.208 %) WebSphere MQ 3 9 (4.688 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 7 (3.646 %) SharePoint 4 7 (3.646 %) Lotus Notes 4 7 (3.646 %) Lotus Domino 4 7 (3.646 %) Oracle Workflow 5 5 (2.604 %) CMS 5 5 (2.604 %) ESB 5 5 (2.604 %) Tomcat 6 4 (2.083 %) WebLogic Portal 7 3 (1.563 %) ColdFusion 7 3 (1.563 %) IIS 7 3 (1.563 %) JBoss 7 3 (1.563 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 2 (1.042 %) Rhythmyx 8 2 (1.042 %) BizTalk Server 9 1 (0.521 %) CICS 9 1 (0.521 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 13 (6.771 %) MS Excel 2 7 (3.646 %) Photoshop 3 6 (3.125 %) MS Office 4 1 (0.521 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.521 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 7 (3.646 %) Retail-J 2 1 (0.521 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 10 (5.208 %) Internet 2 9 (4.688 %) Intranet 3 5 (2.604 %) Extranet 4 4 (2.083 %) HTTP 5 3 (1.563 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (0.521 %) LAN 6 1 (0.521 %) SMS 6 1 (0.521 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 55 (28.65 %) SQL Server 2 17 (8.854 %) Oracle 10g 3 15 (7.813 %) SQLPlus 3 15 (7.813 %) SQL Server 2005 4 13 (6.771 %) SQL Server 2000 5 11 (5.729 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 7 (3.646 %) Oracle 9i 7 6 (3.125 %) RDBMS 8 4 (2.083 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 3 (1.563 %) Oracle Reports 10 2 (1.042 %) MySQL 10 2 (1.042 %) OLAP 10 2 (1.042 %) BusinessObjects 10 2 (1.042 %) Oracle OLAP 11 1 (0.521 %) IDOL 11 1 (0.521 %) PostgreSQL 11 1 (0.521 %) SQL Server 7 11 1 (0.521 %) Adabas 11 1 (0.521 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 15 (7.813 %) JUnit 2 10 (5.208 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (3.646 %) Eclipse 4 6 (3.125 %) Dreamweaver 5 5 (2.604 %) Ant 6 4 (2.083 %) Flash 7 3 (1.563 %) Oracle Forms 7 3 (1.563 %) WebLogic Workshop 8 2 (1.042 %) JDeveloper 9 1 (0.521 %) Subversion 9 1 (0.521 %) Rational Rose	General 1 26 (13.54 %) Finance 2 14 (7.292 %) Banking 3 13 (6.771 %) Government 4 7 (3.646 %) Retail 5 5 (2.604 %) Insurance 5 5 (2.604 %) Health 6 4 (2.083 %) Telecoms 6 4 (2.083 %) Marketing 7 2 (1.042 %) Legal 7 2 (1.042 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.521 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.521 %) Front Office 8 1 (0.521 %) Construction 8 1 (0.521 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.521 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 138 (71.88 %) Developer 2 31 (16.15 %) Java Developer 3 27 (14.06 %) .NET Developer 4 23 (11.98 %) Analyst 5 18 (9.375 %) Web Developer 5 18 (9.375 %) C# Developer 6 16 (8.333 %) Uniface Developer 7 12 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 8 11 (5.729 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 11 (5.729 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 10 (5.208 %) VB.NET Developer 10 9 (4.688 %) WebSphere Developer 10 9 (4.688 %) Applications Developer 11 8 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 11 8 (4.167 %) Applications Support 11 8 (4.167 %) J2EE Developer 12 7 (3.646 %) Domino Developer 12 7 (3.646 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 13 6 (3.125 %) Applications Support Analyst 14 5 (2.604 %) Lotus Notes Developer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (2.604 %) Mainframe 2 3 (1.563 %) W3C 3 2 (1.042 %) Informatics 3 2 (1.042 %) Web 2.0 3 2 (1.042 %) EPoS 3 2 (1.042 %) NHS 4 1 (0.521 %) Client/Server 4 1 (0.521 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.521 %) Taxonomies 4 1 (0.521 %) Ontologies 4 1 (0.521 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 14 (7.292 %) Windows 2 12 (6.250 %) Solaris 3 10 (5.208 %) UNIX 4 3 (1.563 %) AIX 4 3 (1.563 %) Linux 5 2 (1.042 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.521 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (11.98 %) Web Development 2 17 (8.854 %) Unit Testing 3 13 (6.771 %) UML 4 10 (5.208 %) OO 5 9 (4.688 %) Workflow 6 8 (4.167 %) Content Management 7 7 (3.646 %) E-Commerce 8 5 (2.604 %) Information Management 8 5 (2.604 %) OOD 8 5 (2.604 %) SOA 8 5 (2.604 %) Configuration Management 8 5 (2.604 %) Agile Software Development 9 4 (2.083 %) DV Cleared 9 4 (2.083 %) Security Cleared 10 3 (1.563 %) TDD 10 3 (1.563 %) PRINCE2 10 3 (1.563 %) Incident Management 10 3 (1.563 %) Test Scripting 10 3 (1.563 %) Continuous Integration 11 2 (1.042 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 90 (46.88 %) Java 2 73 (38.02 %) SQL 3 60 (31.25 %) C# 4 45 (23.44 %) JavaScript 5 23 (11.98 %) Uniface 6 20 (10.42 %) PL/SQL 7 17 (8.854 %) VB.NET 8 11 (5.729 %) VB 9 9 (4.688 %) Transact-SQL 10 8 (4.167 %) Perl 11 7 (3.646 %) DHTML 12 6 (3.125 %) LotusScript 13 5 (2.604 %) C++ 14 3 (1.563 %) PHP 14 3 (1.563 %) VBScript 15 2 (1.042 %) ActionScript 15 2 (1.042 %) XQuery 15 2 (1.042 %) VB6 16 1 (0.521 %) Shell Script 16 1 (0.521 %) Jython	Qualifications 1 3 (1.563 %) ISEB 1 3 (1.563 %) Sun Certification 1 3 (1.563 %) Degree 2 2 (1.042 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 1 (0.521 %) CNE 3 1 (0.521 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.563 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (0.521 %) NDS
Vendors 1 61 (31.77 %) Oracle 2 14 (7.292 %) Microsoft 3 7 (3.646 %) Lotus 4 5 (2.604 %) BEA 5 3 (1.563 %) Sun 6 2 (1.042 %) Business Objects 7 1 (0.521 %) SAP 7 1 (0.521 %) IBM 7 1 (0.521 %) Sybase 7 1 (0.521 %) Novell 7 1 (0.521 %) Adobe 7 1 (0.521 %) Agresso 7 1 (0.521 %) webMethods 7 1 (0.521 %) VMware 7 1 (0.521 %) Northgate 7 1 (0.521 %) Google