The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 24 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 East Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 74 - 81
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XSD 9 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.718% - 0.215%
As % of the Application Development category 2.711% - 0.906%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £363 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £405 £425
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
332 360 331
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.48% 26.26% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 189 120
Average daily rate £313 £275 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -5.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £413 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 36
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSD
England

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSD across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Midlands XSD Daily Rate Histogram

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands XSD Hourly Rate Trend

XSD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSD within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Nottinghamshire - 6 £394 -
Derbyshire - 1 £275 -
XSD
England

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) XSLT
2 11 (91.67%) SOAP
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
3 8 (66.67%) HTML
3 8 (66.67%) HTTP
3 8 (66.67%) WSDL
3 8 (66.67%) XML Schema
3 8 (66.67%) SSL
3 8 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 8 (66.67%) XPath
3 8 (66.67%) DataPower
4 4 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (25.00%) Groovy
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
5 3 (25.00%) soapUI
6 2 (16.67%) Smart Meter
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Hudson
6 2 (16.67%) BPEL
6 2 (16.67%) Maven
6 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
6 2 (16.67%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) UNIX
6 2 (16.67%) SOA
7 1 (8.333%) XSL
7 1 (8.333%) Middleware
7 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL
7 1 (8.333%) SQL

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) XSLT
2 11 (91.67%) SOAP
2 11 (91.67%) Web Services
3 8 (66.67%) HTML
3 8 (66.67%) WSDL
3 8 (66.67%) XML Schema
3 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
4 3 (25.00%) soapUI
5 1 (8.333%) XSL
5 1 (8.333%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) HTTP
1 8 (66.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Hudson
1 2 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
2 4 (33.33%) WebSphere Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) WebSphere Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Middleware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) DataPower
2 2 (16.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Project Management
1 2 (16.67%) BPEL
1 2 (16.67%) SOA
2 1 (8.333%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) XPath
2 3 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.333%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle