East Midlands XSLT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for XSL Transformations (XSLT) 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 XSLT over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	75
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	33	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	7.604 %	4.260 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£377
Average daily rate	£348	£382
% change on same period last year	-8.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£370
% change on same period last year	+5.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.80
Average hourly rate	-	£33.90
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.70	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-13.45 %
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 %
XSLT 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.

XSLT
Demand Trend

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

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Daily Rate Histogram

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

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSLT 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	+8	24	£348	-22.77 %
Lincolnshire	-1	2	-	-

XSLT England

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing XSLT 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 XSLT.

1 38 (92.68 %) XML 2 27 (65.85 %) C# 3 26 (63.41 %) SQL 3 26 (63.41 %) .NET 4 25 (60.98 %) Java 5 22 (53.66 %) Oracle 5 22 (53.66 %) WebServices 6 21 (51.22 %) Uniface 7 15 (36.59 %) PL/SQL 8 14 (34.15 %) SQLPlus 9 13 (31.71 %) Unit Testing 10 10 (24.39 %) Government 10 10 (24.39 %) HTML 11 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 5 (12.20 %) ASP.NET

12 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 12 5 (12.20 %) Configuration Management 13 4 (9.756 %) JavaScript 13 4 (9.756 %) Perl 13 4 (9.756 %) ASP 14 3 (7.317 %) CSS 14 3 (7.317 %) XSD 14 3 (7.317 %) VB.NET 14 3 (7.317 %) BizTalk Server 14 3 (7.317 %) Finance 14 3 (7.317 %) SQL Server 2005 14 3 (7.317 %) Web Development 14 3 (7.317 %) .NET Framework 15 2 (4.878 %) Spring 15 2 (4.878 %) Insurance

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing XSLT 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 XSLT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 38 (92.68 %) XML 2 26 (63.41 %) .NET 3 22 (53.66 %) WebServices 4 10 (24.39 %) HTML 5 5 (12.20 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (9.756 %) ASP 7 3 (7.317 %) XSD 7 3 (7.317 %) CSS 7 3 (7.317 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (4.878 %) Spring 9 1 (2.439 %) AJAX 9 1 (2.439 %) Servlets 9 1 (2.439 %) XHTML 9 1 (2.439 %) Cocoon 9 1 (2.439 %) Hibernate 9 1 (2.439 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.317 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (4.878 %) Apache 3 1 (2.439 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (4.878 %) Photoshop 2 1 (2.439 %) Fireworks 2 1 (2.439 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.878 %) Intranet 1 2 (4.878 %) Internet 2 1 (2.439 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (34.15 %) SQLPlus 2 8 (19.51 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 5 (12.20 %) SQL Server 4 3 (7.317 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (2.439 %) IDOL	Development Applications 1 2 (4.878 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.439 %) Flash 2 1 (2.439 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (2.439 %) Ant 2 1 (2.439 %) JUnit
General 1 10 (24.39 %) Government 2 3 (7.317 %) Finance 3 2 (4.878 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (4.878 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.878 %) Health 3 2 (4.878 %) Legal 3 2 (4.878 %) Banking 3 2 (4.878 %) Insurance 3 2 (4.878 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 29 (70.73 %) Developer 2 15 (36.59 %) Uniface Developer 3 4 (9.756 %) Analyst 4 3 (7.317 %) Web Developer 4 3 (7.317 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (4.878 %) C# Developer 5 2 (4.878 %) Senior Analyst 5 2 (4.878 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 5 2 (4.878 %) Analyst Programmer 5 2 (4.878 %) Programmer 5 2 (4.878 %) Senior Programmer 5 2 (4.878 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server Developer 6 1 (2.439 %) Perl Developer 6 1 (2.439 %) Technical Team Leader 6 1 (2.439 %) Senior C# Developer 6 1 (2.439 %) Senior .NET Developer 6 1 (2.439 %) webMethods Developer 6 1 (2.439 %) Java Web Developer 6 1 (2.439 %) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.878 %) NHS 1 2 (4.878 %) Informatics 2 1 (2.439 %) W3C 2 1 (2.439 %) Taxonomies 2 1 (2.439 %) Ontologies	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.439 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (31.71 %) Unit Testing 2 5 (12.20 %) Configuration Management 3 3 (7.317 %) Web Development 4 2 (4.878 %) Validation 4 2 (4.878 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.439 %) EAI 5 1 (2.439 %) SOA 5 1 (2.439 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.439 %) OO 5 1 (2.439 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (2.439 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (2.439 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.439 %) System Testing 5 1 (2.439 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (2.439 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 27 (65.85 %) C# 2 26 (63.41 %) SQL 3 25 (60.98 %) Java 4 21 (51.22 %) Uniface 5 15 (36.59 %) PL/SQL 6 4 (9.756 %) JavaScript 6 4 (9.756 %) Perl 7 3 (7.317 %) VB.NET 8 2 (4.878 %) XQuery 8 2 (4.878 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (4.878 %) VB 9 1 (2.439 %) PHP 9 1 (2.439 %) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.439 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (2.439 %) MSMQ
Vendors 1 22 (53.66 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.439 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.439 %) webMethods