East of England XML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the East of England 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	13
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	196	402
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.279 %	0.416 %
As % of the category below	25.19 %	30.25 %
Daily rates quoted	49	99
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£326
Average daily rate	£311	£344
% change on same period last year	-9.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£332
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.34	£28.87
Average hourly rate	£34.66	£30.12
% change on same period last year	+15.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.97	£31.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£32.52
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	778	1329
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.109 %	1.374 %
Daily rates quoted	250	367
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£316
Average daily rate	£336	£334
% change on same period last year	+0.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	162
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.19	£30.05
Average hourly rate	£32.31	£31.13
% change on same period last year	+3.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.44	£32.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
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 of England 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 of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 East of England region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Hertfordshire	-5	62	£308	-8.38 %
Cambridgeshire	0	62	£263	-19.77 %
Essex	-13	37	£364	-13.26 %
Norfolk	-8	18	£270	-9.93 %
Bedfordshire	+9	9	£302	+9.99 %
Suffolk	+1	7	-	-
East Anglia	+6	5	-	-

XML England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 204 (37.02 %) .NET 2 172 (31.22 %) SQL 3 151 (27.40 %) HTML 4 148 (26.86 %) SQL Server 5 138 (25.05 %) CSS 6 134 (24.32 %) ASP.NET 7 133 (24.14 %) WebServices 8 129 (23.41 %) JavaScript 9 122 (22.14 %) C# 10 112 (20.33 %) Java 11 94 (17.06 %) Oracle 12 87 (15.79 %) J2EE 13 81 (14.70 %) OO 14 78 (14.16 %) XSLT 15 77 (13.97 %) XHTML

16 69 (12.52 %) AJAX 17 65 (11.80 %) UML 18 64 (11.62 %) C++ 19 63 (11.43 %) Windows 20 62 (11.25 %) SQL Server 2005 20 62 (11.25 %) E-Commerce 21 59 (10.71 %) XSL 22 56 (10.16 %) Microsoft 23 53 (9.619 %) Finance 23 53 (9.619 %) SOAP 24 50 (9.074 %) XML Schema 25 43 (7.804 %) Retail 26 42 (7.623 %) VB.NET 27 41 (7.441 %) PL/SQL 27 41 (7.441 %) JSP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 204 (37.02 %) .NET 2 151 (27.40 %) HTML 3 138 (25.05 %) CSS 4 134 (24.32 %) ASP.NET 5 133 (24.14 %) WebServices 6 87 (15.79 %) J2EE 7 78 (14.16 %) XSLT 8 77 (13.97 %) XHTML 9 69 (12.52 %) AJAX 10 59 (10.71 %) XSL 11 53 (9.619 %) SOAP 12 50 (9.074 %) XML Schema 13 41 (7.441 %) JSP 14 34 (6.171 %) ASP 14 34 (6.171 %) Struts 15 33 (5.989 %) ADO.NET 16 30 (5.445 %) WebSphere 17 29 (5.263 %) Hibernate 18 25 (4.537 %) WPF 19 20 (3.630 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 34 (6.171 %) BizTalk Server 2 22 (3.993 %) IIS 3 21 (3.811 %) Apache 3 21 (3.811 %) SharePoint 4 17 (3.085 %) WebLogic 5 15 (2.722 %) CMS 6 11 (1.996 %) JBoss 7 10 (1.815 %) Tomcat 7 10 (1.815 %) TeamSite 8 8 (1.452 %) WPS 9 5 (0.907 %) Oracle Application Server 9 5 (0.907 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 5 (0.907 %) Commerce Server 2007 9 5 (0.907 %) Commerce Server 10 3 (0.544 %) Zope 10 3 (0.544 %) ColdFusion 11 2 (0.363 %) Immediacy CMS 11 2 (0.363 %) SharePoint Portal Server 11 2 (0.363 %) Content Management Server 11 2 (0.363 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 19 (3.448 %) Photoshop 2 10 (1.815 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 9 (1.633 %) MS Excel 4 8 (1.452 %) FreeHand 5 6 (1.089 %) Acrobat 6 3 (0.544 %) Fireworks 6 3 (0.544 %) MS Office 6 3 (0.544 %) ImageReady 7 2 (0.363 %) FrameMaker 7 2 (0.363 %) InDesign 8 1 (0.181 %) Doxygen 8 1 (0.181 %) MS Visio 8 1 (0.181 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 5 (0.907 %) Oracle Applications 2 3 (0.544 %) Oracle Financials 3 1 (0.181 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.181 %) MAXIMO
Communications & Networking 1 38 (6.897 %) Internet 2 35 (6.352 %) HTTP 3 32 (5.808 %) TCP/IP 4 20 (3.630 %) FTP 5 19 (3.448 %) SMTP 6 7 (1.270 %) SNMP 7 6 (1.089 %) Wireless 8 4 (0.726 %) Intranet 8 4 (0.726 %) SSH 8 4 (0.726 %) TACACS 8 4 (0.726 %) WLAN 8 4 (0.726 %) WAN 8 4 (0.726 %) LAN 9 3 (0.544 %) DSL 9 3 (0.544 %) ASN.1 10 1 (0.181 %) DVB 10 1 (0.181 %) Firewall 10 1 (0.181 %) SSL 10 1 (0.181 %) SMS 10 1 (0.181 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 148 (26.86 %) SQL Server 2 62 (11.25 %) SQL Server 2005 3 33 (5.989 %) ETL 4 29 (5.263 %) BusinessObjects 5 24 (4.356 %) MySQL 6 22 (3.993 %) SQL Server 2000 7 17 (3.085 %) BODI 7 17 (3.085 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 17 (3.085 %) Oracle 9i 8 15 (2.722 %) Datawarehouse 9 12 (2.178 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 11 (1.996 %) Oracle Reports 11 10 (1.815 %) Oracle 10g 12 8 (1.452 %) RDBMS 12 8 (1.452 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 8 (1.452 %) OLAP 12 8 (1.452 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 8 (1.452 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 13 6 (1.089 %) MS Access 14 5 (0.907 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 40 (7.260 %) Flash 2 23 (4.174 %) Visual Studio 3 16 (2.904 %) ClearCase 4 15 (2.722 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 15 (2.722 %) Eclipse 4 15 (2.722 %) ClearQuest 5 14 (2.541 %) Dreamweaver 5 14 (2.541 %) InstallShield 6 13 (2.359 %) MSI 7 10 (1.815 %) RequisitePro 7 10 (1.815 %) Ant 8 9 (1.633 %) JUnit 9 8 (1.452 %) Subversion 10 6 (1.089 %) NUnit 10 6 (1.089 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 11 3 (0.544 %) Visual Studio Team System 12 2 (0.363 %) JIRA 12 2 (0.363 %) Rational Rose 12 2 (0.363 %) PowerDesigner 12 2 (0.363 %) TestDirector	General 1 53 (9.619 %) Finance 2 43 (7.804 %) Retail 3 27 (4.900 %) Government 4 21 (3.811 %) Telecoms 5 18 (3.267 %) Marketing 6 13 (2.359 %) Insurance 6 13 (2.359 %) Banking 7 11 (1.996 %) Publishing 7 11 (1.996 %) Games 8 8 (1.452 %) Pharmaceutical 9 7 (1.270 %) Construction 9 7 (1.270 %) Education 10 5 (0.907 %) 3D Graphics 10 5 (0.907 %) Health 10 5 (0.907 %) Multimedia 10 5 (0.907 %) Graphic Design 11 4 (0.726 %) Animation 11 4 (0.726 %) Financial Institution 12 3 (0.544 %) Electronics 12 3 (0.544 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 368 (66.79 %) Developer 2 63 (11.43 %) .NET Developer 3 59 (10.71 %) Web Developer 4 45 (8.167 %) Analyst 4 45 (8.167 %) Java Developer 5 43 (7.804 %) C# Developer 6 26 (4.719 %) Architect 7 19 (3.448 %) Senior Developer 8 18 (3.267 %) C++ Developer 8 18 (3.267 %) Software Engineer 8 18 (3.267 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 17 (3.085 %) Systems Analyst 10 16 (2.904 %) Programmer 11 15 (2.722 %) VB.NET Developer 11 15 (2.722 %) Oracle Developer 11 15 (2.722 %) PHP Developer 12 14 (2.541 %) Java/J2EE Developer 13 13 (2.359 %) J2EE Developer 14 12 (2.178 %) DBA 14 12 (2.178 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 22 (3.993 %) W3C 2 10 (1.815 %) N-Tier 3 7 (1.270 %) Web 2.0 4 4 (0.726 %) iDTV 4 4 (0.726 %) Computer Science 4 4 (0.726 %) Multithreading 4 4 (0.726 %) Client/Server 5 3 (0.544 %) LIMS 6 2 (0.363 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 2 (0.363 %) NHS 6 2 (0.363 %) Derivative 6 2 (0.363 %) Data Protection Act 6 2 (0.363 %) Fixed Income 6 2 (0.363 %) Clustering 6 2 (0.363 %) SCORM 6 2 (0.363 %) Equities 6 2 (0.363 %) Social Network 7 1 (0.181 %) Data Extraction 7 1 (0.181 %) IVR 7 1 (0.181 %) Cryptography
Operating Systems 1 63 (11.43 %) Windows 2 38 (6.897 %) UNIX 3 35 (6.352 %) Linux 4 15 (2.722 %) Solaris 5 13 (2.359 %) Windows Server 2003 6 6 (1.089 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (1.089 %) Windows XP 7 3 (0.544 %) Embedded Linux 7 3 (0.544 %) Windows Vista 8 2 (0.363 %) Windows Server 2008 8 2 (0.363 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 2 (0.363 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 81 (14.70 %) OO 2 65 (11.80 %) UML 3 62 (11.25 %) E-Commerce 4 37 (6.715 %) Agile Software Development 5 32 (5.808 %) Web Development 5 32 (5.808 %) SOA 6 23 (4.174 %) RAD 7 22 (3.993 %) EAI 8 21 (3.811 %) Scrum 9 20 (3.630 %) Content Management 9 20 (3.630 %) Security Cleared 10 19 (3.448 %) Use Case 10 19 (3.448 %) Business Intelligence 10 19 (3.448 %) RUP 11 18 (3.267 %) Change Management 11 18 (3.267 %) Unit Testing 12 17 (3.085 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 17 (3.085 %) OOD 13 16 (2.904 %) DSDM 14 15 (2.722 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 172 (31.22 %) SQL 2 129 (23.41 %) JavaScript 3 122 (22.14 %) C# 4 112 (20.33 %) Java 5 64 (11.62 %) C++ 6 42 (7.623 %) VB.NET 7 41 (7.441 %) PL/SQL 8 34 (6.171 %) PHP 9 31 (5.626 %) ActionScript 10 28 (5.082 %) DHTML 11 24 (4.356 %) C 12 22 (3.993 %) Perl 12 22 (3.993 %) Transact-SQL 13 20 (3.630 %) VB 14 13 (2.359 %) VC++ 15 12 (2.178 %) VBA 16 11 (1.996 %) VB6 17 10 (1.815 %) Shell Script 17 10 (1.815 %) VBScript 18 9 (1.633 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 27 (4.900 %) Degree 2 8 (1.452 %) HND 3 6 (1.089 %) Microsoft Certification 4 5 (0.907 %) MCP 4 5 (0.907 %) MCSD 5 4 (0.726 %) MCAD 5 4 (0.726 %) CCNA 5 4 (0.726 %) Cisco Certification 6 2 (0.363 %) Sun Certification 7 1 (0.181 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (1.452 %) WCAG 2 4 (0.726 %) WAI 2 4 (0.726 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (0.544 %) QA 4 2 (0.363 %) GAMP	System Software 1 7 (1.270 %) AquaLogic 2 6 (1.089 %) Active Directory 3 1 (0.181 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 4 (0.726 %) OpenView 1 4 (0.726 %) CiscoWorks 1 4 (0.726 %) Tivoli 1 4 (0.726 %) Tivoli NetView 1 4 (0.726 %) NNM	Vendors 1 94 (17.06 %) Oracle 2 56 (10.16 %) Microsoft 3 29 (5.263 %) Business Objects 4 12 (2.178 %) Adobe 5 10 (1.815 %) Interwoven 6 9 (1.633 %) Serena 7 8 (1.452 %) FatWire 7 8 (1.452 %) BEA 7 8 (1.452 %) Cognos 8 5 (0.907 %) IBM 9 4 (0.726 %) Cisco 9 4 (0.726 %) HP 9 4 (0.726 %) Nortel 10 3 (0.544 %) ILOG 10 3 (0.544 %) InterSystems 10 3 (0.544 %) Sybase 11 2 (0.363 %) Sun 11 2 (0.363 %) Google 11 2 (0.363 %) Quark 11 2 (0.363 %) Mercator