The first table below looks at the demand for XQuery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XQuery over the 3 months to 20 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 Programming Languages category for the Edinburgh 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XQuery
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing XQuery 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £413 £430
% change year-on-year
-15.15% -4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
223 200 271
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.77% 18.18% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 84 107
Average daily rate £313 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.34% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £240 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XQuery
Scotland

XQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XQuery across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Edinburgh XQuery Jobs Demand Trend

XQuery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh XQuery Daily Rate Trend

XQuery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh XQuery Hourly Rate Trend

XQuery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XSL
2 7 (77.78%) Visual Studio
2 7 (77.78%) XPath
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (33.33%) Data Management
5 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) System Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Statistics
6 2 (22.22%) Web Services
6 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (11.11%) Intranet
7 1 (11.11%) UML
7 1 (11.11%) OO
7 1 (11.11%) Apache
7 1 (11.11%) XHTML
7 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 1 (11.11%) XSLT
7 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2

XQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing XQuery 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 XQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) XSL
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) ASP
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
3 1 (11.11%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Junior
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Junior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior .NET Developer
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Support Consultant
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Junior Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Graduate
5 1 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Graduate Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Statistics
3 1 (11.11%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Management
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
2 2 (22.22%) System Testing
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) UML
3 1 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) XPath
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VB
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft