The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XAML 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 Programming Languages category for the England 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
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 453 513 491
Rank change year-on-year
+60 -22
Contract jobs citing XAML 60 46 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.144% 0.086% 0.142%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.386% 0.243% 0.372%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 44
Average daily rate £375 £400 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £314 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £725
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 - -
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15538 18900 21502
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.37% 35.43% 38.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9795 11399 12698
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 684 872
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XAML
UK

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Trend

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

England XAML Daily Rate Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England XAML Daily Rate Histogram

XAML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England XAML Hourly Rate Trend

XAML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the England 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
London +42 37 £460 +6.66%
South East +24 11 £375 -6.25%
Yorkshire - 6 £290 -
South West +27 2 £301 -7.53%
West Midlands - 2 - -
East of England +14 1 £450 +12.50%
North East +13 1 £310 +40.90%
XAML
UK

XAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 74 (66.67%) C#
2 68 (61.26%) WPF
3 63 (56.76%) .NET
4 57 (51.35%) Silverlight
5 41 (36.94%) HTML
6 37 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 34 (30.63%) ASP.NET
7 34 (30.63%) Microsoft
8 32 (28.83%) .NET Framework
9 31 (27.93%) CSS
10 29 (26.13%) MVC
11 28 (25.23%) Windows
11 28 (25.23%) Web Services
12 27 (24.32%) ASP.NET MVC
13 26 (23.42%) Finance
14 25 (22.52%) Photoshop
14 25 (22.52%) Banking
15 24 (21.62%) SQL
16 23 (20.72%) MVVM
17 20 (18.02%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 20 (18.02%) Adobe
18 18 (16.22%) Expression Blend
19 16 (14.41%) SQL Server
19 16 (14.41%) XML
19 16 (14.41%) Windows Phone
20 15 (13.51%) Windows 8
20 15 (13.51%) Workflow
21 14 (12.61%) TDD
21 14 (12.61%) WCF
22 13 (11.71%) QA

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 68 (61.26%) WPF
2 63 (56.76%) .NET
3 57 (51.35%) Silverlight
4 41 (36.94%) HTML
5 34 (30.63%) ASP.NET
6 32 (28.83%) .NET Framework
7 31 (27.93%) CSS
8 28 (25.23%) Web Services
9 27 (24.32%) ASP.NET MVC
10 20 (18.02%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 16 (14.41%) XML
12 14 (12.61%) WCF
13 12 (10.81%) jQuery
14 10 (9.009%) LINQ
15 9 (8.108%) REST
16 8 (7.207%) XHTML
16 8 (7.207%) SOAP
17 7 (6.306%) HTML5
17 7 (6.306%) ASP.NET MVC 4
18 6 (5.405%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.505%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.703%) CMS
3 1 (0.901%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.901%) DotNetNuke
3 1 (0.901%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.901%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.901%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.901%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (0.901%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 25 (22.52%) Photoshop
2 11 (9.910%) MS Excel
2 11 (9.910%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.901%) InfoPath
3 1 (0.901%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.901%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.207%) Internet
2 3 (2.703%) HTTP
3 2 (1.802%) SSH
4 1 (0.901%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.41%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.505%) SSDT
2 5 (4.505%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (4.505%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (1.802%) OLAP
3 2 (1.802%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.901%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.901%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (16.22%) Expression Blend
2 12 (10.81%) Visual Studio
3 7 (6.306%) Subversion
4 4 (3.604%) StyleCop
4 4 (3.604%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.604%) NUnit
5 3 (2.703%) JIRA
5 3 (2.703%) Rhino Mocks
5 3 (2.703%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.802%) MSTest
6 2 (1.802%) CruiseControl
6 2 (1.802%) Maven
7 1 (0.901%) QUnit
7 1 (0.901%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.901%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.901%) NCover
7 1 (0.901%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 1 (0.901%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (23.42%) Finance
2 25 (22.52%) Banking
3 10 (9.009%) Investment Banking
4 8 (7.207%) Games
5 5 (4.505%) Back Office
6 2 (1.802%) Front Office
6 2 (1.802%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.802%) Publishing
6 2 (1.802%) Marketing
7 1 (0.901%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (75.68%) Developer
2 24 (21.62%) .NET Developer
3 20 (18.02%) Designer
4 17 (15.32%) User Experience Designer
4 17 (15.32%) C# Developer
5 15 (13.51%) UI Developer
5 15 (13.51%) UI Programmer
6 13 (11.71%) WPF Developer
7 9 (8.108%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (7.207%) Applications Developer
8 8 (7.207%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 7 (6.306%) Silverlight Developer
10 6 (5.405%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.505%) Senior Designer
11 5 (4.505%) Senior UI Developer
12 4 (3.604%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.604%) C# Software Engineer
13 3 (2.703%) Visual Designer
13 3 (2.703%) Mobile Developer
14 2 (1.802%) Windows Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.910%) Fixed Income
2 5 (4.505%) W3C
3 4 (3.604%) Open Source
3 4 (3.604%) Kinect
3 4 (3.604%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.703%) Interactive TV
4 3 (2.703%) RIA
4 3 (2.703%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.802%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.901%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.901%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.901%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.901%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.23%) Windows
2 16 (14.41%) Windows Phone
3 15 (13.51%) Windows 8
4 4 (3.604%) Windows Phone 8
4 4 (3.604%) Windows Phone 7
5 3 (2.703%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (1.802%) Linux
6 2 (1.802%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.13%) MVC
2 23 (20.72%) MVVM
3 15 (13.51%) Workflow
4 14 (12.61%) TDD
5 12 (10.81%) Scrum
5 12 (10.81%) OO
5 12 (10.81%) User Experience Design
6 11 (9.910%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (9.009%) Usability Testing
8 9 (8.108%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (8.108%) E-Commerce
9 6 (5.405%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (5.405%) Software Engineering
9 6 (5.405%) Pair Programming
10 5 (4.505%) UML
10 5 (4.505%) CRM
11 4 (3.604%) Release Management
11 4 (3.604%) Web Development
12 3 (2.703%) Dependency Injection
12 3 (2.703%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 74 (66.67%) C#
2 37 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 24 (21.62%) SQL
4 10 (9.009%) T-SQL
5 9 (8.108%) C++
6 7 (6.306%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.802%) Bash shell
8 1 (0.901%) VBA
8 1 (0.901%) Java
8 1 (0.901%) C
8 1 (0.901%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (3.604%) Degree
2 2 (1.802%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) QA
2 4 (3.604%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 34 (30.63%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.02%) Adobe
3 2 (1.802%) Telerik
4 1 (0.901%) Infragistics
4 1 (0.901%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.901%) Sitecore
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