The first table below looks at the demand for the XML Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Developer
Rank 482 531 527
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -4
Contract jobs requiring an XML Developer 32 39 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.076% 0.072% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.078% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 29 20
Average daily rate £313 £338 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £320 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £555 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £325 £200
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £34.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £34.85
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
XML Developer
UK

XML Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XML Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England XML Developer Jobs Demand Trend

XML Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England XML Developer Daily Rate Trend

XML Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England XML Developer Daily Rate Histogram

XML Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England XML Developer Hourly Rate Trend

XML Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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 +25 22 £316 -8.00%
Yorkshire - 7 £313 -
South East +12 2 £335 -39.09%
South West +28 1 - -
East of England +15 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
XML Developer
UK

XML Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited XML Developer in their job title 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 with XML Developer in their job title.

1 66 (100.00%) XML
2 35 (53.03%) XSLT
3 29 (43.94%) C#
4 27 (40.91%) .NET
5 26 (39.39%) Agile Software Development
6 25 (37.88%) SOAP
7 22 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 22 (33.33%) SQL
7 22 (33.33%) WCF
7 22 (33.33%) .NET Framework
8 21 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
8 21 (31.82%) T-SQL
9 18 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
9 18 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 18 (27.27%) Razor View Engine
10 15 (22.73%) CSS
11 13 (19.70%) Java
12 12 (18.18%) XML Schema
13 11 (16.67%) XQuery
14 10 (15.15%) Publishing
15 9 (13.64%) HTML
15 9 (13.64%) XSD
16 8 (12.12%) W3C
17 7 (10.61%) RDF
17 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
17 7 (10.61%) Ontologies
17 7 (10.61%) Semantic Web
18 6 (9.091%) Data Conversion
18 6 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 6 (9.091%) Spring

XML Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited XML Developer in their job title 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 with XML Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 66 (100.00%) XML
2 35 (53.03%) XSLT
3 27 (40.91%) .NET
4 25 (37.88%) SOAP
5 22 (33.33%) WCF
5 22 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 18 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
6 18 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 18 (27.27%) Razor View Engine
7 15 (22.73%) CSS
8 12 (18.18%) XML Schema
9 9 (13.64%) HTML
9 9 (13.64%) XSD
10 6 (9.091%) Spring
10 6 (9.091%) XSL
11 5 (7.576%) Web Services
11 5 (7.576%) XHTML
11 5 (7.576%) Hibernate
12 4 (6.061%) FpML
13 3 (4.545%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.576%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.061%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (4.545%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 4 (6.061%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 3 (4.545%) Kondor+
2 1 (1.515%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.061%) FTP
2 2 (3.030%) Internet
3 1 (1.515%) Extranet
3 1 (1.515%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 21 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.576%) MarkLogic
5 1 (1.515%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.091%) Maven
2 4 (6.061%) Git (software)
2 4 (6.061%) Subversion
3 1 (1.515%) Ant
General
1 10 (15.15%) Publishing
2 5 (7.576%) Legal
3 4 (6.061%) Banking
3 4 (6.061%) Finance
3 4 (6.061%) Front Office
4 3 (4.545%) Back Office
5 1 (1.515%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.515%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) W3C
2 7 (10.61%) Ontologies
2 7 (10.61%) Semantic Web
3 6 (9.091%) Data Conversion
4 4 (6.061%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.061%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.515%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.061%) UNIX
1 4 (6.061%) Windows
2 2 (3.030%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (1.515%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (39.39%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (10.61%) RDF
3 5 (7.576%) Workflow
4 4 (6.061%) Validation
4 4 (6.061%) TDD
4 4 (6.061%) ITIL
5 3 (4.545%) Data Transformation
5 3 (4.545%) Data Mapping
5 3 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (4.545%) Problem Management
5 3 (4.545%) BDD
6 2 (3.030%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (1.515%) MVC
7 1 (1.515%) Change Management
7 1 (1.515%) Data Modelling
7 1 (1.515%) ERP
7 1 (1.515%) OOP
7 1 (1.515%) Web Development
7 1 (1.515%) Cash Management
7 1 (1.515%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) C#
2 22 (33.33%) SQL
3 21 (31.82%) T-SQL
4 13 (19.70%) Java
5 11 (16.67%) XQuery
6 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.576%) Python
7 5 (7.576%) Scala
8 4 (6.061%) C++
8 4 (6.061%) VBA
9 1 (1.515%) VB
9 1 (1.515%) PHP
9 1 (1.515%) Ruby
9 1 (1.515%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (7.576%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.061%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.515%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 5 (7.576%) Oracle
2 3 (4.545%) Murex
3 1 (1.515%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.515%) Sybase
3 1 (1.515%) SAP
3 1 (1.515%) Altova