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The table below looks at the demand for XSL Transformations (XSLT) skills within the 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 XSLT over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkXSL Transformations (XSLT)
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank155139
Rank change on same period last yearDown-16
Matching contract IT job ads6021033
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.948 %1.107 %
As % of the category below4.551 %4.850 %
Daily rates quoted243336
Average minimum daily rate£343£369
Average daily rate£368£388
% change on same period last year-5.14 %
Average maximum daily rate£394£407
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£319
% change on same period last year-1.75 %
Hourly rates quoted1640
Average minimum hourly rate£27.76£32.03
Average hourly rate£30.26£34.84
% change on same period last year-13.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate£32.76£37.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.66£31.95
% change on same period last year-7.16 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
England
Matching contract IT job ads1322721300
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled20.83 %22.82 %
Daily rates quoted44576817
Average minimum daily rate£340£362
Average daily rate£364£384
% change on same period last year-5.19 %
Average maximum daily rate£389£407
UK excluding London average daily rate£327£334
% change on same period last year-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted8701276
Average minimum hourly rate£27.19£29.79
Average hourly rate£29.40£32.02
% change on same period last year-8.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate£31.61£34.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.92£31.53
% change on same period last year-8.25 %
XSLT UKXSLT
UK

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 England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England XSLT Demand Trend

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

England XSLT Daily Rate Trend

XSLT
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England XSLT Daily Rate Histogram

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England XSLT Hourly Rate Trend

XSLT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England XSLT Hourly Rate Histogram

XSLT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSLT within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-21350£386-6.54 %
South EastUp+3097£317+4.30 %
East of EnglandUp+1736£361-7.54 %
North WestUp+1029£274-9.95 %
South WestUp+125£341+19.99 %
YorkshireDown-221£350+14.13 %
West MidlandsDown-1216£235-12.29 %
East MidlandsUp+313£375+7.14 %
MidlandsUp+97--
North EastUp+103£375+9.01 %
South CoastNew entry-1£245-
XSLT UKXSLT
UK

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

11177 (85.60 %)XML
2643 (46.76 %).NET
3547 (39.78 %)JavaScript
4542 (39.42 %)C#
5541 (39.35 %)HTML
6509 (37.02 %)CSS
7443 (32.22 %)SQL Server
8425 (30.91 %)Java
9401 (29.16 %)ASP.NET
10391 (28.44 %)SQL
11291 (21.16 %)XHTML
12274 (19.93 %)WebServices
13269 (19.56 %)OO
14221 (16.07 %)Finance
15219 (15.93 %)SQL Server 2005
16213 (15.49 %)AJAX
16213 (15.49 %)Oracle
17179 (13.02 %)Microsoft
18167 (12.15 %)ASP
19155 (11.27 %)J2EE
20152 (11.05 %)Windows
21149 (10.84 %)UML
22143 (10.40 %)JSP
22143 (10.40 %)Spring
23141 (10.25 %)Agile Software Development
23141 (10.25 %)Hibernate
24137 (9.964 %)CMS
25135 (9.818 %)SOAP
26129 (9.382 %)Perl
26129 (9.382 %)PHP

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11177 (85.60 %)XML
2643 (46.76 %).NET
3541 (39.35 %)HTML
4509 (37.02 %)CSS
5401 (29.16 %)ASP.NET
6291 (21.16 %)XHTML
7274 (19.93 %)WebServices
8213 (15.49 %)AJAX
9167 (12.15 %)ASP
10155 (11.27 %)J2EE
11143 (10.40 %)JSP
11143 (10.40 %)Spring
12141 (10.25 %)Hibernate
13135 (9.818 %)SOAP
1494 (6.836 %)XSL
1587 (6.327 %).NET Framework
1680 (5.818 %)JDBC
1776 (5.527 %)XSD
1776 (5.527 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1868 (4.945 %)Struts
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1137 (9.964 %)CMS
2107 (7.782 %)Apache
386 (6.255 %)Tomcat
485 (6.182 %)WebLogic
575 (5.455 %)IIS
667 (4.873 %)SharePoint
751 (3.709 %)BizTalk Server
847 (3.418 %)JBoss
934 (2.473 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1032 (2.327 %)TIBCO EMS
1123 (1.673 %)WebSphere MQ
1221 (1.527 %)Documentum
1221 (1.527 %)ESB
1320 (1.455 %)WebSphere Message Broker
1320 (1.455 %)Oracle Workflow
1414 (1.018 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1512 (0.873 %)MQSeries
1611 (0.800 %)WMQI
1710 (0.727 %)Umbraco
188 (0.582 %)Sitecore CMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
171 (5.164 %)Photoshop
251 (3.709 %)MS Excel
323 (1.673 %)MS Office
415 (1.091 %)MS Project
512 (0.873 %)MS Visio
69 (0.655 %)Fireworks
77 (0.509 %)ImageReady
85 (0.364 %)MS PowerPoint
85 (0.364 %)InfoPath
93 (0.218 %)XMetaL
93 (0.218 %)Adobe Illustrator
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
115 (1.091 %)RMDS
29 (0.655 %)Dynamics CRM
36 (0.436 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
36 (0.436 %)BusinessWorks
44 (0.291 %)Oracle CRM
44 (0.291 %)Oracle Applications
44 (0.291 %)SAP ERP
53 (0.218 %)Sophis VALUE
53 (0.218 %)WebTrends
62 (0.145 %)SAP Oil and Gas
62 (0.145 %)Microsoft CRM
71 (0.073 %)SAP HR
71 (0.073 %)HiPortfolio
71 (0.073 %)InvestOne
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1113 (8.218 %)Internet
240 (2.909 %)Intranet
326 (1.891 %)HTTP
410 (0.727 %)LDAP
59 (0.655 %)FTP
67 (0.509 %)TCP/IP
76 (0.436 %)ADSL
76 (0.436 %)Firewall
84 (0.291 %)ATM
84 (0.291 %)SMS
93 (0.218 %)Broadband
93 (0.218 %)Reverse Proxy
102 (0.145 %)Wireless
102 (0.145 %)SMTP
102 (0.145 %)SSL
102 (0.145 %)Extranet
102 (0.145 %)X.509
111 (0.073 %)VPN
111 (0.073 %)DNS
111 (0.073 %)WLAN
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1443 (32.22 %)SQL Server
2219 (15.93 %)SQL Server 2005
3106 (7.709 %)MySQL
4105 (7.636 %)SQL Server 2000
568 (4.945 %)Oracle 10g
643 (3.127 %)RDBMS
737 (2.691 %)Oracle 8/8i
831 (2.255 %)Oracle 9i
923 (1.673 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1015 (1.091 %)Datawarehouse
1111 (0.800 %)IDOL
1111 (0.800 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1210 (0.727 %)DB2
1210 (0.727 %)Crystal Reports
139 (0.655 %)MS Access
139 (0.655 %)Oracle Reports
148 (0.582 %)ETL
157 (0.509 %)SQLPlus
163 (0.218 %)PostgreSQL
163 (0.218 %)IDMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1104 (7.564 %)Visual Studio
299 (7.200 %)Flash
361 (4.436 %)Ant
460 (4.364 %)Subversion
556 (4.073 %)Eclipse
640 (2.909 %)NUnit
733 (2.400 %)Dreamweaver
831 (2.255 %)VSS/SourceSafe
928 (2.036 %)ClearCase
1027 (1.964 %)JUnit
1110 (0.727 %)Selenium
129 (0.655 %)QuickTest Pro
129 (0.655 %)Visual Studio Team System
138 (0.582 %)TestDirector
138 (0.582 %)XMLSpy
146 (0.436 %)PeopleTools
146 (0.436 %)JDeveloper
155 (0.364 %)WinRunner
155 (0.364 %)LoadRunner
164 (0.291 %)Rational Rose
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1221 (16.07 %)Finance
2109 (7.927 %)Banking
374 (5.382 %)Investment Banking
450 (3.636 %)Government
536 (2.618 %)Retail
632 (2.327 %)Back Office
731 (2.255 %)Publishing
731 (2.255 %)Games
825 (1.818 %)Insurance
825 (1.818 %)Front Office
922 (1.600 %)Marketing
1021 (1.527 %)Education
1115 (1.091 %)Retail Banking
1214 (1.018 %)Telecoms
1313 (0.945 %)Pharmaceutical
1410 (0.727 %)Multimedia
159 (0.655 %)Online Games
168 (0.582 %)Legal
176 (0.436 %)Construction
176 (0.436 %)Health
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11072 (77.96 %)Developer
2287 (20.87 %).NET Developer
3245 (17.82 %)C# Developer
4236 (17.16 %)Web Developer
5179 (13.02 %)Java Developer
687 (6.327 %)ASP.NET Developer
769 (5.018 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
865 (4.727 %)Senior Developer
960 (4.364 %)Analyst
1039 (2.836 %)PHP Developer
1136 (2.618 %)Architect
1233 (2.400 %)Software Engineer
1332 (2.327 %)Software Developer
1431 (2.255 %)J2EE Developer
1431 (2.255 %)VB.NET Developer
1530 (2.182 %)Consultant
1530 (2.182 %).NET Web Developer
1627 (1.964 %)SharePoint Developer
1726 (1.891 %)Oracle Developer
1825 (1.818 %)SQL Developer
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
168 (4.945 %)Derivative
252 (3.782 %)W3C
342 (3.055 %)Credit Derivative
425 (1.818 %)N-Tier
516 (1.164 %)Fixed Income
516 (1.164 %)Social Network
615 (1.091 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
615 (1.091 %)French Language
714 (1.018 %)Computer Science
813 (0.945 %)Mainframe
910 (0.727 %)E-Learning
109 (0.655 %)Client/Server
118 (0.582 %)Multithreading
125 (0.364 %)Data Integration
125 (0.364 %)Fat Client
125 (0.364 %)NHS
125 (0.364 %)Thin Client
125 (0.364 %)DTCC
134 (0.291 %)Web 2.0
134 (0.291 %)Mathematics
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1152 (11.05 %)Windows
2115 (8.364 %)UNIX
3109 (7.927 %)Linux
442 (3.055 %)Red Hat Linux
522 (1.600 %)Solaris
615 (1.091 %)Windows 2000
714 (1.018 %)Windows Server 2003
813 (0.945 %)Windows XP
98 (0.582 %)Mac OS X
98 (0.582 %)VME
106 (0.436 %)SUSE
106 (0.436 %)AIX
115 (0.364 %)Fedora
124 (0.291 %)CentOS
133 (0.218 %)Windows NT
142 (0.145 %)Windows Vista
151 (0.073 %)Windows 2000 Server
151 (0.073 %)MVS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1269 (19.56 %)OO
2149 (10.84 %)UML
3141 (10.25 %)Agile Software Development
4101 (7.345 %)Content Management
593 (6.764 %)Web Development
677 (5.600 %)Scrum
776 (5.527 %)E-Commerce
869 (5.018 %)SOA
962 (4.509 %)OOP
962 (4.509 %)TDD
1055 (4.000 %)Migration
1152 (3.782 %)Workflow
1244 (3.200 %)Unit Testing
1343 (3.127 %)Project Management
1441 (2.982 %)Security Cleared
1532 (2.327 %)OOD
1628 (2.036 %)Continuous Integration
1726 (1.891 %)CRM
1825 (1.818 %)Web Design
1924 (1.745 %)OOA/OOD
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1547 (39.78 %)JavaScript
2542 (39.42 %)C#
3425 (30.91 %)Java
4391 (28.44 %)SQL
5129 (9.382 %)Perl
5129 (9.382 %)PHP
689 (6.473 %)VB.NET
782 (5.964 %)DHTML
879 (5.745 %)PL/SQL
965 (4.727 %)ActionScript
965 (4.727 %)XPath
1064 (4.655 %)VB
1162 (4.509 %)C++
1248 (3.491 %)Transact-SQL
1342 (3.055 %)VB6
1439 (2.836 %)C
1536 (2.618 %)VBScript
1536 (2.618 %)PHP5
1631 (2.255 %)XQuery
1730 (2.182 %)VBA
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
185 (6.182 %)Degree
235 (2.545 %)Microsoft Certification
310 (0.727 %)Sun Certification
45 (0.364 %)ISEB
54 (0.291 %)MCSD
63 (0.218 %)CISSP
63 (0.218 %)MCAD
72 (0.145 %)ISTQB
81 (0.073 %)MCPD
81 (0.073 %)SCJA
81 (0.073 %)HND
81 (0.073 %)MCSE
81 (0.073 %)SCJP
81 (0.073 %)PRINCE2 Certification
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
129 (2.109 %)QA
216 (1.164 %)WAI
38 (0.582 %)SLA
43 (0.218 %)HL7
51 (0.073 %)ISO9001
51 (0.073 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
51 (0.073 %)Basel II
51 (0.073 %)WCAG
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
114 (1.018 %)Active Directory
23 (0.218 %)AquaLogic
32 (0.145 %)Xen
32 (0.145 %)MSMQ
41 (0.073 %)VMware Infrastructure
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
14 (0.291 %)MIIS
23 (0.218 %)AutoSys
31 (0.073 %)CA SiteMinder
31 (0.073 %)Tivoli
31 (0.073 %)MOM
31 (0.073 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1213 (15.49 %)Oracle
2179 (13.02 %)Microsoft
342 (3.055 %)Red Hat
435 (2.545 %)TIBCO
525 (1.818 %)Sybase
624 (1.745 %)RedDot
722 (1.600 %)DataSynapse
821 (1.527 %)BEA
918 (1.309 %)Thunderhead
1016 (1.164 %)IBM
1115 (1.091 %)Reuters
1212 (0.873 %)Calypso
1311 (0.800 %)Adobe
1311 (0.800 %)SAP
1311 (0.800 %)ICL
149 (0.655 %)Google
158 (0.582 %)Sitecore
158 (0.582 %)Tridion
158 (0.582 %)Lotus
166 (0.436 %)Mercator