Falkirk XML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Falkirk 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 5 September 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 Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£334
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.84	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Application Development Falkirk
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
XML Scotland

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.

XML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Falkirk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XML
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Falkirk 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 1 (100.00 %) VB 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) SOAP 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices 1 1 (100.00 %) OOD 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet 1 1 (100.00 %) Government

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Falkirk 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (100.00 %) SOAP 1 1 (100.00 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 1 (100.00 %) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet	General 1 1 (100.00 %) Government
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) .NET Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) VB	System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft