Glasgow XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited XML over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	12
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	49	105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.111 %
As % of the category below	25.13 %	39.92 %
Daily rates quoted	19	40
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£312
Average daily rate	£327	£330
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£339
% change on same period last year	+1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.10	£33.48
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Application Development Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	195	263
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.257 %	0.279 %
Daily rates quoted	51	86
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£314
Average daily rate	£323	£331
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.29	£23.63
Average hourly rate	£17.93	£27.39
% change on same period last year	-34.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.57	£31.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 64 (54.24 %) Java 2 43 (36.44 %) SQL 3 33 (27.97 %) Unix 4 32 (27.12 %) XSLT 5 31 (26.27 %) WebServices 5 31 (26.27 %) .NET 6 29 (24.58 %) SQL Server 6 29 (24.58 %) Spring 7 25 (21.19 %) Finance 8 24 (20.34 %) J2EE 9 22 (18.64 %) HTML 9 22 (18.64 %) Transact-SQL 9 22 (18.64 %) JMS 10 21 (17.80 %) C# 10 21 (17.80 %) ASP.NET

11 20 (16.95 %) Sybase 12 18 (15.25 %) JavaScript 12 18 (15.25 %) Microsoft 12 18 (15.25 %) WebSphere 13 17 (14.41 %) RDBMS 13 17 (14.41 %) JSP 14 16 (13.56 %) SharePoint 14 16 (13.56 %) Ant 14 16 (13.56 %) Oracle 14 16 (13.56 %) Banking 15 15 (12.71 %) Windows 16 14 (11.86 %) CSS 16 14 (11.86 %) Internet 16 14 (11.86 %) AJAX 16 14 (11.86 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 32 (27.12 %) XSLT 2 31 (26.27 %) .NET 2 31 (26.27 %) WebServices 3 29 (24.58 %) Spring 4 24 (20.34 %) J2EE 5 22 (18.64 %) HTML 5 22 (18.64 %) JMS 6 21 (17.80 %) ASP.NET 7 18 (15.25 %) WebSphere 8 17 (14.41 %) JSP 9 14 (11.86 %) CSS 9 14 (11.86 %) AJAX 10 12 (10.17 %) Hibernate 11 9 (7.627 %) Struts 11 9 (7.627 %) XSL 11 9 (7.627 %) EJB 12 8 (6.780 %) Servlets 13 6 (5.085 %) SOAP 13 6 (5.085 %) .NET Framework 13 6 (5.085 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 16 (13.56 %) SharePoint 2 12 (10.17 %) Tomcat 2 12 (10.17 %) MQSeries 3 8 (6.780 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 7 (5.932 %) WebSphere MQ 4 7 (5.932 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 6 (5.085 %) BizTalk Server 5 6 (5.085 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 5 (4.237 %) Apache 7 4 (3.390 %) WPS 8 2 (1.695 %) CMS 8 2 (1.695 %) CICS 8 2 (1.695 %) IIS 8 2 (1.695 %) Mule 9 1 (0.847 %) Umbraco 9 1 (0.847 %) MS Exchange 9 1 (0.847 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 1 (0.847 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 1 (0.847 %) ESB 9 1 (0.847 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 5 (4.237 %) Photoshop 1 5 (4.237 %) FreeHand 1 5 (4.237 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 3 (2.542 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.847 %) InfoPath 3 1 (0.847 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (1.695 %) Staffware 2 1 (0.847 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 14 (11.86 %) Internet 2 4 (3.390 %) LDAP 3 2 (1.695 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.847 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.847 %) LAN 4 1 (0.847 %) WAN 4 1 (0.847 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (24.58 %) SQL Server 2 17 (14.41 %) RDBMS 3 14 (11.86 %) SQL Server 2005 4 12 (10.17 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (3.390 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 3 (2.542 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (1.695 %) SQL Server 7 7 2 (1.695 %) GIS 7 2 (1.695 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 2 (1.695 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 2 (1.695 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (1.695 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (1.695 %) Reference Data 8 1 (0.847 %) Data Cleansing 8 1 (0.847 %) Oracle 9i 8 1 (0.847 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 16 (13.56 %) Ant 2 13 (11.02 %) ClearCase 3 9 (7.627 %) Subversion 4 8 (6.780 %) Flash 4 8 (6.780 %) JUnit 5 7 (5.932 %) Visual Studio 6 6 (5.085 %) Eclipse 7 5 (4.237 %) JProbe 8 4 (3.390 %) Optimizeit 9 2 (1.695 %) JDeveloper 9 2 (1.695 %) PowerBuilder 9 2 (1.695 %) ClearQuest 10 1 (0.847 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 1 (0.847 %) NUnit	General 1 25 (21.19 %) Finance 2 16 (13.56 %) Banking 3 5 (4.237 %) Games 4 4 (3.390 %) Investment Banking 5 2 (1.695 %) Online Banking 6 1 (0.847 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.847 %) Education 6 1 (0.847 %) Health 6 1 (0.847 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 81 (68.64 %) Developer 2 33 (27.97 %) Java Developer 3 15 (12.71 %) .NET Developer 4 8 (6.780 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 8 (6.780 %) Analyst 5 7 (5.932 %) C# Developer 6 6 (5.085 %) Project Manager 6 6 (5.085 %) Senior Developer 7 5 (4.237 %) Consultant 7 5 (4.237 %) Technical Project Manager 7 5 (4.237 %) Programmer 7 5 (4.237 %) Software Developer 7 5 (4.237 %) Web Designer 7 5 (4.237 %) Sybase Developer 7 5 (4.237 %) Technical Manager 7 5 (4.237 %) Flex Developer 8 4 (3.390 %) Applications Support 8 4 (3.390 %) Web Developer 8 4 (3.390 %) Applications Developer 8 4 (3.390 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (6.780 %) Data Integration 2 5 (4.237 %) RIA 3 4 (3.390 %) Replication 4 3 (2.542 %) Equities 4 3 (2.542 %) Asset Management 5 2 (1.695 %) Derivative 5 2 (1.695 %) Multithreading 5 2 (1.695 %) Computer Science 6 1 (0.847 %) Equity Derivative 6 1 (0.847 %) N-Tier 6 1 (0.847 %) NHS 6 1 (0.847 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 33 (27.97 %) Unix 2 15 (12.71 %) Windows 3 11 (9.322 %) Linux 4 5 (4.237 %) Solaris 5 4 (3.390 %) MVS 6 2 (1.695 %) Windows XP 6 2 (1.695 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.847 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.847 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (10.17 %) Web Design 2 6 (5.085 %) Project Management 2 6 (5.085 %) OO 3 5 (4.237 %) Workflow 3 5 (4.237 %) TDD 3 5 (4.237 %) Pair Programming 3 5 (4.237 %) Web Development 3 5 (4.237 %) Extreme Programming 4 4 (3.390 %) RAD 5 3 (2.542 %) UML 5 3 (2.542 %) Content Management 5 3 (2.542 %) Systems Analysis 6 2 (1.695 %) OOA/OOD 6 2 (1.695 %) Wealth Management 6 2 (1.695 %) Migration 6 2 (1.695 %) SOA 6 2 (1.695 %) Business Intelligence 6 2 (1.695 %) RDF 7 1 (0.847 %) OOP 7 1 (0.847 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 64 (54.24 %) Java 2 43 (36.44 %) SQL 3 22 (18.64 %) Transact-SQL 4 21 (17.80 %) C# 5 18 (15.25 %) JavaScript 6 8 (6.780 %) Shell Script 7 7 (5.932 %) XQuery 7 7 (5.932 %) ActionScript 8 6 (5.085 %) DHTML 9 5 (4.237 %) C++ 9 5 (4.237 %) Ruby 9 5 (4.237 %) XPath 10 4 (3.390 %) Delphi 10 4 (3.390 %) VB 10 4 (3.390 %) VB.NET 11 3 (2.542 %) VBA 12 2 (1.695 %) PHP 12 2 (1.695 %) C 13 1 (0.847 %) Python	Qualifications 1 2 (1.695 %) MCAD 1 2 (1.695 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (1.695 %) Degree 2 1 (0.847 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.695 %) QA 2 1 (0.847 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 6 (5.085 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.847 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 20 (16.95 %) Sybase 2 18 (15.25 %) Microsoft 3 16 (13.56 %) Oracle 4 6 (5.085 %) Adobe 5 4 (3.390 %) IBM 6 2 (1.695 %) PolarLake 6 2 (1.695 %) Dundas 7 1 (0.847 %) Vignette 7 1 (0.847 %) Cisco