The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Application Development category for the Glasgow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 74 58 63
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +5
Contract jobs citing XSD 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.111% 0.123% 0.130%
As % of the Application Development category 0.257% 0.490% 0.352%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £338 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
-15.62% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
389 204 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 43.27% 25.06% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 90 174
Average daily rate £350 £311 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £26.83
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XSD
Scotland

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XSD across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) BEA
2 1 (50.00%) JAAS
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JTA
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) XPath
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) GemFire
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) JAAS
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JTA
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) GemFire
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) XPath
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) BEA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
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