The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Application Development category for the Gloucestershire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 17 25 14
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing XML 21 42 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 7.749% 6.522% 9.174%
As % of the Application Development category 30.88% 25.30% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 19
Average daily rate £400 £450 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +45.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £320 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £510 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
Average hourly rate £39.50 £37.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.75% +111.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £23.60 £15.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £38.60 £19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
68 166 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 25.09% 25.78% 26.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 95 57
Average daily rate £400 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £713 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £21.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £37.90 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
South West

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucestershire XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucestershire XML Hourly Rate Histogram

XML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Gloucester +9 11 £440 -16.19%
Cheltenham +3 5 £325 -23.52%
XML
South West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 38 (84.44%) SQL
2 23 (51.11%) .NET
3 21 (46.67%) Java
4 19 (42.22%) Oracle
5 18 (40.00%) PL/SQL
6 17 (37.78%) Web Services
6 17 (37.78%) VB.NET
7 16 (35.56%) Security Cleared
8 15 (33.33%) DV Cleared
8 15 (33.33%) J2EE
8 15 (33.33%) JSP
8 15 (33.33%) UML
8 15 (33.33%) Swing
8 15 (33.33%) J2SE
9 14 (31.11%) Visual Studio
10 13 (28.89%) CSS
11 12 (26.67%) OOP
11 12 (26.67%) TOAD
12 11 (24.44%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
12 11 (24.44%) C#
12 11 (24.44%) Dimensional Modelling
13 9 (20.00%) Silverlight
13 9 (20.00%) Finance
13 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (17.78%) HTML
14 8 (17.78%) VB
15 7 (15.56%) XSLT
15 7 (15.56%) Basel II
16 6 (13.33%) OO

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 23 (51.11%) .NET
2 17 (37.78%) Web Services
3 15 (33.33%) J2EE
3 15 (33.33%) JSP
3 15 (33.33%) Swing
3 15 (33.33%) J2SE
4 13 (28.89%) CSS
5 9 (20.00%) Silverlight
6 8 (17.78%) HTML
7 7 (15.56%) XSLT
8 5 (11.11%) Spring
8 5 (11.11%) XSL
8 5 (11.11%) Hibernate
9 4 (8.889%) ASP.NET
10 1 (2.222%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (2.222%) HTML5
10 1 (2.222%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 1 (2.222%) REST
10 1 (2.222%) JPA
10 1 (2.222%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.222%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (2.222%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (2.222%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.222%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.222%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.222%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) TOAD
2 11 (24.44%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.444%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Banking
3 3 (6.667%) Retail
4 1 (2.222%) Avionics
4 1 (2.222%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 43 (95.56%) Developer
2 20 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Programmer
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
5 4 (8.889%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.667%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.667%) Senior Programmer
6 3 (6.667%) .NET Programmer
6 3 (6.667%) Senior .NET Programmer
6 3 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (6.667%) Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Analyst Programmer
8 1 (2.222%) Lead Software Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Java Swing Developer
8 1 (2.222%) ScrumMaster
8 1 (2.222%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.222%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.222%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (2.222%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) UML
2 12 (26.67%) OOP
3 11 (24.44%) Dimensional Modelling
4 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (13.33%) OO
6 5 (11.11%) Kanban
6 5 (11.11%) Web Development
6 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 5 (11.11%) System Testing
6 5 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (11.11%) Scrum
7 3 (6.667%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (2.222%) V-Model
8 1 (2.222%) Manual Testing
8 1 (2.222%) Test Scripting
8 1 (2.222%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (2.222%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.222%) Content Management
8 1 (2.222%) Automated Testing
8 1 (2.222%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (84.44%) SQL
2 21 (46.67%) Java
3 18 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 17 (37.78%) VB.NET
5 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
5 11 (24.44%) C#
6 8 (17.78%) VB
7 5 (11.11%) C++
8 1 (2.222%) VB6
8 1 (2.222%) C
8 1 (2.222%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 16 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 15 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (8.889%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Basel II
2 1 (2.222%) DO-178B
Systems Management
1 2 (4.444%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) Oracle
2 2 (4.444%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.222%) Adobe
3 1 (2.222%) JBoss
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