The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 21 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 Hampshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 33 29 25
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -4
Contract jobs citing XML 84 85 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 5.378% 5.339% 5.918%
As % of the Application Development category 18.10% 19.45% 21.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 46 36
Average daily rate £328 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.16% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £250 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 32
Average hourly rate £39.00 £26.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.16% -24.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £18.50 £33.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.75 £34.50 £37.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
464 437 509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.71% 27.45% 27.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 190 207
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £471 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 50 71
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £19.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
South East

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire XML Hourly Rate Trend

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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Southampton +4 13 £350 +16.66%
Basingstoke -21 11 £400 +16.36%
Aldershot - 6 - -
Havant - 3 £425 -
Portsmouth +2 1 £363 -
Eastleigh -1 1 - -
Winchester -2 1 £225 -16.66%
XML
South East

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 70 (46.98%) Java
2 67 (44.97%) SQL
3 47 (31.54%) Oracle
4 44 (29.53%) Web Services
4 44 (29.53%) OO
5 43 (28.86%) UML
6 39 (26.17%) CSS
6 39 (26.17%) Microsoft
7 38 (25.50%) JavaScript
7 38 (25.50%) HTML
8 35 (23.49%) .NET
9 34 (22.82%) Linux
10 32 (21.48%) Security Cleared
11 31 (20.81%) jQuery
11 31 (20.81%) UNIX
11 31 (20.81%) C#
12 30 (20.13%) SQL Server
13 28 (18.79%) XSLT
14 26 (17.45%) C++
14 26 (17.45%) OOD
14 26 (17.45%) TDD
15 25 (16.78%) Windows
16 24 (16.11%) WebLogic
16 24 (16.11%) Subversion
17 22 (14.77%) C
18 21 (14.09%) Perl
18 21 (14.09%) T-SQL
18 21 (14.09%) SOA
18 21 (14.09%) MVC
18 21 (14.09%) Hibernate

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 44 (29.53%) Web Services
2 39 (26.17%) CSS
3 38 (25.50%) HTML
4 35 (23.49%) .NET
5 31 (20.81%) jQuery
6 28 (18.79%) XSLT
7 21 (14.09%) Hibernate
8 20 (13.42%) ASP.NET
9 19 (12.75%) Spring
9 19 (12.75%) WCF
10 15 (10.07%) JSON
11 14 (9.396%) REST
11 14 (9.396%) Motif
12 12 (8.054%) Java RMI
13 11 (7.383%) Swing
13 11 (7.383%) JDBC
13 11 (7.383%) JSP
13 11 (7.383%) wxWidgets
13 11 (7.383%) HTML5
14 10 (6.711%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 24 (16.11%) WebLogic
2 15 (10.07%) CMS
3 10 (6.711%) ESB
4 9 (6.040%) Apache
4 9 (6.040%) SharePoint
5 7 (4.698%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (3.356%) BizTalk Server
6 5 (3.356%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (2.685%) Liferay
7 4 (2.685%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (2.685%) WebLogic Portal
8 3 (2.013%) Tomcat
8 3 (2.013%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (2.013%) Windows Azure
9 2 (1.342%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.342%) Lotus Notes
9 2 (1.342%) IIS
10 1 (0.671%) TeamSite
10 1 (0.671%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (0.671%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 14 (9.396%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.685%) InfoPath
2 4 (2.685%) InDesign
2 4 (2.685%) Photoshop
3 3 (2.013%) MS Office
4 2 (1.342%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.342%) FrameMaker
4 2 (1.342%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.671%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.671%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 11 (7.383%) Tridion
2 9 (6.040%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (5.369%) TIBCO iProcess
3 8 (5.369%) Staffware
3 8 (5.369%) BusinessWorks
4 2 (1.342%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.342%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.369%) HTTP
2 5 (3.356%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.356%) DVB
3 1 (0.671%) SAN
3 1 (0.671%) RTP
3 1 (0.671%) Intranet
3 1 (0.671%) Internet
3 1 (0.671%) Extranet
3 1 (0.671%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.13%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (9.396%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (9.396%) Ingres
4 13 (8.725%) MySQL
5 12 (8.054%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (7.383%) SQL Server 2005
7 9 (6.040%) SQLPlus
7 9 (6.040%) Oracle 10g
7 9 (6.040%) Oracle Discoverer
7 9 (6.040%) TOAD
7 9 (6.040%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (5.369%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (5.369%) SQL Server 2000
9 7 (4.698%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.356%) GIS
11 3 (2.013%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.671%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.671%) Oracle 8/8i
12 1 (0.671%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 24 (16.11%) Subversion
2 20 (13.42%) ClearCase
3 19 (12.75%) Eclipse
4 14 (9.396%) CruiseControl
4 14 (9.396%) Ant
4 14 (9.396%) JUnit
4 14 (9.396%) ClearQuest
5 13 (8.725%) Git (software)
6 12 (8.054%) SpecFlow
6 12 (8.054%) Selenium
7 11 (7.383%) NUnit
7 11 (7.383%) CppUnit
7 11 (7.383%) GoogleTest
8 10 (6.711%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (5.369%) ReSharper
10 7 (4.698%) Rational Rose
10 7 (4.698%) FitNesse
11 6 (4.027%) Visual Studio
12 5 (3.356%) Maven
12 5 (3.356%) Cucumber
General
1 15 (10.07%) Telecoms
2 6 (4.027%) Finance
3 3 (2.013%) Billing
4 1 (0.671%) Back Office
4 1 (0.671%) Aerospace
4 1 (0.671%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.671%) Publishing
4 1 (0.671%) Games
4 1 (0.671%) Marketing
4 1 (0.671%) Banking
4 1 (0.671%) Retail
4 1 (0.671%) Multimedia
4 1 (0.671%) German Language
4 1 (0.671%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 98 (65.77%) Developer
2 21 (14.09%) Java Developer
3 15 (10.07%) .NET Developer
4 14 (9.396%) Web Developer
5 12 (8.054%) Software Engineer
6 10 (6.711%) Designer
6 10 (6.711%) C++ Developer
7 9 (6.040%) C# Developer
7 9 (6.040%) Oracle DBA
7 9 (6.040%) DBA
7 9 (6.040%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (5.369%) Agile .NET Developer
8 8 (5.369%) Agile C# Developer
8 8 (5.369%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 8 (5.369%) Tridion Developer
8 8 (5.369%) ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (4.027%) Perl Developer
9 6 (4.027%) SharePoint Developer
10 5 (3.356%) Architect
10 5 (3.356%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.040%) Replication
2 8 (5.369%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (4.027%) Computer Science
4 5 (3.356%) DTV
5 4 (2.685%) iPhone
5 4 (2.685%) Derivative
6 3 (2.013%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.013%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.342%) DataPower
7 2 (1.342%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.671%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.671%) W3C
8 1 (0.671%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.671%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.671%) Video Editing
8 1 (0.671%) CMDB
8 1 (0.671%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.671%) Open Source
8 1 (0.671%) iPad
8 1 (0.671%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 34 (22.82%) Linux
2 31 (20.81%) UNIX
3 25 (16.78%) Windows
4 6 (4.027%) Apple iOS
4 6 (4.027%) Android
5 4 (2.685%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.342%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.671%) AIX
7 1 (0.671%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.53%) OO
2 43 (28.86%) UML
3 26 (17.45%) OOD
3 26 (17.45%) TDD
4 21 (14.09%) SOA
4 21 (14.09%) MVC
5 19 (12.75%) Agile Software Development
5 19 (12.75%) Multithreading
6 17 (11.41%) Web Development
6 17 (11.41%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (10.74%) Scrum
8 14 (9.396%) BDD
8 14 (9.396%) Configuration Management
9 13 (8.725%) Software Engineering
10 11 (7.383%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (6.711%) Memory Management
11 10 (6.711%) Migration
12 9 (6.040%) E-business
12 9 (6.040%) Integration Testing
13 8 (5.369%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 70 (46.98%) Java
2 67 (44.97%) SQL
3 38 (25.50%) JavaScript
4 31 (20.81%) C#
5 26 (17.45%) C++
6 22 (14.77%) C
7 21 (14.09%) Perl
7 21 (14.09%) T-SQL
8 19 (12.75%) PL/SQL
9 18 (12.08%) Python
10 12 (8.054%) Shell Script
11 10 (6.711%) XPath
12 9 (6.040%) Korn
13 7 (4.698%) PHP
14 4 (2.685%) Objective-C
15 3 (2.013%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.671%) ActionScript
16 1 (0.671%) VBScript
16 1 (0.671%) VB
16 1 (0.671%) VC++
Qualifications
1 32 (21.48%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.396%) Degree
4 4 (2.685%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.671%) MCAD
5 1 (0.671%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.671%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.698%) QA
2 1 (0.671%) WCAG
2 1 (0.671%) DO-178B
System Software
1 9 (6.040%) Oracle RMAN
1 9 (6.040%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (2.013%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.671%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.671%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 9 (6.040%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.671%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.671%) Netcool
2 1 (0.671%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (0.671%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (0.671%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 47 (31.54%) Oracle
2 39 (26.17%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.040%) TIBCO
4 8 (5.369%) ILOG
5 7 (4.698%) webMethods
5 7 (4.698%) Software AG
6 4 (2.685%) Facebook
6 4 (2.685%) Twitter
6 4 (2.685%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.685%) Adobe
7 3 (2.013%) Cognizant
7 3 (2.013%) Apple
8 2 (1.342%) Coverity
8 2 (1.342%) Google
8 2 (1.342%) Open Text
8 2 (1.342%) IBM
8 2 (1.342%) Lotus
9 1 (0.671%) Siebel
9 1 (0.671%) Veritas
9 1 (0.671%) CA
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