The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 23 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 Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 62 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing XSD 1 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% 0.515% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.476% 1.792% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £458 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £405 £425
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
210 279 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 32.97% 28.73% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 118 93
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 18 24
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £20.00 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSD
East of England

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire XSD Hourly Rate Trend

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 3 (75.00%) StreamWeaver
2 3 (75.00%) DOC1
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) BPEL
3 1 (25.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) EJB
2 1 (25.00%) JSP
2 1 (25.00%) Servlets
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) StreamWeaver
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SOA Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) BPEL
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
2 1 (25.00%) Code Coverage
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle