Hertfordshire XSLT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for XSL Transformations (XSLT) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XSLT over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	75
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	40	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	8.114 %	4.077 %
Daily rates quoted	36	9
Average minimum daily rate	£423	£339
Average daily rate	£465	£377
% change on same period last year	+23.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£508	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£390	£370
% change on same period last year	+5.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.70	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-13.45 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	493	466
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.657 %	0.471 %
Daily rates quoted	213	179
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£311
Average daily rate	£394	£333
% change on same period last year	+18.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.90	£29.91
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.59	£33.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XSLT East of England

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.

XSLT
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XSLT across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSLT within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stevenage	-	2	-	-

XSLT East of England

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing XSLT 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 XSLT.

1 75 (84.27 %) XML 2 52 (58.43 %) CSS 2 52 (58.43 %) JavaScript 2 52 (58.43 %) XHTML 3 49 (55.06 %) E-Commerce 4 41 (46.07 %) C# 5 38 (42.70 %) .NET 5 38 (42.70 %) OO 6 37 (41.57 %) Retail 7 35 (39.33 %) AJAX 7 35 (39.33 %) ASP.NET 8 33 (37.08 %) SQL 9 24 (26.97 %) RAD 9 24 (26.97 %) BizTalk Server 10 23 (25.84 %) Internet

10 23 (25.84 %) Scrum 11 22 (24.72 %) SMTP 11 22 (24.72 %) FTP 11 22 (24.72 %) HTTP 11 22 (24.72 %) TCP/IP 11 22 (24.72 %) HTML 12 21 (23.60 %) WPF 13 20 (22.47 %) ADO.NET 14 19 (21.35 %) XML Schema 15 16 (17.98 %) XSL 16 15 (16.85 %) VSS/SourceSafe 17 13 (14.61 %) WebServices 18 12 (13.48 %) Games 18 12 (13.48 %) Web Development 19 11 (12.36 %) Change Management

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing XSLT 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 XSLT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 75 (84.27 %) XML 2 52 (58.43 %) CSS 2 52 (58.43 %) XHTML 3 38 (42.70 %) .NET 4 35 (39.33 %) ASP.NET 4 35 (39.33 %) AJAX 5 22 (24.72 %) HTML 6 21 (23.60 %) WPF 7 20 (22.47 %) ADO.NET 8 19 (21.35 %) XML Schema 9 16 (17.98 %) XSL 10 13 (14.61 %) WebServices 11 6 (6.742 %) SOAP 12 5 (5.618 %) XSD 12 5 (5.618 %) DOM 13 4 (4.494 %) J2EE 13 4 (4.494 %) WebSphere 14 3 (3.371 %) JSP 15 2 (2.247 %) Servlets 15 2 (2.247 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 24 (26.97 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (2.247 %) ESB 2 2 (2.247 %) WebLogic 2 2 (2.247 %) IIS 2 2 (2.247 %) JBoss 2 2 (2.247 %) Apache 3 1 (1.124 %) Tomcat 3 1 (1.124 %) TeamSite 3 1 (1.124 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (1.124 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.124 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 23 (25.84 %) Internet 2 22 (24.72 %) SMTP 2 22 (24.72 %) FTP 2 22 (24.72 %) HTTP 2 22 (24.72 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.124 %) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (7.865 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.494 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (4.494 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (2.247 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 2 (2.247 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.124 %) DB2 4 1 (1.124 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 15 (16.85 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (2.247 %) Eclipse 3 1 (1.124 %) JDeveloper 3 1 (1.124 %) OpenDeploy 3 1 (1.124 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (1.124 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.124 %) JBuilder 3 1 (1.124 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General 1 37 (41.57 %) Retail 2 12 (13.48 %) Games 3 2 (2.247 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.124 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (1.124 %) Finance 4 1 (1.124 %) Education	Job Titles 1 55 (61.80 %) Developer 2 23 (25.84 %) Web Developer 3 16 (17.98 %) .NET Developer 4 13 (14.61 %) C# Developer 5 12 (13.48 %) Architect 6 9 (10.11 %) Development Manager 6 9 (10.11 %) Team Leader 7 7 (7.865 %) Solutions Architect 8 6 (6.742 %) UI Developer 9 5 (5.618 %) Senior Developer 10 4 (4.494 %) Java Developer 10 4 (4.494 %) BizTalk Developer 11 3 (3.371 %) Web Manager 11 3 (3.371 %) .NET Web Developer 11 3 (3.371 %) .NET Software Engineer 11 3 (3.371 %) C# Web Developer 11 3 (3.371 %) Applications Developer 11 3 (3.371 %) C# Software Engineer 11 3 (3.371 %) Software Engineer 12 2 (2.247 %) Senior UI Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.494 %) W3C 2 1 (1.124 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (1.124 %) Computer Science 2 1 (1.124 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.247 %) UNIX 2 1 (1.124 %) Windows 2 1 (1.124 %) HPUX 2 1 (1.124 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.124 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 49 (55.06 %) E-Commerce 2 38 (42.70 %) OO 3 24 (26.97 %) RAD 4 23 (25.84 %) Scrum 5 12 (13.48 %) Web Development 6 11 (12.36 %) Change Management 7 9 (10.11 %) Web Design 8 6 (6.742 %) GAP Analysis 9 3 (3.371 %) OOD 9 3 (3.371 %) OOA/OOD 10 2 (2.247 %) Service Management 10 2 (2.247 %) SOA 10 2 (2.247 %) Agile Software Development 10 2 (2.247 %) Content Management 11 1 (1.124 %) BPEL 11 1 (1.124 %) Risk Management 11 1 (1.124 %) SEO 11 1 (1.124 %) Validation 11 1 (1.124 %) Project Management 11 1 (1.124 %) EAI	Programming Languages 1 52 (58.43 %) JavaScript 2 41 (46.07 %) C# 3 33 (37.08 %) SQL 4 8 (8.989 %) XPath 5 7 (7.865 %) DHTML 5 7 (7.865 %) Java 6 4 (4.494 %) VB.NET 7 3 (3.371 %) VC++ 8 2 (2.247 %) C 9 1 (1.124 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 3 (3.371 %) PhD 2 2 (2.247 %) Degree 3 1 (1.124 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.124 %) WCAG 1 1 (1.124 %) WAI 1 1 (1.124 %) QA
Systems Management 1 2 (2.247 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 11 (12.36 %) Serena 2 3 (3.371 %) Remedy 3 2 (2.247 %) IBM 3 2 (2.247 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.247 %) HP 3 2 (2.247 %) Interwoven 4 1 (1.124 %) BEA 4 1 (1.124 %) Tridion 4 1 (1.124 %) Sun 4 1 (1.124 %) Oracle