Home Counties XSLT Contracts

This section looks at the demand for XSL Transformations (XSLT) skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited XSLT over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham 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 Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton 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 Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Southport Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	10.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£380
% change on same period last year	+3.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.68	£34.07
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
Application Development Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	20	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£475	£381
Average daily rate	£483	£392
% change on same period last year	+23.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£490	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
XSLT South East

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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (100.00 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere MQ 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere 2 2 (66.67 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) DB2 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) C# 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl 3 1 (33.33 %) PHP 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (100.00 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) DB2	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Junior 3 1 (33.33 %) C# Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Junior Developer 3 1 (33.33 %) Junior C# Developer
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) PHP