The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 17 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 Hounslow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 5 6 11
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +5
Contract jobs citing XML 14 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 24.56% 14.10% 4.615%
As % of the Application Development category 50.00% 37.93% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 3
Average daily rate £425 £330 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.78% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £452 £450 £382
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
28 29 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 49.12% 37.18% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 12
Average daily rate £450 £330 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £210 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
London

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hounslow XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 20 (90.91%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (81.82%) TDD
3 16 (72.73%) Pair Programming
4 14 (63.64%) Java
4 14 (63.64%) SQL
5 13 (59.09%) OO
5 13 (59.09%) JSON
5 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (59.09%) RESTful
6 12 (54.55%) HTTP
7 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (50.00%) HTML
8 8 (36.36%) CSS
8 8 (36.36%) Web Services
8 8 (36.36%) Open Source
9 7 (31.82%) BDD
9 7 (31.82%) HTML5
9 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
9 7 (31.82%) Release Management
9 7 (31.82%) jQuery
9 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
9 7 (31.82%) Subversion
10 6 (27.27%) Automated Testing
10 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
10 6 (27.27%) Android
10 6 (27.27%) SQLite
10 6 (27.27%) OOA/OOD
10 6 (27.27%) XSLT
10 6 (27.27%) MVC

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 13 (59.09%) JSON
1 13 (59.09%) RESTful
2 11 (50.00%) HTML
3 8 (36.36%) CSS
3 8 (36.36%) Web Services
4 7 (31.82%) HTML5
4 7 (31.82%) jQuery
5 6 (27.27%) XSLT
6 5 (22.73%) REST
7 4 (18.18%) XNA
7 4 (18.18%) WPF
7 4 (18.18%) Silverlight
8 3 (13.64%) CSS3
8 3 (13.64%) SOAP
9 2 (9.091%) Spring
9 2 (9.091%) Node.js
9 2 (9.091%) Symfony
10 1 (4.545%) Grails
10 1 (4.545%) Ajax
10 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) HTTP
2 4 (18.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) SQLite
2 2 (9.091%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.091%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (9.091%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Subversion
2 5 (22.73%) Cucumber
3 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 4 (18.18%) Selenium
4 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
4 3 (13.64%) Git (software)
4 3 (13.64%) WATIR
4 3 (13.64%) CruiseControl
4 3 (13.64%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.545%) Mockito
5 1 (4.545%) QUnit
5 1 (4.545%) Jasmine
5 1 (4.545%) JUnit
5 1 (4.545%) TortoiseSVN
5 1 (4.545%) TestNG
Job Titles
1 19 (86.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Android Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Silverlight Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Tester
4 3 (13.64%) Automation Tester
5 2 (9.091%) Agile Tester
5 2 (9.091%) PHP Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Open Source
2 6 (27.27%) Mobile App
3 4 (18.18%) Kinect
4 3 (13.64%) Video on Demand
5 1 (4.545%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Android
2 4 (18.18%) Windows 8
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Phone
2 4 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (81.82%) TDD
3 16 (72.73%) Pair Programming
4 13 (59.09%) OO
4 13 (59.09%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (31.82%) Multithreading
5 7 (31.82%) Release Management
5 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 7 (31.82%) BDD
5 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (27.27%) Mobile Application Development
6 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
6 6 (27.27%) MVC
6 6 (27.27%) Scrum
6 6 (27.27%) OOA/OOD
6 6 (27.27%) Automated Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Web Development
7 4 (18.18%) OOP
7 4 (18.18%) MVVM
8 3 (13.64%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Java
1 14 (63.64%) SQL
2 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) XAML
3 4 (18.18%) Ruby
3 4 (18.18%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
5 2 (9.091%) PHP5
5 2 (9.091%) PHP
6 1 (4.545%) Python
6 1 (4.545%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
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Posted: 14 May 2013