Ipswich XSD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for XML Schema Definition (XSD) skills within the Ipswich region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside North West Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Portsmouth Shropshire South East South West Surrey Telford UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£309	£409
% change on same period last year	-24.50 %
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	-	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Ipswich
Matching contract IT job ads	4	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.019 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£164	£445
Average daily rate	£202	£451
% change on same period last year	-55.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£240	£456
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
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	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
XSD Suffolk

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.

XSD
Demand Trend

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