The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 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 Kent 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 30 29 22
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Contract jobs citing XML 6 7 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 2.091% 2.652% 5.960%
As % of the Application Development category 9.375% 11.29% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 13
Average daily rate £295 - £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 - £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £331 - £385
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
64 62 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 22.30% 23.48% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 47
Average daily rate £298 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
South East

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tunbridge Wells -2 1 - -
XML
South East

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 13 (61.90%) CSS
2 10 (47.62%) .NET
3 9 (42.86%) HTML
3 9 (42.86%) Java
4 8 (38.10%) C#
4 8 (38.10%) Web Services
5 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
5 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 6 (28.57%) XHTML
6 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET
6 5 (23.81%) SQL
7 4 (19.05%) Subversion
8 3 (14.29%) Ajax
8 3 (14.29%) Selenium
8 3 (14.29%) Ant
8 3 (14.29%) JUnit
8 3 (14.29%) JSP
8 3 (14.29%) XSLT
8 3 (14.29%) OO
8 3 (14.29%) W3C
9 2 (9.524%) Regression Testing
9 2 (9.524%) Finance
9 2 (9.524%) CMS
9 2 (9.524%) Sun Certification
9 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
9 2 (9.524%) Adobe
9 2 (9.524%) Sun
9 2 (9.524%) Servlets
9 2 (9.524%) JDBC
9 2 (9.524%) VBA

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (61.90%) CSS
2 10 (47.62%) .NET
3 9 (42.86%) HTML
4 8 (38.10%) Web Services
5 6 (28.57%) XHTML
6 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET
7 3 (14.29%) Ajax
7 3 (14.29%) JSP
7 3 (14.29%) XSLT
8 2 (9.524%) Servlets
8 2 (9.524%) JDBC
8 2 (9.524%) J2EE
8 2 (9.524%) jQuery
8 2 (9.524%) Spring
8 2 (9.524%) .NET Framework
8 2 (9.524%) Java EE
8 2 (9.524%) XML Messaging
9 1 (4.762%) JSTL
9 1 (4.762%) Qt
9 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) CMS
1 2 (9.524%) IIS
2 1 (4.762%) Windows Azure
2 1 (4.762%) CM System
2 1 (4.762%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (4.762%) Drupal
2 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (4.762%) Photoshop
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
1 1 (4.762%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.762%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Subversion
2 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 3 (14.29%) Ant
2 3 (14.29%) JUnit
3 2 (9.524%) CruiseControl
4 1 (4.762%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.762%) Git (software)
4 1 (4.762%) JBehave
4 1 (4.762%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.762%) Mockito
4 1 (4.762%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.762%) Hudson
4 1 (4.762%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.762%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.762%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (4.762%) Bugzilla
General
1 2 (9.524%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Marketing
2 1 (4.762%) Automotive
2 1 (4.762%) Publishing
2 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (9.524%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.524%) Senior Developer
3 2 (9.524%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.524%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.762%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.762%) VB Developer
4 1 (4.762%) SQL Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Perl Developer
4 1 (4.762%) PHP Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Java Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) VB6 Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Author
4 1 (4.762%) Technical Author
4 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Web Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Business Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) W3C
2 1 (4.762%) Statistics
2 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.762%) NHS
2 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.762%) Android
1 1 (4.762%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.762%) UNIX
1 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (14.29%) OO
2 2 (9.524%) Regression Testing
2 2 (9.524%) UML
2 2 (9.524%) System Testing
2 2 (9.524%) TDD
2 2 (9.524%) Web Development
3 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (4.762%) Scrum
3 1 (4.762%) Web Design
3 1 (4.762%) Content Management
3 1 (4.762%) Document Management
3 1 (4.762%) Software Testing
3 1 (4.762%) Project Planning
3 1 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (4.762%) Investment Management
3 1 (4.762%) Time Management
3 1 (4.762%) BDD
3 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (4.762%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) C#
3 6 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (23.81%) SQL
5 2 (9.524%) VBA
5 2 (9.524%) PHP
5 2 (9.524%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.762%) VB6
6 1 (4.762%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.762%) R
6 1 (4.762%) PHP5
6 1 (4.762%) VB
6 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.762%) Perl
6 1 (4.762%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) Sun Certification
2 1 (4.762%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.524%) Adobe
1 2 (9.524%) Sun
2 1 (4.762%) VMware
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