The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Knutsford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Knutsford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 21 - 26
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML 1 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 0.943% - 1.935%
As % of the Application Development category 6.250% - 8.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £160 - £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £334 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.76% -
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
Knutsford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 18 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Knutsford 15.09% 26.09% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 29
Average daily rate £300 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £188 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £510 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
XML
Cheshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft