Lancashire XML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	20
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	7	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	7.865 %	18.18 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£304
Average daily rate	£285	£326
% change on same period last year	-12.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+10.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£32.72
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Application Development Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	89	154
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.156 %
Daily rates quoted	12	21
Average minimum daily rate	£221	£321
Average daily rate	£240	£335
% change on same period last year	-28.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.41	£23.89
Average hourly rate	£25.17	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-3.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.93	£28.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
XML North West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

XML
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XML across the Lancashire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Blackburn	+5	2	£285	-6.55 %
Lancaster	+7	1	-	-
Newton-le-Willows	-	1	-	-

XML North West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 17 (68.00 %) .NET 2 16 (64.00 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (56.00 %) SQL 4 12 (48.00 %) C# 5 10 (40.00 %) E-Commerce 5 10 (40.00 %) WebServices 5 10 (40.00 %) JavaScript 5 10 (40.00 %) SQL Server 6 9 (36.00 %) CSS 6 9 (36.00 %) XSLT 6 9 (36.00 %) AJAX 7 7 (28.00 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (28.00 %) HTML 7 7 (28.00 %) Microsoft 8 6 (24.00 %) SOA

8 6 (24.00 %) MVC 8 6 (24.00 %) VB.NET 8 6 (24.00 %) SQL Server 2005 8 6 (24.00 %) JSON 8 6 (24.00 %) jQuery 8 6 (24.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 4 (16.00 %) XHTML 9 4 (16.00 %) Oracle 9 4 (16.00 %) Java 9 4 (16.00 %) DHTML 10 3 (12.00 %) Web Development 10 3 (12.00 %) VB6 10 3 (12.00 %) Transact-SQL 10 3 (12.00 %) C 10 3 (12.00 %) VB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 17 (68.00 %) .NET 2 16 (64.00 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (40.00 %) WebServices 4 9 (36.00 %) XSLT 4 9 (36.00 %) AJAX 4 9 (36.00 %) CSS 5 7 (28.00 %) HTML 5 7 (28.00 %) .NET Framework 6 6 (24.00 %) JSON 6 6 (24.00 %) jQuery 6 6 (24.00 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 6 (24.00 %) MVC 7 4 (16.00 %) XHTML 8 3 (12.00 %) ASP 9 2 (8.000 %) JSP 9 2 (8.000 %) Hibernate 9 2 (8.000 %) SOAP 10 1 (4.000 %) Spring 10 1 (4.000 %) Servlets 10 1 (4.000 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (8.000 %) IIS 2 1 (4.000 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (4.000 %) Photoshop 1 1 (4.000 %) MS Excel 1 1 (4.000 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 2 (8.000 %) Navision
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.000 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (40.00 %) SQL Server 2 6 (24.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (4.000 %) MySQL 3 1 (4.000 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (4.000 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (4.000 %) MS Access 3 1 (4.000 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (4.000 %) DTS 3 1 (4.000 %) RDBMS 3 1 (4.000 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 2 (8.000 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (8.000 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 2 (8.000 %) Flash 1 2 (8.000 %) Eclipse 1 2 (8.000 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (4.000 %) Ant	General 1 2 (8.000 %) Retail 1 2 (8.000 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 21 (84.00 %) Developer 2 11 (44.00 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (24.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 5 (20.00 %) C# Developer 4 5 (20.00 %) Web Developer 5 4 (16.00 %) VB.NET Developer 5 4 (16.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (8.000 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (8.000 %) Navision Consultant 6 2 (8.000 %) Navision Developer 6 2 (8.000 %) Consultant 6 2 (8.000 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (8.000 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (8.000 %) Administrator 7 1 (4.000 %) Systems Manager 7 1 (4.000 %) Java Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) SQL Server Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) PHP Developer 7 1 (4.000 %) SQL Developer	Operating Systems 1 3 (12.00 %) UNIX 2 2 (8.000 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (40.00 %) E-Commerce 2 6 (24.00 %) SOA 3 3 (12.00 %) Web Development 4 1 (4.000 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (4.000 %) UML 4 1 (4.000 %) OO 4 1 (4.000 %) SEO 4 1 (4.000 %) Scrum 4 1 (4.000 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 14 (56.00 %) SQL 2 12 (48.00 %) C# 3 10 (40.00 %) JavaScript 4 6 (24.00 %) VB.NET 5 4 (16.00 %) DHTML 5 4 (16.00 %) Java 6 3 (12.00 %) Transact-SQL 6 3 (12.00 %) C 6 3 (12.00 %) VB 6 3 (12.00 %) VB6 7 2 (8.000 %) VBScript 7 2 (8.000 %) PHP 8 1 (4.000 %) XPath
Qualifications 1 1 (4.000 %) Degree	Vendors 1 7 (28.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (16.00 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.000 %) Infragistics