XSD Contracts in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD 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 Lancashire 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
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 31 41 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing XSD 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.422% 0.243% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.545% 0.725% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £446 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.34% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £405 £425
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 66 138 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 31.28% 33.50% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 72 17
Average daily rate £313 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £293 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £528 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSD
North West

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) WCF
2 7 (87.50%) MVC
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) WSDL
2 7 (87.50%) SOAP
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
3 6 (75.00%) IIS
3 6 (75.00%) XML
3 6 (75.00%) Mobile App
3 6 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (62.50%) UML
4 5 (62.50%) Workflow
4 5 (62.50%) Web Services
4 5 (62.50%) WPF
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (62.50%) Document Management
4 5 (62.50%) .NET Framework
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (50.00%) Ninject
5 4 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
5 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (50.00%) TDD
5 4 (50.00%) VB6
5 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) WCF
2 7 (87.50%) WSDL
2 7 (87.50%) SOAP
3 6 (75.00%) XML
4 5 (62.50%) Web Services
4 5 (62.50%) WPF
4 5 (62.50%) .NET Framework
5 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (50.00%) Ninject
6 2 (25.00%) REST
6 2 (25.00%) ADO.NET
6 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
7 1 (12.50%) ActiveX
7 1 (12.50%) COM
7 1 (12.50%) DCOM
7 1 (12.50%) HTML
7 1 (12.50%) Ajax
7 1 (12.50%) .NET Remoting
7 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) MSMQ
2 1 (12.50%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 7
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) TortoiseSVN
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) WPF Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) MVC
2 6 (75.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 5 (62.50%) UML
3 5 (62.50%) Workflow
3 5 (62.50%) Document Management
4 4 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (50.00%) TDD
4 4 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) OO
5 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
7 1 (12.50%) Content Management
7 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
7 1 (12.50%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) VB6
2 4 (50.00%) VB
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (12.50%) VBA
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
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