The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XAML over the 3 months to 21 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 Programming Languages category for the Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XAML 8 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.057% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.454% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 - -
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
326 336 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.06% 37.75% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 215 108
Average daily rate £280 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 5
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.58% -38.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.50 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £57.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XAML
West Yorkshire

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XAML across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Leeds XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds XAML Daily Rate Trend

XAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 12 (100.00%) WPF
1 12 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 12 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
5 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET
5 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
5 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.333%) XML
5 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
5 1 (8.333%) Ajax
5 1 (8.333%) Web Development
5 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 1 (8.333%) CMS
5 1 (8.333%) DotNetNuke
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing XAML 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 XAML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 12 (100.00%) WPF
1 12 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 12 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET
2 1 (8.333%) XML
2 1 (8.333%) Ajax
2 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (8.333%) jQuery
2 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
1 1 (8.333%) CMS
1 1 (8.333%) DotNetNuke
1 1 (8.333%) Umbraco
1 1 (8.333%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
2 8 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (8.333%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.333%) EPiServer
1 1 (8.333%) Sitecore