Leeds XML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Leeds 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	12	18
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	132	90
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.186 %	0.091 %
As % of the category below	34.83 %	20.98 %
Daily rates quoted	23	16
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£305
Average daily rate	£313	£321
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.71	£29.25
Average hourly rate	£29.29	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-6.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.86	£33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£32.72
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Application Development Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	379	429
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.534 %	0.434 %
Daily rates quoted	76	95
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£305
Average daily rate	£310	£321
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.84	£28.90
Average hourly rate	£31.70	£29.99
% change on same period last year	+5.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.57	£31.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
XML West Yorkshire

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.

XML
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 Leeds region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 99 (46.05 %) .NET 2 88 (40.93 %) C# 3 81 (37.67 %) SQL 4 77 (35.81 %) SQL Server 5 71 (33.02 %) HTML 6 64 (29.77 %) WebServices 7 61 (28.37 %) ASP.NET 8 50 (23.26 %) CSS 8 50 (23.26 %) Microsoft 9 47 (21.86 %) Java 10 40 (18.60 %) SQL Server 2005 11 39 (18.14 %) JavaScript 12 33 (15.35 %) J2EE 12 33 (15.35 %) Oracle 13 30 (13.95 %) OO

14 29 (13.49 %) XSLT 14 29 (13.49 %) NHS 15 28 (13.02 %) Windows 15 28 (13.02 %) Visual Studio 15 28 (13.02 %) ASP 16 27 (12.56 %) MySQL 17 26 (12.09 %) PHP 18 21 (9.767 %) Finance 18 21 (9.767 %) Health 19 19 (8.837 %) XHTML 20 18 (8.372 %) RSS 20 18 (8.372 %) Sun 20 18 (8.372 %) .NET Framework 21 17 (7.907 %) MS Excel 21 17 (7.907 %) Ant

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 99 (46.05 %) .NET 2 71 (33.02 %) HTML 3 64 (29.77 %) WebServices 4 61 (28.37 %) ASP.NET 5 50 (23.26 %) CSS 6 33 (15.35 %) J2EE 7 29 (13.49 %) XSLT 8 28 (13.02 %) ASP 9 19 (8.837 %) XHTML 10 18 (8.372 %) RSS 10 18 (8.372 %) .NET Framework 11 15 (6.977 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 13 (6.047 %) JSP 13 12 (5.581 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 13 12 (5.581 %) Spring 14 11 (5.116 %) Hibernate 14 11 (5.116 %) AJAX 14 11 (5.116 %) WCF 14 11 (5.116 %) XML Schema 15 10 (4.651 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 16 (7.442 %) SharePoint 2 15 (6.977 %) ATG Dynamo 3 10 (4.651 %) CMS 4 9 (4.186 %) Apache 5 7 (3.256 %) IIS 6 6 (2.791 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 4 (1.860 %) Commerce Server 7 4 (1.860 %) Tomcat 8 3 (1.395 %) WebSphere Application Server 9 2 (0.930 %) WebSphere MQ 9 2 (0.930 %) TeamSite 9 2 (0.930 %) Commerce Server 2007 10 1 (0.465 %) Community Server 10 1 (0.465 %) TIBCO EMS 10 1 (0.465 %) BizTalk Server 10 1 (0.465 %) WebLogic 10 1 (0.465 %) JBoss 10 1 (0.465 %) Lotus Notes 10 1 (0.465 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 17 (7.907 %) MS Excel 2 8 (3.721 %) MS Office 3 5 (2.326 %) Photoshop 3 5 (2.326 %) Fireworks 4 4 (1.860 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.465 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 2 (0.930 %) SAP IS-U 2 1 (0.465 %) TIBCO iProcess 2 1 (0.465 %) WebTrends 2 1 (0.465 %) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking 1 15 (6.977 %) HTTP 2 12 (5.581 %) Extranet 3 9 (4.186 %) Internet 4 3 (1.395 %) SSL 5 2 (0.930 %) LDAP 6 1 (0.465 %) PBX 6 1 (0.465 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 77 (35.81 %) SQL Server 2 40 (18.60 %) SQL Server 2005 3 27 (12.56 %) MySQL 4 13 (6.047 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 12 (5.581 %) SQL Server 2000 6 10 (4.651 %) MS Access 7 7 (3.256 %) EDRMS 8 6 (2.791 %) Oracle 9i 9 4 (1.860 %) RDBMS 10 3 (1.395 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 3 (1.395 %) DTS 10 3 (1.395 %) DB2 10 3 (1.395 %) Crystal Reports 11 2 (0.930 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 2 (0.930 %) OLAP 11 2 (0.930 %) OLTP 11 2 (0.930 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 2 (0.930 %) Oracle 10g 11 2 (0.930 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 1 (0.465 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 28 (13.02 %) Visual Studio 2 17 (7.907 %) Ant 3 13 (6.047 %) Dreamweaver 4 10 (4.651 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 7 (3.256 %) JUnit 6 4 (1.860 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 4 (1.860 %) Eclipse 7 2 (0.930 %) TestDirector 7 2 (0.930 %) Flash 7 2 (0.930 %) ClearCase 8 1 (0.465 %) XMLSpy 8 1 (0.465 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 21 (9.767 %) Finance 1 21 (9.767 %) Health 2 11 (5.116 %) Marketing 3 5 (2.326 %) Pensions 4 4 (1.860 %) Retail 4 4 (1.860 %) Government 5 3 (1.395 %) Telecoms 6 2 (0.930 %) Banking 7 1 (0.465 %) Publishing 7 1 (0.465 %) Games 7 1 (0.465 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.465 %) Back Office 7 1 (0.465 %) Billing 7 1 (0.465 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.465 %) Graphic Design
Job Titles 1 164 (76.28 %) Developer 2 54 (25.12 %) .NET Developer 3 32 (14.88 %) C# Developer 4 26 (12.09 %) Web Developer 5 24 (11.16 %) Java Developer 6 23 (10.70 %) Analyst 7 18 (8.372 %) J2EE Developer 8 16 (7.442 %) PHP Developer 9 15 (6.977 %) ASP.NET Developer 10 13 (6.047 %) Lead Developer 10 13 (6.047 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 11 (5.116 %) Data Analyst 12 8 (3.721 %) Support Analyst 12 8 (3.721 %) Test Analyst 13 7 (3.256 %) ASP Developer 13 7 (3.256 %) Java/J2EE Developer 14 6 (2.791 %) PHP Web Developer 14 6 (2.791 %) Data Migration Analyst 14 6 (2.791 %) Architect 14 6 (2.791 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 29 (13.49 %) NHS 2 6 (2.791 %) N-Tier 2 6 (2.791 %) Computer Science 3 5 (2.326 %) Management Information System 4 4 (1.860 %) Freedom of Information 4 4 (1.860 %) Data Protection Act 4 4 (1.860 %) Freedom of Information Act 5 2 (0.930 %) Data Integration 5 2 (0.930 %) W3C 6 1 (0.465 %) NPfIT 6 1 (0.465 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.465 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.465 %) PACS 6 1 (0.465 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 28 (13.02 %) Windows 2 14 (6.512 %) UNIX 3 13 (6.047 %) Solaris 4 7 (3.256 %) Linux 5 1 (0.465 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (13.95 %) OO 2 16 (7.442 %) UML 2 16 (7.442 %) Agile Software Development 3 12 (5.581 %) Unit Testing 4 11 (5.116 %) Migration 5 10 (4.651 %) Software Testing 5 10 (4.651 %) E-Commerce 6 8 (3.721 %) Web Design 7 7 (3.256 %) Document Management 7 7 (3.256 %) RAD 7 7 (3.256 %) OOD 7 7 (3.256 %) Time Management 7 7 (3.256 %) Data Migration 8 6 (2.791 %) PRINCE2 9 5 (2.326 %) Regression Testing 9 5 (2.326 %) Configuration Management 9 5 (2.326 %) Data Analysis 9 5 (2.326 %) Scrum 9 5 (2.326 %) Data Management 10 4 (1.860 %) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages 1 88 (40.93 %) C# 2 81 (37.67 %) SQL 3 47 (21.86 %) Java 4 39 (18.14 %) JavaScript 5 26 (12.09 %) PHP 6 13 (6.047 %) VB.NET 6 13 (6.047 %) Shell Script 7 10 (4.651 %) PL/SQL 7 10 (4.651 %) PHP4 8 9 (4.186 %) Transact-SQL 9 7 (3.256 %) Perl 9 7 (3.256 %) C++ 10 6 (2.791 %) VB 11 5 (2.326 %) VBScript 12 3 (1.395 %) XPath 12 3 (1.395 %) PHP5 13 2 (0.930 %) DHTML 13 2 (0.930 %) ActionScript 14 1 (0.465 %) C 14 1 (0.465 %) MAXScript	Qualifications 1 16 (7.442 %) Sun Certification 2 11 (5.116 %) Degree 3 6 (2.791 %) ISEB 4 5 (2.326 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (0.930 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (0.930 %) CCNP 6 1 (0.465 %) CCVP 6 1 (0.465 %) ISEB Practitioner 6 1 (0.465 %) OCA 6 1 (0.465 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (3.721 %) QA 2 3 (1.395 %) HL7 2 3 (1.395 %) WCAG	System Software 1 4 (1.860 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 3 (1.395 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (0.465 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 50 (23.26 %) Microsoft 2 33 (15.35 %) Oracle 3 18 (8.372 %) Sun 4 15 (6.977 %) ATG 5 4 (1.860 %) VMware 5 4 (1.860 %) Meridio 6 3 (1.395 %) SAP 7 2 (0.930 %) Cisco 7 2 (0.930 %) IBM 7 2 (0.930 %) telerik 7 2 (0.930 %) BEA 7 2 (0.930 %) Sarvega 7 2 (0.930 %) webMethods 8 1 (0.465 %) Lucent 8 1 (0.465 %) Alcatel 8 1 (0.465 %) Ericsson 8 1 (0.465 %) Lotus 8 1 (0.465 %) TIBCO 8 1 (0.465 %) RedDot 8 1 (0.465 %) Nortel