The first table below looks at the demand for XQuery 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 XQuery over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XQuery
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing XQuery 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £419 £430
% change year-on-year
-16.41% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
321 338 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.09% 37.98% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 215 113
Average daily rate £283 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.07% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £390 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 5
Average hourly rate £13.50 £29.75 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.62% +8.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.50 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £61.25 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XQuery
West Yorkshire

XQuery
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories

XQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing XQuery 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 XQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle