The first table below looks at the demand for XSL 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 XSL 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 Application Development 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
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Rank - 67 56
Contract jobs citing XSL 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - 0.112% 0.160%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.420% 0.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £360 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £360 £313
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
264 238 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.44% 26.74% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 158 79
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £264 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.66% -47.05%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSL
West Yorkshire

XSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds XSL Jobs Demand Trend

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds XSL Daily Rate Trend

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XSL across the Leeds region.

Leeds XSL Hourly Rate Trend

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) MS Project
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Windows

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 1 (25.00%) WebCenter
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle ADF
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (25.00%) JDeveloper
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
1 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) BPEL
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle