The first table below looks at the demand for XSLT 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 XSLT 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
Rank 69 59 53
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -6
Contract jobs citing XSLT 3 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.396% 0.787% 0.328%
As % of the Application Development category 1.132% 2.917% 1.460%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £341 £313
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+77.21% -50.62%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
265 240 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.01% 26.97% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 158 78
Average daily rate £290 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £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 4 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.33% -57.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSLT
West Yorkshire

XSLT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds XSLT Jobs Demand Trend

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds XSLT Daily Rate Trend

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds XSLT Hourly Rate Trend

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (64.29%) XML
2 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (50.00%) Apache
3 7 (50.00%) C#
3 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (42.86%) CSS
4 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 6 (42.86%) Windows
4 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (42.86%) WCF
4 6 (42.86%) MVC
5 5 (35.71%) BizTalk Server
5 5 (35.71%) Internet
5 5 (35.71%) Zend
5 5 (35.71%) RIA
5 5 (35.71%) Linux
5 5 (35.71%) OO
5 5 (35.71%) B2C
5 5 (35.71%) XHTML
5 5 (35.71%) PHP
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
5 5 (35.71%) .NET
5 5 (35.71%) MySQL
5 5 (35.71%) Open Source
6 4 (28.57%) Oracle
7 3 (21.43%) VB.NET
7 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
7 3 (21.43%) Web Services
7 3 (21.43%) WinForms
8 2 (14.29%) Microsoft

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (64.29%) XML
2 6 (42.86%) CSS
2 6 (42.86%) WCF
3 5 (35.71%) XHTML
3 5 (35.71%) .NET
4 3 (21.43%) Web Services
4 3 (21.43%) WinForms
5 2 (14.29%) jQuery
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 2 (14.29%) HTML
5 2 (14.29%) J2EE
5 2 (14.29%) JDBC
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 2
6 1 (7.143%) RESTful
6 1 (7.143%) JSP
6 1 (7.143%) Servlets
6 1 (7.143%) SOAP
6 1 (7.143%) Struts
6 1 (7.143%) JavaBeans
6 1 (7.143%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 7 (50.00%) Apache
2 5 (35.71%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
4 1 (7.143%) IIS
4 1 (7.143%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (35.71%) MySQL
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
2 1 (7.143%) Maven
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) PHP Developer
2 5 (35.71%) BizTalk Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) RIA
1 5 (35.71%) Open Source
2 1 (7.143%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (42.86%) MVC
3 5 (35.71%) OO
3 5 (35.71%) B2C
4 2 (14.29%) Web Development
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (7.143%) User Stories
5 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
5 1 (7.143%) ETL
5 1 (7.143%) RAD
5 1 (7.143%) TDD
5 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Web Design
5 1 (7.143%) Migration
5 1 (7.143%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) PHP
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) VB.NET
4 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (7.143%) C
6 1 (7.143%) XQuery
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) OpenSSO
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Zend
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.143%) JBoss