The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Leicester 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 18 - 5
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML 2 0 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 2.062% - 18.39%
As % of the Application Development category 6.452% - 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 9
Average daily rate - - £240
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Application Development
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
31 27 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 31.96% 27.00% 52.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 16
Average daily rate £288 £300 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £275 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
Average hourly rate - £8.75 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -76.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XML
Leicestershire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicester XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicester XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) OLAP
3 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Star Schema
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Marketing
4 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) XHTML
5 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
5 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) XSLT

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
3 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
3 1 (12.50%) LINQ
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) OLAP
1 3 (37.50%) Star Schema
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle OLAP
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) VB.NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Database Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
1 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VB6
3 1 (12.50%) C#
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft