Lincolnshire XML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Lincolnshire 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Ross-on-Wye Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	14
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	15	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	83.33 %	9.091 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£160	-
Average daily rate	£210	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£260	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.86 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.77	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Application Development Lincolnshire
Matching contract IT job ads	18	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£169	-
Average daily rate	£197	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£224	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.92	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
XML East Midlands

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire region.

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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 Lincolnshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Lincolnshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Lincoln	-	9	£210	-

XML East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 23 (88.46 %) Perl 2 18 (69.23 %) Java 3 17 (65.38 %) HTML 4 16 (61.54 %) Apache 5 15 (57.69 %) DV Cleared 5 15 (57.69 %) Security Cleared 6 14 (53.85 %) Solaris 7 13 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 7 13 (50.00 %) Windows 7 13 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 8 9 (34.62 %) XSLT 8 9 (34.62 %) SQL 9 8 (30.77 %) PHP 9 8 (30.77 %) Tomcat 9 8 (30.77 %) Linux

9 8 (30.77 %) Cocoon 10 7 (26.92 %) SOAP 11 5 (19.23 %) HTTP 11 5 (19.23 %) IDOL 11 5 (19.23 %) SC Cleared 11 5 (19.23 %) MySQL 11 5 (19.23 %) C 11 5 (19.23 %) C++ 11 5 (19.23 %) SQL Server 12 3 (11.54 %) Data Management 12 3 (11.54 %) Government 12 3 (11.54 %) LAMP 13 2 (7.692 %) Python 13 2 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 13 2 (7.692 %) .NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 17 (65.38 %) HTML 2 9 (34.62 %) XSLT 3 8 (30.77 %) Cocoon 4 7 (26.92 %) SOAP 5 3 (11.54 %) LAMP 6 2 (7.692 %) .NET 7 1 (3.846 %) ASP 7 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (3.846 %) CSS 7 1 (3.846 %) DOM 7 1 (3.846 %) AJAX 7 1 (3.846 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 16 (61.54 %) Apache 2 8 (30.77 %) Tomcat 3 1 (3.846 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (3.846 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 5 (19.23 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (19.23 %) MySQL 1 5 (19.23 %) SQL Server 1 5 (19.23 %) IDOL 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (3.846 %) Flash	General 1 3 (11.54 %) Government 2 1 (3.846 %) Billing 2 1 (3.846 %) Avionics
Job Titles 1 24 (92.31 %) Developer 2 12 (46.15 %) Software Developer 3 10 (38.46 %) Web Developer 4 6 (23.08 %) Architect 4 6 (23.08 %) Software Architect 5 5 (19.23 %) Perl Developer 6 3 (11.54 %) PHP Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (3.846 %) Programmer 8 1 (3.846 %) Administrator 8 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) .NET Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) C# Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) Systems Administrator 8 1 (3.846 %) Linux Systems Administrator 8 1 (3.846 %) Linux Administrator 8 1 (3.846 %) PHP Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 14 (53.85 %) Solaris 2 13 (50.00 %) Windows 2 13 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 3 8 (30.77 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (57.69 %) DV Cleared 1 15 (57.69 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (50.00 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (19.23 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (11.54 %) Data Management 5 2 (7.692 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (3.846 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 23 (88.46 %) Perl 2 18 (69.23 %) Java 3 9 (34.62 %) SQL 4 8 (30.77 %) PHP 5 5 (19.23 %) C 5 5 (19.23 %) C++ 6 2 (7.692 %) Python 7 1 (3.846 %) Shell Script 7 1 (3.846 %) ActionScript 7 1 (3.846 %) DHTML 7 1 (3.846 %) C# 7 1 (3.846 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (3.846 %) JavaScript	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) SLA
Vendors 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle