The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 20 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 Liverpool 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 20 10 16
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +6
Contract jobs citing XML 4 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.649% 10.75% 5.063%
As % of the Application Development category 10.26% 33.90% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 2
Average daily rate - £325 £243
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +34.02%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
39 59 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 25.83% 31.72% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 34 13
Average daily rate £350 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £206 £275 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £375 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.79 £11.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.58% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Merseyside

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 13 (92.86%) .NET
1 13 (92.86%) SQL Server
1 13 (92.86%) Visual Studio
1 13 (92.86%) ASP.NET
2 11 (78.57%) CMS
2 11 (78.57%) Umbraco
3 8 (57.14%) jQuery
3 8 (57.14%) CSS
4 7 (50.00%) XSLT
4 7 (50.00%) Windows
4 7 (50.00%) C#
5 6 (42.86%) Git (software)
5 6 (42.86%) HTML5
5 6 (42.86%) CSS3
5 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (42.86%) PHP
5 6 (42.86%) SQL
5 6 (42.86%) SEO
5 6 (42.86%) MS Access
5 6 (42.86%) Facebook
6 5 (35.71%) Twitter
6 5 (35.71%) Mobile App
6 5 (35.71%) OOD
6 5 (35.71%) XSD
6 5 (35.71%) OO
6 5 (35.71%) MVC
6 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (35.71%) NetBeans
6 5 (35.71%) MySQL
6 5 (35.71%) Oracle

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 13 (92.86%) .NET
1 13 (92.86%) ASP.NET
2 8 (57.14%) CSS
2 8 (57.14%) jQuery
3 7 (50.00%) XSLT
4 6 (42.86%) HTML5
4 6 (42.86%) CSS3
5 5 (35.71%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (35.71%) Google Maps API
5 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (35.71%) CodeIgniter
5 5 (35.71%) CakePHP
5 5 (35.71%) XSD
6 3 (21.43%) HTML
7 2 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (14.29%) LINQ
7 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 2 (14.29%) WCF
8 1 (7.143%) LAMP
8 1 (7.143%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 11 (78.57%) CMS
1 11 (78.57%) Umbraco
2 5 (35.71%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Photoshop
1 1 (7.143%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (42.86%) MS Access
3 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (35.71%) MySQL
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Visual Studio
2 6 (42.86%) Git (software)
3 5 (35.71%) NetBeans
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (28.57%) Umbraco Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Access Developer
6 1 (7.143%) PHP Developer
6 1 (7.143%) PHP Web Developer
6 1 (7.143%) PHP Programmer
6 1 (7.143%) Web Programmer
6 1 (7.143%) Web Developer
6 1 (7.143%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.143%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) SEO
2 5 (35.71%) OO
2 5 (35.71%) OOD
2 5 (35.71%) MVC
2 5 (35.71%) Web Development
2 5 (35.71%) Business Development
3 2 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (14.29%) UML
3 2 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 6 (42.86%) PHP
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Plesk
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Facebook
2 5 (35.71%) Twitter
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 5 (35.71%) Google
2 5 (35.71%) Zend