The first table below looks at the demand for XML Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the Livingston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML Schema over the 3 months to 24 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 Livingston 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema
Rank 8 - 10
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML Schema 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 13.89% - 1.786%
As % of the Application Development category 45.45% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £328 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £331 £363
% change year-on-year
+11.69% -8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Application Development
Livingston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 30.56% 9.524% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML Schema
West Lothian

XML Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston XML Schema Jobs Demand Trend

XML Schema
Daily Rate Trend

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

Livingston XML Schema Daily Rate Trend

XML Schema
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston region citing XML Schema 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 Schema.

1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (100.00%) FitNesse
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (50.00%) JMS
3 3 (50.00%) Java
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) JUnit
3 3 (50.00%) JDBC
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (50.00%) Spring
3 3 (50.00%) XPath
3 3 (50.00%) iBATIS
3 3 (50.00%) QA
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) Ant
5 1 (16.67%) Selenium
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) Maven
5 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (16.67%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) Open Source
5 1 (16.67%) Cucumber

XML Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston region citing XML Schema 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 Schema. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (50.00%) JMS
2 3 (50.00%) JDBC
2 3 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (50.00%) iBATIS
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) FitNesse
2 3 (50.00%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Ant
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
3 3 (50.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA