The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XAML 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 Programming Languages category for the London 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 Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 345 362 380
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +18
Contract jobs citing XAML 41 47 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.177% 0.179% 0.194%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.416% 0.466% 0.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 35
Average daily rate £450 £493 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.62% -24.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £329 £410
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £598 £740
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £325 £295
% change year-on-year
-6.07% +10.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 - -
All Programming Languages
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
9846 10091 13503
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 42.46% 38.51% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7021 6880 9220
Average daily rate £440 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.57% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £280 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 150 143
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.75 £19.86 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £50.00 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XAML
England

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XAML across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

London XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Trend

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

London XAML Daily Rate Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XAML across the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

London XAML Daily Rate Histogram

XAML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London XAML Hourly Rate Trend

XAML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London 0 15 £450 -16.27% 4
XAML
England

XAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 37 (51.39%) C#
2 36 (50.00%) WPF
3 32 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 29 (40.28%) .NET
5 28 (38.89%) Silverlight
6 26 (36.11%) Photoshop
6 26 (36.11%) Banking
7 23 (31.94%) Finance
8 22 (30.56%) Adobe
9 21 (29.17%) Windows
10 20 (27.78%) HTML
11 19 (26.39%) Microsoft Blend
12 15 (20.83%) QA
12 15 (20.83%) Workflow
12 15 (20.83%) Windows 8
13 14 (19.44%) .NET Framework
13 14 (19.44%) MVVM
14 13 (18.06%) User Experience Design
14 13 (18.06%) Adobe Illustrator
14 13 (18.06%) JavaScript
14 13 (18.06%) SQL
15 12 (16.67%) OO
15 12 (16.67%) TDD
16 11 (15.28%) Fixed Income
16 11 (15.28%) Usability Testing
17 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking
17 9 (12.50%) MS Excel
17 9 (12.50%) XML
17 9 (12.50%) Windows Phone
18 8 (11.11%) REST

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing XAML 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 XAML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (50.00%) WPF
2 29 (40.28%) .NET
3 28 (38.89%) Silverlight
4 20 (27.78%) HTML
5 14 (19.44%) .NET Framework
6 9 (12.50%) XML
7 8 (11.11%) REST
8 7 (9.722%) ASP.NET
8 7 (9.722%) CSS
8 7 (9.722%) Web Services
8 7 (9.722%) jQuery
8 7 (9.722%) HTML5
9 6 (8.333%) Flash
9 6 (8.333%) DirectX
10 5 (6.944%) KnockoutJS
10 5 (6.944%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 5 (6.944%) XHTML
10 5 (6.944%) WCF
10 5 (6.944%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (5.556%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.167%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.389%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.389%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (1.389%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (1.389%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 26 (36.11%) Photoshop
2 13 (18.06%) Adobe Illustrator
3 9 (12.50%) MS Excel
4 1 (1.389%) MS Office
4 1 (1.389%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) Internet
2 3 (4.167%) HTTP
3 2 (2.778%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.556%) SSDT
2 4 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft Blend
2 6 (8.333%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.556%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.167%) Subversion
4 3 (4.167%) JIRA
4 3 (4.167%) StyleCop
5 2 (2.778%) Rhino Mocks
5 2 (2.778%) NCover
5 2 (2.778%) Maven
5 2 (2.778%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.389%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.389%) QUnit
6 1 (1.389%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.389%) NUnit
6 1 (1.389%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 1 (1.389%) MSTest
General
1 26 (36.11%) Banking
2 23 (31.94%) Finance
3 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 8 (11.11%) Games
5 4 (5.556%) Back Office
6 3 (4.167%) Front Office
7 1 (1.389%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 49 (68.06%) Developer
2 21 (29.17%) Designer
3 19 (26.39%) User Experience Designer
4 16 (22.22%) UI Developer
5 15 (20.83%) UI Programmer
6 12 (16.67%) WPF Developer
7 11 (15.28%) C# Developer
8 9 (12.50%) .NET Developer
9 6 (8.333%) Senior Designer
9 6 (8.333%) Senior Developer
9 6 (8.333%) Senior User Experience Designer
10 5 (6.944%) Silverlight Developer
10 5 (6.944%) Senior UI Developer
10 5 (6.944%) C# .NET Developer
11 2 (2.778%) Windows Mobile Developer
11 2 (2.778%) Mobile Developer
11 2 (2.778%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 2 (2.778%) VB.NET Developer
11 2 (2.778%) Analyst
11 2 (2.778%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.556%) Interactive TV
2 4 (5.556%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (5.556%) W3C
2 4 (5.556%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.556%) Open Source
2 4 (5.556%) Kinect
3 3 (4.167%) RIA
4 1 (1.389%) Derivative
4 1 (1.389%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 21 (29.17%) Windows
2 15 (20.83%) Windows 8
3 9 (12.50%) Windows Phone
4 2 (2.778%) UNIX
4 2 (2.778%) Linux
5 1 (1.389%) Windows Phone 8
5 1 (1.389%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.83%) Workflow
2 14 (19.44%) MVVM
3 13 (18.06%) User Experience Design
4 12 (16.67%) OO
4 12 (16.67%) TDD
5 11 (15.28%) Usability Testing
6 7 (9.722%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (8.333%) Software Engineering
7 6 (8.333%) Pair Programming
7 6 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.944%) MVC
9 4 (5.556%) Release Management
9 4 (5.556%) CRM
10 3 (4.167%) Scrum
10 3 (4.167%) Multithreading
11 2 (2.778%) BDD
11 2 (2.778%) Dependency Injection
11 2 (2.778%) Business Analysis
11 2 (2.778%) Project Management
12 1 (1.389%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 37 (51.39%) C#
2 13 (18.06%) JavaScript
2 13 (18.06%) SQL
3 8 (11.11%) C++
4 5 (6.944%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.778%) Bash shell
5 2 (2.778%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.389%) VBA
6 1 (1.389%) Java
6 1 (1.389%) C
6 1 (1.389%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.389%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.389%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 32 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (30.56%) Adobe
3 1 (1.389%) Infragistics
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