The first table below looks at the demand for the XML Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Developer
Rank 365 390 411
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +21
Contract jobs requiring an XML Developer 22 28 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.100% 0.102% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.109% 0.111% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 14
Average daily rate £316 £344 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.00% -34.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £325 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £432 £380 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £325 £200
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £34.85
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20276 25280 28359
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.19% 92.47% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13665 16302 18233
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 629 676
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
XML Developer
England

XML Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XML Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London XML Developer Jobs Demand Trend

XML Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London XML Developer Daily Rate Trend

XML Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London XML Developer Daily Rate Histogram

XML Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London XML Developer Hourly Rate Trend

XML Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
City of London +2 9 £350 +7.69%
Canary Wharf - 1 £500 -
XML Developer
England

XML Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited XML Developer in their job title 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 with XML Developer in their job title.

1 32 (100.00%) XML
2 29 (90.63%) XSLT
3 12 (37.50%) CSS
3 12 (37.50%) Java
4 9 (28.13%) XSD
4 9 (28.13%) XML Schema
5 8 (25.00%) XQuery
5 8 (25.00%) HTML
5 8 (25.00%) W3C
5 8 (25.00%) Publishing
6 6 (18.75%) RDF
6 6 (18.75%) Ontologies
6 6 (18.75%) Data Conversion
6 6 (18.75%) Semantic Web
7 5 (15.63%) XSL
7 5 (15.63%) Oracle
7 5 (15.63%) Workflow
7 5 (15.63%) Spring
7 5 (15.63%) Maven
8 4 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (12.50%) TDD
8 4 (12.50%) Banking
8 4 (12.50%) Finance
8 4 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (12.50%) Hibernate
8 4 (12.50%) Validation
8 4 (12.50%) Front Office
8 4 (12.50%) FpML
8 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 4 (12.50%) C#

XML Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited XML Developer in their job title 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 with XML Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (100.00%) XML
2 29 (90.63%) XSLT
3 12 (37.50%) CSS
4 9 (28.13%) XSD
4 9 (28.13%) XML Schema
5 8 (25.00%) HTML
6 5 (15.63%) XSL
6 5 (15.63%) Spring
7 4 (12.50%) Hibernate
7 4 (12.50%) FpML
7 4 (12.50%) Web Services
7 4 (12.50%) XHTML
8 3 (9.375%) JMS
8 3 (9.375%) SOAP
8 3 (9.375%) .NET
8 3 (9.375%) J2EE
8 3 (9.375%) Middleware
9 2 (6.250%) RESTful
9 2 (6.250%) Drools
10 1 (3.125%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 4 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 3 (9.375%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 3 (9.375%) Kondor+
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) MarkLogic
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Maven
2 3 (9.375%) Git (software)
2 3 (9.375%) Subversion
3 1 (3.125%) Ant
General
1 8 (25.00%) Publishing
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Front Office
3 3 (9.375%) Back Office
3 3 (9.375%) Legal
4 1 (3.125%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) W3C
2 6 (18.75%) Ontologies
2 6 (18.75%) Data Conversion
2 6 (18.75%) Semantic Web
3 4 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.125%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.75%) RDF
2 5 (15.63%) Workflow
3 4 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (12.50%) TDD
3 4 (12.50%) Validation
4 3 (9.375%) Data Transformation
4 3 (9.375%) BDD
4 3 (9.375%) Data Mapping
4 3 (9.375%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (3.125%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (3.125%) Data Analytics
6 1 (3.125%) Analytics
6 1 (3.125%) Cash Management
6 1 (3.125%) Investment Management
6 1 (3.125%) Change Management
6 1 (3.125%) MVC
6 1 (3.125%) Data Modelling
6 1 (3.125%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) XQuery
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) C#
3 4 (12.50%) Scala
4 3 (9.375%) Python
4 3 (9.375%) C++
4 3 (9.375%) VBA
5 1 (3.125%) XPath
5 1 (3.125%) Ruby
5 1 (3.125%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.375%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 3 (9.375%) Murex
3 1 (3.125%) Altova
3 1 (3.125%) Sybase
3 1 (3.125%) SAP