The first table below looks at the demand for XML Messaging 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 XML Messaging 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 of the Application Development 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Messaging
Rank 376 375 390
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +15
Contract jobs citing XML Messaging 11 43 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.050% 0.157% 0.140%
As % of the Application Development category 0.172% 0.561% 0.459%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 29
Average daily rate £550 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £438 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £600 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £290 £313
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -7.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML Messaging
England

XML Messaging
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London XML Messaging Jobs Demand Trend

XML Messaging
Daily Rate Trend

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

London XML Messaging Daily Rate Trend

XML Messaging
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London XML Messaging Daily Rate Histogram

XML Messaging
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London XML Messaging Hourly Rate Trend

XML Messaging
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Messaging 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 -5 3 £588 +30.55%
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
XML Messaging
England

XML Messaging
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing XML Messaging 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 Messaging.

1 28 (100.00%) XML
2 14 (50.00%) Finance
3 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 12 (42.86%) Banking
4 11 (39.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (35.71%) Investment Banking
5 10 (35.71%) Java
6 9 (32.14%) Validation
6 9 (32.14%) Front Office
7 8 (28.57%) Client/Server
7 8 (28.57%) Derivative
7 8 (28.57%) Manual Testing
8 7 (25.00%) JIRA
8 7 (25.00%) UNIX
9 5 (17.86%) UML
9 5 (17.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (17.86%) QA
9 5 (17.86%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (14.29%) Straight-Through Processing
10 4 (14.29%) TestDirector
10 4 (14.29%) E-Commerce
10 4 (14.29%) Windows
10 4 (14.29%) Linux
11 3 (10.71%) C#
11 3 (10.71%) C++
11 3 (10.71%) MS Office
11 3 (10.71%) ETL
11 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
11 3 (10.71%) FpML
11 3 (10.71%) Service Management

XML Messaging
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing XML Messaging 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 Messaging. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (10.71%) FpML
3 2 (7.143%) Spring
3 2 (7.143%) JMS
3 2 (7.143%) Middleware
4 1 (3.571%) WSDL
4 1 (3.571%) XML Schema
4 1 (3.571%) ASP
4 1 (3.571%) COM+
4 1 (3.571%) JDBC
4 1 (3.571%) SOAP
4 1 (3.571%) Web Services
4 1 (3.571%) .NET
4 1 (3.571%) J2EE
4 1 (3.571%) XSD
4 1 (3.571%) XSL
4 1 (3.571%) XSLT
4 1 (3.571%) ODBC
4 1 (3.571%) Hibernate
4 1 (3.571%) GWT
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) Apache
2 1 (3.571%) IIS
2 1 (3.571%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (3.571%) Mule
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MS Office
2 2 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.143%) Firewall
2 1 (3.571%) LDAP
2 1 (3.571%) LAN
2 1 (3.571%) WAN
2 1 (3.571%) SMTP
2 1 (3.571%) HTTP
2 1 (3.571%) DNS
2 1 (3.571%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.571%) DTS
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) TestDirector
3 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.571%) Hudson
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 12 (42.86%) Banking
3 10 (35.71%) Investment Banking
4 9 (32.14%) Front Office
5 2 (7.143%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.143%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Analyst
2 9 (32.14%) Test Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Support Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Functional Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Functional Test Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Manual Test Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) QA Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) Technical Support
6 2 (7.143%) Technical Support Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Junior
7 1 (3.571%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Consultant
7 1 (3.571%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 8 (28.57%) Derivative
2 5 (17.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.143%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.571%) DataPower
4 1 (3.571%) Economics
4 1 (3.571%) DTCC
4 1 (3.571%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) UNIX
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (32.14%) Validation
3 8 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 5 (17.86%) UML
5 4 (14.29%) Straight-Through Processing
5 4 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.71%) ETL
6 3 (10.71%) Service Management
7 2 (7.143%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (7.143%) Business Analysis
7 2 (7.143%) Time Management
8 1 (3.571%) CRM
8 1 (3.571%) Use Case
8 1 (3.571%) Load Balancing
8 1 (3.571%) Test Management
8 1 (3.571%) Test Scripting
8 1 (3.571%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 10 (35.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) C#
3 3 (10.71%) C++
4 1 (3.571%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.571%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) Degree
2 1 (3.571%) ISEB
2 1 (3.571%) Sun Certification
2 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.571%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.571%) Sun
2 1 (3.571%) BT