The first table below looks at the demand for XML Schema 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema
Rank 360 387 348
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -39
Contract jobs citing XML Schema 17 28 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.078% 0.104% 0.302%
As % of the Application Development category 0.269% 0.371% 0.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 41
Average daily rate £414 £436 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.15% -20.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £324 £475
10% offered a daily rate of more than £544 £610 £650
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -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 91 107 136
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.95 £17.65
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 Schema
England

XML Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London XML Schema Daily Rate Trend

XML Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML Schema across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London XML Schema Daily Rate Histogram

XML Schema
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London XML Schema Hourly Rate Trend

XML Schema
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Schema within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +13 5 £488 -
XML Schema
England

XML Schema
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 64 (100.00%) XML
2 26 (40.63%) Agile Software Development
3 25 (39.06%) .NET
4 23 (35.94%) Java
4 23 (35.94%) SQL
5 22 (34.38%) XSLT
6 19 (29.69%) Web Services
7 18 (28.13%) Spring
7 18 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (26.56%) ASP.NET
9 16 (25.00%) C#
10 15 (23.44%) Scrum
10 15 (23.44%) XPath
11 14 (21.88%) RESTful
11 14 (21.88%) SQL Server
12 13 (20.31%) OO
12 13 (20.31%) HTTP
12 13 (20.31%) REST
13 12 (18.75%) XQuery
14 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
14 11 (17.19%) Hibernate
15 10 (15.63%) MarkLogic
15 10 (15.63%) WCF
16 9 (14.06%) Data Architecture
16 9 (14.06%) Maven
16 9 (14.06%) Banking
16 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
16 9 (14.06%) Oracle
17 8 (12.50%) Windows
17 8 (12.50%) RDF

XML Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 64 (100.00%) XML
2 25 (39.06%) .NET
3 22 (34.38%) XSLT
4 19 (29.69%) Web Services
5 18 (28.13%) Spring
6 17 (26.56%) ASP.NET
7 14 (21.88%) RESTful
8 13 (20.31%) REST
9 11 (17.19%) Hibernate
10 10 (15.63%) WCF
11 8 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 7 (10.94%) .NET Framework
12 7 (10.94%) NHibernate
12 7 (10.94%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (10.94%) StructureMap
12 7 (10.94%) CSS
13 6 (9.375%) SOAP
13 6 (9.375%) XSL
13 6 (9.375%) WPF
13 6 (9.375%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 8 (12.50%) CMS
2 7 (10.94%) Sitecore CMS
3 6 (9.375%) Documentum
3 6 (9.375%) Apache
3 6 (9.375%) Tomcat
4 5 (7.813%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (6.250%) ColdFusion
5 4 (6.250%) SharePoint
5 4 (6.250%) Windows Azure
5 4 (6.250%) ESB
6 3 (4.688%) IIS
7 2 (3.125%) WebSphere Process Server
7 2 (3.125%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (3.125%) Mule
8 1 (1.563%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.688%) XMetaL
2 2 (3.125%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.563%) MS Office
3 1 (1.563%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.125%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.31%) HTTP
2 2 (3.125%) SSL
3 1 (1.563%) SSH
3 1 (1.563%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 10 (15.63%) MarkLogic
3 6 (9.375%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (9.375%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (6.250%) OLAP
4 4 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
4 4 (6.250%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.688%) MySQL
6 2 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.125%) DB2
6 2 (3.125%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (3.125%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Maven
2 7 (10.94%) Subversion
3 6 (9.375%) NUnit
3 6 (9.375%) MSBuild
3 6 (9.375%) NMock
3 6 (9.375%) TeamCity
4 5 (7.813%) Git (software)
5 4 (6.250%) JUnit
6 3 (4.688%) FitNesse
6 3 (4.688%) TestNG
6 3 (4.688%) HttpUnit
7 2 (3.125%) Rational Rose
7 2 (3.125%) Xcode
7 2 (3.125%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.125%) JIRA
7 2 (3.125%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.563%) Hudson
8 1 (1.563%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.563%) Trac
8 1 (1.563%) Behat
General
1 9 (14.06%) Banking
2 8 (12.50%) Publishing
3 7 (10.94%) Back Office
4 6 (9.375%) Finance
5 4 (6.250%) Marketing
6 3 (4.688%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.688%) Front Office
7 2 (3.125%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.125%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (57.81%) Developer
2 14 (21.88%) Architect
3 10 (15.63%) C# Developer
3 10 (15.63%) Technical Architect
3 10 (15.63%) Agile C# Developer
4 9 (14.06%) XML Developer
5 6 (9.375%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.250%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.250%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.250%) .NET Developer
6 4 (6.250%) Agile .NET Developer
6 4 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (6.250%) BizTalk Developer
6 4 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (4.688%) Scala Developer
7 3 (4.688%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.688%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.688%) Analyst
7 3 (4.688%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.125%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (9.375%) RIA
3 5 (7.813%) Semantic Web
3 5 (7.813%) Ontologies
4 4 (6.250%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.688%) DataPower
5 3 (4.688%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.125%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.563%) Data Integration
7 1 (1.563%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.563%) Statistics
7 1 (1.563%) SWIFT
7 1 (1.563%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.563%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Windows
2 7 (10.94%) Linux
3 5 (7.813%) CentOS
4 4 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (4.688%) UNIX
6 2 (3.125%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (28.13%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (23.44%) Scrum
4 13 (20.31%) OO
5 9 (14.06%) Data Architecture
6 8 (12.50%) RDF
7 7 (10.94%) Unit Testing
7 7 (10.94%) Domain-Driven Design
7 7 (10.94%) Extreme Programming
7 7 (10.94%) OOD
7 7 (10.94%) SOA
8 6 (9.375%) E-Commerce
8 6 (9.375%) Data Modelling
8 6 (9.375%) TDD
8 6 (9.375%) BDD
9 4 (6.250%) UML
9 4 (6.250%) Workflow
9 4 (6.250%) MVC
9 4 (6.250%) Online Marketing
9 4 (6.250%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) Java
1 23 (35.94%) SQL
2 16 (25.00%) C#
3 15 (23.44%) XPath
4 12 (18.75%) XQuery
5 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.813%) Scala
7 4 (6.250%) C++
7 4 (6.250%) T-SQL
7 4 (6.250%) ActionScript
7 4 (6.250%) Bash shell
8 3 (4.688%) VBA
9 2 (3.125%) PHP
9 2 (3.125%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.125%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.563%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.125%) Degree
4 1 (1.563%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (3.125%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.125%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) Oracle
3 7 (10.94%) Sitecore
4 5 (7.813%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.125%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.563%) Zend
6 1 (1.563%) Endeca
6 1 (1.563%) IBM
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