The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML 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 Luton 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
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 12 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing XML 5 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 6.250% 6.452% -
As % of the Application Development category 20.83% 40.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £338 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 10 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 30.00% 16.13% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 11
Average daily rate £325 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £475
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
Bedfordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Luton XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (64.71%) .NET
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
1 11 (64.71%) Web Services
2 9 (52.94%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) Internet
2 9 (52.94%) .NET Framework
3 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (47.06%) Windows
3 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
4 6 (35.29%) SQL
4 6 (35.29%) TDD
5 5 (29.41%) PrintSoft PReS
5 5 (29.41%) HP
5 5 (29.41%) Change Management
5 5 (29.41%) DOC1
5 5 (29.41%) Exstream
6 4 (23.53%) N-Tier
6 4 (23.53%) SOA
6 4 (23.53%) OO
6 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
6 4 (23.53%) AOP
6 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
6 4 (23.53%) QA
6 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (17.65%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (17.65%) OOP

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (64.71%) .NET
1 11 (64.71%) Web Services
2 9 (52.94%) .NET Framework
3 2 (11.76%) SOAP
3 2 (11.76%) jQuery
3 2 (11.76%) HTML5
3 2 (11.76%) JSON
4 1 (5.882%) NHibernate
4 1 (5.882%) WCF
4 1 (5.882%) WF
4 1 (5.882%) Ajax
4 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (5.882%) iOS SDK
4 1 (5.882%) REST
4 1 (5.882%) CSS3
4 1 (5.882%) Cocoa Touch
4 1 (5.882%) XML Schema
4 1 (5.882%) J2ME
4 1 (5.882%) XSLT
4 1 (5.882%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) CMS
1 2 (11.76%) Papyrus
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (5.882%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) Exstream Dialogue
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) PrintSoft PReS
1 5 (29.41%) DOC1
2 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (47.06%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.76%) MySQL
6 1 (5.882%) SQLite
6 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (5.882%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (11.76%) Xcode
3 1 (5.882%) NUnit
3 1 (5.882%) PhoneGap
3 1 (5.882%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.882%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
2 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Web Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.76%) XML Developer
4 1 (5.882%) MySQL Developer
4 1 (5.882%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (5.882%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.882%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (5.882%) iOS Developer
4 1 (5.882%) CSS Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Junior Web Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Junior Developer
4 1 (5.882%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) N-Tier
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.882%) iPhone
3 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.882%) Social Media
3 1 (5.882%) iPad
3 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (47.06%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.882%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) TDD
2 5 (29.41%) Change Management
3 4 (23.53%) SOA
3 4 (23.53%) OO
3 4 (23.53%) AOP
3 4 (23.53%) Refactoring
3 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (17.65%) OOP
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) ETL
5 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
5 2 (11.76%) Web Development
6 1 (5.882%) Use Case
6 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
6 1 (5.882%) Data Transformation
6 1 (5.882%) MVC
6 1 (5.882%) Workflow
6 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
5 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.882%) VB
5 1 (5.882%) VBA
5 1 (5.882%) VB6
5 1 (5.882%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) ISEB
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) HP
3 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 1 (5.882%) Google
4 1 (5.882%) XMPie