The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML 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 Macclesfield 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
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 10 - 10
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML 1 0 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 2.564% - 25.00%
As % of the Application Development category 12.50% - 48.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 15
Average daily rate - - £350
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
Macclesfield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 17 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 20.51% 36.17% 51.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 25
Average daily rate £350 £525 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Cheshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Macclesfield XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) ISEB
2 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) MS Office
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (25.00%) Sage

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) XML Schema
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Management
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISEB
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Sage
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft