The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Manchester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 73 76 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing XSD 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.209% 0.405% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.699% 1.374% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £335 £380 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
-15.62% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
286 364 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 29.82% 29.50% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 197 159
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 17
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £16.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XSD
North West

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 7 (87.50%) Web Services
1 7 (87.50%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) MySQL
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) XSLT
2 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) OO
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) PHP
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) XSL
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
3 3 (37.50%) Subversion
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) W3C
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) C
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) Web Services
1 7 (87.50%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) XSLT
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) XSL
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) XHTML
5 1 (12.50%) WinForms
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
3 1 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) ERwin
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (37.50%) C# Developer
3 3 (37.50%) PHP Developer
3 3 (37.50%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior PHP Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Junior
5 1 (12.50%) Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) W3C
2 1 (12.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Fedora
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) C++
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat