The first table below looks at the demand for XSLT 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 XSLT over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
Rank 57 57 60
Rank change year-on-year
0 +3
Contract jobs citing XSLT 17 28 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.850% 2.146% 1.283%
As % of the Application Development category 6.050% 7.125% 4.514%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 5
Average daily rate £319 £260 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.59% -35.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £243 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £325 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £341 £313
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+77.21% -50.62%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
281 393 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.58% 30.11% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 235 158
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £185
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 20 12 14
Average hourly rate £21.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £14.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSLT
North West

XSLT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester XSLT Jobs Demand Trend

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester XSLT Daily Rate Trend

XSLT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Manchester XSLT Daily Rate Histogram

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester XSLT Hourly Rate Trend

XSLT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSLT within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
Salford +9 7 £323 +17.27%
Oldham - 3 £170 -
XSLT
North West

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing XSLT 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 XSLT.

1 41 (97.62%) XML
2 33 (78.57%) Java
3 24 (57.14%) Web Services
4 22 (52.38%) J2EE
5 21 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 21 (50.00%) SQL
5 21 (50.00%) OO
6 19 (45.24%) HTML
6 19 (45.24%) XPath
7 15 (35.71%) Linux
8 14 (33.33%) UNIX
9 13 (30.95%) XHTML
9 13 (30.95%) Content Management
10 12 (28.57%) Subversion
10 12 (28.57%) Finance
10 12 (28.57%) IBM
10 12 (28.57%) CSS
10 12 (28.57%) WebSphere
10 12 (28.57%) Ajax
11 11 (26.19%) JSON
11 11 (26.19%) RESTful
11 11 (26.19%) JUnit
11 11 (26.19%) XQuery
11 11 (26.19%) Eclipse
11 11 (26.19%) Spring
12 10 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
12 10 (23.81%) TDD
12 10 (23.81%) JMS
12 10 (23.81%) UML
12 10 (23.81%) Solaris

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 41 (97.62%) XML
2 24 (57.14%) Web Services
3 22 (52.38%) J2EE
4 19 (45.24%) HTML
5 13 (30.95%) XHTML
6 12 (28.57%) CSS
6 12 (28.57%) Ajax
6 12 (28.57%) WebSphere
7 11 (26.19%) JSON
7 11 (26.19%) Spring
7 11 (26.19%) RESTful
8 10 (23.81%) REST
8 10 (23.81%) JMS
8 10 (23.81%) XSD
9 8 (19.05%) EJB
9 8 (19.05%) Struts
9 8 (19.05%) JDBC
9 8 (19.05%) JSP
9 8 (19.05%) Servlets
9 8 (19.05%) XMLBeans
Application Platforms
1 8 (19.05%) WebSphere Application Server
1 8 (19.05%) MQSeries
2 4 (9.524%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (9.524%) TIBCO EMS
3 2 (4.762%) ESB
4 1 (2.381%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.381%) Apache
4 1 (2.381%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.762%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.381%) Maya
Business Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Tridion
2 4 (9.524%) BusinessWorks
2 4 (9.524%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
3 1 (2.381%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) Internet
2 4 (9.524%) LDAP
3 2 (4.762%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) RDBMS
2 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 8 (19.05%) DB2
3 5 (11.90%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (9.524%) MySQL
4 4 (9.524%) MarkLogic
5 3 (7.143%) NoSQL
5 3 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (4.762%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (4.762%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (2.381%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Subversion
2 11 (26.19%) Eclipse
2 11 (26.19%) JUnit
3 8 (19.05%) Ant
3 8 (19.05%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Log4j
4 4 (9.524%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.143%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.381%) Xcode
6 1 (2.381%) JIRA
6 1 (2.381%) TestNG
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Games
2 7 (16.67%) Retail
3 4 (9.524%) Publishing
4 1 (2.381%) Multimedia
4 1 (2.381%) Banking
4 1 (2.381%) Law
4 1 (2.381%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (76.19%) Developer
2 19 (45.24%) Java Developer
3 10 (23.81%) J2EE Developer
3 10 (23.81%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 7 (16.67%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.524%) Support Engineer
5 4 (9.524%) TIBCO Support
6 3 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.143%) PHP Developer
6 3 (7.143%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) Junior
7 2 (4.762%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (4.762%) Junior Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (4.762%) Junior PHP Developer
8 1 (2.381%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 1 (2.381%) CRM Developer
8 1 (2.381%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Web 2.0
2 4 (9.524%) Equities
2 4 (9.524%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (9.524%) Statistics
2 4 (9.524%) Computer Science
3 2 (4.762%) Semantic Web
3 2 (4.762%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.762%) Streaming Video
3 2 (4.762%) Interactive TV
4 1 (2.381%) Derivative
4 1 (2.381%) W3C
4 1 (2.381%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.381%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (35.71%) Linux
2 14 (33.33%) UNIX
3 10 (23.81%) Solaris
4 8 (19.05%) HPUX
5 7 (16.67%) Windows
6 3 (7.143%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (4.762%) Android
7 2 (4.762%) AIX
7 2 (4.762%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.381%) CentOS
8 1 (2.381%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) OO
2 13 (30.95%) Content Management
3 10 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (23.81%) TDD
3 10 (23.81%) RAD
3 10 (23.81%) UML
3 10 (23.81%) BDD
4 9 (21.43%) E-Commerce
4 9 (21.43%) RDF
5 8 (19.05%) Pair Programming
5 8 (19.05%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 7 (16.67%) Benchmarking
7 6 (14.29%) SOA
8 5 (11.90%) Problem Management
8 5 (11.90%) Scrum
9 4 (9.524%) Capacity Planning
9 4 (9.524%) Service Delivery
9 4 (9.524%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (78.57%) Java
2 21 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 21 (50.00%) SQL
3 19 (45.24%) XPath
4 11 (26.19%) XQuery
5 8 (19.05%) Perl
5 8 (19.05%) Bash shell
6 7 (16.67%) Shell Script
7 6 (14.29%) PHP
8 4 (9.524%) SPARQL
8 4 (9.524%) C#
8 4 (9.524%) Ruby
9 2 (4.762%) Objective-C
9 2 (4.762%) T-SQL
9 2 (4.762%) VB.NET
10 1 (2.381%) ActionScript
10 1 (2.381%) VBA
10 1 (2.381%) VB
10 1 (2.381%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (9.524%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) IBM
2 8 (19.05%) Interwoven
2 8 (19.05%) ATG
2 8 (19.05%) Blue Martini
2 8 (19.05%) Elastic Path
3 4 (9.524%) Oracle
3 4 (9.524%) TIBCO
4 2 (4.762%) HP
5 1 (2.381%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
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