Merseyside XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	20
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	32	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	26.89 %	31.34 %
Daily rates quoted	12	7
Average minimum daily rate	£394	£300
Average daily rate	£415	£312
% change on same period last year	+33.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£338
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-25.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.06	£33.04
% change on same period last year	+3.08 %
Application Development Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	119	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.159 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	38	15
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£295
Average daily rate	£363	£326
% change on same period last year	+11.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.94	£26.15
Average hourly rate	£23.06	£29.46
% change on same period last year	-21.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.18	£32.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XML North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	+8	25	£415	+35.85 %
Southport	+4	3	-	-
Wirral	-	2	-	-

XML North West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 22 (44.90 %) Oracle 2 19 (38.78 %) .NET 3 18 (36.73 %) Security Cleared 4 17 (34.69 %) ASP.NET 5 16 (32.65 %) SQL 6 14 (28.57 %) SQL Server 6 14 (28.57 %) C# 6 14 (28.57 %) HTML 6 14 (28.57 %) WebServices 7 13 (26.53 %) JavaScript 8 11 (22.45 %) SC Cleared 8 11 (22.45 %) SQL Server 2005 9 10 (20.41 %) Java 9 10 (20.41 %) CSS 9 10 (20.41 %) Visual Studio

9 10 (20.41 %) Windows 10 9 (18.37 %) VB.NET 10 9 (18.37 %) SQL Server 2000 11 7 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports 11 7 (14.29 %) XSLT 12 6 (12.24 %) XSD 12 6 (12.24 %) Struts 12 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 6 (12.24 %) J2EE 12 6 (12.24 %) InstallShield 12 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 10g 12 6 (12.24 %) Government 12 6 (12.24 %) NUnit 12 6 (12.24 %) Insurance 12 6 (12.24 %) WinForms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 19 (38.78 %) .NET 2 17 (34.69 %) ASP.NET 3 14 (28.57 %) HTML 3 14 (28.57 %) WebServices 4 10 (20.41 %) CSS 5 7 (14.29 %) XSLT 6 6 (12.24 %) XSD 6 6 (12.24 %) Struts 6 6 (12.24 %) J2EE 6 6 (12.24 %) WinForms 7 5 (10.20 %) JSP 7 5 (10.20 %) Servlets 8 4 (8.163 %) Spring 9 3 (6.122 %) AJAX 9 3 (6.122 %) XHTML 9 3 (6.122 %) iBATIS 10 2 (4.082 %) XSL 11 1 (2.041 %) ActiveX 11 1 (2.041 %) EJB 11 1 (2.041 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.163 %) SharePoint 1 4 (8.163 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (4.082 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Workflow 3 1 (2.041 %) WebLogic 3 1 (2.041 %) IIS 3 1 (2.041 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (8.163 %) Photoshop 2 3 (6.122 %) ImageReady 2 3 (6.122 %) Fireworks 3 2 (4.082 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 2 (4.082 %) InfoPath 4 1 (2.041 %) CA Clarity 4 1 (2.041 %) Adobe Premiere 4 1 (2.041 %) Adobe After Effects 4 1 (2.041 %) Adobe Director 4 1 (2.041 %) MS Project 4 1 (2.041 %) MS Office 4 1 (2.041 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (2.041 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.122 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.041 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2 11 (22.45 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (18.37 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports 5 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 6 (12.24 %) Oracle 10g 6 5 (10.20 %) Oracle 9i 7 4 (8.163 %) RDBMS 8 2 (4.082 %) ETL 8 2 (4.082 %) TOAD 9 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 1 (2.041 %) MySQL 9 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Reports 9 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 10 (20.41 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (12.24 %) InstallShield 2 6 (12.24 %) NUnit 3 5 (10.20 %) JUnit 4 4 (8.163 %) Ant 4 4 (8.163 %) Flash 4 4 (8.163 %) Dreamweaver 5 1 (2.041 %) JDeveloper 5 1 (2.041 %) WebLogic Workshop 5 1 (2.041 %) Eclipse 5 1 (2.041 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (2.041 %) HttpUnit	General 1 6 (12.24 %) Government 1 6 (12.24 %) Insurance 2 4 (8.163 %) Telecoms 3 3 (6.122 %) Finance 4 1 (2.041 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.041 %) Auditing 4 1 (2.041 %) Law 4 1 (2.041 %) Publishing 4 1 (2.041 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 37 (75.51 %) Developer 2 13 (26.53 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (12.24 %) Java Developer 4 4 (8.163 %) Analyst 4 4 (8.163 %) C# Developer 4 4 (8.163 %) Oracle Developer 5 3 (6.122 %) Test Analyst 5 3 (6.122 %) Oracle DBA 5 3 (6.122 %) Consultant 5 3 (6.122 %) DBA 5 3 (6.122 %) VB.NET Developer 6 2 (4.082 %) Web Designer 6 2 (4.082 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (4.082 %) Senior Oracle DBA 6 2 (4.082 %) Senior DBA 6 2 (4.082 %) Senior Consultant 6 2 (4.082 %) Applications Developer 6 2 (4.082 %) Architect 6 2 (4.082 %) Java Applications Developer 7 1 (2.041 %) Java Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.041 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 10 (20.41 %) Windows 2 3 (6.122 %) UNIX 3 2 (4.082 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.041 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (36.73 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (22.45 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (12.24 %) Agile Software Development 4 5 (10.20 %) UML 4 5 (10.20 %) BC Cleared 5 4 (8.163 %) Validation 5 4 (8.163 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (4.082 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (4.082 %) OO 6 2 (4.082 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (4.082 %) EAI 6 2 (4.082 %) E-business 6 2 (4.082 %) SEO 6 2 (4.082 %) Workflow 7 1 (2.041 %) Project Management 7 1 (2.041 %) CRM 7 1 (2.041 %) ITIL 7 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (2.041 %) Data Migration 7 1 (2.041 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 16 (32.65 %) SQL 2 14 (28.57 %) C# 3 13 (26.53 %) JavaScript 4 10 (20.41 %) Java 5 9 (18.37 %) VB.NET 6 3 (6.122 %) ActionScript 6 3 (6.122 %) VBScript 6 3 (6.122 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (6.122 %) DHTML 7 2 (4.082 %) C 7 2 (4.082 %) VB 7 2 (4.082 %) Lingo 8 1 (2.041 %) PHP5 8 1 (2.041 %) VBA 8 1 (2.041 %) C++ 8 1 (2.041 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 3 (6.122 %) HND 1 3 (6.122 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (6.122 %) Sun Certification 1 3 (6.122 %) Degree 2 2 (4.082 %) MCSE 2 2 (4.082 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (10.20 %) QA	Vendors 1 22 (44.90 %) Oracle 2 3 (6.122 %) Sun 3 2 (4.082 %) Microsoft 3 2 (4.082 %) Adobe