The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML 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 Merseyside 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
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 23 6 24
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +18
Contract jobs citing XML 4 36 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.116% 14.63% 4.317%
As % of the Application Development category 7.273% 43.90% 22.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 2
Average daily rate £300 £325 £243
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +34.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £285 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £325 £269
UK excluding London average daily rate £332 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £28.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +88.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
55 82 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 29.10% 33.33% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 42 20
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £205 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £372 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XML
North West

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Contract Locations

The table below 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 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Liverpool -13 2 £338 +3.84% 8
Southport - 1 £225 -
St Helens - - - -
XML
North West

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 11 (84.62%) Visual Studio
3 9 (69.23%) Umbraco
3 9 (69.23%) CMS
4 7 (53.85%) C#
4 7 (53.85%) HTML5
5 6 (46.15%) CSS3
5 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (46.15%) Facebook
5 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
5 6 (46.15%) PHP
5 6 (46.15%) CSS
5 6 (46.15%) Windows
5 6 (46.15%) MVC
5 6 (46.15%) SEO
5 6 (46.15%) jQuery
5 6 (46.15%) Git (software)
5 6 (46.15%) Degree
6 5 (38.46%) Google
6 5 (38.46%) XPath
6 5 (38.46%) Web Development
6 5 (38.46%) Business Development
6 5 (38.46%) Zend
6 5 (38.46%) CodeIgniter
6 5 (38.46%) CakePHP
6 5 (38.46%) Google Maps API
6 5 (38.46%) WordPress
6 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) ASP.NET
2 7 (53.85%) HTML5
3 6 (46.15%) CSS3
3 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (46.15%) CSS
3 6 (46.15%) jQuery
4 5 (38.46%) CodeIgniter
4 5 (38.46%) CakePHP
4 5 (38.46%) Google Maps API
4 5 (38.46%) XSD
4 5 (38.46%) XSLT
4 5 (38.46%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (15.38%) HTML
6 1 (7.692%) Web Services
6 1 (7.692%) LAMP
6 1 (7.692%) LINQ
6 1 (7.692%) JSON
6 1 (7.692%) WCF
6 1 (7.692%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 9 (69.23%) Umbraco
1 9 (69.23%) CMS
2 5 (38.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Photoshop
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.692%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (38.46%) MySQL
3 4 (30.77%) MS Access
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Visual Studio
2 6 (46.15%) Git (software)
3 5 (38.46%) NetBeans
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) .NET Developer
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (30.77%) Umbraco Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
5 1 (7.692%) CRM Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) PHP Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) Web Programmer
5 1 (7.692%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.692%) CRM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.692%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Linux
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) MVC
1 6 (46.15%) SEO
2 5 (38.46%) Web Development
2 5 (38.46%) Business Development
2 5 (38.46%) OOD
2 5 (38.46%) OO
3 1 (7.692%) CRM
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
2 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) PHP
3 5 (38.46%) XPath
3 5 (38.46%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 1 (7.692%) HND
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Plesk
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Facebook
2 5 (38.46%) Google
2 5 (38.46%) Zend
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Twitter
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
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