The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML 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 Middlesex 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 Markup Language (XML)
Rank 24 29 24
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing XML 4 2 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.980% 0.633% 4.360%
As % of the Application Development category 17.39% 4.255% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £350 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £350 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
23 47 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 11.39% 14.87% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 32
Average daily rate £350 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
Average hourly rate £40.00 £19.52 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.91% -32.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
South East

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (50.00%) AppSense
1 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) iPad
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) Lumension
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) iPhone
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (25.00%) Cocoa
2 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Cocoa
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
1 1 (25.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) AppSense
2 1 (25.00%) Lumension
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
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