XML Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 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 Midlands 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 19 17 21
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Contract jobs citing XML 7 11 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 4.070% 4.135% 4.373%
As % of the Application Development category 22.58% 14.86% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £300 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
Search 1 XML jobs in the Midlands
All Application Development
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 31 74 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 18.02% 27.82% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 18
Average daily rate £450 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £300 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 16
Average hourly rate - - £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
England

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 9 (64.29%) Web Services
2 8 (57.14%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) ESB
3 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
3 5 (35.71%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
3 5 (35.71%) SAP
3 5 (35.71%) HTTP
3 5 (35.71%) XML Schema
3 5 (35.71%) IBM
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (21.43%) Subversion
5 3 (21.43%) InterSystems Cache
5 3 (21.43%) InterSystems
5 3 (21.43%) SOA
5 3 (21.43%) Middleware
5 3 (21.43%) CSS
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (14.29%) JPA
6 2 (14.29%) DWR
6 2 (14.29%) TIBCO
6 2 (14.29%) Spring
6 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Servlets
7 1 (7.143%) RNC
7 1 (7.143%) 3G
7 1 (7.143%) Eclipse

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 9 (64.29%) Web Services
2 5 (35.71%) WebSphere
2 5 (35.71%) XML Schema
3 3 (21.43%) Middleware
3 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) JPA
4 2 (14.29%) DWR
4 2 (14.29%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) Servlets
5 1 (7.143%) XHTML
5 1 (7.143%) .NET
5 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
5 1 (7.143%) Ajax
5 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
5 1 (7.143%) JSON
5 1 (7.143%) Dojo
5 1 (7.143%) YUI
5 1 (7.143%) jQuery
5 1 (7.143%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) ESB
2 5 (35.71%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) RNC
2 1 (7.143%) 3G
2 1 (7.143%) 2G
2 1 (7.143%) LTE
2 1 (7.143%) Nokia NetAct
2 1 (7.143%) 4G
2 1 (7.143%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Subversion
2 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) WebSphere Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SOA Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) SQL Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Uniface Developer
4 1 (7.143%) RAN Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Databuild Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.143%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) SOA
4 1 (7.143%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) Uniface
3 1 (7.143%) C#
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
1 5 (35.71%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) InterSystems
3 2 (14.29%) TIBCO
4 1 (7.143%) Nokia
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle
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