Milton Keynes RSS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Really Simple Syndication (RSS) skills within the Milton Keynes region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited RSS over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Location City of London Coventry East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire London M4 Corridor Midlands Milton Keynes Oxfordshire Sheffield South East South Yorkshire Surrey UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
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Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+47.77 %
Application Development Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	138	185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.182 %	0.193 %
Daily rates quoted	54	35
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£332
Average daily rate	£335	£354
% change on same period last year	-5.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.86	£25.44
Average hourly rate	£31.43	£26.24
% change on same period last year	+19.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£27.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.14
% change on same period last year	-1.77 %
RSS Buckinghamshire

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.

RSS
Demand Trend

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

RSS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RSS
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing RSS 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 RSS.

1 2 (100.00 %) C++ 1 2 (100.00 %) HTML 1 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 2 (100.00 %) CSS 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) VC++ 1 2 (100.00 %) XUL 1 2 (100.00 %) Subversion

RSS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing RSS 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 RSS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (100.00 %) HTML 1 2 (100.00 %) CSS 1 2 (100.00 %) XUL	Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Subversion
Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) C++ 1 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 2 (100.00 %) VC++