The first table below looks at the demand for XML Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML Schema over the 3 months to 22 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 Milton Keynes 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML Schema 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.762% - -
As % of the Application Development category 3.390% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £500 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
+5.71% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
118 125 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 22.48% 17.48% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 53 51
Average daily rate £375 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £365 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML Schema
Buckinghamshire

XML Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes XML Schema Jobs Demand Trend

XML Schema
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XML Schema across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes XML Schema Daily Rate Trend

XML Schema
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing XML Schema 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 Schema.

1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) BPEL
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) XPath
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (50.00%) BPMN
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (50.00%) CRM
3 2 (50.00%) JMS
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) BPEL4WS
4 1 (25.00%) Data Quality

XML Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing XML Schema 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 Schema. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) WSDL
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (50.00%) XSLT
3 2 (50.00%) JMS
4 1 (25.00%) BPEL4WS
4 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SOA Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) BPEL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) BPMN
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) UML
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) XPath
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle