The first table below looks at the demand for XML 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 over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 31 35 46
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +11
Contract jobs citing XML 32 28 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 5.246% 4.281% 3.011%
As % of the Application Development category 22.22% 21.88% 18.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 13
Average daily rate £365 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.42% -8.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -10.00%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
144 128 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 23.61% 19.57% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 55 53
Average daily rate £370 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.62% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £343 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +141.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XML
Buckinghamshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Milton Keynes XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 25 (51.02%) CSS
2 22 (44.90%) Web Services
3 21 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 20 (40.82%) .NET
5 17 (34.69%) C#
5 17 (34.69%) SQL
6 15 (30.61%) HTML
6 15 (30.61%) JMS
6 15 (30.61%) SOA
7 14 (28.57%) XSLT
8 13 (26.53%) Scrum
9 12 (24.49%) MVC
9 12 (24.49%) Team Foundation Server
10 11 (22.45%) REST
10 11 (22.45%) Java
10 11 (22.45%) SQL Server
11 10 (20.41%) Oracle
11 10 (20.41%) UML
11 10 (20.41%) CRM
11 10 (20.41%) Finance
11 10 (20.41%) Middleware
11 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
11 10 (20.41%) Agile Software Development
11 10 (20.41%) Ajax
12 9 (18.37%) WSDL
12 9 (18.37%) OO
12 9 (18.37%) XSD
12 9 (18.37%) SOAP
12 9 (18.37%) T-SQL
12 9 (18.37%) Web Development

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 25 (51.02%) CSS
2 22 (44.90%) Web Services
3 20 (40.82%) .NET
4 15 (30.61%) HTML
4 15 (30.61%) JMS
5 14 (28.57%) XSLT
6 11 (22.45%) REST
7 10 (20.41%) Middleware
7 10 (20.41%) Ajax
8 9 (18.37%) WSDL
8 9 (18.37%) XSD
8 9 (18.37%) SOAP
8 9 (18.37%) JSON
9 8 (16.33%) LINQ
9 8 (16.33%) .NET Framework
9 8 (16.33%) WebSphere
9 8 (16.33%) JDBC
10 7 (14.29%) Spring
10 7 (14.29%) JSP
10 7 (14.29%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 8 (16.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (16.33%) SharePoint
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (8.163%) WebSphere Message Broker
5 3 (6.122%) WebLogic
6 2 (4.082%) ESB
6 2 (4.082%) SilverStripe
6 2 (4.082%) NetWeaver
7 1 (2.041%) CMS
7 1 (2.041%) Commerce Server
7 1 (2.041%) Tomcat
7 1 (2.041%) Apache Solr
7 1 (2.041%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (2.041%) Kentico
7 1 (2.041%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (2.041%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) MS Office
2 1 (2.041%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.082%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (4.082%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) HTTP
2 6 (12.24%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.041%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.45%) SQL Server
2 8 (16.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (10.20%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (10.20%) MySQL
5 2 (4.082%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (4.082%) DB2
6 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (14.29%) Ant
3 6 (12.24%) Eclipse
4 5 (10.20%) JDeveloper
5 4 (8.163%) Visual Studio
6 3 (6.122%) Visual Studio Team System
7 2 (4.082%) Maven
8 1 (2.041%) JUnit
8 1 (2.041%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (2.041%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (20.41%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Retail
3 2 (4.082%) Retail Banking
3 2 (4.082%) Banking
4 1 (2.041%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 38 (77.55%) Developer
2 13 (26.53%) .NET Developer
3 7 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
4 6 (12.24%) SOA Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Architect
5 5 (10.20%) Lead Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Oracle SOA Developer
6 4 (8.163%) JavaScript Developer
6 4 (8.163%) PHP Developer
7 3 (6.122%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.122%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.122%) C# Developer
7 3 (6.122%) WebSphere Developer
8 2 (4.082%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (4.082%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.082%) Analyst
8 2 (4.082%) Consultant
8 2 (4.082%) Data Architect
9 1 (2.041%) Applications Developer
9 1 (2.041%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Open Source
2 5 (10.20%) CESG
2 5 (10.20%) Web 2.0
3 1 (2.041%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.041%) SaaS
3 1 (2.041%) Statistics
3 1 (2.041%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.082%) Windows
2 1 (2.041%) Windows NT
2 1 (2.041%) AIX
2 1 (2.041%) Solaris
2 1 (2.041%) Linux
2 1 (2.041%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) SOA
2 13 (26.53%) Scrum
3 12 (24.49%) MVC
4 10 (20.41%) UML
4 10 (20.41%) CRM
4 10 (20.41%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (18.37%) OO
5 9 (18.37%) Web Development
6 8 (16.33%) BPEL
7 7 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
8 6 (12.24%) Use Case
8 6 (12.24%) Unit Testing
8 6 (12.24%) Software Architecture
8 6 (12.24%) Workflow
9 5 (10.20%) Migration
9 5 (10.20%) Data Migration
9 5 (10.20%) MVVM
9 5 (10.20%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (8.163%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.163%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 17 (34.69%) C#
2 17 (34.69%) SQL
3 11 (22.45%) Java
4 9 (18.37%) T-SQL
5 7 (14.29%) XPath
6 5 (10.20%) XQuery
6 5 (10.20%) PHP
7 2 (4.082%) ABAP
8 1 (2.041%) VB6
8 1 (2.041%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.041%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.041%) VB
8 1 (2.041%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.041%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.122%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.122%) MCP
2 3 (6.122%) MCAD
2 3 (6.122%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.122%) MCITP
2 3 (6.122%) MCPD
3 1 (2.041%) ISEB
3 1 (2.041%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (2.041%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) IBM
3 2 (4.082%) SAP
4 1 (2.041%) Omniture
4 1 (2.041%) JBoss
4 1 (2.041%) Ektron