The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 21 26 21
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing XML 5 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.268% 3.008% 4.000%
As % of the Application Development category 14.71% 9.302% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
Average daily rate £375 £238 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.89% -24.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £224 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £288 £407
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
34 86 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.22% 32.33% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 47 28
Average daily rate £330 £290 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.79% -7.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Tyne and Wear

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 (44.44%) SQL
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Publishing
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) XSL
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
4 1 (11.11%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) IBM
4 1 (11.11%) UNIX
4 1 (11.11%) OOP
4 1 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (11.11%) J2ME
4 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) XSL
2 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 1 (11.11%) J2ME
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) JSP
3 1 (11.11%) Struts
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) JSF
3 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
3 1 (11.11%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (11.11%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) XMLUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) SharePoint Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Android Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
1 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) OOP
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
4 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) IBM