North Yorkshire XML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the North Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lyndhurst M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	25
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	19	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	20.65 %	17.99 %
Daily rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£294
Average daily rate	£325	£313
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£331
% change on same period last year	+1.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£38.00
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-26.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£32.72
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Application Development North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	92	139
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.140 %
Daily rates quoted	9	46
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£312
Average daily rate	£340	£320
% change on same period last year	+6.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.03	£27.20
Average hourly rate	£24.85	£31.50
% change on same period last year	-21.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.66	£35.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
XML Yorkshire

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.

XML
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XML across the North Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XML across the North Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northallerton	-	2	£325	-
Harrogate	-13	1	-	-
York	+1	1	-	-

XML Yorkshire

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 32 (82.05 %) .NET 2 25 (64.10 %) C# 3 20 (51.28 %) ASP.NET 4 19 (48.72 %) SQL Server 5 13 (33.33 %) JavaScript 5 13 (33.33 %) CSS 6 12 (30.77 %) HTML 6 12 (30.77 %) SQL 7 11 (28.21 %) Visual Studio 8 10 (25.64 %) C++ 9 9 (23.08 %) VB.NET 9 9 (23.08 %) ASP 9 9 (23.08 %) XSLT 9 9 (23.08 %) SQL Server 2000 9 9 (23.08 %) Microsoft

10 8 (20.51 %) E-Commerce 11 7 (17.95 %) SQL Server 2005 11 7 (17.95 %) .NET Framework 11 7 (17.95 %) WebServices 11 7 (17.95 %) Oracle 12 6 (15.38 %) IIS 12 6 (15.38 %) Content Management 13 5 (12.82 %) Pensions 13 5 (12.82 %) AJAX 13 5 (12.82 %) UNIX 13 5 (12.82 %) MFC 13 5 (12.82 %) DHTML 13 5 (12.82 %) PHP 13 5 (12.82 %) Health 13 5 (12.82 %) Microsoft Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 32 (82.05 %) .NET 2 20 (51.28 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (33.33 %) CSS 4 12 (30.77 %) HTML 5 9 (23.08 %) ASP 5 9 (23.08 %) XSLT 6 7 (17.95 %) .NET Framework 6 7 (17.95 %) WebServices 7 5 (12.82 %) MFC 7 5 (12.82 %) AJAX 8 4 (10.26 %) SOAP 9 3 (7.692 %) XHTML 9 3 (7.692 %) JSP 9 3 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (5.128 %) Adobe Flex 11 1 (2.564 %) WSDL 11 1 (2.564 %) LAMP 11 1 (2.564 %) XML Messaging 11 1 (2.564 %) WinForms 11 1 (2.564 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 6 (15.38 %) IIS 2 3 (7.692 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (7.692 %) CMS 2 3 (7.692 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (5.128 %) ColdFusion MX 3 2 (5.128 %) ColdFusion 3 2 (5.128 %) Apache 4 1 (2.564 %) Tomcat 4 1 (2.564 %) SharePoint 4 1 (2.564 %) OpenCms
Applications 1 1 (2.564 %) Photoshop 1 1 (2.564 %) MS Office 1 1 (2.564 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.128 %) Internet 2 1 (2.564 %) HTTP 2 1 (2.564 %) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (48.72 %) SQL Server 2 9 (23.08 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (17.95 %) SQL Server 2005 4 4 (10.26 %) Oracle 10g 4 4 (10.26 %) Oracle Reports 4 4 (10.26 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (7.692 %) MySQL 6 2 (5.128 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (2.564 %) RDBMS 7 1 (2.564 %) PostgreSQL	Development Applications 1 11 (28.21 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (10.26 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (5.128 %) Flash 4 1 (2.564 %) JBuilder 4 1 (2.564 %) Eclipse 4 1 (2.564 %) ProC 4 1 (2.564 %) InstallShield
General 1 5 (12.82 %) Health 1 5 (12.82 %) Pensions 2 2 (5.128 %) Finance 3 1 (2.564 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (2.564 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 37 (94.87 %) Developer 2 18 (46.15 %) .NET Developer 3 17 (43.59 %) C# Developer 4 9 (23.08 %) Web Developer 5 8 (20.51 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 8 (20.51 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 7 (17.95 %) Software Developer 7 5 (12.82 %) .NET Web Developer 7 5 (12.82 %) CSharp Software Developer 8 4 (10.26 %) C# Web Developer 8 4 (10.26 %) Oracle Developer 9 2 (5.128 %) SQL Developer 9 2 (5.128 %) SQL Server Developer 9 2 (5.128 %) VB.NET Developer 10 1 (2.564 %) Web Designer 10 1 (2.564 %) C++/C# Developer 10 1 (2.564 %) .NET Programmer 10 1 (2.564 %) Microsoft Developer 10 1 (2.564 %) SharePoint Developer 10 1 (2.564 %) LAMP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (12.82 %) W3C 2 3 (7.692 %) Computer Science 3 1 (2.564 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 5 (12.82 %) UNIX 2 4 (10.26 %) Windows 3 2 (5.128 %) Linux 4 1 (2.564 %) Debian 4 1 (2.564 %) Ubuntu 4 1 (2.564 %) CentOS 4 1 (2.564 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (2.564 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (20.51 %) E-Commerce 2 6 (15.38 %) Content Management 3 5 (12.82 %) OO 4 3 (7.692 %) Web Design 4 3 (7.692 %) Software Engineering 5 2 (5.128 %) Web Development 6 1 (2.564 %) Load Balancing 6 1 (2.564 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (2.564 %) Document Management 6 1 (2.564 %) SOA 6 1 (2.564 %) Migration 6 1 (2.564 %) UML 6 1 (2.564 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 25 (64.10 %) C# 2 13 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 12 (30.77 %) SQL 4 10 (25.64 %) C++ 5 9 (23.08 %) VB.NET 6 5 (12.82 %) DHTML 6 5 (12.82 %) PHP 7 4 (10.26 %) Java 8 2 (5.128 %) Perl 9 1 (2.564 %) C 9 1 (2.564 %) ActionScript 9 1 (2.564 %) VBA 9 1 (2.564 %) Python 9 1 (2.564 %) VB6 9 1 (2.564 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (2.564 %) VB
Qualifications 1 5 (12.82 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (7.692 %) Degree	Vendors 1 9 (23.08 %) Microsoft 2 7 (17.95 %) Oracle 3 3 (7.692 %) Tridion 4 1 (2.564 %) Red Hat