XML Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 21 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 Oxford 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 32 22 23
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +1
Contract jobs citing XML 4 18 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.739% 5.263% 2.500%
As % of the Application Development category 11.11% 19.15% 5.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
Average daily rate £320 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.40% -10.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 36 94 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 15.65% 27.49% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 56 48
Average daily rate £320 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £223 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £438 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £12.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +144.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Oxfordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 11 (47.83%) Web Services
2 10 (43.48%) .NET
3 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
4 6 (26.09%) Windows
4 6 (26.09%) Oracle
4 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
4 6 (26.09%) Java
4 6 (26.09%) JSON
4 6 (26.09%) Mobile App
5 5 (21.74%) HFM
5 5 (21.74%) XPath
5 5 (21.74%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 5 (21.74%) C#
5 5 (21.74%) HTML
5 5 (21.74%) VB.NET
5 5 (21.74%) VBA
5 5 (21.74%) MS Office
5 5 (21.74%) ITIL
5 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
5 5 (21.74%) Hyperion
6 4 (17.39%) Ajax
6 4 (17.39%) Scrum
6 4 (17.39%) TDD
6 4 (17.39%) Workflow
6 4 (17.39%) Publishing
6 4 (17.39%) XSL
6 4 (17.39%) CSS
6 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 4 (17.39%) HTML5
6 4 (17.39%) Android

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 11 (47.83%) Web Services
2 10 (43.48%) .NET
3 6 (26.09%) JSON
4 5 (21.74%) HTML
5 4 (17.39%) Ajax
5 4 (17.39%) XSL
5 4 (17.39%) CSS
5 4 (17.39%) HTML5
6 3 (13.04%) JPA
6 3 (13.04%) iOS SDK
6 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
6 3 (13.04%) J2EE
6 3 (13.04%) Spring
7 2 (8.696%) WinForms
7 2 (8.696%) XSLT
7 2 (8.696%) WebSphere
8 1 (4.348%) WCF
8 1 (4.348%) WF
8 1 (4.348%) RESTful
8 1 (4.348%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) CMS
2 1 (4.348%) Windows Azure
2 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MS Office
1 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQLite
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) MySQL
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Visual Studio
2 5 (21.74%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 3 (13.04%) Git (software)
4 2 (8.696%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (8.696%) Firebug
4 2 (8.696%) Fiddler
4 2 (8.696%) Selenium
4 2 (8.696%) FitNesse
General
1 4 (17.39%) Publishing
2 1 (4.348%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (65.22%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) VB.NET Programmer
2 5 (21.74%) Programmer
2 5 (21.74%) .NET Programmer
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.696%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Test Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Agile C# Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Mobile Developer
5 2 (8.696%) XML Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Developer
6 1 (4.348%) BizTalk Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) iOS Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) Author
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.696%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.348%) iPad
3 1 (4.348%) iPhone
3 1 (4.348%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Android
3 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) ITIL
2 4 (17.39%) Scrum
2 4 (17.39%) TDD
2 4 (17.39%) Workflow
3 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
3 3 (13.04%) HOOD
3 3 (13.04%) MVC
3 3 (13.04%) Web Design
4 2 (8.696%) Workflow Management
4 2 (8.696%) Software Testing
4 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.696%) Regression Testing
4 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
4 2 (8.696%) UML
4 2 (8.696%) OOP
4 2 (8.696%) RAD
4 2 (8.696%) Test Strategy
4 2 (8.696%) Test Automation
4 2 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (8.696%) Compatibility Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) XPath
2 5 (21.74%) C#
2 5 (21.74%) VB.NET
2 5 (21.74%) VBA
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Objective-C
5 2 (8.696%) SQL
5 2 (8.696%) VB
5 2 (8.696%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) ISEB
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 5 (21.74%) Hyperion
4 2 (8.696%) IBM
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