The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Preston 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 Preston 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 12 15 5
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Contract jobs citing XML 1 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 2.041% 8.092% 5.882%
As % of the Application Development category 12.50% 22.58% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 1
Average daily rate - £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
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
Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 62 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 16.33% 35.84% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 55 2
Average daily rate £300 £423 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.99% +40.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £135.37 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Lancashire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) VB
1 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
1 3 (50.00%) XSD
1 3 (50.00%) UML
1 3 (50.00%) OO
1 3 (50.00%) Workflow
1 3 (50.00%) WSDL
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) VB6
1 3 (50.00%) Document Management
1 3 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (50.00%) WCF
1 3 (50.00%) WPF
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Ninject
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) XSD
1 3 (50.00%) WSDL
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (50.00%) WCF
1 3 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Ninject
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (16.67%) LAMP
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) PowerExchange
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 7
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (16.67%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) Web Programmer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) UML
1 3 (50.00%) OO
1 3 (50.00%) Workflow
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) Document Management
1 3 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 3 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) SEO
3 1 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) VB
1 3 (50.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Plesk
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Facebook