The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD 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 Reading 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
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank - 76 78
Contract jobs citing XSD 0 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - 0.452% 0.097%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.994% 0.427%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £415 £425
% change year-on-year
-18.67% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
216 167 234
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.23% 15.11% 22.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 63 111
Average daily rate £369 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £484 £426
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSD
Berkshire

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XSD across the Reading region.

Reading XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading XSD Hourly Rate Trend

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) ArcObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Dojo
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) ArcObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Dojo
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) GIS Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) ESRI