The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford 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 Salford 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 3 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing XML 8 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 32.00% 9.756% -
As % of the Application Development category 80.00% 30.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
Average daily rate £323 £319 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -
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
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
10 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 40.00% 31.71% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 0
Average daily rate £323 £313 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.20% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Manchester

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 12 (85.71%) Java
1 12 (85.71%) XSLT
2 10 (71.43%) XQuery
2 10 (71.43%) TDD
3 9 (64.29%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (64.29%) JSON
3 9 (64.29%) Web Services
3 9 (64.29%) BDD
4 8 (57.14%) REST
4 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 8 (57.14%) RESTful
4 8 (57.14%) J2EE
4 8 (57.14%) XPath
4 8 (57.14%) Spring
4 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (57.14%) Pair Programming
4 8 (57.14%) RDF
5 7 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (50.00%) Benchmarking
5 7 (50.00%) OO
5 7 (50.00%) JAX-RS
6 5 (35.71%) Content Management
6 5 (35.71%) HTML
6 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
7 4 (28.57%) Statistics
7 4 (28.57%) Publishing
7 4 (28.57%) Scrum
7 4 (28.57%) MarkLogic
7 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
8 3 (21.43%) Semantic Web

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 12 (85.71%) XSLT
2 9 (64.29%) JSON
2 9 (64.29%) Web Services
3 8 (57.14%) REST
3 8 (57.14%) RESTful
3 8 (57.14%) J2EE
3 8 (57.14%) Spring
4 7 (50.00%) JAX-RS
5 5 (35.71%) HTML
6 3 (21.43%) CSS
7 2 (14.29%) XHTML
7 2 (14.29%) XML Schema
8 1 (7.143%) iOS SDK
8 1 (7.143%) iPhone SDK
8 1 (7.143%) Series 60
8 1 (7.143%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) Internet
2 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.143%) LAN
2 1 (7.143%) WAN
2 1 (7.143%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MarkLogic
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) Xcode
3 1 (7.143%) Robotium
3 1 (7.143%) JIRA
3 1 (7.143%) Selenium
3 1 (7.143%) Firebug
3 1 (7.143%) Eclipse
General
1 4 (28.57%) Publishing
2 1 (7.143%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Statistics
2 3 (21.43%) Semantic Web
2 3 (21.43%) Interactive TV
3 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
3 2 (14.29%) Streaming Video
4 1 (7.143%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.143%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Android
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.143%) bada
3 1 (7.143%) Maemo
3 1 (7.143%) Mac OS X
3 1 (7.143%) Linux
3 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) TDD
2 9 (64.29%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (64.29%) BDD
3 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (57.14%) Pair Programming
3 8 (57.14%) RDF
4 7 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (50.00%) Benchmarking
4 7 (50.00%) OO
5 5 (35.71%) Content Management
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
7 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
7 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Web Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Automated Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Project Management
8 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) XQuery
3 8 (57.14%) XPath
4 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (21.43%) SPARQL
5 3 (21.43%) Ruby
6 2 (14.29%) PHP
6 2 (14.29%) SQL
7 1 (7.143%) Objective-C
7 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
7 1 (7.143%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ISEB
2 1 (7.143%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (7.143%) Symbian