The first table below looks at the demand for XML Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML Schema over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema
Rank 89 106 100
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -6
Contract jobs citing XML Schema 29 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.189% 0.150% 0.398%
As % of the Application Development category 3.625% 0.971% 1.978%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 0 8
Average daily rate £355 - £318
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 - £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 - £412
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £331 £363
% change year-on-year
+11.69% -8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
800 412 556
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 32.80% 15.49% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 177 288
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
Average hourly rate £43.25 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.51% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML Schema
UK

XML Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland XML Schema Jobs Demand Trend

XML Schema
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland XML Schema Daily Rate Trend

XML Schema
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland XML Schema Hourly Rate Trend

XML Schema
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Schema within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -5 11 £338 -
Renfrewshire - 7 £370 -
West Lothian - 6 £330 -
XML Schema
UK

XML Schema
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing XML Schema 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 Schema.

1 34 (100.00%) XML
2 16 (47.06%) Tomcat
2 16 (47.06%) Java
2 16 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (47.06%) Spring
3 15 (44.12%) Hibernate
4 12 (35.29%) SQL
4 12 (35.29%) Web Services
4 12 (35.29%) JMS
5 11 (32.35%) Apache
5 11 (32.35%) Windows XP
5 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
5 11 (32.35%) Windows
5 11 (32.35%) VBScript
5 11 (32.35%) .NET
5 11 (32.35%) .NET Framework
5 11 (32.35%) FitNesse
5 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
5 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
5 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
5 11 (32.35%) Security Architecture
6 10 (29.41%) SharePoint Server
6 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (29.41%) Cryptography
6 10 (29.41%) Document Management
7 9 (26.47%) TDD
7 9 (26.47%) MCP
7 9 (26.47%) Taxonomies
7 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
8 8 (23.53%) MS Excel

XML Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing XML Schema 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 Schema. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 34 (100.00%) XML
2 16 (47.06%) Spring
3 15 (44.12%) Hibernate
4 12 (35.29%) Web Services
4 12 (35.29%) JMS
5 11 (32.35%) .NET
5 11 (32.35%) .NET Framework
6 6 (17.65%) JDBC
6 6 (17.65%) SOAP
6 6 (17.65%) iBATIS
7 5 (14.71%) Ruby on Rails
7 5 (14.71%) Apache CXF
8 3 (8.824%) HTML
8 3 (8.824%) RESTful
8 3 (8.824%) JSON
9 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET
10 1 (2.941%) Middleware
10 1 (2.941%) J2SE
10 1 (2.941%) J2EE
10 1 (2.941%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 16 (47.06%) Tomcat
2 11 (32.35%) Apache
3 10 (29.41%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (20.59%) SharePoint
5 6 (17.65%) ESB
6 5 (14.71%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (2.941%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) MS Excel
1 8 (23.53%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.824%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.941%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) FitNesse
2 5 (14.71%) JUnit
3 3 (8.824%) Ant
3 3 (8.824%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.824%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.824%) Maven
3 3 (8.824%) Selenium
4 2 (5.882%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.941%) Subversion
General
1 3 (8.824%) Finance
2 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 15 (44.12%) Java Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Build Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Desktop Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior Build Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Architect
6 3 (8.824%) Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) Test Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) QA Test Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) QA Analyst
7 2 (5.882%) QA Tester
7 2 (5.882%) Tester
8 1 (2.941%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.941%) Data Warehouse Architect
8 1 (2.941%) BizTalk Developer
8 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Cryptography
2 9 (26.47%) Taxonomies
3 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.824%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.824%) Open Source
5 1 (2.941%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Windows XP
1 11 (32.35%) Windows
1 11 (32.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (32.35%) Security Architecture
3 10 (29.41%) Document Management
4 9 (26.47%) TDD
5 7 (20.59%) Migration
6 6 (17.65%) SOA
6 6 (17.65%) Scrum
6 6 (17.65%) Service Management
6 6 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (14.71%) User Stories
7 5 (14.71%) Information Security
7 5 (14.71%) Pair Programming
8 3 (8.824%) BDD
8 3 (8.824%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.941%) ETL
9 1 (2.941%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 11 (32.35%) VBScript
3 11 (32.35%) PowerShell
4 6 (17.65%) C#
4 6 (17.65%) VB.NET
5 5 (14.71%) XPath
5 5 (14.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (26.47%) MCP
3 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
4 6 (17.65%) MCSE
5 5 (14.71%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Informatica
3 5 (14.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.882%) IBM