Scotland XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	17
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	147	201
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.196 %	0.201 %
As % of the category below	29.76 %	23.51 %
Daily rates quoted	40	48
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£308
Average daily rate	£301	£326
% change on same period last year	-7.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£22.92
% change on same period last year	+52.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£24.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£32.71
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Application Development Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	494	855
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.658 %	0.853 %
Daily rates quoted	112	158
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£323
Average daily rate	£323	£338
% change on same period last year	-4.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.31	£27.07
Average hourly rate	£31.04	£29.04
% change on same period last year	+6.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.78	£31.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
XML UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	+20	78	£300	+13.12 %
Glasgow	-5	50	£306	-11.79 %
West Lothian	-5	3	£250	-
South Lanarkshire	-2	1	-	-
Aberdeen	-4	1	-	-
Dundee	-	1	£200	-
Lanarkshire	0	1	-	-
North Lanarkshire	+3	1	-	-

XML UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 130 (45.61 %) Java 2 100 (35.09 %) Finance 3 88 (30.88 %) SQL 4 84 (29.47 %) .NET 5 71 (24.91 %) SQL Server 6 62 (21.75 %) WebServices 7 59 (20.70 %) JavaScript 8 53 (18.60 %) J2EE 8 53 (18.60 %) Oracle 9 50 (17.54 %) HTML 10 49 (17.19 %) C# 10 49 (17.19 %) UNIX 11 46 (16.14 %) XSLT 11 46 (16.14 %) ASP.NET 12 44 (15.44 %) Microsoft

13 42 (14.74 %) WebSphere 14 40 (14.04 %) CSS 15 32 (11.23 %) VB 15 32 (11.23 %) Spring 16 28 (9.825 %) AJAX 17 26 (9.123 %) Transact-SQL 17 26 (9.123 %) JSP 17 26 (9.123 %) Struts 17 26 (9.123 %) JMS 18 25 (8.772 %) Windows 18 25 (8.772 %) SOAP 19 24 (8.421 %) SQL Server 2005 20 23 (8.070 %) Hibernate 21 22 (7.719 %) SOA 22 21 (7.368 %) Banking

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 84 (29.47 %) .NET 2 62 (21.75 %) WebServices 3 53 (18.60 %) J2EE 4 50 (17.54 %) HTML 5 46 (16.14 %) ASP.NET 5 46 (16.14 %) XSLT 6 42 (14.74 %) WebSphere 7 40 (14.04 %) CSS 8 32 (11.23 %) Spring 9 28 (9.825 %) AJAX 10 26 (9.123 %) Struts 10 26 (9.123 %) JSP 10 26 (9.123 %) JMS 11 25 (8.772 %) SOAP 12 23 (8.070 %) Hibernate 13 14 (4.912 %) ASP 14 12 (4.211 %) EJB 15 11 (3.860 %) Servlets 15 11 (3.860 %) WSDL 16 10 (3.509 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 19 (6.667 %) SharePoint 2 15 (5.263 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 13 (4.561 %) WebSphere MQ 4 12 (4.211 %) CMS 5 11 (3.860 %) BizTalk Server 5 11 (3.860 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 10 (3.509 %) Apache 7 8 (2.807 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 8 (2.807 %) WPS 8 6 (2.105 %) Content Management Server 8 6 (2.105 %) MQSeries 9 5 (1.754 %) Tomcat 10 3 (1.053 %) CICS 10 3 (1.053 %) ESB 11 2 (0.702 %) Umbraco 11 2 (0.702 %) IIS 11 2 (0.702 %) JBoss 12 1 (0.351 %) WebLogic 12 1 (0.351 %) MS Exchange 12 1 (0.351 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 11 (3.860 %) Photoshop 2 9 (3.158 %) MS Excel 3 3 (1.053 %) FreeHand 3 3 (1.053 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (0.351 %) InfoPath 4 1 (0.351 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.351 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (0.351 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 1 1 (0.351 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 19 (6.667 %) Internet 2 6 (2.105 %) LDAP 3 4 (1.404 %) TCP/IP 4 3 (1.053 %) Intranet 4 3 (1.053 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.351 %) LAN 5 1 (0.351 %) WAN 5 1 (0.351 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 71 (24.91 %) SQL Server 2 24 (8.421 %) SQL Server 2005 3 17 (5.965 %) RDBMS 4 14 (4.912 %) DB2 4 14 (4.912 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 12 (4.211 %) MS Access 6 9 (3.158 %) Oracle Reports 6 9 (3.158 %) SQL Server 2000 6 9 (3.158 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 8 (2.807 %) BusinessObjects 8 5 (1.754 %) MySQL 8 5 (1.754 %) Oracle 9i 8 5 (1.754 %) Datawarehouse 9 2 (0.702 %) ETL 9 2 (0.702 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 2 (0.702 %) GIS 9 2 (0.702 %) Oracle OWB 9 2 (0.702 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 2 (0.702 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 1 (0.351 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 17 (5.965 %) JUnit 2 16 (5.614 %) Ant 3 14 (4.912 %) Visual Studio 4 12 (4.211 %) ClearCase 4 12 (4.211 %) FrontPage 5 11 (3.860 %) Eclipse 6 10 (3.509 %) Flash 7 7 (2.456 %) Dreamweaver 8 5 (1.754 %) TestDirector 8 5 (1.754 %) CruiseControl 9 4 (1.404 %) JDeveloper 10 3 (1.053 %) XMLSpy 10 3 (1.053 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 1 (0.351 %) Oracle Forms 11 1 (0.351 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 11 1 (0.351 %) ClearQuest 11 1 (0.351 %) JProbe 11 1 (0.351 %) InterDev 11 1 (0.351 %) NUnit 11 1 (0.351 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 100 (35.09 %) Finance 2 21 (7.368 %) Banking 3 13 (4.561 %) Pensions 4 8 (2.807 %) Publishing 5 7 (2.456 %) Financial Institution 6 6 (2.105 %) Government 6 6 (2.105 %) Games 7 4 (1.404 %) Local Government 7 4 (1.404 %) Investment Banking 7 4 (1.404 %) Front Office 7 4 (1.404 %) Marketing 8 2 (0.702 %) Retail Banking 8 2 (0.702 %) Online Banking 8 2 (0.702 %) Home Office 8 2 (0.702 %) Retail 9 1 (0.351 %) 3D Graphics 9 1 (0.351 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.351 %) Education 9 1 (0.351 %) Electric 9 1 (0.351 %) Health
Job Titles 1 171 (60.00 %) Developer 2 73 (25.61 %) Java Developer 3 52 (18.25 %) Analyst 4 33 (11.58 %) .NET Developer 5 20 (7.018 %) Programmer 6 17 (5.965 %) Analyst Programmer 7 16 (5.614 %) Senior Developer 8 13 (4.561 %) C# Developer 8 13 (4.561 %) SQL Developer 9 12 (4.211 %) Support Analyst 10 11 (3.860 %) Web Developer 10 11 (3.860 %) Consultant 11 10 (3.509 %) Architect 11 10 (3.509 %) Project Manager 12 9 (3.158 %) Systems Analyst 12 9 (3.158 %) Applications Support 12 9 (3.158 %) Java Analyst Programmer 12 9 (3.158 %) Java Programmer 13 8 (2.807 %) Access Developer 13 8 (2.807 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (2.807 %) Mainframe 2 5 (1.754 %) N-Tier 2 5 (1.754 %) RIA 3 4 (1.404 %) Computer Science 3 4 (1.404 %) Derivative 4 3 (1.053 %) Web 2.0 5 2 (0.702 %) Data Integration 5 2 (0.702 %) Client/Server 5 2 (0.702 %) W3C 6 1 (0.351 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 1 (0.351 %) NHS 6 1 (0.351 %) Equity Derivative 6 1 (0.351 %) SCADA 6 1 (0.351 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.351 %) Equities 6 1 (0.351 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 49 (17.19 %) UNIX 2 25 (8.772 %) Windows 3 11 (3.860 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (1.754 %) Windows XP 4 5 (1.754 %) Linux 5 4 (1.404 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (1.404 %) MVS 6 1 (0.351 %) zOS 6 1 (0.351 %) Windows NT 6 1 (0.351 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (7.719 %) SOA 2 18 (6.316 %) Web Design 3 17 (5.965 %) Agile Software Development 4 15 (5.263 %) TDD 4 15 (5.263 %) OO 4 15 (5.263 %) RAD 5 11 (3.860 %) Project Management 5 11 (3.860 %) Systems Analysis 6 9 (3.158 %) Web Development 6 9 (3.158 %) E-Commerce 7 7 (2.456 %) Workflow 7 7 (2.456 %) Data Mapping 8 6 (2.105 %) CRM 8 6 (2.105 %) Extreme Programming 9 5 (1.754 %) BPEL 9 5 (1.754 %) Pair Programming 9 5 (1.754 %) EAI 9 5 (1.754 %) B2B 9 5 (1.754 %) RDF 9 5 (1.754 %) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages 1 130 (45.61 %) Java 2 88 (30.88 %) SQL 3 59 (20.70 %) JavaScript 4 49 (17.19 %) C# 5 32 (11.23 %) VB 6 26 (9.123 %) Transact-SQL 7 14 (4.912 %) VB.NET 8 8 (2.807 %) VBA 8 8 (2.807 %) C 8 8 (2.807 %) PHP 8 8 (2.807 %) XPath 9 7 (2.456 %) ActionScript 9 7 (2.456 %) PL/SQL 9 7 (2.456 %) DHTML 9 7 (2.456 %) C++ 9 7 (2.456 %) XQuery 10 6 (2.105 %) VBScript 11 5 (1.754 %) Ruby 12 4 (1.404 %) COBOL 13 3 (1.053 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 6 (2.105 %) Degree 2 3 (1.053 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (1.053 %) Sun Certification 2 3 (1.053 %) MCAD 3 2 (0.702 %) HND 4 1 (0.351 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.351 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.351 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (0.351 %) QA	System Software 1 10 (3.509 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.351 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 6 (2.105 %) AutoSys 2 5 (1.754 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 53 (18.60 %) Oracle 2 44 (15.44 %) Microsoft 3 16 (5.614 %) Sybase 4 10 (3.509 %) Adobe 5 9 (3.158 %) IBM 6 8 (2.807 %) Business Objects 7 5 (1.754 %) Vignette 7 5 (1.754 %) PeopleSoft 8 4 (1.404 %) CA 9 3 (1.053 %) Sun 9 3 (1.053 %) Compuware 9 3 (1.053 %) Capita 10 2 (0.702 %) Dundas 10 2 (0.702 %) Northgate 10 2 (0.702 %) Informatica 10 2 (0.702 %) Cognos 11 1 (0.351 %) Cisco 11 1 (0.351 %) Macromedia 11 1 (0.351 %) SAP 11 1 (0.351 %) TIBCO