Scotland XSD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for XML Schema Definition (XSD) 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 XSD over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Location Basingstoke Birmingham Blackburn Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Croydon Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside North West Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Portsmouth Salisbury Scotland South East South West Southampton Stevenage UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	126
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.218 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£360
% change on same period last year	-6.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£16.00
% change on same period last year	+118.75 %
Application Development Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	512	917
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.728 %	0.926 %
Daily rates quoted	103	181
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£321
Average daily rate	£354	£336
% change on same period last year	+5.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.65	£28.83
Average hourly rate	£30.91	£29.94
% change on same period last year	+3.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.18	£31.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.18	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
XSD 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.

XSD
Demand Trend

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

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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