The first table below looks at the demand for XSLT 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 XSLT 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
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
Rank 89 96 75
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -21
Contract jobs citing XSLT 29 14 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.189% 0.526% 1.303%
As % of the Application Development category 3.625% 3.398% 6.475%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 10
Average daily rate £363 £283 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.31% -29.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £180 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £315 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £19.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+77.21% -50.62%
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%
XSLT
UK

XSLT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland XSLT Jobs Demand Trend

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland XSLT Daily Rate Trend

XSLT
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland XSLT Daily Rate Histogram

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland XSLT Hourly Rate Trend

XSLT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSLT 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 -1 18 £338 -
Stirling - 4 £425 -
Edinburgh +1 3 £363 +28.31%
Renfrewshire - 2 £425 -
XSLT
UK

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 65 (98.48%) XML
2 39 (59.09%) JavaScript
3 38 (57.58%) CSS
4 32 (48.48%) SQL
5 29 (43.94%) Java
6 28 (42.42%) OO
7 27 (40.91%) .NET
8 26 (39.39%) Oracle
8 26 (39.39%) SQL Server
9 25 (37.88%) HTML
9 25 (37.88%) Ajax
10 24 (36.36%) C#
11 23 (34.85%) Spring
12 22 (33.33%) jQuery
13 18 (27.27%) Banking
13 18 (27.27%) Finance
14 17 (25.76%) SharePoint
15 16 (24.24%) Web Services
15 16 (24.24%) Unit Testing
15 16 (24.24%) WebSphere
16 15 (22.73%) PL/SQL
17 14 (21.21%) Struts
17 14 (21.21%) UNIX
17 14 (21.21%) JMS
17 14 (21.21%) SharePoint 2010
18 12 (18.18%) ASP.NET
18 12 (18.18%) JDBC
18 12 (18.18%) JSP
18 12 (18.18%) J2EE
18 12 (18.18%) Sybase

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 65 (98.48%) XML
2 38 (57.58%) CSS
3 27 (40.91%) .NET
4 25 (37.88%) HTML
4 25 (37.88%) Ajax
5 23 (34.85%) Spring
6 22 (33.33%) jQuery
7 16 (24.24%) Web Services
7 16 (24.24%) WebSphere
8 14 (21.21%) Struts
8 14 (21.21%) JMS
9 12 (18.18%) ASP.NET
9 12 (18.18%) JDBC
9 12 (18.18%) JSP
9 12 (18.18%) J2EE
10 11 (16.67%) iBATIS
10 11 (16.67%) Spring MVC
10 11 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
10 11 (16.67%) GWT
11 8 (12.12%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (25.76%) SharePoint
2 14 (21.21%) SharePoint 2010
3 9 (13.64%) CMS
4 8 (12.12%) Lotus Notes
5 6 (9.091%) SharePoint 2013
6 4 (6.061%) Umbraco
7 3 (4.545%) MQSeries
7 3 (4.545%) Tomcat
7 3 (4.545%) WebLogic
7 3 (4.545%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (1.515%) GemFire
8 1 (1.515%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.515%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (1.515%) Apache
8 1 (1.515%) WebSphere MQ
8 1 (1.515%) TeamSite
Applications
1 3 (4.545%) MS Visio
1 3 (4.545%) MS Excel
1 3 (4.545%) Photoshop
1 3 (4.545%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.030%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (39.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.61%) RDBMS
2 7 (10.61%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
3 6 (9.091%) DTS
4 5 (7.576%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.515%) MySQL
6 1 (1.515%) TOAD
6 1 (1.515%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) CruiseControl
1 11 (16.67%) Selenium
2 5 (7.576%) ClearCase
2 5 (7.576%) JUnit
2 5 (7.576%) Subversion
3 3 (4.545%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (1.515%) JIRA
4 1 (1.515%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.515%) FogBugz
4 1 (1.515%) Rational Application Developer
4 1 (1.515%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.515%) Ant
4 1 (1.515%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.515%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.515%) Maven
General
1 18 (27.27%) Banking
1 18 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (6.061%) Front Office
3 3 (4.545%) Manufacturing
3 3 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (90.91%) Developer
2 22 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 15 (22.73%) SharePoint Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Web Developer
5 8 (12.12%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.061%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.545%) Senior SharePoint Developer
7 3 (4.545%) Applications Developer
7 3 (4.545%) Senior Web Developer
8 2 (3.030%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (3.030%) SQL Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Sybase Developer
8 2 (3.030%) VB.NET Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Graduate Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.030%) Consultant
8 2 (3.030%) Graduate
8 2 (3.030%) Front-End Developer
9 1 (1.515%) SQL Server Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.61%) Kindle
2 5 (7.576%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.576%) N-Tier
3 4 (6.061%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.061%) W3C
4 3 (4.545%) Social Network
4 3 (4.545%) Web 2.0
5 2 (3.030%) NHS
5 2 (3.030%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.515%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.21%) UNIX
2 9 (13.64%) Windows
3 2 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.515%) Android
4 1 (1.515%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.515%) Solaris
4 1 (1.515%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) OO
2 16 (24.24%) Unit Testing
3 12 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (16.67%) MVC
4 11 (16.67%) Web Application Development
5 8 (12.12%) Document Management
5 8 (12.12%) OOP
6 5 (7.576%) Web Development
6 5 (7.576%) Data Modelling
6 5 (7.576%) OOD
6 5 (7.576%) SOA
6 5 (7.576%) UML
6 5 (7.576%) Content Management
7 4 (6.061%) TDD
7 4 (6.061%) ETL
8 3 (4.545%) User Experience Design
8 3 (4.545%) Analytics
8 3 (4.545%) Web Analytics
9 2 (3.030%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (3.030%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 39 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 32 (48.48%) SQL
3 29 (43.94%) Java
4 24 (36.36%) C#
5 15 (22.73%) PL/SQL
6 11 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 11 (16.67%) Perl
7 7 (10.61%) XPath
7 7 (10.61%) T-SQL
8 5 (7.576%) VBA
9 2 (3.030%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.515%) PHP
10 1 (1.515%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (6.061%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.545%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.545%) MCP
3 2 (3.030%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.515%) WAI
2 1 (1.515%) Section 508
Systems Management
1 2 (3.030%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (1.515%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (39.39%) Oracle
2 12 (18.18%) Sybase
3 8 (12.12%) Lotus
4 6 (9.091%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.061%) Informatica
5 4 (6.061%) Perforce
5 4 (6.061%) IBM
6 3 (4.545%) Adobe
6 3 (4.545%) JBoss
7 2 (3.030%) VMware
7 2 (3.030%) TIBCO
7 2 (3.030%) Cadis
8 1 (1.515%) Murex
8 1 (1.515%) HP
8 1 (1.515%) BEA
8 1 (1.515%) MKS
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