The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scottish Borders region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 22 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 Scottish Borders 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing XML 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
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
Scottish Borders
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Scottish Borders 60.00% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £250 - £175
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
Scotland

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scottish Borders 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 Scottish Borders region.

Scottish Borders XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) CommVault
2 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Cognos
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) J2EE
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Solaris
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (25.00%) Hudson
3 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) ASP
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scottish Borders 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 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) J2EE
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Solaris
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) CommVault
1 3 (75.00%) Cognos
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle