Slough XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Slough 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	12	15
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	28	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	28.99 %
Daily rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£350
Average daily rate	£271	£350
% change on same period last year	-22.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£285	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£39.93
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£40.57
% change on same period last year	-1.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£41.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£32.71
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Application Development Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	84	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.069 %
Daily rates quoted	19	12
Average minimum daily rate	£264	£308
Average daily rate	£279	£326
% change on same period last year	-14.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.78	£40.14
Average hourly rate	£40.75	£40.51
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.71	£40.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
XML Berkshire

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 Slough 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 Slough 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 Slough 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 Slough 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 Slough region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 41 (77.36 %) .NET 1 41 (77.36 %) SQL Server 1 41 (77.36 %) ASP.NET 2 40 (75.47 %) HTML 3 39 (73.58 %) SQL 4 37 (69.81 %) VB.NET 4 37 (69.81 %) JavaScript 5 36 (67.92 %) Transact-SQL 6 35 (66.04 %) DHTML 6 35 (66.04 %) XSL 7 34 (64.15 %) InterDev 8 26 (49.06 %) ASP 9 24 (45.28 %) COM+ 10 23 (43.40 %) Microsoft 11 21 (39.62 %) N-Tier

12 14 (26.42 %) SQL Server 2000 12 14 (26.42 %) SQL Server 2005 13 12 (22.64 %) VB 14 8 (15.09 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 8 (15.09 %) System Testing 15 6 (11.32 %) C# 15 6 (11.32 %) JSP 16 5 (9.434 %) Java 16 5 (9.434 %) Perl 16 5 (9.434 %) Oracle 16 5 (9.434 %) WebServices 17 4 (7.547 %) Web Development 17 4 (7.547 %) J2EE 17 4 (7.547 %) SOAP 17 4 (7.547 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Slough 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 41 (77.36 %) .NET 1 41 (77.36 %) ASP.NET 2 40 (75.47 %) HTML 3 35 (66.04 %) XSL 4 26 (49.06 %) ASP 5 24 (45.28 %) COM+ 6 6 (11.32 %) JSP 7 5 (9.434 %) WebServices 8 4 (7.547 %) SOAP 8 4 (7.547 %) J2EE 9 3 (5.660 %) XHTML 10 2 (3.774 %) WSDL 10 2 (3.774 %) XSLT 10 2 (3.774 %) Struts 10 2 (3.774 %) CSS 10 2 (3.774 %) AJAX 10 2 (3.774 %) Windows SharePoint Services 10 2 (3.774 %) Java EE 11 1 (1.887 %) Silverlight 11 1 (1.887 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.774 %) Apache 1 2 (3.774 %) Tomcat 1 2 (3.774 %) SharePoint 1 2 (3.774 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (1.887 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.887 %) SAS 2 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.887 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (1.887 %) Oracle ERP 1 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.660 %) HTTP 2 2 (3.774 %) FTP 2 2 (3.774 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.887 %) HTTPS 3 1 (1.887 %) TELNET 3 1 (1.887 %) Firewall 3 1 (1.887 %) SSH 3 1 (1.887 %) SMS 3 1 (1.887 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 41 (77.36 %) SQL Server 2 14 (26.42 %) SQL Server 2000 2 14 (26.42 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (3.774 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (3.774 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (1.887 %) SQLPlus 4 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.887 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (1.887 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 34 (64.15 %) InterDev 2 2 (3.774 %) Oracle APEX 2 2 (3.774 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.887 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (1.887 %) Eclipse 3 1 (1.887 %) MSI 3 1 (1.887 %) Subversion	General 1 3 (5.660 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.887 %) Finance 2 1 (1.887 %) Government 2 1 (1.887 %) Police 2 1 (1.887 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (1.887 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 46 (86.79 %) Developer 2 29 (54.72 %) .NET Developer 2 29 (54.72 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 20 (37.74 %) Applications Developer 3 20 (37.74 %) VB.NET Developer 3 20 (37.74 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 4 13 (24.53 %) SQL Developer 4 13 (24.53 %) SQL Server Developer 5 12 (22.64 %) .NET Applications Developer 6 5 (9.434 %) Microsoft Developer 7 3 (5.660 %) Software Developer 8 2 (3.774 %) Analyst 8 2 (3.774 %) Programmer 8 2 (3.774 %) SharePoint Developer 8 2 (3.774 %) J2EE Developer 9 1 (1.887 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 1 (1.887 %) Analyst Developer 9 1 (1.887 %) Support Analyst 9 1 (1.887 %) Support Engineer 9 1 (1.887 %) 3rd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 21 (39.62 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.887 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 4 (7.547 %) UNIX 1 4 (7.547 %) Windows 2 2 (3.774 %) Solaris 2 2 (3.774 %) Linux 3 1 (1.887 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.887 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (15.09 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 8 (15.09 %) System Testing 2 4 (7.547 %) Web Development 3 3 (5.660 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.887 %) Data Migration 4 1 (1.887 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (1.887 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (1.887 %) ERP 4 1 (1.887 %) SOA 4 1 (1.887 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (1.887 %) Workflow 4 1 (1.887 %) Migration 4 1 (1.887 %) BPEL 4 1 (1.887 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 39 (73.58 %) SQL 2 37 (69.81 %) JavaScript 2 37 (69.81 %) VB.NET 3 36 (67.92 %) Transact-SQL 4 35 (66.04 %) DHTML 5 12 (22.64 %) VB 6 6 (11.32 %) C# 7 5 (9.434 %) Java 7 5 (9.434 %) Perl 8 1 (1.887 %) PHP 8 1 (1.887 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (1.887 %) VBScript 8 1 (1.887 %) VBA 8 1 (1.887 %) Shell Script 8 1 (1.887 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 1 (1.887 %) MCSD 1 1 (1.887 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 1 (1.887 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (1.887 %) SCCM
Vendors 1 23 (43.40 %) Microsoft 2 5 (9.434 %) Oracle 3 2 (3.774 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.887 %) Cognos 4 1 (1.887 %) Adobe 4 1 (1.887 %) Lotus