The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Solihull 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 Solihull 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 10 15 8
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Contract jobs citing XML 5 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 8.333% 1.250% 7.143%
As % of the Application Development category 33.33% 14.29% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £200
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
Solihull
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
15 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Solihull 25.00% 8.750% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
Average daily rate £275 £200 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.62% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £200 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £200 £225
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
West Midlands

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Solihull XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (50.00%) Code Coverage
2 3 (50.00%) Release Management
2 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) MSBuild
3 2 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) YUI
3 2 (33.33%) jQuery
3 2 (33.33%) JSON
3 2 (33.33%) Dojo
3 2 (33.33%) Games
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Automotive
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
4 1 (16.67%) WSDL
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Solihull 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 5 (83.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) CSS3
2 2 (33.33%) HTML5
2 2 (33.33%) YUI
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) Dojo
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) XHTML
3 1 (16.67%) WSDL
3 1 (16.67%) XSD
3 1 (16.67%) Middleware
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (16.67%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle BPM
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (33.33%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Release Manager
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
1 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Release Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Code Coverage
1 3 (50.00%) Release Management
2 2 (33.33%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (16.67%) SOA
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle