Solihull XSL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) skills within the Solihull region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XSL over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Horsham Kent Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Sussex Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
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Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
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	£359	£346
% change on same period last year	+3.49 %
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	£39.27	£23.96
% change on same period last year	+63.87 %
Application Development Solihull
Matching contract IT job ads	7	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.021 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£289
Average daily rate	£275	£291
% change on same period last year	-5.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£28.00
% change on same period last year	-10.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
XSL West Midlands

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.