The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD 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 Somerset 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
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 35 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XSD 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 0.543% - 0.613%
As % of the Application Development category 2.273% - 1.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £405 £425
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44 63 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 23.91% 37.50% 47.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 40
Average daily rate £320 £335 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +21.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSD
South West

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Informix
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) ATG
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Fredhopper

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Informix
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) DSDM
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) ATG
1 1 (100.00%) Fredhopper