The first table below looks at the demand for XSL 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 XSL over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Rank 26 28 33
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Contract jobs citing XSL 5 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.874% 4.142% 1.149%
As % of the Application Development category 12.50% 11.11% 2.410%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
Average daily rate £458 £403 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.78% +15.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £368 £313
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +17.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
All Application Development
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
40 63 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 22.99% 37.28% 47.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 44
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%
XSL
South West

XSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset XSL Jobs Demand Trend

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset XSL Daily Rate Trend

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset XSL Hourly Rate Trend

XSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSL within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Taunton - 4 £458 -
XSL
South West

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing XSL 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 XSL.

1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) VBScript
1 5 (100.00%) VB
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) ASP
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) RAD
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) VB6
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) TickIT
2 4 (80.00%) ISEB
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing XSL 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 XSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) XML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) WCF
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
2 3 (60.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (80.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) MSTest
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) RAD
1 5 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) ITSM
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) PRINCE2
2 4 (80.00%) UML
3 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) VBScript
1 5 (100.00%) VB
1 5 (100.00%) VB6
2 4 (80.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) ISEB
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (80.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (80.00%) MCSD
2 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) ISO 9000
2 4 (80.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (80.00%) TickIT
3 3 (60.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle