Somerset XSLT Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for XSL Transformations (XSLT) skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XSLT over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

XSL Transformations (XSLT)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	40
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	12	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	9.160 %	4.587 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£213
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£225
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£341
% change on same period last year	-1.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-22.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.88	£33.51
% change on same period last year	-4.85 %
Application Development Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	131	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.184 %	0.110 %
Daily rates quoted	29	15
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£280
Average daily rate	£326	£311
% change on same period last year	+4.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.92	£30.60
Average hourly rate	£28.93	£32.74
% change on same period last year	-11.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.95	£34.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
XSLT South West

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.

XSLT
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XSLT across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XSLT
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSLT
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSLT across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

XSLT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSLT within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wells	-	2	-	-
Street	-	1	-	-
Bridgwater	-	1	-	-

XSLT South West

XSLT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing XSLT 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 XSLT.

1 14 (77.78 %) XML 2 12 (66.67 %) Oracle 3 9 (50.00 %) JavaScript 3 9 (50.00 %) Oracle 10g 4 8 (44.44 %) SQL 4 8 (44.44 %) HTML 5 7 (38.89 %) Oracle 9i 6 6 (33.33 %) SQL Server 6 6 (33.33 %) J2EE 7 5 (27.78 %) WebLogic 7 5 (27.78 %) Java 8 4 (22.22 %) C# 8 4 (22.22 %) C++ 8 4 (22.22 %) UML 8 4 (22.22 %) CSS

8 4 (22.22 %) ClearCase 8 4 (22.22 %) Data Modelling 8 4 (22.22 %) Eclipse 8 4 (22.22 %) ClearQuest 8 4 (22.22 %) Military 8 4 (22.22 %) Requirements Analysis 9 3 (16.67 %) Finance 9 3 (16.67 %) WSDL 9 3 (16.67 %) SOA 9 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft 9 3 (16.67 %) BizTalk Server 9 3 (16.67 %) SOAP 9 3 (16.67 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 3 (16.67 %) Transact-SQL 9 3 (16.67 %) IIS

XSLT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing XSLT 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 XSLT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (77.78 %) XML 2 8 (44.44 %) HTML 3 6 (33.33 %) J2EE 4 4 (22.22 %) CSS 5 3 (16.67 %) SOAP 5 3 (16.67 %) WSDL 6 2 (11.11 %) XML Schema 6 2 (11.11 %) Spring 6 2 (11.11 %) EJB 6 2 (11.11 %) XSL 7 1 (5.556 %) ADO.NET 7 1 (5.556 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (5.556 %) .NET 7 1 (5.556 %) AJAX 7 1 (5.556 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (5.556 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 5 (27.78 %) WebLogic 2 3 (16.67 %) IIS 2 3 (16.67 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (5.556 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (50.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 7 (38.89 %) Oracle 9i 3 6 (33.33 %) SQL Server 4 3 (16.67 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (11.11 %) OLAP 5 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 4 (22.22 %) ClearCase 1 4 (22.22 %) Eclipse 1 4 (22.22 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (5.556 %) NUnit	General 1 4 (22.22 %) Military 2 3 (16.67 %) Finance 3 1 (5.556 %) Government
Job Titles 1 12 (66.67 %) Developer 2 4 (22.22 %) Software Engineer 2 4 (22.22 %) C++ Software Engineer 3 3 (16.67 %) BizTalk Developer 4 2 (11.11 %) SQL DBA 4 2 (11.11 %) SQL Server DBA 4 2 (11.11 %) DBA 5 1 (5.556 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (5.556 %) Java Software Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (22.22 %) UML 1 4 (22.22 %) Data Modelling 1 4 (22.22 %) Requirements Analysis 2 3 (16.67 %) SOA 3 1 (5.556 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (5.556 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 9 (50.00 %) JavaScript 2 8 (44.44 %) SQL 3 5 (27.78 %) Java 4 4 (22.22 %) C# 4 4 (22.22 %) C++ 5 3 (16.67 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (11.11 %) XPath	Vendors 1 12 (66.67 %) Oracle 2 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 2 (11.11 %) BEA