The first table below looks at the demand for XML Schema skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML Schema 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 South East 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
Rank 206 219 209
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -10
Contract jobs citing XML Schema 23 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.290% 0.261% 0.322%
As % of the Application Development category 1.191% 1.154% 1.224%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 3
Average daily rate £500 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £256 £297
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £885
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
+5.71% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1931 2339 2697
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.38% 22.61% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1011 1158 1245
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 108 196
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.90 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £40.30 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML Schema
England

XML Schema
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East XML Schema Jobs Demand Trend

XML Schema
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XML Schema across the South East region.

South East XML Schema Daily Rate Trend

XML Schema
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML Schema across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East XML Schema Daily Rate Histogram

XML Schema
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East XML Schema Hourly Rate Trend

XML Schema
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Schema within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Surrey +13 9 £600 +71.42%
Hampshire 0 5 £400 -
Buckinghamshire - 5 £500 -
West Sussex +8 2 - -
Berkshire +14 1 - -
Kent - 1 - -
XML Schema
England

XML Schema
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing XML Schema 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 Schema.

1 38 (100.00%) XML
2 23 (60.53%) Web Services
3 17 (44.74%) WSDL
4 15 (39.47%) Data Modelling
5 14 (36.84%) C#
5 14 (36.84%) SQL
5 14 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (34.21%) Scrum
6 13 (34.21%) .NET
7 12 (31.58%) Java
7 12 (31.58%) Subversion
7 12 (31.58%) WCF
8 11 (28.95%) Git (software)
9 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
9 10 (26.32%) ASP.NET
9 10 (26.32%) XSLT
9 10 (26.32%) jQuery
10 9 (23.68%) Data Architecture
10 9 (23.68%) BDD
10 9 (23.68%) UML
10 9 (23.68%) T-SQL
10 9 (23.68%) SOA
10 9 (23.68%) Finance
10 9 (23.68%) TDD
10 9 (23.68%) SQL Server 2005
11 8 (21.05%) ReSharper
11 8 (21.05%) MVC
11 8 (21.05%) SQL Server 2000
11 8 (21.05%) MySQL
11 8 (21.05%) OO

XML Schema
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing XML Schema 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 Schema. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (100.00%) XML
2 23 (60.53%) Web Services
3 17 (44.74%) WSDL
4 13 (34.21%) .NET
5 12 (31.58%) WCF
6 10 (26.32%) ASP.NET
6 10 (26.32%) XSLT
6 10 (26.32%) jQuery
7 8 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (21.05%) LINQ
8 5 (13.16%) SOAP
8 5 (13.16%) HTML
8 5 (13.16%) Middleware
9 4 (10.53%) CSS
10 3 (7.895%) REST
10 3 (7.895%) JDBC
10 3 (7.895%) J2EE
10 3 (7.895%) XSL
10 3 (7.895%) JMS
10 3 (7.895%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.895%) MQSeries
2 2 (5.263%) ESB
2 2 (5.263%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.263%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.263%) IIS
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Service Bus
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (2.632%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (2.632%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.632%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (2.632%) MS Office
1 1 (2.632%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) Intranet
1 2 (5.263%) Extranet
2 1 (2.632%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.632%) SNMP
2 1 (2.632%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 9 (23.68%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (21.05%) SQL Server 2000
3 8 (21.05%) MySQL
3 8 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (5.263%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (5.263%) Data Mining
5 2 (5.263%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.632%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.632%) MS Access
6 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Subversion
2 11 (28.95%) Git (software)
3 8 (21.05%) ReSharper
3 8 (21.05%) SpecFlow
3 8 (21.05%) Selenium
4 3 (7.895%) Maven
5 2 (5.263%) NUnit
5 2 (5.263%) Moq
6 1 (2.632%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.632%) Rational Rose
6 1 (2.632%) XMLSpy
6 1 (2.632%) Telelogic TAU
6 1 (2.632%) JIRA
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.632%) Retail Banking
4 1 (2.632%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Developer
2 13 (34.21%) Architect
3 11 (28.95%) Data Architect
4 10 (26.32%) C# Developer
5 9 (23.68%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 9 (23.68%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (23.68%) ASP.NET Developer
5 9 (23.68%) .NET Developer
6 8 (21.05%) Agile .NET Developer
6 8 (21.05%) Agile C# Developer
7 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (10.53%) Java Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Enterprise Data Architect
8 3 (7.895%) Technical Leader
9 2 (5.263%) webMethods Consultant
9 2 (5.263%) Java Team Leader
9 2 (5.263%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (5.263%) Team Leader
9 2 (5.263%) Oracle Developer
9 2 (5.263%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (10.53%) Reference Data
3 3 (7.895%) Derivative
4 2 (5.263%) Data Integration
4 2 (5.263%) Mathematics
4 2 (5.263%) Physics
4 2 (5.263%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.632%) W3C
5 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.263%) Linux
1 2 (5.263%) CentOS
1 2 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.632%) Windows 7
2 1 (2.632%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) Data Modelling
2 14 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (34.21%) Scrum
4 9 (23.68%) Data Architecture
4 9 (23.68%) BDD
4 9 (23.68%) UML
4 9 (23.68%) SOA
4 9 (23.68%) TDD
5 8 (21.05%) MVC
5 8 (21.05%) OO
5 8 (21.05%) Kanban
5 8 (21.05%) Data Management
6 7 (18.42%) Information Architecture
7 6 (15.79%) Investment Management
8 5 (13.16%) Master Data Management
9 4 (10.53%) Web Development
9 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (7.895%) Use Case
10 3 (7.895%) ITIL
10 3 (7.895%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) C#
1 14 (36.84%) SQL
2 12 (31.58%) Java
3 9 (23.68%) T-SQL
4 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 5 (13.16%) XPath
5 3 (7.895%) Scala
5 3 (7.895%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.263%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.632%) sed
7 1 (2.632%) Bash shell
7 1 (2.632%) VBScript
7 1 (2.632%) Perl
7 1 (2.632%) Python
7 1 (2.632%) XQuery
7 1 (2.632%) AWK
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.263%) Degree
3 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.632%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.895%) QA
2 2 (5.263%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.632%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle
2 3 (7.895%) IBM
2 3 (7.895%) webMethods
3 2 (5.263%) Teradata
3 2 (5.263%) Red Hat
3 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.263%) WSO2
4 1 (2.632%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 1 (2.632%) Software AG
4 1 (2.632%) Lotus
4 1 (2.632%) Telelogic
4 1 (2.632%) VMware