South East XQuery Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for XQuery skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XQuery over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location City of London Devon East Midlands England London Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire South East South West UK Uxbridge	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	246	286
Rank change on same period last year	+40
Matching contract IT job ads	1	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.027 %	0.121 %
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	-	£388
% change on same period last year	-
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	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Programming Languages South East
Matching contract IT job ads	3692	5789
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.198 %	5.850 %
Daily rates quoted	983	1452
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£320
Average daily rate	£328	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	381	716
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.53	£32.90
Average hourly rate	£35.71	£35.15
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.89	£37.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
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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.

XQuery
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XQuery across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XQuery within the South East 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
Oxfordshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

1 8 (100.00 %) XML 1 8 (100.00 %) XPath 2 7 (87.50 %) Eclipse 3 4 (50.00 %) PostgreSQL 3 4 (50.00 %) Symfony 3 4 (50.00 %) Zend 3 4 (50.00 %) PHP5 3 4 (50.00 %) PHP4 3 4 (50.00 %) jQuery 3 4 (50.00 %) AJAX 3 4 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (50.00 %) C# 3 4 (50.00 %) PHP 3 4 (50.00 %) .NET 3 4 (50.00 %) MySQL

3 4 (50.00 %) UML 3 4 (50.00 %) OO 3 4 (50.00 %) Apache 3 4 (50.00 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (37.50 %) OOA/OOD 4 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows 4 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (37.50 %) Shell Script 4 3 (37.50 %) TIBCO 4 3 (37.50 %) BusinessWorks 4 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 4 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 3 (37.50 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 8 (100.00 %) XML 2 4 (50.00 %) .NET 2 4 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (50.00 %) AJAX 2 4 (50.00 %) Symfony 2 4 (50.00 %) jQuery 3 3 (37.50 %) XSD 3 3 (37.50 %) XSL 4 1 (12.50 %) JMS 4 1 (12.50 %) Middleware 4 1 (12.50 %) MVC 4 1 (12.50 %) LAMP 4 1 (12.50 %) EJB 4 1 (12.50 %) JDBC 4 1 (12.50 %) Servlets 4 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 4 1 (12.50 %) WebServices 4 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 4 (50.00 %) Apache 2 3 (37.50 %) TIBCO EMS 3 1 (12.50 %) WebLogic 3 1 (12.50 %) MQSeries 3 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) BusinessWorks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (50.00 %) MySQL 1 4 (50.00 %) PostgreSQL 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 7 (87.50 %) Eclipse	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Government
Job Titles 1 8 (100.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) PHP Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) TIBCO Developer	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) OO 1 4 (50.00 %) E-Commerce 1 4 (50.00 %) UML 2 3 (37.50 %) OOA/OOD 3 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (12.50 %) Scrum 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) XPath 2 4 (50.00 %) PHP5 2 4 (50.00 %) PHP4 2 4 (50.00 %) C# 2 4 (50.00 %) PHP 3 3 (37.50 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 3 (37.50 %) Shell Script 3 3 (37.50 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Zend 2 3 (37.50 %) TIBCO 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) IBM 3 1 (12.50 %) BEA