The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 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 Wales 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 28 24 22
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Contract jobs citing XML 13 19 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 3.963% 4.703% 6.250%
As % of the Application Development category 19.40% 23.46% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 8
Average daily rate £350 £288 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% -0.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £223 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £350 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
67 81 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 20.43% 20.05% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 36 36
Average daily rate £325 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 9
Average hourly rate £36.25 £27.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.81% -35.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Wales

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Wales XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South Wales XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Wales XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 24 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
Newport - 5 £381 -
Cardiff -3 3 £200 -36.00%
XML
Wales

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing XML 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.

1 28 (65.12%) SQL
2 27 (62.79%) Java
3 26 (60.47%) Oracle
4 23 (53.49%) Security Cleared
5 20 (46.51%) PL/SQL
6 19 (44.19%) CSS
7 18 (41.86%) XSLT
7 18 (41.86%) WebLogic
8 17 (39.53%) ClearCase
8 17 (39.53%) Eclipse
8 17 (39.53%) ClearQuest
9 15 (34.88%) Spring
9 15 (34.88%) XSD
10 14 (32.56%) HTML
10 14 (32.56%) UML
10 14 (32.56%) JSF
11 13 (30.23%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (30.23%) JAXP
11 13 (30.23%) SAX
11 13 (30.23%) DOM
11 13 (30.23%) J2EE
11 13 (30.23%) XPath
12 12 (27.91%) Web Services
13 10 (23.26%) WebLogic Portal
13 10 (23.26%) Liferay
14 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
14 9 (20.93%) Hibernate
14 9 (20.93%) .NET
15 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
15 8 (18.60%) jQuery

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing XML 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (44.19%) CSS
2 18 (41.86%) XSLT
3 15 (34.88%) Spring
3 15 (34.88%) XSD
4 14 (32.56%) HTML
4 14 (32.56%) JSF
5 13 (30.23%) JAXP
5 13 (30.23%) SAX
5 13 (30.23%) DOM
5 13 (30.23%) J2EE
6 12 (27.91%) Web Services
7 9 (20.93%) Hibernate
7 9 (20.93%) .NET
8 8 (18.60%) jQuery
9 4 (9.302%) SOAP
9 4 (9.302%) Java EE
9 4 (9.302%) Ajax
9 4 (9.302%) JPA
10 3 (6.977%) Spring Batch
10 3 (6.977%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 18 (41.86%) WebLogic
2 10 (23.26%) WebLogic Portal
2 10 (23.26%) Liferay
3 4 (9.302%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (6.977%) Apache
5 2 (4.651%) CMS
5 2 (4.651%) Zen Cart
5 2 (4.651%) WordPress
5 2 (4.651%) Magento
6 1 (2.326%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
6 1 (2.326%) ESB
6 1 (2.326%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (2.326%) Kentico
6 1 (2.326%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.326%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.326%) MS Project
1 1 (2.326%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (4.651%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (4.651%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.326%) HTTPS
1 1 (2.326%) SSL
1 1 (2.326%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.302%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.977%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.651%) DB2
5 1 (2.326%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.326%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.326%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.326%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (2.326%) TOAD
5 1 (2.326%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) ClearCase
1 17 (39.53%) Eclipse
1 17 (39.53%) ClearQuest
2 4 (9.302%) Maven
3 3 (6.977%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.977%) Hudson
3 3 (6.977%) LoadRunner
3 3 (6.977%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (4.651%) Ant
4 2 (4.651%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (4.651%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (2.326%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.326%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.326%) WATIR
5 1 (2.326%) Selenium
5 1 (2.326%) Firebug
5 1 (2.326%) Capybara
5 1 (2.326%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.326%) Subversion
5 1 (2.326%) CruiseControl
General
1 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.651%) Finance
2 2 (4.651%) General Ledger
3 1 (2.326%) Banking
3 1 (2.326%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (60.47%) Developer
2 15 (34.88%) Java Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 4 (9.302%) Lead Developer
4 4 (9.302%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (6.977%) .NET Developer
5 3 (6.977%) Performance Tester
5 3 (6.977%) Administrator
5 3 (6.977%) Tester
5 3 (6.977%) Junior
5 3 (6.977%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Architect
6 2 (4.651%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.651%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Junior Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Designer
7 1 (2.326%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.651%) Open Source
1 2 (4.651%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.326%) iSeries
2 1 (2.326%) DataPower
2 1 (2.326%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.326%) Social Media
2 1 (2.326%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.326%) Clustering
2 1 (2.326%) NHS
2 1 (2.326%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) UNIX
2 6 (13.95%) Windows
3 3 (6.977%) Linux
4 1 (2.326%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.326%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.326%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) UML
2 13 (30.23%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (13.95%) Web Development
4 5 (11.63%) Content Management
5 4 (9.302%) Workflow
5 4 (9.302%) Scrum
5 4 (9.302%) TDD
6 3 (6.977%) Data Migration
6 3 (6.977%) Migration
6 3 (6.977%) OO
7 2 (4.651%) PRINCE2
7 2 (4.651%) CRM
7 2 (4.651%) ETL
7 2 (4.651%) GAP Analysis
7 2 (4.651%) Software Testing
7 2 (4.651%) Document Management
7 2 (4.651%) Data Management
7 2 (4.651%) TOGAF
7 2 (4.651%) Master Data Management
7 2 (4.651%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) SQL
2 27 (62.79%) Java
3 20 (46.51%) PL/SQL
4 13 (30.23%) XPath
5 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.63%) Perl
5 5 (11.63%) PHP
6 4 (9.302%) C#
6 4 (9.302%) VB.NET
7 3 (6.977%) Ruby
7 3 (6.977%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.977%) C
8 1 (2.326%) Korn
8 1 (2.326%) RPG
Qualifications
1 23 (53.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.977%) Degree
4 1 (2.326%) ISEB
4 1 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.326%) QA
Vendors
1 26 (60.47%) Oracle
2 3 (6.977%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.651%) Talend
4 1 (2.326%) Perforce
4 1 (2.326%) Mercator
4 1 (2.326%) IBM