South Wales XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Corby Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Redhill Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tring Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	10
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	42	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	26.92 %	39.55 %
Daily rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£345
Average daily rate	£361	£405
% change on same period last year	-10.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£465
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.82	-
Average hourly rate	£27.95	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.09	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.97	£32.71
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Application Development South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	156	134
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.208 %	0.134 %
Daily rates quoted	47	21
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£272
Average daily rate	£351	£311
% change on same period last year	+12.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.38	£27.14
Average hourly rate	£30.04	£28.32
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.69	£29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
XML Wales

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 29 August 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
Newport	-15	12	£338	-36.71 %
Cardiff	0	11	£460	-5.64 %
Bridgend	-9	2	-	-
Glamorgan	-1	2	-	-
Rhondda Cynon Taff	-	2	-	-

XML Wales

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 37 (42.05 %) HTML 2 32 (36.36 %) SQL 2 32 (36.36 %) .NET 3 31 (35.23 %) CSS 4 29 (32.95 %) C# 5 28 (31.82 %) JavaScript 6 27 (30.68 %) ASP.NET 7 22 (25.00 %) WebServices 7 22 (25.00 %) XSLT 8 21 (23.86 %) SQL Server 9 18 (20.45 %) VB 10 17 (19.32 %) SOAP 10 17 (19.32 %) UML 11 16 (18.18 %) Government 12 14 (15.91 %) Java

13 13 (14.77 %) C 13 13 (14.77 %) IIS 13 13 (14.77 %) OO 13 13 (14.77 %) AJAX 14 11 (12.50 %) Windows 14 11 (12.50 %) Microsoft 15 10 (11.36 %) Health 15 10 (11.36 %) Crystal Reports 15 10 (11.36 %) MySQL 15 10 (11.36 %) PHP 15 10 (11.36 %) C++ 15 10 (11.36 %) Web Development 16 9 (10.23 %) VB6 16 9 (10.23 %) BPEL 16 9 (10.23 %) VB.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 37 (42.05 %) HTML 2 32 (36.36 %) .NET 3 31 (35.23 %) CSS 4 27 (30.68 %) ASP.NET 5 22 (25.00 %) WebServices 5 22 (25.00 %) XSLT 6 17 (19.32 %) SOAP 7 13 (14.77 %) AJAX 8 7 (7.955 %) WSDL 8 7 (7.955 %) ASP 9 6 (6.818 %) J2EE 9 6 (6.818 %) XSD 9 6 (6.818 %) JMS 10 5 (5.682 %) SAML 10 5 (5.682 %) EJB 11 4 (4.545 %) LAMP 12 3 (3.409 %) NetBeans 12 3 (3.409 %) Struts 13 2 (2.273 %) JSP 13 2 (2.273 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 13 (14.77 %) IIS 2 7 (7.955 %) Apache 3 4 (4.545 %) CMS 4 3 (3.409 %) ESB 5 1 (1.136 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.136 %) Oracle Application Server 5 1 (1.136 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.136 %) WebLogic Portal 5 1 (1.136 %) WebLogic
Business Applications 1 7 (7.955 %) assyst 2 2 (2.273 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (1.136 %) Oracle CRM 3 1 (1.136 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 5 (5.682 %) Internet 2 2 (2.273 %) LDAP 3 1 (1.136 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (23.86 %) SQL Server 2 10 (11.36 %) Crystal Reports 2 10 (11.36 %) MySQL 3 9 (10.23 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (2.273 %) RDBMS 6 1 (1.136 %) Data Cleansing 6 1 (1.136 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (1.136 %) ETL 6 1 (1.136 %) OLAP	Development Applications 1 5 (5.682 %) JUnit 1 5 (5.682 %) Visual Studio 1 5 (5.682 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 3 (3.409 %) Ant 2 3 (3.409 %) JDeveloper 3 2 (2.273 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 2 (2.273 %) Flash 3 2 (2.273 %) JBuilder 4 1 (1.136 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (1.136 %) Eclipse 4 1 (1.136 %) Subversion 4 1 (1.136 %) PVCS
General 1 16 (18.18 %) Government 2 10 (11.36 %) Health 3 5 (5.682 %) Marketing 4 3 (3.409 %) Online Games 4 3 (3.409 %) Games 4 3 (3.409 %) Retail 5 2 (2.273 %) Back Office 5 2 (2.273 %) Finance 6 1 (1.136 %) Education 6 1 (1.136 %) Animation 6 1 (1.136 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (1.136 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.136 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.136 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (1.136 %) Military 6 1 (1.136 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 67 (76.14 %) Developer 2 14 (15.91 %) Web Developer 3 11 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (7.955 %) Software Developer 5 6 (6.818 %) Java Developer 5 6 (6.818 %) Perl Developer 6 5 (5.682 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (5.682 %) VB Developer 6 5 (5.682 %) .NET Web Developer 6 5 (5.682 %) Analyst 7 4 (4.545 %) Software Engineer 7 4 (4.545 %) C# Developer 7 4 (4.545 %) Senior Developer 7 4 (4.545 %) Programmer 8 3 (3.409 %) Analyst Programmer 8 3 (3.409 %) Senior VB Developer 9 2 (2.273 %) Flash Developer 9 2 (2.273 %) Lead Developer 9 2 (2.273 %) J2EE Developer 9 2 (2.273 %) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (7.955 %) N-Tier 2 5 (5.682 %) NHS 3 2 (2.273 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.273 %) Data Integration 4 1 (1.136 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.136 %) Welsh Language 4 1 (1.136 %) Wiki	Operating Systems 1 11 (12.50 %) Windows 2 8 (9.091 %) UNIX 3 7 (7.955 %) Windows Server 2008 4 5 (5.682 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (2.273 %) Linux 6 1 (1.136 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (1.136 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.136 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (19.32 %) UML 2 13 (14.77 %) OO 3 10 (11.36 %) Web Development 4 9 (10.23 %) BPEL 5 8 (9.091 %) Software Engineering 5 8 (9.091 %) SOA 6 7 (7.955 %) SEO 6 7 (7.955 %) RUP 6 7 (7.955 %) Security Cleared 7 5 (5.682 %) SC Cleared 7 5 (5.682 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (4.545 %) OOD 8 4 (4.545 %) Content Management 8 4 (4.545 %) CRM 9 2 (2.273 %) EAI 9 2 (2.273 %) Data Modelling 9 2 (2.273 %) SSADM 9 2 (2.273 %) e-GIF 9 2 (2.273 %) Requirements Analysis 9 2 (2.273 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 32 (36.36 %) SQL 2 29 (32.95 %) C# 3 28 (31.82 %) JavaScript 4 18 (20.45 %) VB 5 14 (15.91 %) Java 6 13 (14.77 %) C 7 10 (11.36 %) C++ 7 10 (11.36 %) PHP 8 9 (10.23 %) VB.NET 8 9 (10.23 %) VB6 9 7 (7.955 %) VBScript 10 6 (6.818 %) Perl 11 3 (3.409 %) PL/SQL 12 2 (2.273 %) ActionScript 12 2 (2.273 %) XQuery 12 2 (2.273 %) XPath 13 1 (1.136 %) PHP5 13 1 (1.136 %) Transact-SQL 13 1 (1.136 %) Delphi 13 1 (1.136 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 1 (1.136 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.273 %) HL7
Systems Management 1 1 (1.136 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.136 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 11 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 9 (10.23 %) Oracle 3 5 (5.682 %) telerik 4 1 (1.136 %) HP 4 1 (1.136 %) Micromuse