The first table below looks at the demand for XSD 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 XSD 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
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 37 42 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing XSD 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 1.220% 0.248% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.970% 1.235% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £331 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £405 £425
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
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%
XSD
Wales

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Wales XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSD 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 - 3 £331 -
XSD
Wales

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (100.00%) XML
1 15 (100.00%) XSLT
2 14 (93.33%) ClearCase
2 14 (93.33%) ClearQuest
2 14 (93.33%) Java
2 14 (93.33%) SQL
3 13 (86.67%) J2EE
3 13 (86.67%) Oracle
3 13 (86.67%) PL/SQL
3 13 (86.67%) WebLogic
3 13 (86.67%) Eclipse
3 13 (86.67%) UML
3 13 (86.67%) DOM
3 13 (86.67%) JAXP
3 13 (86.67%) SAX
3 13 (86.67%) XPath
4 12 (80.00%) Spring
5 11 (73.33%) JSF
5 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
5 11 (73.33%) CSS
6 10 (66.67%) Liferay
6 10 (66.67%) WebLogic Portal
7 8 (53.33%) Web Services
8 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
8 6 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
10 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
11 2 (13.33%) Windows
11 2 (13.33%) Ant
11 2 (13.33%) EJB

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) XML
1 15 (100.00%) XSLT
2 13 (86.67%) J2EE
2 13 (86.67%) DOM
2 13 (86.67%) JAXP
2 13 (86.67%) SAX
3 12 (80.00%) Spring
4 11 (73.33%) JSF
4 11 (73.33%) CSS
5 8 (53.33%) Web Services
6 6 (40.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (13.33%) EJB
8 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (6.667%) REST
8 1 (6.667%) JPA
8 1 (6.667%) Apache FOP
8 1 (6.667%) WCF
8 1 (6.667%) WPF
8 1 (6.667%) NHibernate
8 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 13 (86.67%) WebLogic
2 10 (66.67%) Liferay
2 10 (66.67%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (6.667%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) HTTPS
1 1 (6.667%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.667%) TOAD
1 1 (6.667%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) ClearCase
1 14 (93.33%) ClearQuest
2 13 (86.67%) Eclipse
3 2 (13.33%) Ant
4 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (6.667%) Maven
General
1 5 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 12 (80.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Lead Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Designer
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) DataPower
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) UML
2 6 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) Use Case
3 1 (6.667%) TDD
3 1 (6.667%) Scrum
3 1 (6.667%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (6.667%) OOD
3 1 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Java
1 14 (93.33%) SQL
2 13 (86.67%) PL/SQL
2 13 (86.67%) XPath
3 1 (6.667%) Korn
3 1 (6.667%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Oracle