The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XAML over the 3 months to 17 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 Programming Languages category for the South West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 113 136 114
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -22
Contract jobs citing XAML 2 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.098% 0.091% 0.107%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.267% 0.234% 0.314%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £301 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.53% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 - -
All Programming Languages
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
750 1280 954
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 36.62% 38.62% 34.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 741 425
Average daily rate £325 £380 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.47% +26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 80 92
Average hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.25 £18.25 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £46.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XAML
England

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XAML across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

South West XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West XAML Daily Rate Trend

XAML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West XAML Hourly Rate Trend

XAML
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) DO-178B
2 4 (66.67%) UML
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (66.67%) NUnit
2 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 4 (66.67%) LINQ
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) XSLT
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone 8
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone 7
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing XAML 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 XAML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 4 (66.67%) LINQ
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) XSLT
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) NUnit
General
1 2 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Mobile Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone 7
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone 8
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) UML
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) DO-178B