XSD Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XSD 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 XSD over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 111 140 119
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -21
Contract jobs citing XSD 6 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.288% 0.061% 0.036%
As % of the Application Development category 1.232% 0.256% 0.161%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £405 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.58% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £415 £425
% change year-on-year
-18.67% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 487 781 623
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.37% 23.92% 22.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 472 275
Average daily rate £325 £339 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.12% +9.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £240 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 37
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £10.00 £15.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSD
England

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West XSD Hourly 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 West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Devon - 4 - -
Bristol +10 1 £350 -13.58%
Somerset - 1 - -
XSD
England

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 14 (77.78%) Java
2 13 (72.22%) XML
3 12 (66.67%) J2EE
4 10 (55.56%) HTML
5 9 (50.00%) CSS
5 9 (50.00%) Servlets
5 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (50.00%) C#
5 9 (50.00%) .NET
5 9 (50.00%) GIS
5 9 (50.00%) ESRI
5 9 (50.00%) Ajax
5 9 (50.00%) Dojo
5 9 (50.00%) jQuery
6 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
7 7 (38.89%) Web Services
7 7 (38.89%) Visual Studio
8 6 (33.33%) Windows
8 6 (33.33%) Linux
8 6 (33.33%) Python
8 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
8 6 (33.33%) ArcGIS
8 6 (33.33%) Publishing
8 6 (33.33%) Apache Flex
8 6 (33.33%) Silverlight
8 6 (33.33%) ArcObjects
8 6 (33.33%) ArcSDE
8 6 (33.33%) Data Management
8 6 (33.33%) Information Management
8 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 13 (72.22%) XML
2 12 (66.67%) J2EE
3 10 (55.56%) HTML
4 9 (50.00%) CSS
4 9 (50.00%) Servlets
4 9 (50.00%) .NET
4 9 (50.00%) Ajax
4 9 (50.00%) Dojo
4 9 (50.00%) jQuery
5 7 (38.89%) Web Services
6 6 (33.33%) Apache Flex
6 6 (33.33%) Silverlight
6 6 (33.33%) ArcObjects
6 6 (33.33%) REST
7 4 (22.22%) JAX-WS
7 4 (22.22%) WebSphere
7 4 (22.22%) Java EE
7 4 (22.22%) Spring
7 4 (22.22%) JPA
7 4 (22.22%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) ArcGIS
1 6 (33.33%) ArcSDE
2 2 (11.11%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (5.556%) ESB
3 1 (5.556%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (5.556%) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) IIOP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) GIS
2 1 (5.556%) Spotfire
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (5.556%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (5.556%) Star Schema
2 1 (5.556%) Informix
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.556%) Rational Rose
2 1 (5.556%) ERwin
General
1 6 (33.33%) Publishing
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.556%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) GIS Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) J2EE Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.556%) TIBCO Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Designer
6 1 (5.556%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Business Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Data Modeller
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 6 (33.33%) Data Management
2 6 (33.33%) Information Management
3 5 (27.78%) Unit Testing
4 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 2 (11.11%) UML
4 2 (11.11%) SOA
5 1 (5.556%) Manual Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Data Mapping
5 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Automated Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.556%) TDD
5 1 (5.556%) V-Model
5 1 (5.556%) Software Architecture
5 1 (5.556%) Workflow
5 1 (5.556%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Java
2 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) C#
3 6 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.556%) XPath
5 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.556%) C
5 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) ESRI
2 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (22.22%) IBM
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 2 (11.11%) TIBCO
6 1 (5.556%) Fredhopper
6 1 (5.556%) ATG
6 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.556%) Sybase
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