The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staines region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Staines 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 19 - 25
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XML 4 0 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 3.077% - 4.918%
As % of the Application Development category 15.38% - 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £334 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
26 28 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 20.00% 20.59% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 14
Average daily rate £388 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.31% -2.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £134 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -2.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
XML
Surrey

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staines XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 4 (80.00%) AppSense
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (80.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (40.00%) XenApp
3 1 (20.00%) JNI
3 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
3 1 (20.00%) Java ME
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Perforce
3 1 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Flash
3 1 (20.00%) J2ME
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Flash
1 1 (20.00%) J2ME
1 1 (20.00%) JNI
1 1 (20.00%) Java ME
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 4 (80.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (40.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) AppSense
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp
2 1 (20.00%) Perforce
2 1 (20.00%) VMware