The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML 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 Stirling 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
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 5 12 14
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +2
Contract jobs citing XML 28 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 24.14% 2.778% 6.944%
As % of the Application Development category 45.90% 10.00% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 3
Average daily rate £375 - £600
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 - £460
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 - £620
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
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
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
61 10 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 52.59% 27.78% 29.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 16
Average daily rate £401 £250 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.20% -44.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £618
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Scotland

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Stirling region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Stirling XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Stirling 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
Stirlingshire - 1 - -
XML
Scotland

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 22 (73.33%) SQL
2 17 (56.67%) Banking
3 13 (43.33%) Investment Banking
4 12 (40.00%) Java
5 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
5 11 (36.67%) Finance
6 9 (30.00%) TOAD
7 8 (26.67%) MS Visio
7 8 (26.67%) UML
7 8 (26.67%) Spring
7 8 (26.67%) Use Case
7 8 (26.67%) Cadis
8 7 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
8 7 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (23.33%) Oracle
8 7 (23.33%) Sybase
9 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
9 6 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (20.00%) Back Office
9 6 (20.00%) Process Management
9 6 (20.00%) Data Mining
9 6 (20.00%) ETL
9 6 (20.00%) HP
9 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
9 6 (20.00%) Workflow
9 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (20.00%) Pega
9 6 (20.00%) Reference Data

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 8 (26.67%) Spring
2 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
3 5 (16.67%) XML Messaging
3 5 (16.67%) XSLT
4 4 (13.33%) HTML
4 4 (13.33%) Java EE
4 4 (13.33%) Silverlight
4 4 (13.33%) Ajax
5 3 (10.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (10.00%) .NET
5 3 (10.00%) J2EE
5 3 (10.00%) Web Services
5 3 (10.00%) CSS
5 3 (10.00%) JDBC
5 3 (10.00%) JSP
6 2 (6.667%) JMS
6 2 (6.667%) Servlets
6 2 (6.667%) Java SE
6 2 (6.667%) jQuery
7 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) Tomcat
1 2 (6.667%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.333%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.333%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.333%) Photoshop
3 1 (3.333%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (30.00%) TOAD
3 7 (23.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (20.00%) Data Mining
4 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (16.67%) DTS
6 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
7 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (3.333%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.333%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (3.333%) Firebug
2 1 (3.333%) JUnit
2 1 (3.333%) ClearCase
General
1 17 (56.67%) Banking
2 13 (43.33%) Investment Banking
3 11 (36.67%) Finance
4 6 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (3.333%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 21 (70.00%) Developer
2 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Business Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Developer Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) IT Business Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Development Specialist
7 1 (3.333%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 4 (13.33%) Equities
2 4 (13.33%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) UNIX
2 2 (6.667%) Linux
2 2 (6.667%) Windows
3 1 (3.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) UML
1 8 (26.67%) Use Case
2 7 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (20.00%) Process Management
3 6 (20.00%) ETL
3 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 6 (20.00%) Workflow
4 5 (16.67%) TDD
5 4 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 4 (13.33%) BDD
6 3 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 2 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (6.667%) OO
7 2 (6.667%) Multithreading
7 2 (6.667%) System Testing
8 1 (3.333%) Business Development
8 1 (3.333%) Asset Management
8 1 (3.333%) RAD
8 1 (3.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (13.33%) XPath
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.667%) PL/SQL
6 2 (6.667%) C#
7 1 (3.333%) Perl
7 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.333%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Cadis
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 7 (23.33%) Sybase
3 6 (20.00%) HP
3 6 (20.00%) Pega
4 3 (10.00%) IBM
5 1 (3.333%) JBoss
5 1 (3.333%) Citrix
5 1 (3.333%) Murex
5 1 (3.333%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.333%) MKS
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