The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 23 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 8 14 12
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Contract jobs citing XML 8 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 25.00% 14.71% 16.36%
As % of the Application Development category 50.00% 27.03% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 8
Average daily rate £328 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.76% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
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
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 37 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 50.00% 54.41% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 11
Average daily rate £325 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
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
Staffordshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 23 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 23 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 23 (100.00%) CSS
1 23 (100.00%) XSLT
2 21 (91.30%) jQuery
3 18 (78.26%) Ajax
3 18 (78.26%) E-Commerce
4 17 (73.91%) N-Tier
4 17 (73.91%) SOA
4 17 (73.91%) SEO
4 17 (73.91%) XHTML
4 17 (73.91%) Unit Testing
4 17 (73.91%) HTML5
4 17 (73.91%) CSS3
5 15 (65.22%) Degree
5 15 (65.22%) SQL
5 15 (65.22%) Web Application Development
6 12 (52.17%) Document Management
7 8 (34.78%) TDD
8 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
9 6 (26.09%) AccuRev
9 6 (26.09%) JIRA
9 6 (26.09%) HTML
10 4 (17.39%) Games
11 3 (13.04%) Blackberry
11 3 (13.04%) Windows

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
1 23 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 23 (100.00%) CSS
1 23 (100.00%) XSLT
2 21 (91.30%) jQuery
3 18 (78.26%) Ajax
4 17 (73.91%) XHTML
4 17 (73.91%) HTML5
4 17 (73.91%) CSS3
5 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
6 6 (26.09%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Developer
1 23 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 16 (69.57%) VB.NET Developer
2 16 (69.57%) ASP.NET Developer
2 16 (69.57%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 14 (60.87%) Web Developer
3 14 (60.87%) SQL Developer
3 14 (60.87%) .NET Web Developer
4 3 (13.04%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) C# Developer
4 3 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Website Developer
6 1 (4.348%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (73.91%) N-Tier
2 3 (13.04%) Blackberry
2 3 (13.04%) WURFL
3 1 (4.348%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
1 3 (13.04%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (13.04%) BlackBerry OS
1 3 (13.04%) Android
1 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) E-Commerce
2 17 (73.91%) SOA
2 17 (73.91%) SEO
2 17 (73.91%) Unit Testing
3 15 (65.22%) Web Application Development
4 12 (52.17%) Document Management
5 8 (34.78%) TDD
6 3 (13.04%) Web Development
7 2 (8.696%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 23 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 15 (65.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) AccuRev