The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 29 13 29
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +16
Contract jobs citing XML 58 134 96
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 5.030% 8.318% 5.226%
As % of the Application Development category 17.06% 29.26% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 78 50
Average daily rate £350 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £588 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +105.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
340 458 540
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 29.49% 28.43% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 263 296
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £19.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
South East

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Surrey XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey XML Hourly Rate Trend

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 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
Guildford -5 10 £320 -14.66%
Staines +6 5 £375 -
Woking -9 4 £375 +15.38%
Weybridge +1 2 £290 +9.43%
Redhill -3 2 £350 -41.66%
Reigate +7 1 - -
Lightwater - 1 £350 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 -
XML
South East

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 76 (49.67%) .NET
2 65 (42.48%) C#
3 52 (33.99%) Windows
4 51 (33.33%) SQL
4 51 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 44 (28.76%) JavaScript
6 43 (28.10%) HTML
6 43 (28.10%) WCF
7 42 (27.45%) SharePoint
8 40 (26.14%) XSLT
8 40 (26.14%) Scrum
9 38 (24.84%) SQL Server
9 38 (24.84%) CSS
10 37 (24.18%) ASP.NET
11 34 (22.22%) Visual Studio
12 31 (20.26%) CRM
13 29 (18.95%) MVC
13 29 (18.95%) Dynamics CRM
14 28 (18.30%) Finance
14 28 (18.30%) Oracle
15 27 (17.65%) VB.NET
16 26 (16.99%) Workflow
16 26 (16.99%) MS Office
17 23 (15.03%) WF
18 21 (13.73%) Silverlight
18 21 (13.73%) Java
18 21 (13.73%) Web Services
18 21 (13.73%) Telecoms
19 20 (13.07%) .NET Framework
20 19 (12.42%) jQuery

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 76 (49.67%) .NET
2 43 (28.10%) HTML
2 43 (28.10%) WCF
3 40 (26.14%) XSLT
4 38 (24.84%) CSS
5 37 (24.18%) ASP.NET
6 23 (15.03%) WF
7 21 (13.73%) Silverlight
7 21 (13.73%) Web Services
8 20 (13.07%) .NET Framework
9 19 (12.42%) jQuery
10 18 (11.76%) WPF
11 16 (10.46%) XML Schema
12 13 (8.497%) Ajax
12 13 (8.497%) SOAP
13 12 (7.843%) JSP
14 11 (7.190%) XSL
15 10 (6.536%) XHTML
16 9 (5.882%) XSD
17 8 (5.229%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 42 (27.45%) SharePoint
2 11 (7.190%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (3.268%) ESB
4 4 (2.614%) IIS
4 4 (2.614%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.614%) CMS
4 4 (2.614%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.961%) Apache
5 3 (1.961%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.307%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.307%) Drupal
6 2 (1.307%) WordPress
6 2 (1.307%) Joomla!
6 2 (1.307%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.654%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 1 (0.654%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.654%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.654%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.654%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 26 (16.99%) MS Office
2 6 (3.922%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.614%) InfoPath
4 2 (1.307%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.654%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 29 (18.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (5.229%) SalesLogix
3 2 (1.307%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.307%) WebTrends
3 2 (1.307%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.654%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.922%) Internet
2 5 (3.268%) Intranet
3 4 (2.614%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.614%) SNMP
3 4 (2.614%) 3G
3 4 (2.614%) 2G
3 4 (2.614%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (2.614%) RNC
4 3 (1.961%) BSS
5 2 (1.307%) HTTP
5 2 (1.307%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.307%) ATM
5 2 (1.307%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.307%) Extranet
5 2 (1.307%) SS7
5 2 (1.307%) RANAP
5 2 (1.307%) NBAP
6 1 (0.654%) 4G
6 1 (0.654%) Nokia NetAct
6 1 (0.654%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (24.84%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.190%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (6.536%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (5.229%) SQL Server 2008
5 5 (3.268%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (2.614%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (2.614%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.614%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (1.961%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.961%) GIS
7 3 (1.961%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.961%) MySQL
8 2 (1.307%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (1.307%) Oracle 9i
8 2 (1.307%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.307%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (0.654%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (0.654%) Adabas
9 1 (0.654%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 18 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (7.843%) Subversion
4 10 (6.536%) Moq
5 7 (4.575%) NUnit
6 6 (3.922%) Git (software)
7 5 (3.268%) JUnit
8 4 (2.614%) Rational Rose
8 4 (2.614%) Telelogic TAU
8 4 (2.614%) Selenium
9 3 (1.961%) ReSharper
9 3 (1.961%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.961%) Maven
9 3 (1.961%) MSI
9 3 (1.961%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.961%) Ant
10 2 (1.307%) InterDev
10 2 (1.307%) Jenkins
11 1 (0.654%) JIRA
11 1 (0.654%) Oracle APEX
General
1 28 (18.30%) Finance
2 21 (13.73%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.575%) Publishing
4 5 (3.268%) Marketing
4 5 (3.268%) Banking
5 4 (2.614%) Legal
6 3 (1.961%) French Language
6 3 (1.961%) Electronics
6 3 (1.961%) Law
7 2 (1.307%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.654%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.654%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.654%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.654%) Retail
Job Titles
1 87 (56.86%) Developer
2 27 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 16 (10.46%) VB.NET Developer
4 13 (8.497%) Architect
5 11 (7.190%) C# Developer
5 11 (7.190%) Java Developer
6 10 (6.536%) Analyst
6 10 (6.536%) SharePoint Developer
7 9 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (5.229%) Consultant
8 8 (5.229%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.229%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.575%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.575%) Web Developer
10 6 (3.922%) Software Integration Engineer
10 6 (3.922%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (3.268%) Silverlight Developer
11 5 (3.268%) Front-End Developer
11 5 (3.268%) Test Analyst
11 5 (3.268%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.575%) Computer Science
2 6 (3.922%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.922%) Mathematics
3 5 (3.268%) Physics
4 4 (2.614%) W3C
4 4 (2.614%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.614%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.961%) Social Media
5 3 (1.961%) Inversion of Control
6 2 (1.307%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.307%) Data Integration
7 1 (0.654%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.654%) Blog
7 1 (0.654%) Open Source
7 1 (0.654%) Device Driver
7 1 (0.654%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.654%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 52 (33.99%) Windows
2 12 (7.843%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (7.190%) Windows 7
3 11 (7.190%) UNIX
4 6 (3.922%) Linux
5 5 (3.268%) HPUX
6 4 (2.614%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.307%) CentOS
7 2 (1.307%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.654%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.14%) Scrum
2 31 (20.26%) CRM
3 29 (18.95%) MVC
4 26 (16.99%) Workflow
5 17 (11.11%) SOA
6 16 (10.46%) Data Modelling
7 14 (9.150%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (7.190%) Migration
9 10 (6.536%) BDD
10 9 (5.882%) Information Architecture
10 9 (5.882%) UML
11 8 (5.229%) OO
11 8 (5.229%) Data Management
11 8 (5.229%) TDD
12 7 (4.575%) Use Case
12 7 (4.575%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (4.575%) Data Architecture
13 6 (3.922%) E-Commerce
13 6 (3.922%) ERP
13 6 (3.922%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (42.48%) C#
2 51 (33.33%) SQL
3 44 (28.76%) JavaScript
4 27 (17.65%) VB.NET
5 21 (13.73%) Java
6 16 (10.46%) PHP
7 9 (5.882%) Python
8 6 (3.922%) VBScript
8 6 (3.922%) Perl
8 6 (3.922%) Shell Script
8 6 (3.922%) AWK
8 6 (3.922%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.268%) VB
10 4 (2.614%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.614%) XQuery
10 4 (2.614%) sed
11 3 (1.961%) XPath
11 3 (1.961%) Scala
11 3 (1.961%) VB6
11 3 (1.961%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (7.843%) Degree
2 6 (3.922%) ISEB
2 6 (3.922%) Security Cleared
3 4 (2.614%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.654%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.654%) SCJP
4 1 (0.654%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.654%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.654%) Sun Certification
4 1 (0.654%) MCP
4 1 (0.654%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.536%) QA
2 3 (1.961%) WAI
System Software
1 5 (3.268%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (2.614%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (2.614%) XenDesktop
3 2 (1.307%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (3.268%) WMI
2 1 (0.654%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 51 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.30%) Oracle
3 6 (3.922%) Sage
3 6 (3.922%) VMware
4 5 (3.268%) Teradata
4 5 (3.268%) HP
5 4 (2.614%) Citrix
5 4 (2.614%) Google
5 4 (2.614%) Telelogic
5 4 (2.614%) AppSense
5 4 (2.614%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (1.961%) Ericsson
7 2 (1.307%) Progress
7 2 (1.307%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.307%) Coremetrics
7 2 (1.307%) Omniture
7 2 (1.307%) Tealeaf
7 2 (1.307%) WSO2
8 1 (0.654%) Zend
8 1 (0.654%) Facebook
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