Surrey XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited XML over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Aldershot Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Ringwood Romford Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Neots Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	21
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	120	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.158 %	0.144 %
As % of the category below	21.05 %	21.22 %
Daily rates quoted	28	31
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£271
Average daily rate	£289	£305
% change on same period last year	-5.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£340
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	£33.02
Average hourly rate	£40.46	£34.30
% change on same period last year	+17.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.42	£35.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.90	£33.38
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Application Development Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	570	641
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.752 %	0.680 %
Daily rates quoted	199	153
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£307
Average daily rate	£317	£332
% change on same period last year	-4.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	59
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.83	£32.36
Average hourly rate	£36.99	£33.72
% change on same period last year	+9.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.15	£35.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
XML South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XML across the Surrey region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing XML within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Woking	+5	9	£375	+44.23 %
Camberley	+4	7	£220	-51.22 %
Sunbury-on-Thames	-	5	-	-
Weybridge	-	5	£280	-
Farnham	-	4	-	-
Guildford	+4	4	£367	+22.22 %
Dorking	-	3	£325	-
Epsom	-	2	-	-
Leatherhead	-8	1	£275	-
Godalming	-	1	-	-
Reigate	0	1	-	-

XML South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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.

1 100 (31.85 %) .NET 2 98 (31.21 %) C# 3 86 (27.39 %) SQL Server 4 84 (26.75 %) SQL 5 82 (26.11 %) Java 6 80 (25.48 %) WebServices 7 77 (24.52 %) Oracle 8 73 (23.25 %) HTML 9 69 (21.97 %) JavaScript 10 65 (20.70 %) OO 11 57 (18.15 %) ASP.NET 12 54 (17.20 %) CSS 13 52 (16.56 %) J2EE 14 51 (16.24 %) PHP 14 51 (16.24 %) JSP

15 45 (14.33 %) XSLT 15 45 (14.33 %) Flash 16 43 (13.69 %) Windows 17 42 (13.38 %) Microsoft 18 41 (13.06 %) AJAX 19 40 (12.74 %) HTTP 20 36 (11.46 %) UML 21 33 (10.51 %) SOAP 21 33 (10.51 %) ActionScript 21 33 (10.51 %) Finance 22 31 (9.873 %) TCP/IP 22 31 (9.873 %) Web Development 23 29 (9.236 %) Struts 24 28 (8.917 %) MySQL 25 26 (8.280 %) Visual Studio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 1 100 (31.85 %) .NET 2 80 (25.48 %) WebServices 3 73 (23.25 %) HTML 4 57 (18.15 %) ASP.NET 5 54 (17.20 %) CSS 6 52 (16.56 %) J2EE 7 51 (16.24 %) JSP 8 45 (14.33 %) XSLT 9 41 (13.06 %) AJAX 10 33 (10.51 %) SOAP 11 29 (9.236 %) Struts 12 24 (7.643 %) Spring 13 23 (7.325 %) XHTML 14 22 (7.006 %) Hibernate 15 20 (6.369 %) WinForms 16 19 (6.051 %) EJB 17 18 (5.732 %) WebSphere 18 17 (5.414 %) ASP 19 15 (4.777 %) JDBC 19 15 (4.777 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 12 (3.822 %) Apache 2 11 (3.503 %) ColdFusion 2 11 (3.503 %) BizTalk Server 3 10 (3.185 %) CMS 4 8 (2.548 %) IIS 5 7 (2.229 %) Lotus Notes 6 6 (1.911 %) Lotus Domino 6 6 (1.911 %) WebSphere MQ 6 6 (1.911 %) WebSphere Message Broker 7 5 (1.592 %) JBoss 7 5 (1.592 %) ColdFusion MX 8 4 (1.274 %) WebLogic 9 3 (0.955 %) Tomcat 9 3 (0.955 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 2 (0.637 %) SharePoint 10 2 (0.637 %) DotNetNuke 11 1 (0.318 %) Rhythmyx 11 1 (0.318 %) WPS 11 1 (0.318 %) ESB 11 1 (0.318 %) MindAlign
Applications 1 21 (6.688 %) MS Excel 2 10 (3.185 %) Photoshop 3 7 (2.229 %) MS Office 4 3 (0.955 %) Fireworks 4 3 (0.955 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (0.318 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (0.318 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (1.592 %) Sophis VALUE
Communications & Networking 1 40 (12.74 %) HTTP 2 31 (9.873 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (3.822 %) Internet 4 11 (3.503 %) Intranet 5 5 (1.592 %) FTP 6 1 (0.318 %) VoIP 6 1 (0.318 %) SSL 6 1 (0.318 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 86 (27.39 %) SQL Server 2 28 (8.917 %) MySQL 3 23 (7.325 %) SQL Server 2005 4 18 (5.732 %) SQL Server 2000 5 6 (1.911 %) Oracle 10g 6 5 (1.592 %) Oracle 9i 7 3 (0.955 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 3 (0.955 %) SQLBase 8 2 (0.637 %) BusinessObjects 8 2 (0.637 %) RDBMS 9 1 (0.318 %) DB2 9 1 (0.318 %) MS Access 9 1 (0.318 %) Datawarehouse 9 1 (0.318 %) DTS 9 1 (0.318 %) DataStage 9 1 (0.318 %) ReportNet 9 1 (0.318 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 45 (14.33 %) Flash 2 26 (8.280 %) Visual Studio 3 17 (5.414 %) Eclipse 4 11 (3.503 %) Subversion 5 9 (2.866 %) NUnit 5 9 (2.866 %) Dreamweaver 6 7 (2.229 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 3 (0.955 %) ClearCase 8 2 (0.637 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 2 (0.637 %) Rational Rose 8 2 (0.637 %) JUnit 9 1 (0.318 %) Ant 9 1 (0.318 %) PVCS 9 1 (0.318 %) WinRunner 9 1 (0.318 %) TestDirector 9 1 (0.318 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.318 %) LoadRunner 9 1 (0.318 %) ClearQuest 9 1 (0.318 %) CruiseControl 9 1 (0.318 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 33 (10.51 %) Finance 2 15 (4.777 %) Government 3 10 (3.185 %) Games 3 10 (3.185 %) Back Office 3 10 (3.185 %) Marketing 4 8 (2.548 %) Insurance 5 6 (1.911 %) Pensions 5 6 (1.911 %) Banking 5 6 (1.911 %) Multimedia 6 5 (1.592 %) Publishing 6 5 (1.592 %) Education 7 4 (1.274 %) Flash Games 7 4 (1.274 %) Investment Banking 8 3 (0.955 %) Telecoms 8 3 (0.955 %) Front Office 8 3 (0.955 %) Retail 9 2 (0.637 %) Health 9 2 (0.637 %) Construction 9 2 (0.637 %) Animation 10 1 (0.318 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 248 (78.98 %) Developer 2 56 (17.83 %) Java Developer 3 55 (17.52 %) C# Developer 4 37 (11.78 %) .NET Developer 5 28 (8.917 %) PHP Developer 6 26 (8.280 %) Flash Developer 7 25 (7.962 %) Analyst 8 19 (6.051 %) ActionScript Developer 9 17 (5.414 %) Web Developer 9 17 (5.414 %) Software Engineer 10 15 (4.777 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 14 (4.459 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 13 (4.140 %) Software Developer 13 11 (3.503 %) Java/J2EE Developer 14 10 (3.185 %) Senior Developer 14 10 (3.185 %) C# Software Engineer 14 10 (3.185 %) J2EE Developer 15 8 (2.548 %) Programmer 15 8 (2.548 %) Architect 16 7 (2.229 %) Oracle Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (2.229 %) N-Tier 2 5 (1.592 %) Derivative 3 3 (0.955 %) Equity Derivative 3 3 (0.955 %) Web 2.0 3 3 (0.955 %) Fixed Income 4 2 (0.637 %) Clustering 4 2 (0.637 %) W3C 4 2 (0.637 %) Client/Server 4 2 (0.637 %) Handset 4 2 (0.637 %) Multithreading 5 1 (0.318 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.318 %) Fund Management 5 1 (0.318 %) Blog 5 1 (0.318 %) Podcast 5 1 (0.318 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.318 %) Asset Management 5 1 (0.318 %) Streaming Media
Operating Systems 1 43 (13.69 %) Windows 2 21 (6.688 %) Unix 3 11 (3.503 %) Linux 4 6 (1.911 %) AIX 5 4 (1.274 %) FreeBSD 6 3 (0.955 %) HPUX 7 2 (0.637 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (0.318 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.318 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 65 (20.70 %) OO 2 36 (11.46 %) UML 3 31 (9.873 %) Web Development 4 26 (8.280 %) Security Cleared 5 19 (6.051 %) OOD 6 18 (5.732 %) MVC 7 15 (4.777 %) OOP 8 14 (4.459 %) TDD 9 12 (3.822 %) Project Management 10 8 (2.548 %) SC Cleared 11 7 (2.229 %) Agile Software Development 11 7 (2.229 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 7 (2.229 %) Content Management 11 7 (2.229 %) OOA/OOD 12 6 (1.911 %) ITIL 12 6 (1.911 %) E-Commerce 12 6 (1.911 %) Systems Analysis 12 6 (1.911 %) Knowledge Management 13 5 (1.592 %) SOA 13 5 (1.592 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 98 (31.21 %) C# 2 84 (26.75 %) SQL 3 82 (26.11 %) Java 4 69 (21.97 %) JavaScript 5 51 (16.24 %) PHP 6 33 (10.51 %) ActionScript 7 25 (7.962 %) PL/SQL 8 19 (6.051 %) DHTML 9 16 (5.096 %) VB.NET 10 14 (4.459 %) C++ 10 14 (4.459 %) PHP5 11 12 (3.822 %) Shell Script 12 10 (3.185 %) VB 12 10 (3.185 %) Transact-SQL 13 8 (2.548 %) Perl 14 6 (1.911 %) C 14 6 (1.911 %) LotusScript 15 5 (1.592 %) PHP4 16 3 (0.955 %) VBA 17 2 (0.637 %) Jython	Qualifications 1 11 (3.503 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (1.911 %) Degree 3 2 (0.637 %) MCAD 3 2 (0.637 %) MCSD 4 1 (0.318 %) ISEB 4 1 (0.318 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.274 %) ISO9001 2 2 (0.637 %) QA 3 1 (0.318 %) TickIT 3 1 (0.318 %) WAI	Vendors 1 77 (24.52 %) Oracle 2 42 (13.38 %) Microsoft 3 18 (5.732 %) Motorola 3 18 (5.732 %) Sony 4 7 (2.229 %) Lotus 4 7 (2.229 %) Adobe 5 6 (1.911 %) Macromedia 5 6 (1.911 %) Vignette 5 6 (1.911 %) Interwoven 5 6 (1.911 %) FileNet 5 6 (1.911 %) Sophis 5 6 (1.911 %) IXOS 6 4 (1.274 %) BEA 7 2 (0.637 %) IBM 7 2 (0.637 %) HP 7 2 (0.637 %) Business Objects 7 2 (0.637 %) Zend 7 2 (0.637 %) Yahoo! 7 2 (0.637 %) Google 8 1 (0.318 %) FormScape