The first table below looks at the demand for XQuery 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 XQuery 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 Programming Languages 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XQuery
Rank - 85 -
Contract jobs citing XQuery 0 12 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.739% -
As % of the Programming Languages category - 1.869% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 0
Average daily rate - £488 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £413 £430
% change year-on-year
-15.15% -4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
426 642 641
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 36.66% 39.56% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 336 338
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £260 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 48 31
Average hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £23.25 £23.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
XQuery
South East

XQuery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey XQuery Jobs Demand Trend

XQuery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey XQuery Daily Rate Trend

XQuery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey XQuery Hourly Rate Trend

XQuery
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing XQuery 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 XQuery.

1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) XSLT
2 9 (90.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) Internet
3 8 (80.00%) Publishing
4 7 (70.00%) Legal
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Drools
5 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
5 1 (10.00%) Extranet
5 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (10.00%) Subversion
5 1 (10.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) Maven
5 1 (10.00%) XML Schema
5 1 (10.00%) Intranet
5 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) CSS

XQuery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing XQuery 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 XQuery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) XML
1 10 (100.00%) XSLT
2 1 (10.00%) Drools
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) XML Schema
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) Extranet
2 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 8 (80.00%) Publishing
2 7 (70.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) XML Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Web Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Content Editor
3 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Python Web Developer
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared