The first table below looks at the demand for XSD 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 XSD 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 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
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank - 93 101
Contract jobs citing XSD 0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.246% 0.110%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.851% 0.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £415 £425
% change year-on-year
-18.67% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
331 470 533
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.49% 28.96% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 267 290
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £270
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 28 15 15
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 £30.00 £19.00 £17.75
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%
XSD
South East

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey XSD Hourly Rate Trend

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) XSL
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) CRM
2 8 (88.89%) SalesLogix
2 8 (88.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (88.89%) Silverlight
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
3 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
3 7 (77.78%) Migration
3 7 (77.78%) Windows
3 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 7 (77.78%) SQL
4 6 (66.67%) Sage
5 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 1 (11.11%) WCF
7 1 (11.11%) Network Planning
7 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (11.11%) SOA
7 1 (11.11%) Scrum
7 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (11.11%) Telecoms

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) XML
2 8 (88.89%) XSL
2 8 (88.89%) Silverlight
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) WCF
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 8 (88.89%) SalesLogix
1 8 (88.89%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (77.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) CRM Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) CRM Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Development Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CRM
2 7 (77.78%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Network Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Sage