The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 17 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 Taunton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 13 11 12
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing XML 6 11 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 8.108% 18.64% 9.524%
As % of the Application Development category 60.00% 50.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
Average daily rate £389 £320 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.75% +27.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £312 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £320 £260
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
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
10 22 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 13.51% 37.29% 47.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 9
Average daily rate £458 £346 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.27% +6.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £320 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £365 £352
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
Somerset

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taunton 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 Taunton region.

Taunton 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 Taunton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Taunton 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 Taunton region.

Taunton XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 22 (100.00%) SQL
2 21 (95.45%) C#
2 21 (95.45%) .NET
3 20 (90.91%) HTML
3 20 (90.91%) JavaScript
3 20 (90.91%) ASP
3 20 (90.91%) SharePoint
4 18 (81.82%) UML
4 18 (81.82%) Oracle
4 18 (81.82%) VB
5 17 (77.27%) Java
6 16 (72.73%) IIS
7 15 (68.18%) ASP.NET
7 15 (68.18%) ITIL
7 15 (68.18%) Microsoft
7 15 (68.18%) Subversion
7 15 (68.18%) .NET Framework
8 14 (63.64%) ISEB
8 14 (63.64%) UNIX
8 14 (63.64%) Ingres
8 14 (63.64%) VB.NET
8 14 (63.64%) SQL Server
8 14 (63.64%) C++
9 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (59.09%) Service Management
9 13 (59.09%) ITSM
9 13 (59.09%) NUnit
9 13 (59.09%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (59.09%) MSTest
10 12 (54.55%) TeamCity

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton 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 21 (95.45%) .NET
2 20 (90.91%) ASP
2 20 (90.91%) HTML
3 15 (68.18%) ASP.NET
3 15 (68.18%) .NET Framework
4 4 (18.18%) WCF
4 4 (18.18%) CSS
4 4 (18.18%) XSL
5 3 (13.64%) WPF
5 3 (13.64%) WF
6 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (4.545%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 20 (90.91%) SharePoint
2 16 (72.73%) IIS
3 11 (50.00%) OpenROAD
4 4 (18.18%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) SQL Server
1 14 (63.64%) Ingres
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.091%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Subversion
2 13 (59.09%) Team Foundation Server
2 13 (59.09%) MSTest
2 13 (59.09%) NUnit
3 12 (54.55%) Jenkins
3 12 (54.55%) TeamCity
4 11 (50.00%) CruiseControl
4 11 (50.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (18.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 15 (68.18%) .NET Developer
3 14 (63.64%) C# Developer
3 14 (63.64%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Support Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
5 4 (18.18%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Analyst Programmer
7 1 (4.545%) Programmer
7 1 (4.545%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.545%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.545%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) UML
2 15 (68.18%) ITIL
3 13 (59.09%) Service Management
3 13 (59.09%) ITSM
4 12 (54.55%) Unit Testing
4 12 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (45.45%) Service Delivery
6 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
6 4 (18.18%) RAD
6 4 (18.18%) Performance Management
6 4 (18.18%) Waterfall
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) SOA
7 3 (13.64%) Pair Programming
7 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
8 2 (9.091%) Web Development
9 1 (4.545%) Incident Management
9 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Architecture
9 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
9 1 (4.545%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) SQL
2 21 (95.45%) C#
3 20 (90.91%) JavaScript
4 18 (81.82%) VB
5 17 (77.27%) Java
6 14 (63.64%) C++
6 14 (63.64%) VB.NET
7 4 (18.18%) VB6
7 4 (18.18%) C
7 4 (18.18%) VBScript
8 1 (4.545%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) ISEB
2 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (40.91%) MCP
3 9 (40.91%) MCTS
3 9 (40.91%) MCPD
4 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
5 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
6 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (18.18%) MCSD
6 4 (18.18%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (4.545%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO 9000
1 4 (18.18%) TickIT
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.64%) COBIT
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Oracle
2 15 (68.18%) Microsoft