Tyne and Wear XSL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) skills within the Tyne and Wear region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XSL over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	4.301 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.23	£25.15
% change on same period last year	+40.07 %
Application Development Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	93	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.138 %
Daily rates quoted	12	30
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£302
Average daily rate	£320	£317
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£333
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.88	£29.76
Average hourly rate	£33.03	£30.15
% change on same period last year	+9.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.18	£30.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.32	£32.24
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
XSL North 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.

XSL
Demand Trend

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

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XSL across the Tyne and Wear region.

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing XSL across the Tyne and Wear region.

XSL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSL within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Newcastle	-	4	-	-

XSL North East

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing XSL 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 XSL.

1 8 (72.73 %) XML 2 6 (54.55 %) HTML 2 6 (54.55 %) WebServices 3 5 (45.45 %) MySQL 3 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server 3 5 (45.45 %) CSS 3 5 (45.45 %) UML 4 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 4 4 (36.36 %) .NET 4 4 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (36.36 %) PHP 4 4 (36.36 %) C# 5 3 (27.27 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (27.27 %) Linux 5 3 (27.27 %) Middleware

5 3 (27.27 %) Systems Analysis 5 3 (27.27 %) Workflow 5 3 (27.27 %) Finance 5 3 (27.27 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (18.18 %) QA 6 2 (18.18 %) Atlassian 6 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 6 2 (18.18 %) WebSphere 6 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (18.18 %) OO 6 2 (18.18 %) JBoss 6 2 (18.18 %) OOD 6 2 (18.18 %) Internet 6 2 (18.18 %) QuickTest Pro 6 2 (18.18 %) LoadRunner

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region citing XSL 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 XSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (72.73 %) XML 2 6 (54.55 %) HTML 2 6 (54.55 %) WebServices 3 5 (45.45 %) CSS 4 4 (36.36 %) .NET 4 4 (36.36 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (27.27 %) Middleware 5 3 (27.27 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (18.18 %) WebSphere 6 2 (18.18 %) JSP 6 2 (18.18 %) Servlets 7 1 (9.091 %) LAMP 7 1 (9.091 %) AJAX 7 1 (9.091 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) JBoss 2 1 (9.091 %) Apache 2 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 2 1 (9.091 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (45.45 %) MySQL 1 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server 2 2 (18.18 %) DB2 2 2 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (18.18 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (9.091 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Developer 2 3 (27.27 %) PHP Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) MySQL Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Test Manager 3 2 (18.18 %) Quality Manager 3 2 (18.18 %) QA Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) VB Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) LAMP Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) HTML Developer
Operating Systems 1 3 (27.27 %) Linux 2 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 2 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2 2 (18.18 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (45.45 %) UML 2 3 (27.27 %) E-Commerce 2 3 (27.27 %) Workflow 2 3 (27.27 %) Systems Analysis 3 2 (18.18 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (18.18 %) OOD 3 2 (18.18 %) OO 4 1 (9.091 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (36.36 %) C# 1 4 (36.36 %) PHP 2 2 (18.18 %) Java 3 1 (9.091 %) JavaScript 3 1 (9.091 %) COBOL 3 1 (9.091 %) VB 3 1 (9.091 %) VB6 3 1 (9.091 %) PHP5 3 1 (9.091 %) PHP4	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) Atlassian