SAX Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SAX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAX 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.

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
Simple API for XML (SAX)
Rank 532 569 573
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +4
Contract jobs citing SAX 8 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.021% 0.012%
As % of the Application Development category 0.062% 0.080% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 0
Average daily rate £325 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £18.70 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 384 385 569
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

SAX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

SAX Jobs Demand Trend

SAX
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAX within the UK.

SAX Daily Rate Trend

SAX
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAX within the UK.

SAX Hourly Rate Trend

SAX
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAX within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wales - 4 £324 -
South Wales - 3 £325 -
England +35 2 £325 -13.33%
Scotland - 2 £350 -
Newport - 2 £325 -
London +5 1 - -
West Wales - 1 £322 -
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
South East - 1 £325 -
Berkshire - 1 £325 -
Swansea - 1 £322 -
Slough - 1 £325 -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 £350 -

SAX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SAX 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 SAX.

1 32 (100.00%) XML
2 31 (96.88%) DOM
2 31 (96.88%) Java
3 30 (93.75%) XPath
4 27 (84.38%) XSLT
5 26 (81.25%) Oracle
6 25 (78.13%) J2EE
6 25 (78.13%) XSD
7 24 (75.00%) SQL
7 24 (75.00%) Spring
8 23 (71.88%) WebLogic
8 23 (71.88%) UML
8 23 (71.88%) JAXP
9 22 (68.75%) Eclipse
9 22 (68.75%) ClearCase
9 22 (68.75%) PL/SQL
9 22 (68.75%) CSS
9 22 (68.75%) ClearQuest
10 20 (62.50%) Liferay
11 19 (59.38%) WebLogic Portal
12 17 (53.13%) Web Services
12 17 (53.13%) JSF
13 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
14 13 (40.63%) Agile Software Development
15 11 (34.38%) Hibernate
16 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
16 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
16 6 (18.75%) HTML
17 5 (15.63%) HTML5
18 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared

SAX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SAX 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 SAX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (100.00%) XML
2 31 (96.88%) DOM
3 27 (84.38%) XSLT
4 25 (78.13%) J2EE
4 25 (78.13%) XSD
5 24 (75.00%) Spring
6 23 (71.88%) JAXP
7 22 (68.75%) CSS
8 17 (53.13%) Web Services
8 17 (53.13%) JSF
9 11 (34.38%) Hibernate
10 6 (18.75%) HTML
11 5 (15.63%) HTML5
12 4 (12.50%) EJB
12 4 (12.50%) XSL
13 2 (6.250%) JDBC
13 2 (6.250%) Servlets
13 2 (6.250%) JAXB
13 2 (6.250%) WSDL
13 2 (6.250%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 23 (71.88%) WebLogic
2 20 (62.50%) Liferay
3 19 (59.38%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (3.125%) CMS
4 1 (3.125%) TeamSite
4 1 (3.125%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (3.125%) Apache
4 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.125%) TOAD
4 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (3.125%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (68.75%) Eclipse
1 22 (68.75%) ClearCase
1 22 (68.75%) ClearQuest
2 2 (6.250%) Subversion
2 2 (6.250%) Maven
3 1 (3.125%) FogBugz
3 1 (3.125%) JIRA
3 1 (3.125%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (3.125%) Ant
General
1 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.250%) Finance
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (93.75%) Developer
2 25 (78.13%) Java Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Lead Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (6.250%) Designer
5 1 (3.125%) Client Relationship Manager
5 1 (3.125%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (3.125%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.125%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.125%) Relationships Manager
5 1 (3.125%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.125%) Mobile App
1 1 (3.125%) iPhone
1 1 (3.125%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) Android
2 1 (3.125%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.125%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) UML
2 13 (40.63%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (6.250%) MVC
4 1 (3.125%) BDD
4 1 (3.125%) Web Application Development
4 1 (3.125%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (3.125%) TDD
4 1 (3.125%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (3.125%) Web Development
4 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Content Management
4 1 (3.125%) Unit Testing
4 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (3.125%) Kanban
4 1 (3.125%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.125%) Data Mapping
4 1 (3.125%) Use Case
4 1 (3.125%) Content Management
4 1 (3.125%) BPEL
4 1 (3.125%) Data Analysis
4 1 (3.125%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (96.88%) Java
2 30 (93.75%) XPath
3 24 (75.00%) SQL
4 22 (68.75%) PL/SQL
5 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.250%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) Section 508
1 1 (3.125%) WAI
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 26 (81.25%) Oracle
2 1 (3.125%) Talend
2 1 (3.125%) HP
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