The first table below looks at the demand for WiX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WiX over the 3 months to 23 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 Development Applications 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Installer XML (WiX)
Rank 526 547 577
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +30
Contract jobs citing WiX 15 18 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.031% 0.015%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.294% 0.338% 0.138%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 0
Average daily rate £430 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.40% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £425 -
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5098 5328 6545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 11.00% 9.128% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3142 3691
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £269 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 221 320
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

WiX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WiX Jobs Demand Trend

WiX
Daily Rate Trend

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

WiX Daily Rate Trend

WiX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WiX within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

WiX Daily Rate Histogram

WiX
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WiX within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +41 15 £430 +27.40%
London +28 12 £430 +27.40%
City of London +14 6 £415 +22.96%
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
East of England - 2 - -
South East +19 1 £340 -20.00%
Hampshire - 1 £340 -
Berkshire - 1 £340 -

WiX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WiX 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 WiX.

1 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 16 (76.19%) MSBuild
3 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
4 14 (66.67%) .NET
5 13 (61.90%) Subversion
6 12 (57.14%) MSI
7 11 (52.38%) NUnit
7 11 (52.38%) C#
7 11 (52.38%) CruiseControl
7 11 (52.38%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (47.62%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 9 (42.86%) Release Management
9 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
10 8 (38.10%) IIS
10 8 (38.10%) SQL
10 8 (38.10%) XML
10 8 (38.10%) Workflow
11 6 (28.57%) InstallShield
11 6 (28.57%) ITIL
11 6 (28.57%) WF
11 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2008
12 5 (23.81%) WebSphere
12 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
12 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2005
12 5 (23.81%) Oracle
12 5 (23.81%) Java
12 5 (23.81%) MS Office
12 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET

WiX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WiX 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 WiX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (66.67%) .NET
2 8 (38.10%) XML
3 6 (28.57%) WF
4 5 (23.81%) WebSphere
4 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET
5 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 2 (9.524%) Jini
6 2 (9.524%) Swing
6 2 (9.524%) Java RMI
6 2 (9.524%) CSS
6 2 (9.524%) Web Services
6 2 (9.524%) Ajax
6 2 (9.524%) LINQ
6 2 (9.524%) jQuery
6 2 (9.524%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (9.524%) POCO
Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) IIS
2 1 (4.762%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.762%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.762%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 5 (23.81%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) Firewall
1 2 (9.524%) Internet
1 2 (9.524%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (9.524%) Star Schema
4 2 (9.524%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.524%) OLAP
4 2 (9.524%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.762%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) MSBuild
2 13 (61.90%) Subversion
3 12 (57.14%) MSI
4 11 (52.38%) NUnit
4 11 (52.38%) CruiseControl
4 11 (52.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 10 (47.62%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 6 (28.57%) InstallShield
7 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
8 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
8 3 (14.29%) TeamCity
9 2 (9.524%) NetBeans
9 2 (9.524%) Bugzilla
9 2 (9.524%) JUnit
10 1 (4.762%) Hudson
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Financial Institution
2 2 (9.524%) Retail
3 1 (4.762%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Build Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Systems Integration Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Integration Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Release Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Software Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Build Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Software Build Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Environment Manager
4 3 (14.29%) Deployment Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Release Manager
5 2 (9.524%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.524%) C# Developer
5 2 (9.524%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.762%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) C Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Device Driver
1 2 (9.524%) Visualisation
1 2 (9.524%) Open Source
2 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.762%) Kindle
2 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (14.29%) UNIX
4 2 (9.524%) Linux
5 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Release Management
1 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (38.10%) Workflow
3 6 (28.57%) ITIL
4 5 (23.81%) Project Management
5 4 (19.05%) Multithreading
5 4 (19.05%) Integration Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Change Control
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (9.524%) Scrum
7 2 (9.524%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (9.524%) Build Automation
8 1 (4.762%) Agile Project Management
8 1 (4.762%) Analytics
8 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (4.762%) Data Management
8 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
8 1 (4.762%) Validation
8 1 (4.762%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) C#
2 8 (38.10%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 5 (23.81%) Java
4 2 (9.524%) VC++
4 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.524%) C++
5 1 (4.762%) Ruby
5 1 (4.762%) Perl
5 1 (4.762%) C
5 1 (4.762%) Python
5 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) LPIC
1 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.762%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (4.762%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (4.762%) ISO 9001
2 1 (4.762%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.524%) Xen
3 1 (4.762%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.762%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.524%) Cisco
4 2 (9.524%) CheckPoint
4 2 (9.524%) Citrix
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