The first table below looks at the demand for XBRL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XBRL over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
Rank 533 567 591
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +24
Contract jobs citing XBRL 8 3 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.005% 0.016%
As % of the Application Development category 0.060% 0.020% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
Average daily rate £218 £475 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-54.21% -17.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £475 £550
10% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £475 £670
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £600
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
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 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

XBRL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

XBRL Jobs Demand Trend

XBRL
Daily Rate Trend

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

XBRL Daily Rate Trend

XBRL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XBRL Hourly Rate Trend

XBRL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing XBRL 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 XBRL.

1 4 (36.36%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) Cognos
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (36.36%) TOAD
1 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) Solvency II
2 3 (27.27%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) XML
2 3 (27.27%) XSLT
2 3 (27.27%) Publishing
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (9.091%) Requirements Engineering
4 1 (9.091%) Business Objects
4 1 (9.091%) SAP
4 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.091%) General Ledger
4 1 (9.091%) Change Management

XBRL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing XBRL 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 XBRL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (27.27%) XML
1 3 (27.27%) XSLT
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (36.36%) TOAD
1 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.091%) BusinessObjects
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Publishing
3 1 (9.091%) General Ledger
3 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Business Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Graduate Data Analyst
4 3 (27.27%) Cognos Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Graduate
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
5 2 (18.18%) Junior Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Developer Analyst
5 2 (18.18%) Junior
5 2 (18.18%) Junior Data Analyst
5 2 (18.18%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (9.091%) Solvency II Business Analyst
6 1 (9.091%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Requirements Engineering
4 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (9.091%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Solvency II
2 1 (9.091%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) Cognos
2 1 (9.091%) Business Objects
2 1 (9.091%) SAP
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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