The first table below looks at the demand for XML Messaging skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML Messaging 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
XML Messaging
Rank 500 514 557
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +43
Contract jobs citing XML Messaging 41 56 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.085% 0.096% 0.071%
As % of the Application Development category 0.307% 0.375% 0.255%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 37 30
Average daily rate £375 £475 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% -9.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £415 £448
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £578
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £395
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £26.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £26.83
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%

XML Messaging
Jobs Demand Trend

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

XML Messaging Jobs Demand Trend

XML Messaging
Daily Rate Trend

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

XML Messaging Daily Rate Trend

XML Messaging
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML Messaging within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

XML Messaging Daily Rate Histogram

XML Messaging
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XML Messaging Hourly Rate Trend

XML Messaging
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML Messaging within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Scotland - 20 £375 -
England -25 17 £450 -5.26% 6
London -5 16 £450 -5.26% 3
Glasgow - 6 £350 -
City of London -20 3 £525 +16.66% 2
South East +23 1 £250 -47.36%
Kent - 1 £250 -
West Sussex - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Liverpool - - - - 3
Billingshurst - - - -
Bristol - - - -
South West - - - -
Docklands, London - - - -
Merseyside - - - - 3
North West - - - - 3

XML Messaging
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 55 (100.00%) XML
2 28 (50.91%) Java
3 25 (45.45%) SQL
4 21 (38.18%) UNIX
5 19 (34.55%) Banking
6 18 (32.73%) C++
7 16 (29.09%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (27.27%) C#
9 13 (23.64%) Perl
9 13 (23.64%) TIBCO
9 13 (23.64%) Investment Banking
10 12 (21.82%) Fixed Income
10 12 (21.82%) Multithreading
11 11 (20.00%) Finance
11 11 (20.00%) UML
12 10 (18.18%) Spring
13 8 (14.55%) Windows
13 8 (14.55%) Oracle
13 8 (14.55%) HP Quality Center
14 7 (12.73%) Web Services
14 7 (12.73%) SOA
14 7 (12.73%) Use Case
14 7 (12.73%) Front Office
15 6 (10.91%) Validation
15 6 (10.91%) Client/Server
15 6 (10.91%) MS Visio
15 6 (10.91%) Manual Testing
16 5 (9.091%) Microsoft
16 5 (9.091%) JMS
16 5 (9.091%) TOAD

XML Messaging
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 55 (100.00%) XML
2 10 (18.18%) Spring
3 7 (12.73%) Web Services
4 5 (9.091%) JMS
5 4 (7.273%) Hibernate
5 4 (7.273%) XML Schema
5 4 (7.273%) J2SE
5 4 (7.273%) Middleware
5 4 (7.273%) XSL
5 4 (7.273%) XSLT
5 4 (7.273%) REST
5 4 (7.273%) Apache CXF
5 4 (7.273%) RESTful
6 3 (5.455%) soapUI
6 3 (5.455%) J2EE
6 3 (5.455%) FpML
6 3 (5.455%) GWT
7 2 (3.636%) .NET
7 2 (3.636%) ASP
7 2 (3.636%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.273%) Apache Qpid
2 3 (5.455%) Apache
3 2 (3.636%) IIS
4 1 (1.818%) Mule
4 1 (1.818%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
4 1 (1.818%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.455%) Oracle iProcurement
1 3 (5.455%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.636%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.455%) Firewall
2 2 (3.636%) LAN
2 2 (3.636%) WAN
2 2 (3.636%) DNS
3 1 (1.818%) SSL
3 1 (1.818%) SMTP
3 1 (1.818%) HTTP
3 1 (1.818%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.091%) TOAD
2 3 (5.455%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.455%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.455%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.818%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.091%) JIRA
2 4 (7.273%) TestDirector
3 3 (5.455%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (5.455%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.818%) Ant
4 1 (1.818%) CruiseControl
General
1 19 (34.55%) Banking
2 13 (23.64%) Investment Banking
3 11 (20.00%) Finance
4 7 (12.73%) Front Office
5 3 (5.455%) Back Office
5 3 (5.455%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 25 (45.45%) Developer
2 21 (38.18%) Java Developer
3 18 (32.73%) Analyst
4 11 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Test Analyst
6 5 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
6 5 (9.091%) Technical Business Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.455%) C++/Java Developer
8 3 (5.455%) Tester
8 3 (5.455%) C++ Developer
9 2 (3.636%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 2 (3.636%) IT Business Analyst
9 2 (3.636%) Consultant
9 2 (3.636%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.636%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.636%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.636%) J2EE Developer
10 1 (1.818%) Oracle SOA Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Fixed Income
2 6 (10.91%) Client/Server
3 5 (9.091%) Derivative
4 4 (7.273%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (5.455%) Reference Data
5 3 (5.455%) NHS
6 2 (3.636%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.818%) DataPower
7 1 (1.818%) SWIFT
7 1 (1.818%) DTCC
7 1 (1.818%) Economics
7 1 (1.818%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (38.18%) UNIX
2 8 (14.55%) Windows
3 4 (7.273%) Linux
4 2 (3.636%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.09%) User Acceptance Testing
2 12 (21.82%) Multithreading
3 11 (20.00%) UML
4 7 (12.73%) SOA
4 7 (12.73%) Use Case
5 6 (10.91%) Validation
5 6 (10.91%) Manual Testing
6 4 (7.273%) E-Commerce
6 4 (7.273%) Straight-Through Processing
7 3 (5.455%) Cash Management
7 3 (5.455%) Electronic Trading
7 3 (5.455%) RUP
7 3 (5.455%) PRINCE2
7 3 (5.455%) ETL
7 3 (5.455%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (5.455%) Process Management
7 3 (5.455%) Workflow
7 3 (5.455%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (5.455%) Business Analysis
7 3 (5.455%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Java
2 25 (45.45%) SQL
3 18 (32.73%) C++
4 15 (27.27%) C#
5 13 (23.64%) Perl
6 3 (5.455%) C
7 2 (3.636%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.818%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.818%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.818%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (9.091%) Degree
2 3 (5.455%) ISEB
3 2 (3.636%) HNC
3 2 (3.636%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.636%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.818%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.455%) RosettaNet
1 3 (5.455%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (3.636%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) TIBCO
2 8 (14.55%) Oracle
3 5 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.273%) HP
5 3 (5.455%) Pega
6 1 (1.818%) JBoss
6 1 (1.818%) Sybase
6 1 (1.818%) Sun
6 1 (1.818%) IBM
6 1 (1.818%) BT
6 1 (1.818%) InterSystems
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