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This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills across the UK with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited XML over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkExtensible Markup Language (XML)
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank2019
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching contract IT job ads42235845
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled5.569 %6.200 %
As % of the category below23.79 %26.67 %
Daily rates quoted14851843
Average minimum daily rate£341£373
Average daily rate£367£399
% change on same period last year-7.98 %
Average maximum daily rate£393£425
UK excluding London average daily rate£341£340
% change on same period last year+0.17 %
Hourly rates quoted245377
Average minimum hourly rate£30.87£31.63
Average hourly rate£33.51£33.94
% change on same period last year-1.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate£36.15£36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.90£33.38
% change on same period last year+1.55 %
Application Development UKApplication Development
UK
Matching contract IT job ads1775121916
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled23.41 %23.25 %
Daily rates quoted58496599
Average minimum daily rate£353£375
Average daily rate£380£401
% change on same period last year-5.15 %
Average maximum daily rate£406£426
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£336
% change on same period last year+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted10051382
Average minimum hourly rate£30.09£30.91
Average hourly rate£32.48£33.30
% change on same period last year-2.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate£34.88£35.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.44£33.08
% change on same period last year-1.93 %

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.

XML
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XML within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XML Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XML Hourly Rate Trend

XML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

XML Hourly Rate Histogram

XML
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing XML within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 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.

LocationRank 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
EnglandNo change03993£368-7.93 %
LondonDown-42072£381-9.94 %
South EastDown-5675£347+5.13 %
City of LondonDown-2474£423-15.87 %
East of EnglandUp+4361£358-5.09 %
BerkshireUp+2233£340+0.95 %
North WestDown-7227£341+9.44 %
YorkshireDown-1187£340+7.28 %
HertfordshireUp+8165£367+12.63 %
South WestDown-8154£301-8.62 %
West MidlandsDown-3139£310+10.55 %
ScotlandNo change0126£292-10.23 %
SurreyUp+2120£289-5.25 %
West YorkshireDown-3110£345+5.88 %
ManchesterNo change0108£264+12.28 %
HampshireDown-9106£357+2.70 %
East MidlandsNo change0101£335-0.77 %
CambridgeshireUp+1093£334+42.99 %
ReadingUp+391£361+6.78 %
LeedsDown-880£331+0.26 %
Docklands, LondonUp+270£427-3.91 %
WalesUp+266£369-16.66 %
EssexNo change060£347-22.77 %
CheshireDown-1157£342-5.15 %
CambridgeUp+1052£330+37.50 %
OxfordshireUp+750£303-2.41 %
South WalesUp+649£353-26.93 %
GlasgowDown-249£327-0.99 %
BuckinghamshireDown-648£439+22.20 %
BristolDown-1043£267-16.43 %

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing XML 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.

13508 (36.40 %).NET
23267 (33.90 %)SQL
33113 (32.30 %)Java
43054 (31.69 %)HTML
52885 (29.93 %)C#
62767 (28.71 %)JavaScript
72650 (27.50 %)SQL Server
82264 (23.49 %)CSS
92197 (22.80 %)ASP.NET
102110 (21.89 %)Oracle
112036 (21.12 %)WebServices
121801 (18.69 %)XSLT
131681 (17.44 %)J2EE
141448 (15.02 %)OO
151252 (12.99 %)Finance
161193 (12.38 %)UML
171135 (11.78 %)AJAX
181080 (11.21 %)Windows
191075 (11.15 %)SQL Server 2005
20998 (10.35 %)XHTML
20998 (10.35 %)Microsoft
21971 (10.07 %)Banking
22953 (9.888 %)Unix
23905 (9.390 %)ASP
24805 (8.352 %)JSP
25757 (7.854 %)Spring
26738 (7.657 %)Flash
27717 (7.439 %)VB.NET
28705 (7.315 %)C++
29678 (7.035 %)PHP

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing XML 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
13508 (36.40 %).NET
23054 (31.69 %)HTML
32264 (23.49 %)CSS
42197 (22.80 %)ASP.NET
52036 (21.12 %)WebServices
61801 (18.69 %)XSLT
71681 (17.44 %)J2EE
81135 (11.78 %)AJAX
9998 (10.35 %)XHTML
10905 (9.390 %)ASP
11805 (8.352 %)JSP
12757 (7.854 %)Spring
13675 (7.004 %)Hibernate
14671 (6.962 %)SOAP
15603 (6.256 %)XSL
16557 (5.779 %)WebSphere
17510 (5.292 %)Struts
18406 (4.212 %).NET Framework
19400 (4.150 %)EJB
20338 (3.507 %)JDBC
Application Platforms
1504 (5.229 %)WebLogic
2474 (4.918 %)IIS
3421 (4.368 %)SharePoint
4413 (4.285 %)CMS
5394 (4.088 %)Apache
6332 (3.445 %)BizTalk Server
7282 (2.926 %)Tomcat
8228 (2.366 %)JBoss
9203 (2.106 %)SharePoint Server 2007
10135 (1.401 %)MQSeries
11110 (1.141 %)WebSphere MQ
12102 (1.058 %)ColdFusion
1397 (1.006 %)WebSphere Application Server
1487 (0.903 %)TeamSite
1568 (0.706 %)ESB
1667 (0.695 %)Oracle Application Server
1766 (0.685 %)Oracle Workflow
1859 (0.612 %)WebLogic Portal
1957 (0.591 %)TIBCO EMS
2048 (0.498 %)Lotus Notes
Applications
1307 (3.185 %)Photoshop
2299 (3.102 %)MS Excel
3288 (2.988 %)MS Office
4104 (1.079 %)MS Project
598 (1.017 %)MS Visio
675 (0.778 %)Adobe Illustrator
739 (0.405 %)Fireworks
820 (0.208 %)InfoPath
917 (0.176 %)Quicktime
1016 (0.166 %)Acrobat
1016 (0.166 %)MS PowerPoint
1016 (0.166 %)CA Clarity
1115 (0.156 %)FreeHand
1211 (0.114 %)Open Workbench
138 (0.083 %)RoboHelp
147 (0.073 %)ImageReady
147 (0.073 %)DOC1
147 (0.073 %)3ds Max
156 (0.062 %)Doxygen
156 (0.062 %)FrameMaker
Business Applications
145 (0.467 %)Summit
243 (0.446 %)Oracle Applications
342 (0.436 %)Oracle EBS
440 (0.415 %)BusinessWorks
522 (0.228 %)Oracle Financials
620 (0.208 %)Global One
717 (0.176 %)Oracle 11i
816 (0.166 %)SAP CRM
914 (0.145 %)Microsoft CRM
1010 (0.104 %)Navision
1010 (0.104 %)Capstone
1010 (0.104 %)Sentinel
119 (0.093 %)Oracle iRecruitment
119 (0.093 %)Tesseract
119 (0.093 %)Minerva
128 (0.083 %)TIBCO iProcess
137 (0.073 %)Retail-J
137 (0.073 %)RMDS
137 (0.073 %)MarketView
146 (0.062 %)Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1574 (5.956 %)Internet
2309 (3.206 %)HTTP
3242 (2.511 %)Intranet
4172 (1.785 %)TCP/IP
599 (1.027 %)FTP
681 (0.840 %)LDAP
741 (0.425 %)SMTP
837 (0.384 %)Extranet
935 (0.363 %)SSL
1030 (0.311 %)WAN
1129 (0.301 %)LAN
1129 (0.301 %)SMS
1129 (0.301 %)Firewall
1226 (0.270 %)X.500
1226 (0.270 %)SNMP
1323 (0.239 %)HTTPS
1420 (0.208 %)DNS
1519 (0.197 %)Wireless
1617 (0.176 %)SSH
1716 (0.166 %)VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
12650 (27.50 %)SQL Server
21075 (11.15 %)SQL Server 2005
3604 (6.267 %)SQL Server 2000
4567 (5.883 %)MySQL
5338 (3.507 %)Oracle 10g
6249 (2.584 %)RDBMS
7239 (2.480 %)SQL Server 7
8182 (1.888 %)Oracle 9i
9175 (1.816 %)Oracle Reports
10148 (1.536 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
11129 (1.338 %)Oracle 8/8i
12127 (1.318 %)Datawarehouse
13114 (1.183 %)SQL Server Integration Services
14104 (1.079 %)Crystal Reports
1597 (1.006 %)ETL
1693 (0.965 %)MS Access
1791 (0.944 %)DTS
1888 (0.913 %)BusinessObjects
1980 (0.830 %)TOAD
2076 (0.789 %)Reference Data
Development Applications
1738 (7.657 %)Flash
2602 (6.246 %)Visual Studio
3442 (4.586 %)Eclipse
4368 (3.818 %)Ant
5346 (3.590 %)JUnit
6234 (2.428 %)Subversion
7191 (1.982 %)VSS/SourceSafe
8177 (1.836 %)NUnit
9170 (1.764 %)ClearCase
10150 (1.556 %)Dreamweaver
11121 (1.255 %)Oracle Forms
12102 (1.058 %)ClearQuest
1399 (1.027 %)Rational Rose
1493 (0.965 %)Selenium
1567 (0.695 %)FitNesse
1658 (0.602 %)RequisitePro
1755 (0.571 %)Log4j
1850 (0.519 %)JDeveloper
1946 (0.477 %)FrontPage
2040 (0.415 %)TestDirector
General
11252 (12.99 %)Finance
2971 (10.07 %)Banking
3631 (6.547 %)Investment Banking
4420 (4.358 %)Government
5281 (2.916 %)Front Office
6273 (2.833 %)Retail
7266 (2.760 %)Back Office
8204 (2.117 %)Insurance
8204 (2.117 %)Marketing
9193 (2.002 %)Telecoms
10179 (1.857 %)Publishing
11147 (1.525 %)Games
1284 (0.872 %)Financial Institution
1383 (0.861 %)Education
1476 (0.789 %)Health
1567 (0.695 %)Multimedia
1665 (0.674 %)Advertising
1762 (0.643 %)Pensions
1844 (0.457 %)Retail Banking
1943 (0.446 %)Graphic Design
Job Titles
16807 (70.63 %)Developer
21420 (14.73 %).NET Developer
31359 (14.10 %)Java Developer
41026 (10.65 %)Web Developer
51020 (10.58 %)C# Developer
6939 (9.743 %)Analyst
7556 (5.769 %)Senior Developer
8486 (5.043 %)ASP.NET Developer
9383 (3.974 %)J2EE Developer
10380 (3.943 %)Architect
11361 (3.746 %)Java/J2EE Developer
12346 (3.590 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
13309 (3.206 %)Programmer
14287 (2.978 %)PHP Developer
15270 (2.801 %)Consultant
16269 (2.791 %)Flash Developer
17226 (2.345 %)Business Analyst
18218 (2.262 %)VB.NET Developer
19213 (2.210 %)Applications Developer
20209 (2.168 %)SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1533 (5.530 %)Derivative
2263 (2.729 %)W3C
3222 (2.303 %)N-Tier
4183 (1.899 %)Fixed Income
5182 (1.888 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6164 (1.702 %)Equity Derivative
7136 (1.411 %)Web 2.0
8109 (1.131 %)Equities
9105 (1.089 %)Credit Derivative
1098 (1.017 %)Asset Management
1196 (0.996 %)Client/Server
1272 (0.747 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1371 (0.737 %)Credit Risk
1464 (0.664 %)Multithreading
1557 (0.591 %)Computer Science
1652 (0.540 %)Data Integration
1652 (0.540 %)Mathematics
1652 (0.540 %)NHS
1748 (0.498 %)iDTV
1842 (0.436 %)Grid Computing
Operating Systems
11080 (11.21 %)Windows
2953 (9.888 %)Unix
3665 (6.900 %)Linux
4233 (2.418 %)Solaris
5122 (1.266 %)Windows NT
667 (0.695 %)Windows 2000
763 (0.654 %)AIX
862 (0.643 %)Windows XP
955 (0.571 %)Windows Server 2003
1026 (0.270 %)HPUX
1121 (0.218 %)Windows Mobile
1214 (0.145 %)Mac OS X
1310 (0.104 %)Symbian OS
149 (0.093 %)zOS
158 (0.083 %)MVS
158 (0.083 %)SUSE
158 (0.083 %)VMS
166 (0.062 %)Windows CE
175 (0.052 %)Fedora
175 (0.052 %)Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
11448 (15.02 %)OO
21193 (12.38 %)UML
3549 (5.696 %)Security Cleared
4537 (5.572 %)Web Development
5533 (5.530 %)Agile Software Development
6466 (4.835 %)Content Management
7459 (4.762 %)E-Commerce
8391 (4.057 %)OOP
9333 (3.455 %)SOA
10303 (3.144 %)Unit Testing
11294 (3.050 %)OOD
12279 (2.895 %)SC Cleared
13231 (2.397 %)RUP
14223 (2.314 %)Workflow
14223 (2.314 %)Migration
15217 (2.252 %)Project Management
16209 (2.168 %)Data Modelling
17182 (1.888 %)RAD
17182 (1.888 %)TDD
18173 (1.795 %)Scrum
Programming Languages
13267 (33.90 %)SQL
23113 (32.30 %)Java
32885 (29.93 %)C#
42767 (28.71 %)JavaScript
5717 (7.439 %)VB.NET
6705 (7.315 %)C++
7678 (7.035 %)PHP
8610 (6.329 %)VB
9598 (6.205 %)PL/SQL
10508 (5.271 %)Perl
11505 (5.240 %)DHTML
12497 (5.157 %)ActionScript
13487 (5.053 %)Transact-SQL
14288 (2.988 %)C
15278 (2.884 %)VB6
16242 (2.511 %)VBScript
17230 (2.386 %)Shell Script
18200 (2.075 %)VBA
19144 (1.494 %)PHP5
20139 (1.442 %)XPath
Qualifications
1304 (3.154 %)Degree
2108 (1.121 %)Microsoft Certification
377 (0.799 %)ISEB
476 (0.789 %)Sun Certification
565 (0.674 %)MCSD
635 (0.363 %)MCAD
724 (0.249 %)MCTS
818 (0.187 %)PRINCE2 Certification
915 (0.156 %)MCP
1010 (0.104 %)ISTQB
119 (0.093 %)HND
128 (0.083 %)Oracle Certification
128 (0.083 %)IBM Certification
136 (0.062 %)Cisco Certification
136 (0.062 %)PhD
136 (0.062 %)CCNA
136 (0.062 %)MCSE
145 (0.052 %)MCPD
154 (0.042 %)ISEB Practitioner
163 (0.031 %)MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1151 (1.567 %)QA
252 (0.540 %)WCAG
252 (0.540 %)WAI
323 (0.239 %)ISO9001
323 (0.239 %)SLA
416 (0.166 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
56 (0.062 %)HL7
64 (0.042 %)Basel II
64 (0.042 %)MiFID
73 (0.031 %)ISO12207
73 (0.031 %)RosettaNet
82 (0.021 %)GAAP
82 (0.021 %)TickIT
82 (0.021 %)21 CFR Part 11
91 (0.010 %)SNOMED CT
91 (0.010 %)ISO8583
System Software
180 (0.830 %)Active Directory
245 (0.467 %)AquaLogic
333 (0.342 %)MSMQ
45 (0.052 %)NFS
45 (0.052 %)Oracle RAC
54 (0.042 %)VMware Infrastructure
54 (0.042 %)Oracle RMAN
54 (0.042 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
63 (0.031 %)Orbix
72 (0.021 %)ISA Server
81 (0.010 %)NDS
81 (0.010 %)Samba
81 (0.010 %)NetBackup
81 (0.010 %)Backup Exec
81 (0.010 %)Xen
Systems Management
131 (0.322 %)MIIS
220 (0.208 %)MOM
318 (0.187 %)AutoSys
417 (0.176 %)Tivoli
515 (0.156 %)OpenView
515 (0.156 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
69 (0.093 %)ServiceCenter
78 (0.083 %)CiscoWorks
87 (0.073 %)Tivoli NetView
87 (0.073 %)NNM
94 (0.042 %)TIBCO Hawk
94 (0.042 %)SCCM
103 (0.031 %)AssetCenter
103 (0.031 %)CA SiteMinder
112 (0.021 %)Nagios
112 (0.021 %)Netcool
121 (0.010 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
121 (0.010 %)Netcool/Webtop
121 (0.010 %)OVSD
Vendors
12110 (21.89 %)Oracle
2998 (10.35 %)Microsoft
3366 (3.797 %)Sybase
4233 (2.418 %)BEA
5197 (2.044 %)IBM
6171 (1.774 %)TIBCO
7157 (1.629 %)Calypso
8133 (1.380 %)Adobe
9111 (1.152 %)Sun
1088 (0.913 %)Business Objects
1174 (0.768 %)SAP
1270 (0.726 %)Red Hat
1359 (0.612 %)Interwoven
1453 (0.550 %)Lotus
1549 (0.508 %)HP
1643 (0.446 %)Siebel
1742 (0.436 %)Tridion
1836 (0.374 %)FatWire
1935 (0.363 %)Sony
1935 (0.363 %)Macromedia
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