The first table below looks at the demand for XMLBeans skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XMLBeans 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apache XMLBeans
Rank 538 558 584
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +26
Contract jobs citing XMLBeans 3 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.012% 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.024% 0.047% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12638 14882 17097
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.27% 25.50% 27.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7921 8711 9986
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
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 363 389 578
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 £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

XMLBeans
Jobs Demand Trend

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

XMLBeans Jobs Demand Trend

XMLBeans
Daily Rate Trend

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

XMLBeans Daily Rate Trend

XMLBeans
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XMLBeans 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
Scotland - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -

XMLBeans
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 19 (95.00%) XML
3 18 (90.00%) UML
3 18 (90.00%) OO
3 18 (90.00%) EJB
3 18 (90.00%) JDBC
3 18 (90.00%) JSP
3 18 (90.00%) Servlets
3 18 (90.00%) HTML
3 18 (90.00%) JMS
4 16 (80.00%) Eclipse
4 16 (80.00%) JUnit
5 15 (75.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 15 (75.00%) J2EE
5 15 (75.00%) DB2
5 15 (75.00%) JavaScript
5 15 (75.00%) UNIX
5 15 (75.00%) RAD
5 15 (75.00%) RDBMS
5 15 (75.00%) Retail
5 15 (75.00%) Finance
5 15 (75.00%) WebSphere
6 14 (70.00%) Internet
6 14 (70.00%) XPath
6 14 (70.00%) Subversion
6 14 (70.00%) Content Management
6 14 (70.00%) Ajax
6 14 (70.00%) Blue Martini
6 14 (70.00%) Web 2.0

XMLBeans
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (95.00%) XML
2 18 (90.00%) EJB
2 18 (90.00%) JDBC
2 18 (90.00%) JSP
2 18 (90.00%) Servlets
2 18 (90.00%) HTML
2 18 (90.00%) JMS
3 15 (75.00%) J2EE
3 15 (75.00%) WebSphere
4 14 (70.00%) Ajax
4 14 (70.00%) JSTL
4 14 (70.00%) XSLT
4 14 (70.00%) XHTML
4 14 (70.00%) Struts
5 6 (30.00%) Web Services
5 6 (30.00%) Spring
6 5 (25.00%) JPA
6 5 (25.00%) SOAP
6 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
7 4 (20.00%) TopLink
Application Platforms
1 15 (75.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 14 (70.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (5.000%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (70.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) DB2
1 15 (75.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (5.000%) TOAD
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Eclipse
1 16 (80.00%) JUnit
2 14 (70.00%) Subversion
2 14 (70.00%) Log4j
2 14 (70.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 14 (70.00%) Ant
3 6 (30.00%) Maven
4 2 (10.00%) Git (software)
5 1 (5.000%) CruiseControl
5 1 (5.000%) PVCS
5 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.000%) Mockito
General
1 15 (75.00%) Retail
1 15 (75.00%) Finance
2 12 (60.00%) Games
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.000%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Danish Language
4 1 (5.000%) Finnish Language
4 1 (5.000%) Norwegian Language
4 1 (5.000%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 20 (100.00%) Developer
1 20 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 13 (65.00%) J2EE Developer
2 13 (65.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (5.000%) Web Developer
3 1 (5.000%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (5.000%) Java Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (70.00%) Web 2.0
2 4 (20.00%) N-Tier
3 2 (10.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (75.00%) UNIX
2 14 (70.00%) HPUX
2 14 (70.00%) Solaris
2 14 (70.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) UML
1 18 (90.00%) OO
2 15 (75.00%) RAD
3 14 (70.00%) Content Management
3 14 (70.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (20.00%) Scrum
4 4 (20.00%) MVC
4 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (20.00%) TDD
4 4 (20.00%) BDD
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Web Design
6 1 (5.000%) CRM
6 1 (5.000%) ITIL
6 1 (5.000%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (95.00%) SQL
3 15 (75.00%) JavaScript
4 14 (70.00%) XPath
4 14 (70.00%) Bash shell
4 14 (70.00%) Perl
5 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Blue Martini
1 14 (70.00%) Elastic Path
1 14 (70.00%) ATG
1 14 (70.00%) IBM
1 14 (70.00%) Interwoven
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.000%) HP
4 1 (5.000%) Meridio