XSD Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank 377 453 402
Rank change year-on-year
+76 -51
Contract jobs citing XSD 166 128 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.352% 0.219% 0.304%
As % of the Application Development category 1.288% 0.855% 1.108%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 74 126
Average daily rate £335 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.55% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £350 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £415 £425
% change year-on-year
-18.67% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12893 14967 16509
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.31% 25.60% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8051 8793 9618
Average daily rate £375 £350 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.25%
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 384 385 569
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 £17.00 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.15 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

XSD Jobs Demand Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XSD within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

XSD Daily Rate Histogram

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSD Hourly Rate Trend

XSD
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XSD within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +71 148 £321 -28.66%
London +57 102 £320 -41.81%
North West +22 14 £275 -28.57%
City of London +18 14 £400 -3.03%
South East 0 10 £425 +6.25%
East Midlands - 10 £363 -
South West +29 6 £350 -13.58%
Manchester +19 6 £223 -41.44%
Nottinghamshire - 6 £394 -
Wales +14 5 £325 -
Buckinghamshire +4 5 £425 +65.85%
Scotland -9 5 £350 -30.00%
Hampshire -12 5 £320 -21.95%
Nottingham - 5 £394 -
Milton Keynes - 5 £425 -
South Wales +12 4 £331 -
Exeter - 4 - -
Devon - 4 - -
Lancashire +13 3 £275 -38.34%
Liverpool +10 3 - -
Merseyside +3 3 - -
Oldham - 3 £170 -
Newport - 3 £331 -
Cheshire +2 2 - -
East of England 0 2 - -
Glasgow -18 2 £344 -31.25%
West Midlands - 2 £375 -
Bristol +10 1 £350 -13.58%
Hertfordshire +9 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 £200 -

XSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing XSD 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 XSD.

1 276 (91.39%) XML
2 157 (51.99%) Web Services
3 143 (47.35%) XSLT
4 136 (45.03%) HTML
5 131 (43.38%) CSS
6 118 (39.07%) SQL
7 115 (38.08%) Oracle
8 98 (32.45%) Java
9 94 (31.13%) SOAP
10 92 (30.46%) JavaScript
11 83 (27.48%) UML
12 73 (24.17%) .NET
13 72 (23.84%) WSDL
14 71 (23.51%) PL/SQL
15 67 (22.19%) C#
16 64 (21.19%) J2EE
17 56 (18.54%) WebLogic
18 53 (17.55%) XSL
19 48 (15.89%) SOA
19 48 (15.89%) XPath
20 47 (15.56%) HTTP
20 47 (15.56%) SQL Server
21 46 (15.23%) Ajax
22 43 (14.24%) WebSphere
22 43 (14.24%) Windows
22 43 (14.24%) Publishing
23 40 (13.25%) W3C
24 39 (12.91%) IIS
24 39 (12.91%) Spring
25 37 (12.25%) RUP

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing XSD 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 XSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 276 (91.39%) XML
2 157 (51.99%) Web Services
3 143 (47.35%) XSLT
4 136 (45.03%) HTML
5 131 (43.38%) CSS
6 94 (31.13%) SOAP
7 73 (24.17%) .NET
8 72 (23.84%) WSDL
9 64 (21.19%) J2EE
10 53 (17.55%) XSL
11 46 (15.23%) Ajax
12 43 (14.24%) WebSphere
13 39 (12.91%) Spring
14 33 (10.93%) jQuery
15 29 (9.603%) Hibernate
16 28 (9.272%) DOM
16 28 (9.272%) REST
17 27 (8.940%) ActiveX
18 26 (8.609%) Servlets
18 26 (8.609%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 56 (18.54%) WebLogic
2 39 (12.91%) IIS
3 20 (6.623%) Liferay
4 19 (6.291%) WebLogic Portal
5 18 (5.960%) WebSphere MQ
6 17 (5.629%) MQSeries
6 17 (5.629%) ESB
7 12 (3.974%) ArcGIS
8 8 (2.649%) Oracle Service Bus
8 8 (2.649%) CMS
9 7 (2.318%) SharePoint
10 6 (1.987%) Umbraco
10 6 (1.987%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (1.987%) WordPress
10 6 (1.987%) BizTalk Server
10 6 (1.987%) ArcSDE
11 5 (1.656%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (1.656%) TIBCO EMS
12 4 (1.325%) Tomcat
12 4 (1.325%) Apache
Applications
1 18 (5.960%) MS Visio
2 13 (4.305%) MS Excel
3 4 (1.325%) DOC1
4 2 (0.662%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.662%) MS Office
5 1 (0.331%) MS Project
5 1 (0.331%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 8 (2.649%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.649%) SalesLogix
2 5 (1.656%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (1.656%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.993%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
4 1 (0.331%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.331%) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking
1 47 (15.56%) HTTP
2 23 (7.616%) SSL
3 6 (1.987%) Internet
4 5 (1.656%) LDAP
5 3 (0.993%) FTP
6 2 (0.662%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.662%) Firewall
7 1 (0.331%) IIOP
7 1 (0.331%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.331%) SMS
7 1 (0.331%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.629%) GIS
3 16 (5.298%) SQL Server 2008
4 15 (4.967%) SQL Server 2005
5 11 (3.642%) MySQL
5 11 (3.642%) Oracle 11g
6 10 (3.311%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (2.649%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.318%) DB2
8 7 (2.318%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (1.656%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.656%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.656%) SQL Server 2012
10 4 (1.325%) IBM InfoSphere
10 4 (1.325%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.325%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.325%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.993%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.993%) Oracle 10g
12 2 (0.662%) Informix
Development Applications
1 35 (11.59%) Eclipse
2 29 (9.603%) ClearCase
3 26 (8.609%) Visual Studio
4 24 (7.947%) ClearQuest
5 16 (5.298%) Subversion
6 12 (3.974%) Maven
7 11 (3.642%) Rational Rose
7 11 (3.642%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (3.311%) Git (software)
8 10 (3.311%) Ant
9 8 (2.649%) JUnit
10 7 (2.318%) ERwin
10 7 (2.318%) PowerDesigner
11 5 (1.656%) NetBeans
11 5 (1.656%) JDeveloper
11 5 (1.656%) Hudson
12 4 (1.325%) jMock
12 4 (1.325%) JIRA
12 4 (1.325%) Mockito
12 4 (1.325%) EasyMock
General
1 43 (14.24%) Publishing
2 34 (11.26%) Finance
3 30 (9.934%) Banking
4 13 (4.305%) Telecoms
5 10 (3.311%) Legal
6 6 (1.987%) Retail
7 5 (1.656%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.325%) Multimedia
8 4 (1.325%) Billing
9 3 (0.993%) French Language
10 2 (0.662%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.331%) Advertising
11 1 (0.331%) Automotive
11 1 (0.331%) Front Office
11 1 (0.331%) Back Office
11 1 (0.331%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.331%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.331%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 196 (64.90%) Developer
2 64 (21.19%) Architect
3 39 (12.91%) Java Developer
4 23 (7.616%) .NET Developer
5 22 (7.285%) Oracle Developer
6 18 (5.960%) Data Architect
7 13 (4.305%) Consultant
7 13 (4.305%) SQL Developer
7 13 (4.305%) GIS Developer
8 12 (3.974%) Senior Developer
9 11 (3.642%) Lead Developer
9 11 (3.642%) PL/SQL Developer
9 11 (3.642%) VB Developer
9 11 (3.642%) Designer
10 9 (2.980%) Software Developer
10 9 (2.980%) XML Developer
11 8 (2.649%) Administrator
11 8 (2.649%) ASP.NET Developer
12 7 (2.318%) Data Modeller
12 7 (2.318%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.25%) W3C
2 33 (10.93%) Data Conversion
3 17 (5.629%) DataPower
4 14 (4.636%) Mobile App
5 12 (3.974%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.649%) Semantic Web
7 7 (2.318%) Web 2.0
8 5 (1.656%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.656%) PMI
8 5 (1.656%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.325%) Computer Science
9 4 (1.325%) PKI
9 4 (1.325%) Firmware
10 3 (0.993%) Equities
10 3 (0.993%) Social Media
11 2 (0.662%) Online Gambling
11 2 (0.662%) Data Integration
11 2 (0.662%) iPad
11 2 (0.662%) Smart Meter
11 2 (0.662%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.24%) Windows
2 33 (10.93%) Linux
3 21 (6.954%) UNIX
4 13 (4.305%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (2.318%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.318%) Windows 7
6 4 (1.325%) AIX
6 4 (1.325%) Solaris
7 3 (0.993%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.662%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (0.662%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.662%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.331%) Fedora
9 1 (0.331%) CentOS
9 1 (0.331%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (27.48%) UML
2 48 (15.89%) SOA
3 37 (12.25%) RUP
3 37 (12.25%) Agile Software Development
4 30 (9.934%) MVC
5 27 (8.940%) Data Modelling
6 23 (7.616%) OO
7 22 (7.285%) Scrum
8 20 (6.623%) Validation
9 19 (6.291%) Workflow
10 17 (5.629%) TDD
10 17 (5.629%) Unit Testing
11 16 (5.298%) E-Commerce
12 13 (4.305%) Enterprise Architecture
13 12 (3.974%) BPEL
14 11 (3.642%) OOD
15 10 (3.311%) OOA/OOD
15 10 (3.311%) Migration
16 9 (2.980%) CRM
16 9 (2.980%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 118 (39.07%) SQL
2 98 (32.45%) Java
3 92 (30.46%) JavaScript
4 71 (23.51%) PL/SQL
5 67 (22.19%) C#
6 48 (15.89%) XPath
7 33 (10.93%) VB
8 26 (8.609%) Python
9 25 (8.278%) VBScript
10 24 (7.947%) XQuery
11 14 (4.636%) Shell Script
12 12 (3.974%) PHP
12 12 (3.974%) C
13 11 (3.642%) VB.NET
14 8 (2.649%) SPARQL
15 6 (1.987%) Groovy
15 6 (1.987%) VB6
15 6 (1.987%) Ada
15 6 (1.987%) T-SQL
16 5 (1.656%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (8.609%) Degree
2 21 (6.954%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.318%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.656%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.993%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (0.662%) BC Cleared
6 2 (0.662%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.649%) QA
2 5 (1.656%) SLA
3 4 (1.325%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.331%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.331%) WAI
4 1 (0.331%) CDISC
System Software
1 8 (2.649%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.993%) TIBCO Hawk
2 2 (0.662%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 115 (38.08%) Oracle
2 32 (10.60%) IBM
2 32 (10.60%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.954%) Pega
4 17 (5.629%) ESRI
4 17 (5.629%) JBoss
5 8 (2.649%) Facebook
5 8 (2.649%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.987%) Sage
6 6 (1.987%) TIBCO
7 5 (1.656%) Chordiant
7 5 (1.656%) Twitter
7 5 (1.656%) Google
7 5 (1.656%) Zend
8 4 (1.325%) BEA
9 3 (0.993%) ATG
10 2 (0.662%) Fredhopper
10 2 (0.662%) Cadis
10 2 (0.662%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.662%) HP
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