The first table below looks at the demand for XSL skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSL 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 Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Rank 394 470 383
Rank change year-on-year
+76 -87
Contract jobs citing XSL 148 100 224
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.308% 0.172% 0.360%
As % of the Application Development category 1.107% 0.669% 1.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 53 143
Average daily rate £375 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £251 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £456 £543 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £324 £376 £325
% change year-on-year
-14.01% +15.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
Average hourly rate £45.00 £31.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -21.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 £31.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -23.17%
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%

XSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

XSL Jobs Demand Trend

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

XSL Daily Rate Trend

XSL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

XSL Daily Rate Histogram

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XSL Hourly Rate Trend

XSL
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 XSL 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
England +58 139 £375 -4.76% 60
London +50 82 £420 -6.66% 30
City of London +9 27 £375 -16.66% 7
South East +43 23 £350 +16.66% 12
South West +36 14 £338 -17.68% 1
North West +23 10 £316 +10.00% 2
Hampshire - 9 £400 - 3
Milton Keynes +9 6 £355 +18.25% 1
Buckinghamshire 0 6 £355 +18.25% 4
Cheshire +4 5 £250 -28.57%
Gloucestershire - 5 £325 -
Cheltenham - 5 £325 -
Yorkshire +2 3 £410 +26.64% 7
West Sussex - 3 - -
Berkshire - 3 - -
Basingstoke - 3 - -
Bristol - 3 £263 -
Southampton - 3 £400 - 1
Surrey +19 2 £275 - 4
East of England +14 2 £400 +3.22% 4
Coventry +8 2 £300 - 2
West Midlands +4 2 £300 +15.38% 4
West Yorkshire +1 2 - - 1
Essex -2 2 £400 -
Manchester +4 1 £320 +42.22% 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
Docklands, London - - - -
Scotland - - - - 1
East Yorkshire - - - - 4
Warwickshire - - - -

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 241 (83.97%) XML
2 169 (58.89%) JavaScript
3 151 (52.61%) HTML
4 136 (47.39%) SQL
5 129 (44.95%) CSS
6 107 (37.28%) Web Services
7 104 (36.24%) .NET
8 95 (33.10%) Java
9 93 (32.40%) C#
10 87 (30.31%) Oracle
11 74 (25.78%) SQL Server
12 63 (21.95%) ASP.NET
13 53 (18.47%) XSD
14 51 (17.77%) HTTP
15 50 (17.42%) SharePoint
15 50 (17.42%) jQuery
16 49 (17.07%) ASP
17 46 (16.03%) PL/SQL
17 46 (16.03%) SOAP
18 45 (15.68%) UML
18 45 (15.68%) VB
19 44 (15.33%) VBScript
19 44 (15.33%) HTML5
20 43 (14.98%) Agile Software Development
21 39 (13.59%) XPath
21 39 (13.59%) XSLT
22 38 (13.24%) MVC
22 38 (13.24%) Web Development
23 37 (12.89%) J2EE
23 37 (12.89%) IIS

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 241 (83.97%) XML
2 151 (52.61%) HTML
3 129 (44.95%) CSS
4 107 (37.28%) Web Services
5 104 (36.24%) .NET
6 63 (21.95%) ASP.NET
7 53 (18.47%) XSD
8 50 (17.42%) jQuery
9 49 (17.07%) ASP
10 46 (16.03%) SOAP
11 44 (15.33%) HTML5
12 39 (13.59%) XSLT
13 37 (12.89%) J2EE
14 36 (12.54%) .NET Framework
15 33 (11.50%) XHTML
16 26 (9.059%) Ajax
16 26 (9.059%) WCF
17 25 (8.711%) ODBC
17 25 (8.711%) JSON
18 23 (8.014%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 50 (17.42%) SharePoint
2 37 (12.89%) IIS
3 27 (9.408%) SharePoint 2010
4 21 (7.317%) Apache
5 10 (3.484%) WebLogic
6 8 (2.787%) Tomcat
7 7 (2.439%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (2.439%) ESB
8 5 (1.742%) CMS
8 5 (1.742%) Drupal
9 4 (1.394%) Alfresco
10 3 (1.045%) BizTalk Server
10 3 (1.045%) ArcGIS
10 3 (1.045%) Windows Azure
11 2 (0.697%) Mule
11 2 (0.697%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.348%) Commerce Server
12 1 (0.348%) WordPress
12 1 (0.348%) Oracle Service Bus
12 1 (0.348%) Lync
Applications
1 12 (4.181%) MS Office
2 10 (3.484%) MS Excel
3 4 (1.394%) XMetaL
3 4 (1.394%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.045%) MS Project
4 3 (1.045%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.045%) Fireworks
4 3 (1.045%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 9 (3.136%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.045%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.045%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.697%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.697%) SalesLogix
3 2 (0.697%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.348%) LatentZero
4 1 (0.348%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 51 (17.77%) HTTP
2 16 (5.575%) SSL
3 10 (3.484%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.136%) DVB
5 7 (2.439%) SAN
5 7 (2.439%) Internet
6 4 (1.394%) Intranet
6 4 (1.394%) LDAP
6 4 (1.394%) SMTP
7 3 (1.045%) Firewall
8 2 (0.697%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.348%) CTI
9 1 (0.348%) Extranet
9 1 (0.348%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (25.78%) SQL Server
2 31 (10.80%) SQL Server 2008
3 26 (9.059%) MySQL
4 25 (8.711%) SQL Server 2005
5 16 (5.575%) RDBMS
6 12 (4.181%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (3.833%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (3.136%) DB2
9 5 (1.742%) DTS
10 4 (1.394%) MarkLogic
10 4 (1.394%) SQL Server 2000
10 4 (1.394%) GIS
10 4 (1.394%) MS Access
11 3 (1.045%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (1.045%) SQLite
12 2 (0.697%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.697%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.697%) Oracle 8/8i
12 2 (0.697%) Oracle 10g
13 1 (0.348%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 27 (9.408%) Subversion
2 24 (8.362%) Maven
3 23 (8.014%) Git (software)
4 20 (6.969%) Ant
4 20 (6.969%) Visual Studio
5 17 (5.923%) Team Foundation Server
6 13 (4.530%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.484%) JUnit
8 9 (3.136%) Rational Rose
9 8 (2.787%) Mercurial
10 7 (2.439%) Redmine
10 7 (2.439%) FogBugz
10 7 (2.439%) Trac
11 5 (1.742%) Visual Studio Team System
11 5 (1.742%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.742%) JIRA
11 5 (1.742%) Jenkins
12 4 (1.394%) Gradle
12 4 (1.394%) HtmlUnit
12 4 (1.394%) WinDbg
General
1 31 (10.80%) Finance
2 12 (4.181%) Telecoms
3 9 (3.136%) Banking
4 7 (2.439%) Retail
5 6 (2.091%) Back Office
6 5 (1.742%) Publishing
7 4 (1.394%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.394%) Games
8 3 (1.045%) General Ledger
9 2 (0.697%) Marketing
9 2 (0.697%) Local Government
9 2 (0.697%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.697%) Front Office
10 1 (0.348%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.348%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.348%) French Language
10 1 (0.348%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (74.56%) Developer
2 32 (11.15%) .NET Developer
3 29 (10.10%) Java Developer
4 20 (6.969%) SharePoint Developer
5 18 (6.272%) VB Developer
5 18 (6.272%) C# Developer
6 16 (5.575%) Front-End Developer
6 16 (5.575%) SQL Developer
6 16 (5.575%) Consultant
7 15 (5.226%) Web Developer
7 15 (5.226%) Senior Developer
8 14 (4.878%) PHP Developer
9 12 (4.181%) C# .NET Developer
10 11 (3.833%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (3.833%) PL/SQL Developer
10 11 (3.833%) Analyst
10 11 (3.833%) Architect
11 9 (3.136%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.136%) Technical Leader
12 8 (2.787%) Technical Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.923%) Computer Science
2 15 (5.226%) W3C
3 9 (3.136%) DTV
4 8 (2.787%) N-Tier
5 7 (2.439%) iPad
6 6 (2.091%) Ontologies
6 6 (2.091%) SWIFT
6 6 (2.091%) Semantic Web
7 5 (1.742%) CESG
7 5 (1.742%) Derivative
8 4 (1.394%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.394%) Open Source
8 4 (1.394%) DataPower
9 3 (1.045%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.045%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.045%) Video on Demand
9 3 (1.045%) IPTV
9 3 (1.045%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.045%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.697%) STB
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.80%) Linux
1 31 (10.80%) Windows
2 13 (4.530%) UNIX
3 8 (2.787%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (2.439%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (1.394%) Android
6 3 (1.045%) Windows CE
6 3 (1.045%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.045%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.697%) Solaris
8 1 (0.348%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (15.68%) UML
2 43 (14.98%) Agile Software Development
3 38 (13.24%) MVC
3 38 (13.24%) Web Development
4 34 (11.85%) RUP
4 34 (11.85%) Scrum
5 29 (10.10%) OO
6 19 (6.620%) TDD
7 15 (5.226%) Unit Testing
7 15 (5.226%) Multithreading
8 14 (4.878%) CRM
8 14 (4.878%) Change Management
9 13 (4.530%) E-business
9 13 (4.530%) Project Management
9 13 (4.530%) OOA/OOD
10 12 (4.181%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (3.833%) Waterfall
11 11 (3.833%) Web Accessibility
12 10 (3.484%) BDD
12 10 (3.484%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 169 (58.89%) JavaScript
2 136 (47.39%) SQL
3 95 (33.10%) Java
4 93 (32.40%) C#
5 46 (16.03%) PL/SQL
6 45 (15.68%) VB
7 44 (15.33%) VBScript
8 39 (13.59%) XPath
9 33 (11.50%) PHP
10 25 (8.711%) T-SQL
11 18 (6.272%) C++
12 17 (5.923%) VB.NET
13 15 (5.226%) C
13 15 (5.226%) PHP5
14 12 (4.181%) VB6
14 12 (4.181%) Python
15 8 (2.787%) Shell Script
15 8 (2.787%) Perl
16 7 (2.439%) VBA
17 3 (1.045%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 30 (10.45%) Degree
2 25 (8.711%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.923%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.787%) ISEB
5 6 (2.091%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.091%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.394%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (1.394%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (1.394%) PhD
6 4 (1.394%) MCSD
7 3 (1.045%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.045%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.697%) MCPD
8 2 (0.697%) MCITP
8 2 (0.697%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.697%) MCP
8 2 (0.697%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.575%) WCAG
2 5 (1.742%) ISO 9000
2 5 (1.742%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.394%) TickIT
4 3 (1.045%) SLA
4 3 (1.045%) RosettaNet
4 3 (1.045%) QA
4 3 (1.045%) COBIT
5 2 (0.697%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.348%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 8 (2.787%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.045%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 2 (0.697%) ClearTrust
4 1 (0.348%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.348%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.439%) Netcool
1 7 (2.439%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 6 (2.091%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 3 (1.045%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.045%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 1 (0.348%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.348%) HP UCMDB
4 1 (0.348%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 87 (30.31%) Oracle
2 37 (12.89%) Microsoft
3 22 (7.666%) IBM
4 17 (5.923%) JBoss
5 11 (3.833%) Zend
6 10 (3.484%) Perforce
7 9 (3.136%) Salesforce.com
7 9 (3.136%) Curam
8 8 (2.787%) HP
9 7 (2.439%) Citrix
9 7 (2.439%) Veritas
10 6 (2.091%) Endeca
10 6 (2.091%) ATG
11 4 (1.394%) Sencha
11 4 (1.394%) Plumtree
11 4 (1.394%) Lotus
12 3 (1.045%) Adobe
12 3 (1.045%) ESRI
13 2 (0.697%) Lagan
13 2 (0.697%) Bloomberg
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