Warwickshire XML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Markup Language (XML) skills within the Warwickshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XML over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peel Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	18
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	22	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	23.66 %	32.95 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£233
Average daily rate	£360	£281
% change on same period last year	+28.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£338
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.50
Average hourly rate	-	£39.25
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.06	£33.04
% change on same period last year	+3.08 %
Application Development Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	93	88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.089 %
Daily rates quoted	19	7
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£251
Average daily rate	£311	£283
% change on same period last year	+9.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.83	£31.19
Average hourly rate	£22.62	£33.73
% change on same period last year	-32.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.40	£36.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XML West Midlands

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 25 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.

Location	Rank 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
Leamington Spa	-3	5	-	-
Warwick	+1	4	-	-
Nuneaton	-	1	-	-

XML West Midlands

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region 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.

1 16 (41.03 %) JavaScript 2 15 (38.46 %) SQL 3 14 (35.90 %) .NET 3 14 (35.90 %) WebServices 4 13 (33.33 %) C# 4 13 (33.33 %) HTML 4 13 (33.33 %) UML 5 12 (30.77 %) OO 5 12 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 6 11 (28.21 %) SQL Server 7 10 (25.64 %) XSLT 8 8 (20.51 %) ASP 8 8 (20.51 %) J2EE 8 8 (20.51 %) Java 9 7 (17.95 %) Finance

9 7 (17.95 %) CSS 9 7 (17.95 %) Flash 10 6 (15.38 %) Internet 10 6 (15.38 %) PHP 10 6 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 10 6 (15.38 %) Web Development 11 5 (12.82 %) Back Office 11 5 (12.82 %) 3ds Max 11 5 (12.82 %) Retail 11 5 (12.82 %) Photoshop 11 5 (12.82 %) SQL Server 2000 11 5 (12.82 %) E-Commerce 11 5 (12.82 %) OOD 11 5 (12.82 %) SOA 12 4 (10.26 %) XML Schema

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region 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 1 14 (35.90 %) .NET 1 14 (35.90 %) WebServices 2 13 (33.33 %) HTML 3 12 (30.77 %) ASP.NET 4 10 (25.64 %) XSLT 5 8 (20.51 %) J2EE 5 8 (20.51 %) ASP 6 7 (17.95 %) CSS 7 4 (10.26 %) SOAP 7 4 (10.26 %) XHTML 7 4 (10.26 %) XML Schema 7 4 (10.26 %) WebSphere 8 3 (7.692 %) Spring 8 3 (7.692 %) AJAX 8 3 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 2.0 8 3 (7.692 %) Swing 8 3 (7.692 %) XSL 8 3 (7.692 %) JSP 9 2 (5.128 %) Servlets 9 2 (5.128 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.128 %) Apache 2 1 (2.564 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (2.564 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) Photoshop 1 5 (12.82 %) 3ds Max 2 3 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (15.38 %) Internet 2 1 (2.564 %) FTP 2 1 (2.564 %) HTTP 2 1 (2.564 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (28.21 %) SQL Server 2 6 (15.38 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (12.82 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.564 %) PostgreSQL 4 1 (2.564 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (2.564 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (2.564 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 7 (17.95 %) Flash 2 2 (5.128 %) JUnit 3 1 (2.564 %) Ant 3 1 (2.564 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (2.564 %) Subversion
General 1 7 (17.95 %) Finance 2 5 (12.82 %) Retail 2 5 (12.82 %) Back Office 3 4 (10.26 %) Pensions 4 2 (5.128 %) Automotive 5 1 (2.564 %) Construction 5 1 (2.564 %) Government 5 1 (2.564 %) Publishing 5 1 (2.564 %) Games 5 1 (2.564 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 34 (87.18 %) Developer 2 8 (20.51 %) .NET Developer 3 7 (17.95 %) C# Developer 3 7 (17.95 %) Web Developer 4 5 (12.82 %) PHP Developer 4 5 (12.82 %) Java Developer 5 3 (7.692 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 3 (7.692 %) WebSphere Developer 5 3 (7.692 %) WebSphere Portal Developer 5 3 (7.692 %) Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) Applications Developer 6 2 (5.128 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) Systems Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) Flash Developer 6 2 (5.128 %) C# Web Developer 6 2 (5.128 %) .NET Applications Developer 7 1 (2.564 %) C# Application Developer 7 1 (2.564 %) ActionScript Developer 7 1 (2.564 %) UML Business Analyst 7 1 (2.564 %) NetWeaver Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.692 %) W3C 1 3 (7.692 %) E-Learning 2 2 (5.128 %) NHS 3 1 (2.564 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (2.564 %) Taxonomies 3 1 (2.564 %) Mathematics 3 1 (2.564 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 3 (7.692 %) Windows 2 2 (5.128 %) Linux 3 1 (2.564 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (33.33 %) UML 2 12 (30.77 %) OO 3 6 (15.38 %) Web Development 4 5 (12.82 %) E-Commerce 4 5 (12.82 %) OOD 4 5 (12.82 %) SOA 5 3 (7.692 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (5.128 %) Validation 6 2 (5.128 %) Web Design 6 2 (5.128 %) Content Management 6 2 (5.128 %) OOP 6 2 (5.128 %) Project Management 6 2 (5.128 %) Technical Architecture 6 2 (5.128 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (2.564 %) Continuous Integration 7 1 (2.564 %) Manual Testing 7 1 (2.564 %) System Testing 7 1 (2.564 %) Use Case 7 1 (2.564 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (2.564 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 16 (41.03 %) JavaScript 2 15 (38.46 %) SQL 3 13 (33.33 %) C# 4 8 (20.51 %) Java 5 6 (15.38 %) PHP 6 3 (7.692 %) VB 6 3 (7.692 %) XPath 7 2 (5.128 %) ActionScript 8 1 (2.564 %) VBA 8 1 (2.564 %) XAML 8 1 (2.564 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (2.564 %) C++ 8 1 (2.564 %) C++/CLI 8 1 (2.564 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (5.128 %) MCAD 1 2 (5.128 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.564 %) MCDST 2 1 (2.564 %) Degree 2 1 (2.564 %) MCSD	Vendors 1 2 (5.128 %) Oracle 1 2 (5.128 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.564 %) Red Hat