The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 18 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 for the West Lothian region.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 4 7 9
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing XML 9 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 17.65% 8.333% 3.947%
As % of the Application Development category 64.29% 50.00% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
Average daily rate £375 £338 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -20.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £308 £405
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £368 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £334 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+2.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
West Lothian
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
14 8 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Lothian 27.45% 16.67% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 10
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
XML
Scotland

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XML across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Lothian XML Jobs Demand Trend

XML
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Lothian XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 18 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
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Job
Vacancies
Livingston +7 8 £375 -
XML
Scotland

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 7 (70.00%) Java
1 7 (70.00%) XML Schema
1 7 (70.00%) Scrum
1 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (70.00%) FitNesse
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (40.00%) JMS
3 4 (40.00%) JDBC
3 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (40.00%) J2EE
3 4 (40.00%) JUnit
3 4 (40.00%) HTML5
3 4 (40.00%) JSON
3 4 (40.00%) iBATIS
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
4 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (30.00%) QA
4 3 (30.00%) jQuery
4 3 (30.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) CSS3
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) KnockoutJS
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (30.00%) PHP
4 3 (30.00%) SQL

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Lothian 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 7 (70.00%) XML Schema
2 4 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 4 (40.00%) J2EE
2 4 (40.00%) JDBC
2 4 (40.00%) JSON
2 4 (40.00%) iBATIS
2 4 (40.00%) HTML5
2 4 (40.00%) JMS
3 3 (30.00%) HTML
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) CSS3
3 3 (30.00%) KnockoutJS
3 3 (30.00%) jQuery
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
3 3 (30.00%) CSS
3 3 (30.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) Java EE
4 1 (10.00%) J2SE
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) FitNesse
2 4 (40.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Ant
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 2 (20.00%) QA Tester
5 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (10.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Scrum
1 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) Pair Programming
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) User Stories
5 2 (20.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA