The first table below looks at the demand for XSD skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XSD over the 3 months to 24 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 for the West Sussex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank - 44 -
Contract jobs citing XSD 0 15 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - 2.280% -
As % of the Application Development category - 9.677% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £513 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £405 £425
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
87 155 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 23.51% 23.56% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 101 55
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £258 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSD
South East

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) ESB
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
3 1 (33.33%) XML Schema
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) WS-I
3 1 (33.33%) Software AG
3 1 (33.33%) webMethods
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) EAI
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) soapUI

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) WSDL
3 1 (33.33%) XML Schema
3 1 (33.33%) WS-I
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) JMS
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) ESB
2 1 (33.33%) MQSeries
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Designer
2 2 (66.67%) SOA Designer
3 1 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (33.33%) webMethods Developer
3 1 (33.33%) SOA Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Software AG
1 1 (33.33%) webMethods