The first table below looks at the demand for XAML skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XAML over the 3 months to 17 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 Programming Languages category for the West Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XAML 10 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.788% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.252% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 - -
All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
444 513 349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 34.99% 31.71% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 306 177
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £386 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 13
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -30.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.94 £12.00 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £37.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
XAML
Yorkshire

XAML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XAML across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Yorkshire XAML Jobs Demand Trend

XAML
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire XAML Daily Rate Trend

XAML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leeds - 9 £290 -
XAML
Yorkshire

XAML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing XAML 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 XAML.

1 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 14 (100.00%) Web Services
1 14 (100.00%) MVC
1 14 (100.00%) WPF
1 14 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 14 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 12 (85.71%) .NET Framework
2 12 (85.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 12 (85.71%) CSS
2 12 (85.71%) HTML
2 12 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 8 (57.14%) E-Commerce
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
4 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
6 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET
6 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
6 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
6 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.143%) XML
6 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
6 1 (7.143%) CMS
6 1 (7.143%) Ajax
6 1 (7.143%) Web Development
6 1 (7.143%) DotNetNuke
6 1 (7.143%) jQuery
6 1 (7.143%) Umbraco

XAML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing XAML 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 XAML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 14 (100.00%) Web Services
1 14 (100.00%) WPF
1 14 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 14 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 12 (85.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 12 (85.71%) HTML
2 12 (85.71%) .NET Framework
2 12 (85.71%) CSS
3 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET
3 1 (7.143%) XML
3 1 (7.143%) Ajax
3 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (7.143%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 1 (7.143%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.143%) CMS
1 1 (7.143%) DotNetNuke
1 1 (7.143%) Umbraco
1 1 (7.143%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) .NET Developer
3 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (35.71%) Applications Developer
5 2 (14.29%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) MVC
2 8 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
4 1 (7.143%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.143%) EPiServer
1 1 (7.143%) Sitecore