The first table below looks at the demand for XML 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 XML 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 Application Development 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 Markup Language (XML)
Rank 48 42 39
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -3
Contract jobs citing XML 44 56 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 3.467% 3.461% 3.301%
As % of the Application Development category 11.76% 15.34% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 14
Average daily rate £313 £313 £311
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +0.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £211 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £357 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -
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 Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
374 365 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 29.47% 22.56% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 215 122
Average daily rate £300 £310 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +12.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 3
Average hourly rate £33.00 £13.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -67.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XML
Yorkshire

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire XML Daily Rate Trend

XML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XML across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Yorkshire XML Daily Rate Histogram

XML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire XML Hourly 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 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 -18 28 £300 -7.69%
Halifax +16 4 £313 -3.84%
Huddersfield +1 3 £313 +13.63%
Bradford 0 1 - -
XML
Yorkshire

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 63 (60.58%) .NET
2 46 (44.23%) SQL
3 45 (43.27%) C#
4 38 (36.54%) SQL Server
5 34 (32.69%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (31.73%) SOAP
7 32 (30.77%) Web Services
8 31 (29.81%) Oracle
9 29 (27.88%) ASP.NET
10 26 (25.00%) HTML
10 26 (25.00%) .NET Framework
11 25 (24.04%) SQL Server 2008
12 24 (23.08%) Java
12 24 (23.08%) CSS
13 22 (21.15%) T-SQL
14 21 (20.19%) JavaScript
15 20 (19.23%) Visual Studio
16 18 (17.31%) UNIX
16 18 (17.31%) WCF
17 17 (16.35%) Windows
18 16 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
19 15 (14.42%) ASP.NET MVC 3
19 15 (14.42%) Razor View Engine
20 14 (13.46%) OO
21 12 (11.54%) Finance
21 12 (11.54%) Scrum
21 12 (11.54%) SOA
21 12 (11.54%) PHP
21 12 (11.54%) jQuery
21 12 (11.54%) Degree

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 63 (60.58%) .NET
2 33 (31.73%) SOAP
3 32 (30.77%) Web Services
4 29 (27.88%) ASP.NET
5 26 (25.00%) HTML
5 26 (25.00%) .NET Framework
6 24 (23.08%) CSS
7 18 (17.31%) WCF
8 16 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (14.42%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 15 (14.42%) Razor View Engine
10 12 (11.54%) jQuery
11 11 (10.58%) REST
11 11 (10.58%) Ajax
12 10 (9.615%) J2EE
12 10 (9.615%) XSLT
13 8 (7.692%) Java EE
13 8 (7.692%) LAMP
14 7 (6.731%) XHTML
14 7 (6.731%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 9 (8.654%) Apache
2 5 (4.808%) ESB
2 5 (4.808%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (3.846%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.846%) WebLogic
3 4 (3.846%) FileNet
3 4 (3.846%) CMS
4 3 (2.885%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.923%) IIS
5 2 (1.923%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.923%) DotNetNuke
5 2 (1.923%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.923%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.923%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (1.923%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.923%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.962%) Magento
6 1 (0.962%) WordPress
6 1 (0.962%) Drupal
6 1 (0.962%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (8.654%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.846%) MS Office
3 3 (2.885%) DOC1
4 2 (1.923%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.808%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (4.808%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.923%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.923%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.962%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.731%) HTTP
2 5 (4.808%) Internet
3 2 (1.923%) Firewall
3 2 (1.923%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.54%) SQL Server
2 25 (24.04%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (9.615%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
5 7 (6.731%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (6.731%) MySQL
6 4 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.846%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (3.846%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (2.885%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.885%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (1.923%) SQLite
8 2 (1.923%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.923%) CouchDB
8 2 (1.923%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.923%) RavenDB
8 2 (1.923%) GIS
8 2 (1.923%) TOAD
9 1 (0.962%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.962%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (19.23%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.846%) ClearCase
2 4 (3.846%) Git (software)
3 3 (2.885%) WebDriver
3 3 (2.885%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.885%) Selenium
3 3 (2.885%) Visual Studio Team System
3 3 (2.885%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.885%) MSI
3 3 (2.885%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.923%) JDeveloper
4 2 (1.923%) Maven
5 1 (0.962%) JUnit
5 1 (0.962%) Hudson
5 1 (0.962%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.962%) ERwin
5 1 (0.962%) Subversion
5 1 (0.962%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.962%) Oracle Forms
General
1 12 (11.54%) Finance
2 10 (9.615%) Telecoms
3 4 (3.846%) Financial Institution
4 2 (1.923%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (63.46%) Developer
2 22 (21.15%) C# Developer
3 18 (17.31%) XML Developer
4 14 (13.46%) Analyst
5 11 (10.58%) .NET Developer
6 10 (9.615%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.692%) PHP Developer
7 8 (7.692%) Consultant
8 7 (6.731%) Architect
9 6 (5.769%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.808%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (4.808%) Administrator
10 5 (4.808%) Tester
10 5 (4.808%) Test Analyst
10 5 (4.808%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 4 (3.846%) ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (3.846%) C# .NET Developer
11 4 (3.846%) FileNet Consultant
11 4 (3.846%) Process Analyst
11 4 (3.846%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.731%) Computer Science
1 7 (6.731%) Open Source
2 6 (5.769%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.808%) Clustering
3 5 (4.808%) RIA
4 4 (3.846%) NHS
5 3 (2.885%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.923%) Firmware
6 2 (1.923%) iPhone
6 2 (1.923%) DataPower
6 2 (1.923%) iPad
7 1 (0.962%) Web 2.0
7 1 (0.962%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.962%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.962%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.31%) UNIX
2 17 (16.35%) Windows
3 9 (8.654%) Linux
4 3 (2.885%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.923%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.923%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.923%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.962%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (32.69%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (13.46%) OO
3 12 (11.54%) SOA
3 12 (11.54%) Scrum
4 11 (10.58%) MVC
4 11 (10.58%) ITIL
5 8 (7.692%) Web Development
6 7 (6.731%) Migration
6 7 (6.731%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (6.731%) TDD
6 7 (6.731%) UML
7 6 (5.769%) PRINCE2
7 6 (5.769%) Software Testing
7 6 (5.769%) Data Migration
7 6 (5.769%) Web Application Development
8 5 (4.808%) Test Scripting
8 5 (4.808%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (4.808%) E-Commerce
8 5 (4.808%) B2C
8 5 (4.808%) Unified Process
Programming Languages
1 46 (44.23%) SQL
2 45 (43.27%) C#
3 24 (23.08%) Java
4 22 (21.15%) T-SQL
5 21 (20.19%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.54%) PHP
7 8 (7.692%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.808%) Perl
9 4 (3.846%) VB.NET
9 4 (3.846%) Groovy
10 3 (2.885%) PHP5
10 3 (2.885%) VB
11 2 (1.923%) Ruby
11 2 (1.923%) XPath
11 2 (1.923%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
12 1 (0.962%) C
12 1 (0.962%) VBA
12 1 (0.962%) Python
12 1 (0.962%) XQuery
12 1 (0.962%) XAML
Qualifications
1 12 (11.54%) Degree
2 5 (4.808%) ISEB
2 5 (4.808%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.923%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.962%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.962%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.731%) QA
2 1 (0.962%) HL7
2 1 (0.962%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.962%) WAI
System Software
1 5 (4.808%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.923%) VMware Server
3 1 (0.962%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 4 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.923%) CA Wily
2 2 (1.923%) OpenView
Vendors
1 31 (29.81%) Oracle
2 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.769%) IBM
4 5 (4.808%) VMware
4 5 (4.808%) Zend
5 4 (3.846%) HP
6 2 (1.923%) EPiServer
6 2 (1.923%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.962%) Informatica
7 1 (0.962%) SeeBeyond
7 1 (0.962%) JBoss
7 1 (0.962%) Siebel