The first table below looks at the demand for XSL 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 XSL over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
Rank 91 94 70
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -24
Contract jobs citing XSL 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.078% 0.062% 0.183%
As % of the Application Development category 0.266% 0.274% 0.870%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £360 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +10.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £360 £313
% change year-on-year
-11.80% +15.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
376 365 230
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 29.28% 22.76% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 214 121
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 3
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XSL
Yorkshire

XSL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire XSL Jobs Demand Trend

XSL
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire XSL Daily Rate Trend

XSL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire XSL Hourly Rate Trend

XSL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing XSL 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 XSL.

1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) BPEL
3 2 (33.33%) Ajax
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
3 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 2 (33.33%) WebCenter
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle ADF
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) JDeveloper
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) OO
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server

XSL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing XSL 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 XSL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) WebCenter
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle ADF
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
1 2 (33.33%) JDeveloper
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Management Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) BPEL
1 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
1 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) SOA
1 2 (33.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle