The first table below looks at the demand for XML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XML over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Rank 52 39 29
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -10
Contract jobs citing XML 65 88 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 3.446% 3.829% 4.558%
As % of the Application Development category 11.55% 15.94% 18.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 34
Average daily rate £313 £288 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% -8.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £213 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £400 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £41.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -59.03%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
563 552 435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.85% 24.02% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 330 226
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £213 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £400 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 18
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%
XML
England

XML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
West Yorkshire -12 44 £313 -
North Yorkshire +1 8 £331 +35.20%
South Yorkshire -11 6 £338 +19.46%
East Yorkshire -4 1 - -
XML
England

XML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 88 (50.87%) .NET
2 80 (46.24%) SQL
3 62 (35.84%) SQL Server
4 60 (34.68%) C#
5 54 (31.21%) Oracle
6 50 (28.90%) HTML
7 49 (28.32%) CSS
7 49 (28.32%) Web Services
8 48 (27.75%) Agile Software Development
9 44 (25.43%) JavaScript
10 43 (24.86%) SOAP
11 41 (23.70%) ASP.NET
12 40 (23.12%) Java
13 32 (18.50%) Windows
14 30 (17.34%) XSLT
15 29 (16.76%) OO
15 29 (16.76%) T-SQL
16 28 (16.18%) jQuery
17 27 (15.61%) Visual Studio
17 27 (15.61%) .NET Framework
18 26 (15.03%) SQL Server 2008
19 25 (14.45%) MVC
20 24 (13.87%) PHP
20 24 (13.87%) WCF
21 22 (12.72%) ASP.NET MVC
22 21 (12.14%) J2EE
22 21 (12.14%) Apache
22 21 (12.14%) Linux
22 21 (12.14%) UNIX
23 20 (11.56%) PL/SQL

XML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 88 (50.87%) .NET
2 50 (28.90%) HTML
3 49 (28.32%) CSS
3 49 (28.32%) Web Services
4 43 (24.86%) SOAP
5 41 (23.70%) ASP.NET
6 30 (17.34%) XSLT
7 28 (16.18%) jQuery
8 27 (15.61%) .NET Framework
9 24 (13.87%) WCF
10 22 (12.72%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (12.14%) J2EE
12 20 (11.56%) Ajax
12 20 (11.56%) Razor View Engine
13 18 (10.40%) HTML5
14 15 (8.671%) JSON
14 15 (8.671%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 14 (8.092%) LAMP
15 14 (8.092%) XHTML
16 12 (6.936%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 21 (12.14%) Apache
2 14 (8.092%) IIS
3 7 (4.046%) ESB
3 7 (4.046%) Tomcat
3 7 (4.046%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.890%) CMS
4 5 (2.890%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.312%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (2.312%) FileNet
5 4 (2.312%) WebLogic
6 3 (1.734%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.734%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (1.156%) SAS
7 2 (1.156%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.156%) DotNetNuke
7 2 (1.156%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.156%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (1.156%) GlassFish
7 2 (1.156%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.156%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (4.624%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.312%) MS Office
3 3 (1.734%) DOC1
4 2 (1.156%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.890%) Oracle Financials
1 5 (2.890%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.156%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.156%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.578%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.578%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.671%) FTP
1 15 (8.671%) Firewall
2 7 (4.046%) HTTP
3 5 (2.890%) Internet
4 3 (1.734%) LDAP
4 3 (1.734%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.156%) SSL
6 1 (0.578%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.578%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.578%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.578%) NAS
6 1 (0.578%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.578%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (35.84%) SQL Server
2 26 (15.03%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (10.40%) MySQL
4 13 (7.514%) SQL Server 2005
5 12 (6.936%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (6.358%) Oracle 10g
7 10 (5.780%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (4.624%) Oracle 11g
9 5 (2.890%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (2.890%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.312%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.312%) SQL Server 2000
11 3 (1.734%) Oracle BI EE
12 2 (1.156%) CouchDB
12 2 (1.156%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.156%) RavenDB
12 2 (1.156%) GIS
12 2 (1.156%) SQLite
12 2 (1.156%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.156%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (15.61%) Visual Studio
2 8 (4.624%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (4.046%) JDeveloper
3 7 (4.046%) Subversion
3 7 (4.046%) PHPUnit
4 4 (2.312%) Git (software)
4 4 (2.312%) Xcode
4 4 (2.312%) Eclipse
5 3 (1.734%) ClearCase
5 3 (1.734%) Maven
5 3 (1.734%) Selenium
5 3 (1.734%) MSI
5 3 (1.734%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.734%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.734%) WebDriver
5 3 (1.734%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.156%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (1.156%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.156%) NetBeans
6 2 (1.156%) PVCS
General
1 17 (9.827%) Finance
2 9 (5.202%) Telecoms
3 4 (2.312%) Financial Institution
4 3 (1.734%) Retail
5 2 (1.156%) Banking
5 2 (1.156%) Back Office
6 1 (0.578%) Automotive
6 1 (0.578%) Local Government
6 1 (0.578%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 105 (60.69%) Developer
2 26 (15.03%) Analyst
3 23 (13.29%) C# Developer
4 20 (11.56%) .NET Developer
5 18 (10.40%) XML Developer
6 17 (9.827%) Java Developer
7 15 (8.671%) Applications Support
8 13 (7.514%) Support Analyst
9 12 (6.936%) PHP Developer
10 11 (6.358%) Consultant
10 11 (6.358%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (5.780%) ASP.NET Developer
12 9 (5.202%) Oracle Developer
13 8 (4.624%) Architect
14 7 (4.046%) Web Developer
14 7 (4.046%) Oracle Forms Developer
15 6 (3.468%) iOS Developer
15 6 (3.468%) Solutions Architect
15 6 (3.468%) Tester
15 6 (3.468%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.202%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (4.624%) Open Source
3 7 (4.046%) Computer Science
4 6 (3.468%) Clustering
4 6 (3.468%) N-Tier
4 6 (3.468%) iPad
4 6 (3.468%) iPhone
5 5 (2.890%) NHS
5 5 (2.890%) W3C
5 5 (2.890%) RIA
6 2 (1.156%) Web 2.0
6 2 (1.156%) Firmware
6 2 (1.156%) DataPower
6 2 (1.156%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.156%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.156%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.578%) New Media
7 1 (0.578%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.578%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.578%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.50%) Windows
2 21 (12.14%) Linux
2 21 (12.14%) UNIX
3 7 (4.046%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.312%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.156%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.156%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.578%) Android
6 1 (0.578%) HPUX
6 1 (0.578%) Solaris
6 1 (0.578%) Debian
6 1 (0.578%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.578%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.75%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (16.76%) OO
3 25 (14.45%) MVC
4 20 (11.56%) Web Development
5 14 (8.092%) TDD
5 14 (8.092%) ITIL
6 13 (7.514%) SOA
7 12 (6.936%) Scrum
8 8 (4.624%) Migration
8 8 (4.624%) PRINCE2
8 8 (4.624%) OOP
9 7 (4.046%) E-Commerce
9 7 (4.046%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (4.046%) Configuration Management
9 7 (4.046%) Data Migration
10 6 (3.468%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (3.468%) Software Testing
10 6 (3.468%) UML
10 6 (3.468%) Data Modelling
11 5 (2.890%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 80 (46.24%) SQL
2 60 (34.68%) C#
3 44 (25.43%) JavaScript
4 40 (23.12%) Java
5 29 (16.76%) T-SQL
6 24 (13.87%) PHP
7 20 (11.56%) PL/SQL
8 10 (5.780%) VB.NET
9 7 (4.046%) Perl
10 5 (2.890%) PHP5
11 4 (2.312%) Groovy
11 4 (2.312%) XPath
11 4 (2.312%) VB
11 4 (2.312%) Python
11 4 (2.312%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.734%) ActionScript
12 3 (1.734%) C++
13 2 (1.156%) Ruby
13 2 (1.156%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
14 1 (0.578%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 12 (6.936%) Degree
2 5 (2.890%) ISEB
2 5 (2.890%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (2.890%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.156%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.578%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.578%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.578%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.624%) QA
2 2 (1.156%) HL7
2 2 (1.156%) SLA
3 1 (0.578%) WAI
3 1 (0.578%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (2.890%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.734%) OpenSSO
3 2 (1.156%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.578%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.578%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.312%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.734%) CA Wily
3 2 (1.156%) OpenView
3 2 (1.156%) Sun Identity Manager
4 1 (0.578%) Nagios
4 1 (0.578%) Cacti
4 1 (0.578%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (31.21%) Oracle
2 17 (9.827%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.468%) VMware
3 6 (3.468%) IBM
3 6 (3.468%) Zend
4 5 (2.890%) HP
5 3 (1.734%) JBoss
6 2 (1.156%) Cognos
6 2 (1.156%) Lagan
6 2 (1.156%) Sun
6 2 (1.156%) SeeBeyond
6 2 (1.156%) EPiServer
6 2 (1.156%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.578%) F5
7 1 (0.578%) Twitter
7 1 (0.578%) Tangosol
7 1 (0.578%) FatWire
7 1 (0.578%) Telerik
7 1 (0.578%) Siebel
7 1 (0.578%) Cisco
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