The first table below looks at the demand for XSD 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 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XML Schema Definition (XSD)
Rank - 111 96
Contract jobs citing XSD 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.045% 0.109%
As % of the Application Development category - 0.194% 0.423%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £405 £425
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
534 516 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.74% 23.10% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 315 254
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £211 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £380 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 21
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%
XSD
England

XSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire XSD Daily Rate Trend

XSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire XSD Hourly Rate Trend

XSD
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) AOP
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Remoting
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

XSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Remoting
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET