XML Contracts in the East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for XML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XML over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

XML England / East of England
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	23	45	27
Rank change year-on-year	+22	-18
Contract jobs citing XML	166	95	183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England	7.13%	3.80%	5.98%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	22.55%	14.39%	22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	101	63	89
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£288	£230	£299
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£538	£500	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£405	£400	£375
% change year-on-year	+1.25%	+6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	6	14
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£31.14	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+33.29%	-22.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£35.00	£29.00	£20.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£62.50	£33.95	£43.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£40.00	£33.00	£37.45
% change year-on-year	+21.21%	-11.88%

XML is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills East of England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	736	660	827
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England	31.63%	26.41%	27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	456	418	501
Median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£288	£250	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£538	£500	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	22	16	31
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£31.27	£38.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+32.71%	-17.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£35.00	£27.50	£20.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£62.50	£36.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-10.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the East of England citing XML as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

Job vacancy trend for XML in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing XML in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate trend for XML in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing XML in the East of England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for XML in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for XML in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing XML in the East of England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for XML in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XML within the East of England region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Essex	+16	85	£500	+76.99%	11
Cambridgeshire	-2	22	£375	-17.12%	15
Hertfordshire	-2	22	£413	-5.71%	17
Bedfordshire	+7	21	£375	+7.14%
Norfolk	+17	14	£400	-27.27%	3
Suffolk	+5	2	-	-	4
XML England

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing XML also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the East of England region with a requirement for XML.

1	158 (51.30%)	Agile Software Development
2	141 (45.78%)	Java
3	140 (45.45%)	HTML
3	140 (45.45%)	TDD
3	140 (45.45%)	JSON
4	131 (42.53%)	JavaScript
5	121 (39.29%)	Oracle
6	118 (38.31%)	XSLT
7	107 (34.74%)	SQL
8	86 (27.92%)	CSS
9	78 (25.32%)	Continuous Integration
10	71 (23.05%)	Middleware
10	71 (23.05%)	MVC
11	70 (22.73%)	Web Services
12	65 (21.10%)	Jenkins

13	64 (20.78%)	SOA
14	60 (19.48%)	Finance
15	57 (18.51%)	Maven
15	57 (18.51%)	.NET
16	56 (18.18%)	Unix
16	56 (18.18%)	Spring
16	56 (18.18%)	Scrum
17	55 (17.86%)	Git (software)
18	54 (17.53%)	RESTful
19	52 (16.88%)	SAP
20	51 (16.56%)	JUnit
20	51 (16.56%)	C#
20	51 (16.56%)	Manufacturing
21	49 (15.91%)	OO
21	49 (15.91%)	Business Intelligence

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	43 (13.96%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	39 (12.66%)	Mule
3	38 (12.34%)	Oracle Service Bus
4	34 (11.04%)	WebLogic
5	33 (10.71%)	WebSphere
6	21 (6.82%)	JBoss
7	14 (4.55%)	CMS
8	12 (3.90%)	BizTalk Server
9	11 (3.57%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	10 (3.25%)	IIS
10	10 (3.25%)	SharePoint
11	9 (2.92%)	Apache
12	5 (1.62%)	Adobe Experience Manager
12	5 (1.62%)	IBM Transformation Extender
13	4 (1.30%)	Confluence
13	4 (1.30%)	Skype for Business
14	3 (0.97%)	Magnolia
14	3 (0.97%)	Tomcat
14	3 (0.97%)	WebSphere Portal
15	2 (0.65%)	SAS

Applications
1	9 (2.92%)	Doxygen
2	3 (0.97%)	Photoshop
3	2 (0.65%)	S-PLUS
3	2 (0.65%)	XMetaL

Business Applications
1	39 (12.66%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	18 (5.84%)	Dynamics CRM
3	11 (3.57%)	Adobe Campaign
3	11 (3.57%)	Unica
4	6 (1.95%)	Oracle BPM
4	6 (1.95%)	Payment Gateway
5	5 (1.62%)	SAP HCM
6	1 (0.32%)	Dynamics AX
6	1 (0.32%)	Magento
6	1 (0.32%)	Oracle Receivables
6	1 (0.32%)	SAP MDG
6	1 (0.32%)	SAP MDM

Cloud Services
1	29 (9.42%)	GitHub
2	15 (4.87%)	Amazon AWS
3	8 (2.60%)	Adobe Analytics
4	5 (1.62%)	Boomi
4	5 (1.62%)	Google Analytics
4	5 (1.62%)	Microsoft Azure
4	5 (1.62%)	SuccessFactors
5	4 (1.30%)	Office 365
5	4 (1.30%)	SaaS
5	4 (1.30%)	Yammer
6	3 (0.97%)	IaaS
6	3 (0.97%)	PaaS
7	2 (0.65%)	Amazon EC2
7	2 (0.65%)	Amazon S3
7	2 (0.65%)	Amazon SQS
7	2 (0.65%)	AWS Lambda
7	2 (0.65%)	Route 53
8	1 (0.32%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	20 (6.49%)	HTTP
2	19 (6.17%)	LDAP
3	9 (2.92%)	SSL
4	4 (1.30%)	VoIP
4	4 (1.30%)	Wireshark
5	3 (0.97%)	Internet
5	3 (0.97%)	TCP/IP
6	2 (0.65%)	DNS
6	2 (0.65%)	HTTPS
6	2 (0.65%)	IMAP
6	2 (0.65%)	SMTP
7	1 (0.32%)	iSCSI
7	1 (0.32%)	NFC
7	1 (0.32%)	OpenLDAP
7	1 (0.32%)	SMPP
7	1 (0.32%)	SNMP
7	1 (0.32%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	42 (13.64%)	SQL Server
2	39 (12.66%)	MySQL
3	35 (11.36%)	Relational Database
4	25 (8.12%)	Oracle Database
5	17 (5.52%)	MariaDB
6	16 (5.19%)	NoSQL
7	12 (3.90%)	Oracle Database 10g
8	11 (3.57%)	BusinessObjects
9	10 (3.25%)	Hadoop
9	10 (3.25%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	9 (2.92%)	Data Mining
10	9 (2.92%)	Ingres
11	7 (2.27%)	MongoDB
11	7 (2.27%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	7 (2.27%)	Oracle Database 12c
11	7 (2.27%)	Oracle Reports
11	7 (2.27%)	PostgreSQL
12	6 (1.95%)	Data Warehouse
13	5 (1.62%)	MarkLogic
13	5 (1.62%)	Oracle BI Publisher

Development Applications
1	65 (21.10%)	Jenkins
2	57 (18.51%)	Maven
3	55 (17.86%)	Git (software)
4	51 (16.56%)	JUnit
5	30 (9.74%)	Subversion
6	24 (7.79%)	Mockito
7	19 (6.17%)	Calabash
8	18 (5.84%)	Gradle
9	17 (5.52%)	SoapUI
10	16 (5.19%)	Visual Studio
11	14 (4.55%)	Eclipse
11	14 (4.55%)	JIRA
12	13 (4.22%)	Team Foundation Server
12	13 (4.22%)	Xcode
13	10 (3.25%)	NUnit
14	9 (2.92%)	Atlassian Bamboo
15	8 (2.60%)	Ant
15	8 (2.60%)	PVCS
16	7 (2.27%)	Moq
16	7 (2.27%)	Selenium

General
1	60 (19.48%)	Finance
2	51 (16.56%)	Manufacturing
3	41 (13.31%)	Marketing
4	40 (12.99%)	Telecoms
5	39 (12.66%)	Electronics
6	13 (4.22%)	Automotive
7	12 (3.90%)	Retail
8	8 (2.60%)	Publishing
9	7 (2.27%)	Banking
10	5 (1.62%)	Advertising
11	3 (0.97%)	Legal
11	3 (0.97%)	Pharmaceutical
12	2 (0.65%)	Games
13	1 (0.32%)	Back Office
13	1 (0.32%)	Law

Job Titles
1	215 (69.81%)	Developer
2	59 (19.16%)	Java Developer
3	45 (14.61%)	Integration Developer
4	36 (11.69%)	SOA Developer
5	32 (10.39%)	Agile Developer
6	28 (9.09%)	.NET Developer
7	27 (8.77%)	Analyst
8	23 (7.47%)	Architect
9	22 (7.14%)	Android Developer
10	20 (6.49%)	C# Developer
11	16 (5.19%)	iOS Developer
12	15 (4.87%)	CRM Developer
12	15 (4.87%)	Senior Developer
13	14 (4.55%)	Technical Architect
14	13 (4.22%)	Business Analyst
15	12 (3.90%)	Author
15	12 (3.90%)	Technical Author
16	11 (3.57%)	C# .NET Developer
16	11 (3.57%)	Lead Developer
17	10 (3.25%)	WebSphere Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	140 (45.45%)	HTML
1	140 (45.45%)	JSON
2	118 (38.31%)	XSLT
3	86 (27.92%)	CSS
4	71 (23.05%)	Middleware
5	70 (22.73%)	Web Services
6	57 (18.51%)	.NET
7	56 (18.18%)	Spring
8	54 (17.53%)	RESTful
9	44 (14.29%)	J2EE
10	43 (13.96%)	jQuery
10	43 (13.96%)	REST
11	42 (13.64%)	HTML5
11	42 (13.64%)	SOAP
12	39 (12.66%)	Hibernate
12	39 (12.66%)	JSP
13	37 (12.01%)	Swagger
14	36 (11.69%)	Apache Camel
15	35 (11.36%)	WireMock
16	33 (10.71%)	Ajax

Miscellaneous
1	43 (13.96%)	Greenfield Project
2	38 (12.34%)	Mobile App
3	32 (10.39%)	Animation
4	21 (6.82%)	Enterprise Software
5	15 (4.87%)	Analytical Skills
6	12 (3.90%)	User Experience
7	10 (3.25%)	iPhone
8	8 (2.60%)	DataPower
9	7 (2.27%)	N-Tier
10	6 (1.95%)	Mainframe
11	5 (1.62%)	Virtual Team
11	5 (1.62%)	W3C
11	5 (1.62%)	Web 2.0
12	4 (1.30%)	Computer Science
13	3 (0.97%)	iPad
13	3 (0.97%)	Reference Data
14	2 (0.65%)	Embedded Systems
14	2 (0.65%)	Life Science
14	2 (0.65%)	NHS
14	2 (0.65%)	Smartphone

Operating Systems
1	56 (18.18%)	Unix
2	43 (13.96%)	Linux
3	26 (8.44%)	Android
4	21 (6.82%)	Apple iOS
5	20 (6.49%)	Mac OS X
5	20 (6.49%)	Windows
6	10 (3.25%)	Solaris
7	6 (1.95%)	VME
8	5 (1.62%)	HPUX
9	4 (1.30%)	AIX
9	4 (1.30%)	Windows Server
10	1 (0.32%)	CentOS
10	1 (0.32%)	Debian
10	1 (0.32%)	Mac OS
10	1 (0.32%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	158 (51.30%)	Agile Software Development
2	140 (45.45%)	TDD
3	78 (25.32%)	Continuous Integration
4	71 (23.05%)	MVC
5	64 (20.78%)	SOA
6	56 (18.18%)	Scrum
7	49 (15.91%)	Business Intelligence
7	49 (15.91%)	OO
8	39 (12.66%)	Digital Marketing
8	39 (12.66%)	Programme Management
9	35 (11.36%)	UML
9	35 (11.36%)	Web Development
10	33 (10.71%)	Pair Programming
11	32 (10.39%)	Test Automation
12	30 (9.74%)	Configuration Management
13	29 (9.42%)	Mentoring
14	27 (8.77%)	OOD
15	25 (8.12%)	BDD
15	25 (8.12%)	Push Notifications
16	24 (7.79%)	OOA/OOD

Programming Languages
1	141 (45.78%)	Java
2	131 (42.53%)	JavaScript
3	107 (34.74%)	SQL
4	51 (16.56%)	C#
5	41 (13.31%)	XPath
6	31 (10.06%)	PL/SQL
7	25 (8.12%)	C++
8	17 (5.52%)	Objective-C
9	16 (5.19%)	C
10	15 (4.87%)	Python
11	14 (4.55%)	Groovy
12	12 (3.90%)	PHP
13	10 (3.25%)	Apple Swift
13	10 (3.25%)	Shell Script
14	9 (2.92%)	T-SQL
15	7 (2.27%)	Scala
15	7 (2.27%)	VB.NET
16	4 (1.30%)	Perl
17	3 (0.97%)	ES6
18	2 (0.65%)	VBScript

Qualifications
1	6 (1.95%)	Degree
1	6 (1.95%)	Security Cleared
2	5 (1.62%)	BPSS Clearance
3	4 (1.30%)	SC Cleared
4	2 (0.65%)	ISEB
4	2 (0.65%)	ISTQB
4	2 (0.65%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	1 (0.32%)	IBM Certification
5	1 (0.32%)	MCP
5	1 (0.32%)	Microsoft Certification
5	1 (0.32%)	OCPJP
5	1 (0.32%)	Sun Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	9 (2.92%)	QA
2	7 (2.27%)	Data Quality
3	6 (1.95%)	SLA
4	4 (1.30%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	3 (0.97%)	WAI
6	2 (0.65%)	CDISC
6	2 (0.65%)	ISO 8583

System Software
1	8 (2.60%)	Oracle RAC
1	8 (2.60%)	Virtual Machines
2	2 (0.65%)	Active Directory
3	1 (0.32%)	VMware Infrastructure

Systems Management
1	8 (2.60%)	Ansible
1	8 (2.60%)	WebSphere Cast Iron
2	3 (0.97%)	Opscode Chef
2	3 (0.97%)	Puppet
2	3 (0.97%)	TeamSite
3	2 (0.65%)	HP Quality Center
4	1 (0.32%)	CloudHub
4	1 (0.32%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
4	1 (0.32%)	ThinApp
4	1 (0.32%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	121 (39.29%)	Oracle
2	52 (16.88%)	SAP
3	42 (13.64%)	WSO2
4	34 (11.04%)	Microsoft
5	33 (10.71%)	IBM
6	15 (4.87%)	Adobe
7	6 (1.95%)	Dell
7	6 (1.95%)	Google
7	6 (1.95%)	Salesforce.com
7	6 (1.95%)	Xamarin
8	5 (1.62%)	BEA
8	5 (1.62%)	Fujitsu
8	5 (1.62%)	Omniture
8	5 (1.62%)	Talend
9	4 (1.30%)	Infor
10	3 (0.97%)	FatWire
10	3 (0.97%)	HP
10	3 (0.97%)	webMethods
11	2 (0.65%)	Telerik
11	2 (0.65%)	VMware