The first table below looks at the demand for HTML5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML5 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 Belfast 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
HTML5
Rank 23 27 17
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -10
Contract jobs citing HTML5 10 2 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 5.155% 1.235% 8.257%
As % of the Application Development category 10.64% 4.000% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £325 £263 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% -34.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+0.16% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
94 50 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 48.45% 30.86% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 16 23
Average daily rate £350 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
HTML5
County Antrim

HTML5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Belfast HTML5 Jobs Demand Trend

HTML5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTML5 across the Belfast region.

Belfast HTML5 Daily Rate Trend

HTML5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing HTML5 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 HTML5.

1 18 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 18 (100.00%) CSS
2 15 (83.33%) jQuery
2 15 (83.33%) CSS3
3 12 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 12 (66.67%) Dojo
4 9 (50.00%) OO
4 9 (50.00%) C#
4 9 (50.00%) HTML
4 9 (50.00%) Java
4 9 (50.00%) Web Design
5 7 (38.89%) Web Development
5 7 (38.89%) TDD
5 7 (38.89%) C++
5 7 (38.89%) BizTalk Server
5 7 (38.89%) Responsive Web Design
6 5 (27.78%) Finance
7 4 (22.22%) XML
8 3 (16.67%) Ajax
9 2 (11.11%) STB
9 2 (11.11%) IPTV
9 2 (11.11%) Ruby
9 2 (11.11%) Python
9 2 (11.11%) Web Services
9 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Groovy
10 1 (5.556%) Node.js
10 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
10 1 (5.556%) XHTML
10 1 (5.556%) Intranet

HTML5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing HTML5 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 HTML5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (100.00%) CSS
2 15 (83.33%) jQuery
2 15 (83.33%) CSS3
3 12 (66.67%) Dojo
4 9 (50.00%) HTML
5 4 (22.22%) XML
6 3 (16.67%) Ajax
7 2 (11.11%) Web Services
8 1 (5.556%) Node.js
8 1 (5.556%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) MySQL
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 8 (44.44%) JavaScript Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) STB
1 2 (11.11%) IPTV
2 1 (5.556%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 9 (50.00%) OO
2 9 (50.00%) Web Design
3 7 (38.89%) Web Development
3 7 (38.89%) TDD
3 7 (38.89%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.556%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Ruby
4 2 (11.11%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) Groovy
5 1 (5.556%) PHP
5 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) WAI
1 1 (5.556%) QA