Berkshire DHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Dynamic HTML (DHTML) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DHTML over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bristol Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Derby Derbyshire East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hastings Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	147
Rank change on same period last year	+67
Matching contract IT job ads	49	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	5.015 %	1.129 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£255	£350
Average daily rate	£272	£350
% change on same period last year	-22.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£315
% change on same period last year	-9.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.00	£39.15
Average hourly rate	£39.35	£41.08
% change on same period last year	-4.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.69	£43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.24	£35.06
% change on same period last year	+0.50 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	977	1683
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.289 %	1.676 %
Daily rates quoted	247	506
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£341
Average daily rate	£329	£360
% change on same period last year	-8.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	167
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.41	£34.11
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£35.67
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.59	£37.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.47	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.31 %
DHTML South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DHTML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DHTML across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

DHTML
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DHTML across the Berkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DHTML across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

DHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DHTML across the Berkshire region.

DHTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DHTML across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHTML within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Slough	+19	39	£261	-
Reading	-	2	£300	-
Maidenhead	-	1	£350	-

DHTML South East

DHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing DHTML 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 DHTML.

1 54 (84.38 %) HTML 2 53 (82.81 %) JavaScript 3 43 (67.19 %) XML 4 42 (65.63 %) ASP.NET 4 42 (65.63 %) .NET 5 41 (64.06 %) VB.NET 6 40 (62.50 %) SQL 6 40 (62.50 %) Transact-SQL 6 40 (62.50 %) XSL 7 39 (60.94 %) SQL Server 8 37 (57.81 %) InterDev 9 28 (43.75 %) ASP 9 28 (43.75 %) COM+ 10 25 (39.06 %) N-Tier 11 24 (37.50 %) Microsoft

12 19 (29.69 %) CSS 13 15 (23.44 %) XHTML 14 14 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 14 14 (21.88 %) VB 14 14 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2000 15 12 (18.75 %) AJAX 16 10 (15.63 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 10 (15.63 %) System Testing 16 10 (15.63 %) Web Design 17 9 (14.06 %) CMS 18 8 (12.50 %) NHS 18 8 (12.50 %) Content Management 19 5 (7.813 %) Dreamweaver 20 4 (6.250 %) C 20 4 (6.250 %) Photoshop

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing DHTML 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 DHTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 54 (84.38 %) HTML 2 43 (67.19 %) XML 3 42 (65.63 %) ASP.NET 3 42 (65.63 %) .NET 4 40 (62.50 %) XSL 5 28 (43.75 %) ASP 5 28 (43.75 %) COM+ 6 19 (29.69 %) CSS 7 15 (23.44 %) XHTML 8 12 (18.75 %) AJAX 9 3 (4.688 %) WebSphere 9 3 (4.688 %) Hibernate 9 3 (4.688 %) Spring 9 3 (4.688 %) Struts 10 2 (3.125 %) Zend Framework 10 2 (3.125 %) CakePHP 11 1 (1.563 %) XML-RPC 11 1 (1.563 %) MFC 11 1 (1.563 %) JSP 11 1 (1.563 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 9 (14.06 %) CMS 2 4 (6.250 %) Plone 3 3 (4.688 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (3.125 %) Apache 5 1 (1.563 %) Joomla!
Applications 1 4 (6.250 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (60.94 %) SQL Server 2 14 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2005 2 14 (21.88 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (4.688 %) Informix 4 2 (3.125 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 37 (57.81 %) InterDev 2 5 (7.813 %) Dreamweaver 3 2 (3.125 %) Flash 3 2 (3.125 %) Subversion	General 1 4 (6.250 %) Finance 2 2 (3.125 %) Automotive 3 1 (1.563 %) Retail 3 1 (1.563 %) Health 3 1 (1.563 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 51 (79.69 %) Developer 2 31 (48.44 %) .NET Developer 3 28 (43.75 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 25 (39.06 %) Applications Developer 5 21 (32.81 %) VB.NET Developer 5 21 (32.81 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 15 (23.44 %) .NET Applications Developer 7 12 (18.75 %) SQL Developer 7 12 (18.75 %) SQL Server Developer 8 9 (14.06 %) Analyst 8 9 (14.06 %) Support Analyst 8 9 (14.06 %) Web Analyst 9 7 (10.94 %) Web Developer 9 7 (10.94 %) Microsoft Developer 10 4 (6.250 %) Web Designer 11 3 (4.688 %) Java Developer 12 1 (1.563 %) Microsoft Consultant 12 1 (1.563 %) Flash Developer 12 1 (1.563 %) Analyst Developer 12 1 (1.563 %) C# Developer	Miscellaneous 1 25 (39.06 %) N-Tier 2 8 (12.50 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.125 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (15.63 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 10 (15.63 %) System Testing 1 10 (15.63 %) Web Design 2 8 (12.50 %) Content Management 3 4 (6.250 %) Web Development 4 2 (3.125 %) OO 5 1 (1.563 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 53 (82.81 %) JavaScript 2 41 (64.06 %) VB.NET 3 40 (62.50 %) SQL 3 40 (62.50 %) Transact-SQL 4 14 (21.88 %) VB 5 4 (6.250 %) C 6 3 (4.688 %) Java 6 3 (4.688 %) PHP 7 2 (3.125 %) ActionScript 7 2 (3.125 %) VB6 7 2 (3.125 %) PHP5 8 1 (1.563 %) C# 8 1 (1.563 %) C++	Qualifications 1 1 (1.563 %) Degree
Vendors 1 24 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.125 %) Zend 3 1 (1.563 %) Adobe