The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 21 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 Berkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 101 106 88
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -18
Contract jobs citing XHTML 24 29 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.972% 0.929% 1.366%
As % of the Application Development category 4.286% 5.235% 5.634%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 17
Average daily rate £303 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £250 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £425 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £56.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
560 554 710
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 22.67% 17.76% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 253 289
Average daily rate £388 £325 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% +3.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 11 65
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
South East

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire XHTML Jobs Demand Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Reading +12 11 £280 +12.00%
Slough -9 10 - -
XHTML
South East

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing XHTML 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 XHTML.

1 47 (95.92%) JavaScript
2 43 (87.76%) CSS
3 39 (79.59%) HTML
4 29 (59.18%) jQuery
5 23 (46.94%) HTML5
6 20 (40.82%) Photoshop
7 18 (36.73%) .NET
7 18 (36.73%) XML
8 17 (34.69%) XSLT
9 16 (32.65%) ASP.NET
10 13 (26.53%) MVC
10 13 (26.53%) CSS3
11 11 (22.45%) Ajax
12 10 (20.41%) E-Commerce
13 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
13 9 (18.37%) C#
13 9 (18.37%) SQL Server
13 9 (18.37%) Web Development
14 8 (16.33%) Marketing
14 8 (16.33%) Fireworks
14 8 (16.33%) Flash
14 8 (16.33%) Digital Media
15 7 (14.29%) Adobe
15 7 (14.29%) Project Management
15 7 (14.29%) Windows
15 7 (14.29%) PHP
15 7 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (14.29%) Online Marketing
15 7 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
16 6 (12.24%) .NET Framework

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing XHTML 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 XHTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 43 (87.76%) CSS
2 39 (79.59%) HTML
3 29 (59.18%) jQuery
4 23 (46.94%) HTML5
5 18 (36.73%) .NET
5 18 (36.73%) XML
6 17 (34.69%) XSLT
7 16 (32.65%) ASP.NET
8 13 (26.53%) CSS3
9 11 (22.45%) Ajax
10 8 (16.33%) Flash
11 7 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (12.24%) .NET Framework
12 6 (12.24%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 5 (10.20%) JSP
13 5 (10.20%) LINQ
13 5 (10.20%) JSON
14 4 (8.163%) Dojo
14 4 (8.163%) Ruby on Rails
15 2 (4.082%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.20%) Apache
2 4 (8.163%) WebLogic
2 4 (8.163%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (2.041%) CMS
3 1 (2.041%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.041%) Liferay
3 1 (2.041%) Drupal
3 1 (2.041%) Alfresco
3 1 (2.041%) Lync
3 1 (2.041%) MODX
Applications
1 20 (40.82%) Photoshop
2 8 (16.33%) Fireworks
3 5 (10.20%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Internet
1 6 (12.24%) HTTP
2 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.163%) 3G
4 1 (2.041%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) MySQL
3 1 (2.041%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.041%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.122%) PhoneGap
3 1 (2.041%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.041%) IntelliJ
3 1 (2.041%) Subversion
3 1 (2.041%) GitHub
3 1 (2.041%) NuGet
General
1 8 (16.33%) Marketing
2 4 (8.163%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.122%) Finance
3 3 (6.122%) Automotive
4 1 (2.041%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (75.51%) Developer
2 14 (28.57%) Front-End Developer
3 9 (18.37%) Web Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Project Manager
4 6 (12.24%) .NET Developer
5 5 (10.20%) User Experience Manager
5 5 (10.20%) .NET Web Developer
6 4 (8.163%) Senior Web Developer
6 4 (8.163%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (8.163%) JavaScript Developer
6 4 (8.163%) Senior .NET Web Developer
6 4 (8.163%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.082%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.082%) UI Programmer
7 2 (4.082%) Front-End Web Developer
7 2 (4.082%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.082%) CSS Developer
7 2 (4.082%) E-Commerce Manager
7 2 (4.082%) HTML Developer
7 2 (4.082%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Digital Media
2 6 (12.24%) iPad
3 1 (2.041%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.041%) W3C
3 1 (2.041%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.041%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Android
3 4 (8.163%) UNIX
4 3 (6.122%) Linux
5 1 (2.041%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.53%) MVC
2 10 (20.41%) E-Commerce
3 9 (18.37%) Web Development
4 7 (14.29%) Project Management
4 7 (14.29%) Online Marketing
4 7 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (10.20%) PRINCE2
5 5 (10.20%) Information Architecture
6 4 (8.163%) OO
7 3 (6.122%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.082%) Multivariate Testing
8 2 (4.082%) Scrum
8 2 (4.082%) SEO
8 2 (4.082%) OOD
9 1 (2.041%) Systems Analysis
9 1 (2.041%) TDD
9 1 (2.041%) BDD
9 1 (2.041%) Customer Engagement
9 1 (2.041%) Usability Testing
9 1 (2.041%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (95.92%) JavaScript
2 9 (18.37%) C#
3 7 (14.29%) PHP
4 6 (12.24%) Java
5 5 (10.20%) SQL
5 5 (10.20%) VB.NET
6 4 (8.163%) Ruby
6 4 (8.163%) Perl
7 2 (4.082%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.082%) Python
8 1 (2.041%) Scala
8 1 (2.041%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (8.163%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.082%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.041%) Plesk
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.29%) Adobe
3 4 (8.163%) Oracle
3 4 (8.163%) Ericsson
4 1 (2.041%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (2.041%) GigaSpaces