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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for HTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

 Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank131920
Rank change year-on-year
Up+6Up+1
Matching contract IT job ads282648
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham7.179 %5.714 %5.090 %
As % of the Application Development category26.42 %22.41 %25.95 %
Daily rates quoted11919
Average daily rate£225£300£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£165£240£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£340£375£325
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£250£300
% change year-on-year
--16.66 %
Hourly rates quoted152
Average hourly rate£32.50£35.00£18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+91.78 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£20.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
+25.00 %-27.27 %
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
106116185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham27.18 %25.49 %19.62 %
Daily rates quoted494353
Average daily rate£240£313£301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.20 %+3.990 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£228£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£375£375£400
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted186
Average hourly rate£32.50£35.00£23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.140 %+48.93 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
HTML West MidlandsHTML
West Midlands

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.

HTML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HTML across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham HTML Demand Trend

HTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham HTML Daily Rate Trend

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Birmingham HTML Daily Rate Histogram

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham HTML Hourly Rate Trend

HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing HTML 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 HTML.

136 (97.30 %)CSS
227 (72.97 %)JavaScript
324 (64.86 %).NET
421 (56.76 %)ASP.NET
520 (54.05 %)C#
615 (40.54 %)Web Services
714 (37.84 %)SQL
812 (32.43 %)SQL Server
911 (29.73 %)XML
911 (29.73 %)SQL Server 2005
1010 (27.03 %)SQL Server 2008
1010 (27.03 %)OO
1010 (27.03 %)Visual Studio
118 (21.62 %)Flash
118 (21.62 %)XHTML
118 (21.62 %)T-SQL
118 (21.62 %)W3C
127 (18.92 %)VSS/SourceSafe
127 (18.92 %)ADO.NET
127 (18.92 %)ASP.NET 2.0
136 (16.22 %)Multithreading
136 (16.22 %).NET Framework
136 (16.22 %)IIS
136 (16.22 %)E-Commerce
136 (16.22 %)N-Tier
145 (13.51 %)Education
145 (13.51 %)SharePoint
145 (13.51 %)MySQL
145 (13.51 %)Photoshop
145 (13.51 %)AJAX

HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing HTML 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 HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
136 (97.30 %)CSS
224 (64.86 %).NET
321 (56.76 %)ASP.NET
415 (40.54 %)Web Services
511 (29.73 %)XML
68 (21.62 %)Flash
68 (21.62 %)XHTML
77 (18.92 %)ADO.NET
77 (18.92 %)ASP.NET 2.0
86 (16.22 %).NET Framework
95 (13.51 %)AJAX
95 (13.51 %)Silverlight
103 (8.108 %)XSL
112 (5.405 %)Spring
112 (5.405 %)ASP
112 (5.405 %)SOAP
121 (2.703 %)LAMP
121 (2.703 %)Hibernate
121 (2.703 %)J2EE
121 (2.703 %)DHTML
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (16.22 %)IIS
25 (13.51 %)SharePoint
32 (5.405 %)Tomcat
41 (2.703 %)ColdFusion
41 (2.703 %)CMS
41 (2.703 %)Apache
41 (2.703 %)WordPress
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (13.51 %)Photoshop
22 (5.405 %)Adobe Illustrator
31 (2.703 %)Fireworks
31 (2.703 %)MS Excel
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (2.703 %)Internet
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
112 (32.43 %)SQL Server
211 (29.73 %)SQL Server 2005
310 (27.03 %)SQL Server 2008
45 (13.51 %)MySQL
51 (2.703 %)PostgreSQL
51 (2.703 %)Datawarehouse
51 (2.703 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51 (2.703 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
110 (27.03 %)Visual Studio
27 (18.92 %)VSS/SourceSafe
32 (5.405 %)Dreamweaver
41 (2.703 %)Maven
41 (2.703 %)Subversion
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (13.51 %)Education
22 (5.405 %)Government
22 (5.405 %)Health
31 (2.703 %)Advertising
31 (2.703 %)Finance
31 (2.703 %)Animation
31 (2.703 %)Interactive Media
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
131 (83.78 %)Developer
219 (51.35 %).NET Developer
311 (29.73 %)ASP.NET Developer
48 (21.62 %)C# Developer
57 (18.92 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
66 (16.22 %)Web Developer
75 (13.51 %)Designer
84 (10.81 %)Web Designer
93 (8.108 %)PHP Developer
102 (5.405 %).NET Web Developer
102 (5.405 %)Systems Developer
111 (2.703 %)Software Engineer
111 (2.703 %)Senior Developer
111 (2.703 %)Java Developer
111 (2.703 %)ColdFusion Developer
111 (2.703 %)Flash Designer
111 (2.703 %)C# Web Developer
111 (2.703 %)SharePoint Developer
111 (2.703 %)Senior C# Developer
111 (2.703 %)Senior .NET Developer
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (21.62 %)W3C
26 (16.22 %)Multithreading
26 (16.22 %)N-Tier
32 (5.405 %)E-Learning
41 (2.703 %)NHS
41 (2.703 %)Data Conversion
41 (2.703 %)Computer Science
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (2.703 %)Linux
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
110 (27.03 %)OO
26 (16.22 %)E-Commerce
33 (8.108 %)Web Design
42 (5.405 %)Content Management
42 (5.405 %)Unit Testing
42 (5.405 %)Web Accessibility
42 (5.405 %)Migration
51 (2.703 %)OOP
51 (2.703 %)User Experience Design
51 (2.703 %)Usability Testing
51 (2.703 %)Load Balancing
51 (2.703 %)Logistics
51 (2.703 %)Web Development
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
127 (72.97 %)JavaScript
220 (54.05 %)C#
314 (37.84 %)SQL
48 (21.62 %)T-SQL
54 (10.81 %)PHP
63 (8.108 %)Java
63 (8.108 %)ActionScript
72 (5.405 %)VB.NET
81 (2.703 %)C
81 (2.703 %)VB
81 (2.703 %)ActionScript 3.0
81 (2.703 %)ActionScript 2.0
81 (2.703 %)XPath
81 (2.703 %)VB6
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (2.703 %)Degree
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (5.405 %)Microsoft
12 (5.405 %)Adobe
21 (2.703 %)Zend