Birmingham HTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HTML over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Romford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	28
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	23	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	14.94 %	21.53 %
Daily rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£233
Average daily rate	£273	£258
% change on same period last year	+5.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£297
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£37.67
Average hourly rate	£22.00	£39.33
% change on same period last year	-44.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	£41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.49	£27.22
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Application Development Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	154	209
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.205 %	0.211 %
Daily rates quoted	36	44
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£318
Average daily rate	£322	£342
% change on same period last year	-5.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.75	£36.90
Average hourly rate	£25.94	£37.91
% change on same period last year	-31.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.13	£38.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
HTML West Midlands

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.

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.

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.

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 25 July 2008.

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.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

1 41 (53.95 %) CSS 2 40 (52.63 %) .NET 3 37 (48.68 %) JavaScript 4 28 (36.84 %) XML 5 26 (34.21 %) ASP.NET 6 25 (32.89 %) SQL 7 23 (30.26 %) C# 8 21 (27.63 %) SQL Server 8 21 (27.63 %) Visual Studio 9 16 (21.05 %) Internet 9 16 (21.05 %) Flash 9 16 (21.05 %) Dreamweaver 10 15 (19.74 %) ASP 10 15 (19.74 %) VB 10 15 (19.74 %) SQL Server 2005

11 13 (17.11 %) Java 12 12 (15.79 %) Microsoft 12 12 (15.79 %) Windows 13 11 (14.47 %) W3C 13 11 (14.47 %) WF 14 10 (13.16 %) AJAX 14 10 (13.16 %) Workflow 14 10 (13.16 %) XHTML 14 10 (13.16 %) Photoshop 15 9 (11.84 %) WebServices 15 9 (11.84 %) ActionScript 15 9 (11.84 %) SQL Server 7 15 9 (11.84 %) .NET Framework 16 8 (10.53 %) Intranet 16 8 (10.53 %) VB.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 41 (53.95 %) CSS 2 40 (52.63 %) .NET 3 28 (36.84 %) XML 4 26 (34.21 %) ASP.NET 5 15 (19.74 %) ASP 6 11 (14.47 %) WF 7 10 (13.16 %) AJAX 7 10 (13.16 %) XHTML 8 9 (11.84 %) WebServices 8 9 (11.84 %) .NET Framework 9 7 (9.211 %) XSLT 10 5 (6.579 %) JSP 11 4 (5.263 %) J2EE 11 4 (5.263 %) CGI 11 4 (5.263 %) Windows SharePoint Services 12 3 (3.947 %) DOM 13 2 (2.632 %) XSL 13 2 (2.632 %) SAP XI 13 2 (2.632 %) JavaBeans 13 2 (2.632 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 8 (10.53 %) SharePoint 2 4 (5.263 %) ColdFusion 2 4 (5.263 %) Office Project Server 2 4 (5.263 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (2.632 %) Oracle HTTP Server 3 2 (2.632 %) IIS
Applications 1 10 (13.16 %) Photoshop 2 6 (7.895 %) MS Excel 3 4 (5.263 %) MS Office 4 3 (3.947 %) InfoPath 5 2 (2.632 %) Fireworks 6 1 (1.316 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 16 (21.05 %) Internet 2 8 (10.53 %) Intranet 3 4 (5.263 %) VoIP 3 4 (5.263 %) SNMP 4 3 (3.947 %) SSL 5 2 (2.632 %) HTTPS 5 2 (2.632 %) FTP 5 2 (2.632 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (27.63 %) SQL Server 2 15 (19.74 %) SQL Server 2005 3 9 (11.84 %) SQL Server 7 4 7 (9.211 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (5.263 %) ObjectStore 5 4 (5.263 %) EDRMS 6 2 (2.632 %) MySQL 6 2 (2.632 %) Oracle 11g 6 2 (2.632 %) RDBMS 6 2 (2.632 %) Oracle 10g 6 2 (2.632 %) SQLPlus 7 1 (1.316 %) MS Access 7 1 (1.316 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 21 (27.63 %) Visual Studio 2 16 (21.05 %) Flash 2 16 (21.05 %) Dreamweaver 3 3 (3.947 %) Subversion 4 2 (2.632 %) JDeveloper 4 2 (2.632 %) XMLSpy 4 2 (2.632 %) NUnit 5 1 (1.316 %) CruiseControl 5 1 (1.316 %) ClearCase
General 1 5 (6.579 %) Government 1 5 (6.579 %) Retail 2 4 (5.263 %) Telecoms 3 3 (3.947 %) Construction 4 1 (1.316 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 59 (77.63 %) Developer 2 17 (22.37 %) .NET Developer 3 13 (17.11 %) Web Developer 4 5 (6.579 %) Web Designer 4 5 (6.579 %) HTML Developer 5 4 (5.263 %) ColdFusion Developer 5 4 (5.263 %) SharePoint Developer 5 4 (5.263 %) C# Developer 5 4 (5.263 %) Software Engineer 6 3 (3.947 %) ASP Developer 6 3 (3.947 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (3.947 %) VB.NET Developer 6 3 (3.947 %) Graphic Designer 6 3 (3.947 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (2.632 %) PHP Developer 7 2 (2.632 %) SQL Server Developer 7 2 (2.632 %) Photoshop Designer 7 2 (2.632 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (2.632 %) Applications Support 7 2 (2.632 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (14.47 %) W3C 2 1 (1.316 %) Streaming Media	Operating Systems 1 12 (15.79 %) Windows 2 4 (5.263 %) Solaris 2 4 (5.263 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.316 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (13.16 %) Workflow 2 7 (9.211 %) Web Design 2 7 (9.211 %) OO 3 4 (5.263 %) System Testing 4 3 (3.947 %) SEO 5 2 (2.632 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (2.632 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (2.632 %) SOA 5 2 (2.632 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (1.316 %) Service Management 6 1 (1.316 %) e-GIF 6 1 (1.316 %) RUP 6 1 (1.316 %) ITIL 6 1 (1.316 %) OOP 6 1 (1.316 %) CTC Cleared 6 1 (1.316 %) Unified Process 6 1 (1.316 %) TDD 6 1 (1.316 %) Pay per click 6 1 (1.316 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (1.316 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 37 (48.68 %) JavaScript 2 25 (32.89 %) SQL 3 23 (30.26 %) C# 4 15 (19.74 %) VB 5 13 (17.11 %) Java 6 9 (11.84 %) ActionScript 7 8 (10.53 %) VB.NET 8 5 (6.579 %) Transact-SQL 8 5 (6.579 %) DHTML 8 5 (6.579 %) PHP 9 4 (5.263 %) Perl 9 4 (5.263 %) C 9 4 (5.263 %) C++ 10 2 (2.632 %) PL/SQL 10 2 (2.632 %) VBA 11 1 (1.316 %) PHP5
Qualifications 1 3 (3.947 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.316 %) WCAG 1 1 (1.316 %) WAI
System Software 1 4 (5.263 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 12 (15.79 %) Microsoft 2 6 (7.895 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.632 %) SAP 3 2 (2.632 %) Adobe 3 2 (2.632 %) Macromedia 4 1 (1.316 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.316 %) Kofax 4 1 (1.316 %) FatWire 4 1 (1.316 %) Business Objects