The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML 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 XHTML over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Birmingham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank - 44 41
Contract jobs citing XHTML 0 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 1.553% 0.775%
As % of the Application Development category - 6.452% 2.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 2
Average daily rate - £300 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +36.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £285 £280
% change year-on-year
+3.07% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +37.93%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
101 155 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.95% 24.07% 28.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 100 83
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £27.75 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -30.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XHTML
West Midlands

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (71.43%) HTML
4 4 (57.14%) jQuery
4 4 (57.14%) CSS3
5 3 (42.86%) Web Development
5 3 (42.86%) C#
5 3 (42.86%) .NET
5 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) Photoshop
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (28.57%) PRINCE
6 2 (28.57%) MVC
6 2 (28.57%) Finance
6 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
6 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 2 (28.57%) Degree
6 2 (28.57%) Ajax
6 2 (28.57%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (28.57%) HTML5
6 2 (28.57%) Web Application Development
7 1 (14.29%) Facebook
7 1 (14.29%) Marketing
7 1 (14.29%) Subversion
7 1 (14.29%) JSON
7 1 (14.29%) Dojo
7 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (14.29%) Sitecore

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 7 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (71.43%) HTML
3 4 (57.14%) jQuery
3 4 (57.14%) CSS3
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
5 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (28.57%) Ajax
5 2 (28.57%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (28.57%) HTML5
6 1 (14.29%) JSON
6 1 (14.29%) Dojo
6 1 (14.29%) WSDL
6 1 (14.29%) JSP
6 1 (14.29%) SOAP
6 1 (14.29%) Web Services
6 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Photoshop
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst Programmer
3 2 (28.57%) Programmer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst Programmer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Programmer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Web Development
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) Web Application Development
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Facebook
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore
1 1 (14.29%) Cordys
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle