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This section looks at the demand for Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited W3C over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkWorldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Location
3 months to
21 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank5562
Rank change on same period last yearUp+7
Matching contract IT job ads710
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.009 %0.010 %
As % of the category below10.77 %7.143 %
Daily rates quoted67
Average minimum daily rate£225£117
Average daily rate£265£127
% change on same period last year+108.42 %
Average maximum daily rate£305£137
UK excluding London average daily rate£322£254
% change on same period last year+26.69 %
Hourly rates quoted11
Average minimum hourly rate£14.00£90.00
Average hourly rate£15.50£105.00
% change on same period last year-85.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate£17.00£120.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.70£36.39
% change on same period last year-37.61 %
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads65140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.086 %0.139 %
Daily rates quoted1745
Average minimum daily rate£279£288
Average daily rate£320£294
% change on same period last year+8.85 %
Average maximum daily rate£362£301
UK excluding London average daily rate£351£352
% change on same period last year-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted1837
Average minimum hourly rate£28.15£33.85
Average hourly rate£29.46£35.60
% change on same period last year-17.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.78£37.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.25£28.69
% change on same period last year-11.97 %
W3C South WestW3C
South West

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.

W3C
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Bristol W3C Demand Trend

W3C
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing W3C across the Bristol region.

Bristol W3C Daily Rate Trend

W3C
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing W3C across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Bristol W3C Daily Rate Histogram

W3C
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Bristol region.

Bristol W3C Hourly Rate Trend

W3C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing W3C 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 W3C.

113 (86.67 %)CSS
113 (86.67 %)XHTML
211 (73.33 %)XML
211 (73.33 %)HTML
39 (60.00 %).NET
39 (60.00 %)ASP.NET
47 (46.67 %)JavaScript
47 (46.67 %)AJAX
47 (46.67 %)WAI
55 (33.33 %)Web 2.0
55 (33.33 %)Music
55 (33.33 %)XPath
55 (33.33 %)Agile Software Development
55 (33.33 %)Retail
55 (33.33 %)DHTML
55 (33.33 %)DOM
55 (33.33 %)XSL
55 (33.33 %)Internet
55 (33.33 %)E-Commerce
55 (33.33 %)WAP
55 (33.33 %)Microsoft
64 (26.67 %)SQL
64 (26.67 %)Visual Studio
64 (26.67 %)C#
64 (26.67 %)Multimedia
73 (20.00 %)ActionScript
73 (20.00 %)Flash
82 (13.33 %)CMS
82 (13.33 %)PHP
82 (13.33 %)MySQL

W3C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing W3C 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 W3C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
113 (86.67 %)CSS
113 (86.67 %)XHTML
211 (73.33 %)XML
211 (73.33 %)HTML
39 (60.00 %).NET
39 (60.00 %)ASP.NET
47 (46.67 %)AJAX
55 (33.33 %)DOM
55 (33.33 %)XSL
55 (33.33 %)WAP
61 (6.667 %)ASP
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (13.33 %)CMS
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
11 (6.667 %)Photoshop
11 (6.667 %)MS Office
11 (6.667 %)Adobe Illustrator
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
15 (33.33 %)Internet
21 (6.667 %)Intranet
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (13.33 %)MySQL
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
14 (26.67 %)Visual Studio
23 (20.00 %)Flash
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
15 (33.33 %)Music
15 (33.33 %)Retail
24 (26.67 %)Multimedia
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
112 (80.00 %)Developer
24 (26.67 %).NET Developer
24 (26.67 %)GUI Developer
32 (13.33 %)Senior Developer
32 (13.33 %)MySQL Developer
41 (6.667 %)Web Tester
41 (6.667 %)QA Tester
41 (6.667 %)PHP Developer
41 (6.667 %)Flash Developer
41 (6.667 %)Tester
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
15 (33.33 %)Web 2.0
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (33.33 %)Agile Software Development
15 (33.33 %)E-Commerce
21 (6.667 %)Information Management
21 (6.667 %)Document Management
21 (6.667 %)OO
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
17 (46.67 %)JavaScript
25 (33.33 %)XPath
25 (33.33 %)DHTML
34 (26.67 %)SQL
34 (26.67 %)C#
43 (20.00 %)ActionScript
52 (13.33 %)PHP
61 (6.667 %)PHP5
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (46.67 %)WAI
21 (6.667 %)QA
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
15 (33.33 %)Microsoft
21 (6.667 %)Nokia