The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridge 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 37 47 35
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Contract jobs citing XHTML 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.610% 0.474% 0.766%
As % of the Application Development category 2.703% 1.258% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £310 £225 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.77% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 159 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.56% 37.68% 38.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 80 53
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £213 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.70 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
Cambridgeshire

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) W3C
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Drupal
3 2 (50.00%) PHP5
3 2 (50.00%) Magento
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Social Media
4 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Telerik
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) Web Development
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) Symfony
4 1 (25.00%) Zend
4 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) Symfony
3 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
1 2 (50.00%) Drupal
1 2 (50.00%) Magento
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PHP5
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Telerik
1 1 (25.00%) Zend