Cambridge XHTML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	30
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	4	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	2.857 %	13.79 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£245	£206
Average daily rate	£283	£226
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£246
UK excluding London average daily rate	£260	£270
% change on same period last year	-3.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.32	£32.61
% change on same period last year	-19.30 %
Application Development Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	140	203
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.196 %	0.208 %
Daily rates quoted	40	44
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£285
Average daily rate	£314	£296
% change on same period last year	+6.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	27
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.73	£34.21
Average hourly rate	£37.02	£36.23
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.30	£38.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.09	£32.07
% change on same period last year	-3.03 %
XHTML Cambridgeshire

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.

XHTML
Demand Trend

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

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008.

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, 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 17 (94.44 %) CSS 2 7 (38.89 %) Content Management 2 7 (38.89 %) Animation 3 6 (33.33 %) CMS 3 6 (33.33 %) XML 3 6 (33.33 %) JavaScript 4 5 (27.78 %) Graphic Design 5 4 (22.22 %) AJAX 5 4 (22.22 %) PHP 5 4 (22.22 %) HTML 6 3 (16.67 %) ActionScript 6 3 (16.67 %) Adobe 6 3 (16.67 %) XSLT 6 3 (16.67 %) OO 6 3 (16.67 %) Flash

6 3 (16.67 %) Symfony 7 2 (11.11 %) Zend 7 2 (11.11 %) jQuery 7 2 (11.11 %) MooTools 7 2 (11.11 %) SCORM 7 2 (11.11 %) Web Design 7 2 (11.11 %) Degree 7 2 (11.11 %) Computer Science 7 2 (11.11 %) Social Network 7 2 (11.11 %) Eclipse 7 2 (11.11 %) Apache 7 2 (11.11 %) Tomcat 7 2 (11.11 %) Education 7 2 (11.11 %) Java 7 2 (11.11 %) MySQL

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, 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 17 (94.44 %) CSS 2 6 (33.33 %) XML 3 4 (22.22 %) HTML 3 4 (22.22 %) AJAX 4 3 (16.67 %) Symfony 4 3 (16.67 %) XSLT 5 2 (11.11 %) jQuery 5 2 (11.11 %) MooTools 5 2 (11.11 %) JSP 5 2 (11.11 %) Struts 6 1 (5.556 %) Servlets 6 1 (5.556 %) XSL 6 1 (5.556 %) .NET 6 1 (5.556 %) J2EE 6 1 (5.556 %) ASP 6 1 (5.556 %) JavaBeans 6 1 (5.556 %) Hibernate 6 1 (5.556 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 6 (33.33 %) CMS 2 2 (11.11 %) Apache 2 2 (11.11 %) Tomcat 3 1 (5.556 %) Joomla! 3 1 (5.556 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (11.11 %) Photoshop 2 1 (5.556 %) Fireworks	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.11 %) MySQL 2 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2 1 (5.556 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 3 (16.67 %) Flash 2 2 (11.11 %) Eclipse 3 1 (5.556 %) Subversion 3 1 (5.556 %) Ant	General 1 7 (38.89 %) Animation 2 5 (27.78 %) Graphic Design 3 2 (11.11 %) Education 4 1 (5.556 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 12 (66.67 %) Developer 2 7 (38.89 %) Web Designer 3 6 (33.33 %) Web Developer 4 3 (16.67 %) PHP Developer 5 2 (11.11 %) Graphic Designer 6 1 (5.556 %) JSP Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Web Manager 6 1 (5.556 %) UI Developer 6 1 (5.556 %) Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (11.11 %) SCORM 1 2 (11.11 %) Computer Science 1 2 (11.11 %) Social Network 2 1 (5.556 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 1 (5.556 %) UNIX 1 1 (5.556 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (38.89 %) Content Management 2 3 (16.67 %) OO 3 2 (11.11 %) Web Design 4 1 (5.556 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (5.556 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 6 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 4 (22.22 %) PHP 3 3 (16.67 %) ActionScript 4 2 (11.11 %) Java 5 1 (5.556 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 2 (11.11 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (16.67 %) Adobe 2 2 (11.11 %) Zend