The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 57 58 66
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +8
Contract jobs citing XHTML 4 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.554% 1.114% 0.704%
As % of the Application Development category 2.424% 3.782% 2.672%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
Average daily rate £375 £318 £203
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.11% +56.79%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
165 238 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.85% 29.46% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 127 175
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £488 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -13.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
North West

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester -1 2 £375 +7.14%
XHTML
North West

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 13 (100.00%) CSS
2 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
3 9 (69.23%) SQL
4 6 (46.15%) VB.NET
4 6 (46.15%) .NET
4 6 (46.15%) C#
4 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET
5 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (38.46%) Web Development
5 5 (38.46%) jQuery
5 5 (38.46%) E-Commerce
5 5 (38.46%) CSS3
6 4 (30.77%) WSDL
6 4 (30.77%) Java
6 4 (30.77%) JUnit
6 4 (30.77%) JAX-RPC
6 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
6 4 (30.77%) J2EE
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle
6 4 (30.77%) JSP
6 4 (30.77%) Servlets
6 4 (30.77%) SOAP
6 4 (30.77%) Web Services
6 4 (30.77%) DOM
6 4 (30.77%) XSLT
6 4 (30.77%) Apache
6 4 (30.77%) XPath
6 4 (30.77%) Apache Axis
6 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
6 4 (30.77%) TDD

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 13 (100.00%) CSS
2 6 (46.15%) .NET
2 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET
3 5 (38.46%) jQuery
3 5 (38.46%) CSS3
4 4 (30.77%) Ajax
4 4 (30.77%) WebSphere
4 4 (30.77%) Apache Axis
4 4 (30.77%) J2EE
4 4 (30.77%) JSP
4 4 (30.77%) Servlets
4 4 (30.77%) SOAP
4 4 (30.77%) Web Services
4 4 (30.77%) DOM
4 4 (30.77%) XSLT
4 4 (30.77%) WSDL
4 4 (30.77%) JAX-RPC
4 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
4 4 (30.77%) Spring
5 3 (23.08%) JSF
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) ESB
2 1 (7.692%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Photoshop
1 1 (7.692%) Fireworks
1 1 (7.692%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JUnit
2 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
2 3 (23.08%) Subversion
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 1 (7.692%) Dreamweaver
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Developer
2 6 (46.15%) .NET Developer
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Front-End Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Web Designer
5 1 (7.692%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Designer
5 1 (7.692%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Web 2.0
2 1 (7.692%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) E-Commerce
1 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (38.46%) Web Development
2 4 (30.77%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.692%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (7.692%) SEO
4 1 (7.692%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) JavaScript
2 9 (69.23%) SQL
3 6 (46.15%) VB.NET
3 6 (46.15%) C#
4 4 (30.77%) Java
4 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
4 4 (30.77%) XPath
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Perforce
3 1 (7.692%) Adobe
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013