The first table below looks at the demand for HTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML over the 3 months to 24 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 Chester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Rank 22 20 11
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -9
Contract jobs citing HTML 3 1 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.158% 0.855% 7.975%
As % of the Application Development category 21.43% 6.250% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
Average daily rate £300 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.50 £24.50 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+40.81% -15.51%
All Application Development
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
14 16 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 10.07% 13.68% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 22
Average daily rate £375 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
HTML
Cheshire

HTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester HTML Jobs Demand Trend

HTML
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTML across the Chester region.

Chester HTML Daily Rate Trend

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTML across the Chester region.

Chester HTML Hourly Rate Trend

HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing HTML 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 HTML.

1 21 (91.30%) JavaScript
2 19 (82.61%) CSS
3 9 (39.13%) C#
3 9 (39.13%) Windows
4 8 (34.78%) XML
4 8 (34.78%) .NET
5 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET
5 7 (30.43%) WCF
6 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
7 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
7 5 (21.74%) Web Services
7 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
7 5 (21.74%) IIS
7 5 (21.74%) MS Office
7 5 (21.74%) SQL
7 5 (21.74%) Intranet
7 5 (21.74%) CMS
7 5 (21.74%) WinForms
7 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
7 5 (21.74%) LINQ
7 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (21.74%) LINQ to SQL
7 5 (21.74%) Digital Media
8 4 (17.39%) Adobe
9 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
9 3 (13.04%) Eclipse

HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing HTML 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 HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (82.61%) CSS
2 8 (34.78%) XML
2 8 (34.78%) .NET
3 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET
3 7 (30.43%) WCF
4 5 (21.74%) Web Services
4 5 (21.74%) WinForms
4 5 (21.74%) .NET Framework
4 5 (21.74%) LINQ
4 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 5 (21.74%) LINQ to SQL
5 3 (13.04%) Flash
5 3 (13.04%) J2EE
5 3 (13.04%) Spring
5 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
5 3 (13.04%) Node.js
5 3 (13.04%) Apache Flex
5 3 (13.04%) jQuery
6 2 (8.696%) REST
6 2 (8.696%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) SharePoint
1 5 (21.74%) IIS
1 5 (21.74%) CMS
2 1 (4.348%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MS Excel
1 5 (21.74%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.348%) Fireworks
2 1 (4.348%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Intranet
2 3 (13.04%) SNMP
2 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.04%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.348%) MySQL
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Eclipse
1 3 (13.04%) JUnit
1 3 (13.04%) TestNG
1 3 (13.04%) Selenium
2 2 (8.696%) MyEclipse
2 2 (8.696%) Mercurial
2 2 (8.696%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.696%) JIRA
3 1 (4.348%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (8.696%) Local Government
2 1 (4.348%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) .NET Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Senior .NET Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Content Editor
4 5 (21.74%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Web Content Editor
5 3 (13.04%) Web Editor
6 1 (4.348%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Web Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Web Designer
6 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.348%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Designer
6 1 (4.348%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Digital Media
2 3 (13.04%) Client/Server
3 2 (8.696%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.348%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Android
2 3 (13.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) Scrum
1 3 (13.04%) Unit Testing
2 2 (8.696%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (8.696%) Change Management
2 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (4.348%) CRM
3 1 (4.348%) Web Design
3 1 (4.348%) MVC
3 1 (4.348%) SEO
3 1 (4.348%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (4.348%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) JavaScript
2 9 (39.13%) C#
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 1 (4.348%) C++
5 1 (4.348%) PHP
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Adobe
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle