Chester XHTML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the Chester 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Braintree Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Farnborough Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Waltham Abbey Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£258
% change on same period last year	+3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.67	£27.57
% change on same period last year	-17.78 %
Application Development Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	54	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.037 %
Daily rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£342
Average daily rate	£293	£353
% change on same period last year	-16.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.50	-
Average hourly rate	£31.80	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.10	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.63	£31.53
% change on same period last year	-9.18 %
XHTML Cheshire

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 Chester 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 Chester region.