The first table below looks at the demand for Semantic HTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Semantic HTML over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Semantic HTML (Semantic Markup)
Rank 204 207 250
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +43
Contract jobs citing Semantic HTML 6 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.088% 0.065% 0.010%
As % of the Application Development category 0.305% 0.242% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
Average daily rate £300 £330 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £240 £310
% change year-on-year
- -22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1968 2069 2810
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 29.03% 26.73% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1556 1584 2206
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £290 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 25 23
Average hourly rate £41.50 £32.50 £41.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.69% -21.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £19.00 £16.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.50 £50.50 £107.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Semantic HTML
London

Semantic HTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Semantic HTML Jobs Demand Trend

Semantic HTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Semantic HTML Daily Rate Trend

Semantic HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Semantic 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 Semantic HTML.

1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) PHP
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) MVC
3 5 (71.43%) Objective-C
3 5 (71.43%) Google
3 5 (71.43%) CodeIgniter
3 5 (71.43%) CakePHP
3 5 (71.43%) jQuery
3 5 (71.43%) Google Maps API
3 5 (71.43%) Java
3 5 (71.43%) OO
3 5 (71.43%) Android
3 5 (71.43%) Git (software)
3 5 (71.43%) HTML5
3 5 (71.43%) Apple iOS
3 5 (71.43%) iOS SDK
3 5 (71.43%) CSS3
3 5 (71.43%) Facebook
3 5 (71.43%) Twitter
4 4 (57.14%) Adobe
4 4 (57.14%) Internet
4 4 (57.14%) UNIX
4 4 (57.14%) Linux
4 4 (57.14%) Photoshop
5 2 (28.57%) MySQL
6 1 (14.29%) OOP
6 1 (14.29%) XHTML

Semantic HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Semantic 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 Semantic HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 5 (71.43%) CodeIgniter
2 5 (71.43%) CakePHP
2 5 (71.43%) jQuery
2 5 (71.43%) Google Maps API
2 5 (71.43%) HTML5
2 5 (71.43%) iOS SDK
2 5 (71.43%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) XHTML
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (14.29%) Sinatra
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git (software)
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) PHP Developer
3 5 (71.43%) Senior PHP Developer
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Android
1 5 (71.43%) Apple iOS
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
2 4 (57.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (14.29%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (14.29%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
1 6 (85.71%) PHP
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Objective-C
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PHP5
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
1 5 (71.43%) Facebook
1 5 (71.43%) Twitter
2 4 (57.14%) Adobe
3 1 (14.29%) Zend