East Midlands XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the East Midlands 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tring Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Windsor Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	72
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	3.294 %	3.354 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£350
Average daily rate	£338	£350
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£285
% change on same period last year	+9.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£18.50	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-17.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.45	£33.75
% change on same period last year	-27.55 %
Application Development East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	425	477
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.561 %	0.475 %
Daily rates quoted	88	67
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£365
Average daily rate	£337	£375
% change on same period last year	-10.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.38	£28.40
Average hourly rate	£36.31	£30.13
% change on same period last year	+20.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.24	£31.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.73	£33.29
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
XHTML England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicestershire	+12	7	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-10	3	£338	-
Derbyshire	+3	1	-	-

XHTML England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 26 (86.67 %) CSS 2 12 (40.00 %) Photoshop 3 11 (36.67 %) HTML 4 9 (30.00 %) .NET 5 8 (26.67 %) JSP 5 8 (26.67 %) Dreamweaver 6 7 (23.33 %) Flash 6 7 (23.33 %) JavaScript 7 6 (20.00 %) C# 7 6 (20.00 %) WebLogic 7 6 (20.00 %) ASP.NET 7 6 (20.00 %) WebLogic Portal 7 6 (20.00 %) Web Design 7 6 (20.00 %) Spring 7 6 (20.00 %) AJAX

7 6 (20.00 %) JSR 168 8 5 (16.67 %) Web Development 8 5 (16.67 %) XML 8 5 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 8 5 (16.67 %) J2EE 8 5 (16.67 %) Java 8 5 (16.67 %) PHP 9 4 (13.33 %) MySQL 9 4 (13.33 %) Oracle 9 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server 9 4 (13.33 %) JUnit 9 4 (13.33 %) ASP 9 4 (13.33 %) EJB 9 4 (13.33 %) Servlets 9 4 (13.33 %) WebServices

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 26 (86.67 %) CSS 2 11 (36.67 %) HTML 3 9 (30.00 %) .NET 4 8 (26.67 %) JSP 5 6 (20.00 %) ASP.NET 5 6 (20.00 %) Spring 5 6 (20.00 %) AJAX 5 6 (20.00 %) JSR 168 6 5 (16.67 %) XML 6 5 (16.67 %) J2EE 7 4 (13.33 %) ASP 7 4 (13.33 %) EJB 7 4 (13.33 %) Servlets 7 4 (13.33 %) WebServices 7 4 (13.33 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 4 (13.33 %) iBATIS 7 4 (13.33 %) Hibernate 8 2 (6.667 %) JSTL 8 2 (6.667 %) Spring MVC 8 2 (6.667 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 6 (20.00 %) WebLogic 1 6 (20.00 %) WebLogic Portal 2 2 (6.667 %) ColdFusion 2 2 (6.667 %) Joomla! 2 2 (6.667 %) CMS 3 1 (3.333 %) Rhythmyx 3 1 (3.333 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 12 (40.00 %) Photoshop 2 1 (3.333 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 4 (13.33 %) Internet 2 1 (3.333 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (13.33 %) MySQL 1 4 (13.33 %) SQL Server 1 4 (13.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 2 (6.667 %) RDBMS 3 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 8 (26.67 %) Dreamweaver 2 7 (23.33 %) Flash 3 5 (16.67 %) Visual Studio 4 4 (13.33 %) JUnit 4 4 (13.33 %) WebLogic Workshop
General 1 1 (3.333 %) Finance 1 1 (3.333 %) Games 1 1 (3.333 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 23 (76.67 %) Developer 2 14 (46.67 %) Web Developer 3 6 (20.00 %) Web Designer 4 3 (10.00 %) J2EE Developer 5 2 (6.667 %) WebLogic Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) Java Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) ASP Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) PHP Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) MySQL Developer 6 1 (3.333 %) JSP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.667 %) W3C 2 1 (3.333 %) Computer Science 2 1 (3.333 %) Web 2.0	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (20.00 %) Web Design 2 5 (16.67 %) Web Development 3 3 (10.00 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (6.667 %) SOA 5 1 (3.333 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (23.33 %) JavaScript 2 6 (20.00 %) C# 3 5 (16.67 %) Java 3 5 (16.67 %) PHP 4 3 (10.00 %) SQL 5 2 (6.667 %) VB.NET 6 1 (3.333 %) VBScript 6 1 (3.333 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (3.333 %) Degree
Vendors 1 4 (13.33 %) Oracle