East of England WCAG Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WCAG over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
Location Alderley Edge Berkshire Birmingham Cheshire City of London East of England England Hertfordshire London Macclesfield Manchester North East North West Reading South East UK Watford West Midlands	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	136	137
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	15	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.849 %	3.415 %
Daily rates quoted	13	4
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£288
Average daily rate	£332	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.05 %
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	£20.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Quality Assurance & Compliance East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	219	205
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.289 %	0.217 %
Daily rates quoted	70	60
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£344
Average daily rate	£378	£374
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£409	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£376
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.17	£30.14
Average hourly rate	£25.06	£32.09
% change on same period last year	-21.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.96	£34.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.52	£24.90
% change on same period last year	-5.54 %
WCAG 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WCAG across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WCAG across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WCAG across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WCAG within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Hertfordshire	+3	15	£332	-2.01 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WCAG 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 WCAG.

1 32 (100.00 %) CSS 1 32 (100.00 %) XHTML 1 32 (100.00 %) W3C 2 30 (93.75 %) Internet 3 29 (90.63 %) HTML 4 27 (84.38 %) XML 4 27 (84.38 %) AJAX 5 23 (71.88 %) DHTML 5 23 (71.88 %) iDTV 6 7 (21.88 %) JavaScript 6 7 (21.88 %) XSL 6 7 (21.88 %) WAI 7 5 (15.63 %) .NET 7 5 (15.63 %) ASP.NET 8 4 (12.50 %) Windows

8 4 (12.50 %) SMTP 8 4 (12.50 %) FTP 8 4 (12.50 %) HTTP 8 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (12.50 %) C# 8 4 (12.50 %) DOM 8 4 (12.50 %) IIS 8 4 (12.50 %) ASP 8 4 (12.50 %) SSH 8 4 (12.50 %) XPath 8 4 (12.50 %) Web 2.0 9 3 (9.375 %) Graphic Design 9 3 (9.375 %) JSP 9 3 (9.375 %) Java 9 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WCAG 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 WCAG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 32 (100.00 %) CSS 1 32 (100.00 %) XHTML 2 29 (90.63 %) HTML 3 27 (84.38 %) XML 3 27 (84.38 %) AJAX 4 7 (21.88 %) XSL 5 5 (15.63 %) .NET 5 5 (15.63 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (12.50 %) ASP 6 4 (12.50 %) DOM 7 3 (9.375 %) JSP 8 1 (3.125 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 4 (12.50 %) IIS 2 3 (9.375 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 30 (93.75 %) Internet 2 4 (12.50 %) SSH 2 4 (12.50 %) SMTP 2 4 (12.50 %) FTP 2 4 (12.50 %) HTTP 2 4 (12.50 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 1 3 (9.375 %) RDBMS	General 1 3 (9.375 %) Retail 1 3 (9.375 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (3.125 %) Games 2 1 (3.125 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 31 (96.88 %) Developer 2 7 (21.88 %) Web Developer 3 2 (6.250 %) Applications Developer 3 2 (6.250 %) Team Leader 4 1 (3.125 %) Web Team Leader 4 1 (3.125 %) Lead Developer	Miscellaneous 1 32 (100.00 %) W3C 2 23 (71.88 %) iDTV 3 4 (12.50 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 4 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.250 %) Use Case 2 1 (3.125 %) SEO
Programming Languages 1 23 (71.88 %) DHTML 2 7 (21.88 %) JavaScript 3 4 (12.50 %) C# 3 4 (12.50 %) XPath 4 3 (9.375 %) PHP 4 3 (9.375 %) SQL 4 3 (9.375 %) Java	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (21.88 %) WAI