The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML 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 East of England 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
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 71 92 86
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -6
Contract jobs citing XHTML 44 40 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.057% 1.354% 1.551%
As % of the Application Development category 7.201% 4.739% 5.297%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 23
Average daily rate £275 £363 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% +27.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £124 £264 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £473 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.49 £32.60 £21.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.15 £35.18 £28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+11.06% -0.96%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
611 844 774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.56% 28.56% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 355
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 59 60
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.40 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
England

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England XHTML Jobs Demand Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England XHTML Daily Rate Histogram

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Essex +12 18 £265 +51.42%
Hertfordshire -9 15 £370 -6.03%
Norfolk - 5 £325 -
Bedfordshire +3 3 £200 -33.33%
Suffolk - 2 £263 -
Cambridgeshire +9 1 £300 +17.07%
XHTML
England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 85 (92.39%) JavaScript
2 82 (89.13%) CSS
3 71 (77.17%) HTML
4 45 (48.91%) XML
5 39 (42.39%) Ajax
6 37 (40.22%) jQuery
7 35 (38.04%) Photoshop
8 34 (36.96%) E-Commerce
9 33 (35.87%) OO
9 33 (35.87%) Java
10 30 (32.61%) PHP
10 30 (32.61%) JSP
11 28 (30.43%) SQL
12 27 (29.35%) Drupal
13 25 (27.17%) XSLT
14 24 (26.09%) Publishing
15 22 (23.91%) J2EE
16 20 (21.74%) XPath
16 20 (21.74%) Unit Testing
17 18 (19.57%) .NET
18 17 (18.48%) Retail
18 17 (18.48%) Finance
18 17 (18.48%) HTML5
18 17 (18.48%) CSS3
19 15 (16.30%) WebSphere
19 15 (16.30%) Web Development
19 15 (16.30%) MVC
19 15 (16.30%) Code Coverage
19 15 (16.30%) Content Management
19 15 (16.30%) Linux

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 82 (89.13%) CSS
2 71 (77.17%) HTML
3 45 (48.91%) XML
4 39 (42.39%) Ajax
5 37 (40.22%) jQuery
6 30 (32.61%) JSP
7 25 (27.17%) XSLT
8 22 (23.91%) J2EE
9 18 (19.57%) .NET
10 17 (18.48%) HTML5
10 17 (18.48%) CSS3
11 15 (16.30%) WebSphere
11 15 (16.30%) ASP.NET
12 14 (15.22%) JSTL
13 8 (8.696%) Semantic HTML
13 8 (8.696%) Struts
14 7 (7.609%) WCF
14 7 (7.609%) LINQ
15 6 (6.522%) Sass
15 6 (6.522%) XMLBeans
Application Platforms
1 27 (29.35%) Drupal
2 8 (8.696%) SharePoint
3 7 (7.609%) IIS
3 7 (7.609%) CMS
4 6 (6.522%) WebSphere Application Server
4 6 (6.522%) MQSeries
5 3 (3.261%) Apache
6 2 (2.174%) Magento
6 2 (2.174%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.087%) ColdFusion
7 1 (1.087%) TeamSite
7 1 (1.087%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (1.087%) LiveSite
Applications
1 35 (38.04%) Photoshop
2 8 (8.696%) Fireworks
3 4 (4.348%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.087%) XMetaL
Business Applications
1 6 (6.522%) Tridion
2 3 (3.261%) Google Analytics
3 2 (2.174%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.522%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.696%) RDBMS
1 8 (8.696%) MySQL
2 7 (7.609%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.522%) DB2
4 1 (1.087%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.087%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.087%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.087%) GIS
4 1 (1.087%) MarkLogic
4 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Ant
2 9 (9.783%) Subversion
3 8 (8.696%) Eclipse
3 8 (8.696%) JUnit
4 6 (6.522%) Log4j
4 6 (6.522%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
5 5 (5.435%) Visual Studio
5 5 (5.435%) Axure RP
5 5 (5.435%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.174%) Selenium
6 2 (2.174%) CruiseControl
7 1 (1.087%) NUnit
7 1 (1.087%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.087%) ReSharper
7 1 (1.087%) Git (software)
General
1 24 (26.09%) Publishing
2 17 (18.48%) Retail
2 17 (18.48%) Finance
3 10 (10.87%) Games
4 7 (7.609%) Marketing
5 4 (4.348%) Legal
5 4 (4.348%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.261%) Advertising
7 2 (2.174%) Automotive
7 2 (2.174%) Billing
Job Titles
1 86 (93.48%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) PHP Developer
3 20 (21.74%) Front-End Developer
4 15 (16.30%) Drupal Developer
5 12 (13.04%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 12 (13.04%) UI Developer
6 10 (10.87%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.783%) UI Programmer
8 8 (8.696%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 8 (8.696%) Web Developer
8 8 (8.696%) Software Developer
8 8 (8.696%) J2EE Developer
9 5 (5.435%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.348%) Designer
10 4 (4.348%) JavaScript Developer
10 4 (4.348%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.261%) C# Developer
11 3 (3.261%) Web Designer
11 3 (3.261%) C# .NET Developer
12 2 (2.174%) Senior Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.96%) W3C
2 8 (8.696%) Social Media
3 6 (6.522%) Web 2.0
4 4 (4.348%) Semantic Web
5 3 (3.261%) Tandem
5 3 (3.261%) Open Source
6 1 (1.087%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.087%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.087%) Ontologies
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.30%) Linux
2 13 (14.13%) UNIX
3 6 (6.522%) HPUX
3 6 (6.522%) Solaris
4 4 (4.348%) Android
4 4 (4.348%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.087%) Windows
5 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) E-Commerce
2 33 (35.87%) OO
3 20 (21.74%) Unit Testing
4 15 (16.30%) Web Development
4 15 (16.30%) MVC
4 15 (16.30%) Code Coverage
4 15 (16.30%) Content Management
5 13 (14.13%) RAD
6 12 (13.04%) Scrum
7 11 (11.96%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (10.87%) UML
9 9 (9.783%) RUP
9 9 (9.783%) Web Design
10 4 (4.348%) Waterfall
10 4 (4.348%) Analytics
10 4 (4.348%) SEO
10 4 (4.348%) RDF
11 3 (3.261%) B2B
11 3 (3.261%) SOA
11 3 (3.261%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 85 (92.39%) JavaScript
2 33 (35.87%) Java
3 30 (32.61%) PHP
4 28 (30.43%) SQL
5 20 (21.74%) XPath
6 14 (15.22%) C#
7 8 (8.696%) FQL
7 8 (8.696%) Perl
8 6 (6.522%) Bash shell
9 4 (4.348%) C++
10 3 (3.261%) XQuery
10 3 (3.261%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.261%) PHP5
10 3 (3.261%) SPARQL
11 1 (1.087%) Python
11 1 (1.087%) VB
11 1 (1.087%) VBA
Vendors
1 13 (14.13%) IBM
1 13 (14.13%) Adobe
2 9 (9.783%) ATG
2 9 (9.783%) Twitter
3 8 (8.696%) Facebook
4 6 (6.522%) Elastic Path
4 6 (6.522%) Interwoven
4 6 (6.522%) Apple
4 6 (6.522%) FatWire
4 6 (6.522%) Blue Martini
4 6 (6.522%) Oracle
5 3 (3.261%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.261%) Omniture
5 3 (3.261%) Google
6 2 (2.174%) JBoss
7 1 (1.087%) Telerik
7 1 (1.087%) Mercator
7 1 (1.087%) Zend
Hertfordshire
We are mainly looking for… - Strong, hands on coding skills in front end Web Development around CSS3, HTML5 & Javascript... Keywords: Web Developer, Front End Developer, Web Application Developer,...
Verticality Ltd
Rate: £400 to £500 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Witham, South East
A new contract opportunity for a Front End Web Developer for one of our clients based in Essex.The successful candidate is required to work in a small...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £150 - £250 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Essex
I am looking for a Back End Developer with asp.net, c#, mvc, wcf, sql, linq, nhibernate, visual studio, xml, xhtml, tfs and ecommerce experience to join a...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £250 - £300 per day + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Essex, South East
design patterns Attention to detail, Logical, Analytical, Strong Problem solving skills, Entity Framework, Linq to objects (at least 12 months commercial experience)Visual Studio 2010/2012 - MVC 2...
Nigel Frank International
Rate: £000 - £001 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hertfordshire
Proven design skills in modern front end coding: CSS3, (X)HTML, Javascript & CMS... - Project Management / planning skills... - Understanding & use of Web analytical tools such as Omniture (Adobe Marketing) +...
Verticality Ltd
Rate: £500 to £600 per day - Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Essex, South East
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Rate: £200.00 - £220 per day
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