The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited W3C over the 3 months to 21 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Edinburgh 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Rank 50 60 71
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +11
Contract jobs citing W3C 7 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.855% 0.456% 0.077%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.667% 3.378% 0.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
Average daily rate £338 £333 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £335 £270
% change year-on-year
-10.29% +24.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £28.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-47.82% +15.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
150 148 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.32% 13.49% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 65 75
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £200 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £526
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
Average hourly rate £12.42 £12.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.50% -11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
W3C
Scotland

W3C
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Edinburgh W3C Jobs Demand Trend

W3C
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing W3C across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh W3C Daily Rate Trend

W3C
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing W3C across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Edinburgh W3C Daily Rate Histogram

W3C
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing W3C across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh W3C Hourly Rate Trend

W3C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing W3C 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 W3C.

1 7 (87.50%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
1 7 (87.50%) CSS
2 6 (75.00%) WAI
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 4 (50.00%) CSS3
3 4 (50.00%) Photoshop
3 4 (50.00%) XHTML
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) OOP
4 2 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) PHP
4 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 2 (25.00%) MVC
4 2 (25.00%) SEO
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) CMS
4 2 (25.00%) Web Design
4 2 (25.00%) TeamSite
4 2 (25.00%) Content Management
4 2 (25.00%) Twitter
4 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) HTML5
4 2 (25.00%) Google Maps API
4 2 (25.00%) Zend
4 2 (25.00%) Zend Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Drupal
4 2 (25.00%) PHP5

W3C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing W3C 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 W3C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) CSS
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 4 (50.00%) CSS3
3 4 (50.00%) XHTML
4 2 (25.00%) HTML5
4 2 (25.00%) Google Maps API
4 2 (25.00%) Zend Framework
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) DOM
5 1 (12.50%) XSLT
5 1 (12.50%) SAX
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CMS
1 2 (25.00%) TeamSite
1 2 (25.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 3GPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) FogBugz
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
2 2 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Content Editor
3 1 (12.50%) Content Editor
3 1 (12.50%) Web Editor
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) OOP
1 2 (25.00%) MVC
1 2 (25.00%) SEO
1 2 (25.00%) Web Design
1 2 (25.00%) Content Management
1 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
1 2 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) Kanban
2 1 (12.50%) Information Assurance
2 1 (12.50%) BDD
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Content Management
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
2 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PHP
2 2 (25.00%) PHP5
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) XPath
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) WAI
2 1 (12.50%) Section 508
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Twitter
1 2 (25.00%) Zend
1 2 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) HP