The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 44 62 65
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +3
Contract jobs citing XHTML 12 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.481% 0.271% 0.299%
As % of the Application Development category 6.818% 2.344% 2.878%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
Average daily rate £373 £210 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+77.38% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 128 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 21.73% 11.57% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 59 61
Average daily rate £314 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.20% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £150 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
Scotland

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 18 (100.00%) CSS
2 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 12 (66.67%) HTML
4 9 (50.00%) HTML5
5 5 (27.78%) .NET
5 5 (27.78%) Adobe
5 5 (27.78%) XML
5 5 (27.78%) TDD
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (22.22%) jQuery
6 4 (22.22%) Ruby
6 4 (22.22%) Ajax
6 4 (22.22%) XSL
6 4 (22.22%) Flash
6 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
6 4 (22.22%) C#
6 4 (22.22%) VB
6 4 (22.22%) Java
6 4 (22.22%) ASP
6 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
7 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
7 3 (16.67%) W3C
7 3 (16.67%) WAI
7 3 (16.67%) Web Development
7 3 (16.67%) CSS3
8 2 (11.11%) Degree
8 2 (11.11%) WCAG
8 2 (11.11%) Web Design
8 2 (11.11%) Finance

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 18 (100.00%) CSS
2 12 (66.67%) HTML
3 9 (50.00%) HTML5
4 5 (27.78%) .NET
4 5 (27.78%) XML
5 4 (22.22%) XSL
5 4 (22.22%) ASP
5 4 (22.22%) Flash
5 4 (22.22%) Ajax
5 4 (22.22%) jQuery
6 3 (16.67%) CSS3
7 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.556%) XSLT
7 1 (5.556%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) IIS
1 1 (5.556%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Intranet
2 1 (5.556%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Multimedia
2 1 (5.556%) Marketing
2 1 (5.556%) Advertising
2 1 (5.556%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Lead Designer
2 5 (27.78%) Designer
3 4 (22.22%) Front-End Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead Developer
3 4 (22.22%) .NET Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Programmer
5 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Web Programmer
5 1 (5.556%) Lead Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Architect
5 1 (5.556%) Digital Designer
5 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) W3C
2 2 (11.11%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.556%) Semantic Web
3 1 (5.556%) Open Source
3 1 (5.556%) Social Media
3 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) TDD
1 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (11.11%) Web Design
4 1 (5.556%) Time Management
4 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.556%) UML
4 1 (5.556%) OO
4 1 (5.556%) Content Management
4 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) VB
2 4 (22.22%) Ruby
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (5.556%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) XPath
4 1 (5.556%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) WAI
2 2 (11.11%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Adobe
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft