England DOM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Document Object Model (DOM) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DOM over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Document Object Model (DOM)
Location Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chesterfield City of London Derbyshire East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Hampshire Leeds London Newbury Reading Scotland South East South West Surrey Swindon UK West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	483	478
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	65	155
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.157 %
As % of the category below	0.427 %	0.678 %
Daily rates quoted	30	74
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£307
Average daily rate	£316	£324
% change on same period last year	-2.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£321
% change on same period last year	-6.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-18.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-18.75 %
Application Development England
Matching contract IT job ads	15216	22861
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	21.62 %	23.09 %
Daily rates quoted	5176	7137
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£361
Average daily rate	£375	£385
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	927	1416
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.24	£30.03
Average hourly rate	£31.37	£32.23
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.49	£34.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.18	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
DOM UK

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 DOM across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

DOM
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DOM across the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DOM across the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DOM within the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
London	+29	42	£322	-1.67 %
South East	+46	17	£322	+10.93 %
South West	+30	3	£268	-
East Midlands	-	1	-	-
Yorkshire	+4	1	-	-
East of England	+19	1	£250	-29.77 %

DOM UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DOM 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 DOM.

1 122 (77.71 %) CSS 2 119 (75.80 %) JavaScript 3 104 (66.24 %) HTML 4 94 (59.87 %) AJAX 5 83 (52.87 %) XHTML 6 73 (46.50 %) XML 7 71 (45.22 %) W3C 8 54 (34.39 %) OO 9 27 (17.20 %) JSP 9 27 (17.20 %) Java 10 24 (15.29 %) XSLT 11 22 (14.01 %) PHP 11 22 (14.01 %) .NET 12 21 (13.38 %) SQL 12 21 (13.38 %) Retail

13 20 (12.74 %) DHTML 13 20 (12.74 %) E-Commerce 14 18 (11.46 %) Flash 14 18 (11.46 %) Web Development 15 17 (10.83 %) WAI 15 17 (10.83 %) ASP.NET 16 16 (10.19 %) XPath 16 16 (10.19 %) jQuery 17 15 (9.554 %) Internet 17 15 (9.554 %) Eclipse 17 15 (9.554 %) XSL 18 14 (8.917 %) Apache 18 14 (8.917 %) Linux 18 14 (8.917 %) MySQL 18 14 (8.917 %) ActionScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DOM 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 DOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 122 (77.71 %) CSS 2 104 (66.24 %) HTML 3 94 (59.87 %) AJAX 4 83 (52.87 %) XHTML 5 73 (46.50 %) XML 6 27 (17.20 %) JSP 7 24 (15.29 %) XSLT 8 22 (14.01 %) .NET 9 17 (10.83 %) ASP.NET 10 16 (10.19 %) jQuery 11 15 (9.554 %) XSL 12 14 (8.917 %) JSON 13 13 (8.280 %) SAX 14 12 (7.643 %) ASP 14 12 (7.643 %) MooTools 15 11 (7.006 %) J2EE 16 10 (6.369 %) LAMP 16 10 (6.369 %) Hibernate 17 9 (5.732 %) Dojo 18 7 (4.459 %) Velocity	Application Platforms 1 14 (8.917 %) Apache 2 8 (5.096 %) CMS 3 7 (4.459 %) IIS 4 4 (2.548 %) WebLogic 5 3 (1.911 %) WebLogic Portal 5 3 (1.911 %) Movable Type 5 3 (1.911 %) Mambo 6 2 (1.274 %) Documentum 7 1 (0.637 %) Oracle HTTP Server 7 1 (0.637 %) ColdFusion 7 1 (0.637 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 1 (0.637 %) Tomcat 7 1 (0.637 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 7 (4.459 %) Photoshop 2 1 (0.637 %) MS Project 2 1 (0.637 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 15 (9.554 %) Internet 2 9 (5.732 %) HTTP 3 7 (4.459 %) TCP/IP 4 6 (3.822 %) SMTP 5 4 (2.548 %) FTP 5 4 (2.548 %) SSH 6 2 (1.274 %) Wireless 6 2 (1.274 %) LDAP 7 1 (0.637 %) GPRS 7 1 (0.637 %) LAN 7 1 (0.637 %) WLAN 7 1 (0.637 %) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (8.917 %) MySQL 2 11 (7.006 %) SQL Server 3 5 (3.185 %) RDBMS 4 3 (1.911 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (1.274 %) PostgreSQL 5 2 (1.274 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (0.637 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (0.637 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.637 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 18 (11.46 %) Flash 2 15 (9.554 %) Eclipse 3 9 (5.732 %) JUnit 4 4 (2.548 %) Subversion 5 3 (1.911 %) Dreamweaver 6 2 (1.274 %) Log4j 6 2 (1.274 %) Visual Studio 6 2 (1.274 %) Aptana Studio 6 2 (1.274 %) Ant 7 1 (0.637 %) Visual Studio Team System 7 1 (0.637 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 1 (0.637 %) ClearCase 7 1 (0.637 %) Rational Rose 7 1 (0.637 %) CheckStyle 7 1 (0.637 %) jMock
General 1 21 (13.38 %) Retail 2 9 (5.732 %) Finance 3 8 (5.096 %) Marketing 4 5 (3.185 %) Banking 4 5 (3.185 %) Music 4 5 (3.185 %) Telecoms 5 4 (2.548 %) Publishing 5 4 (2.548 %) Games 6 3 (1.911 %) Advertising 6 3 (1.911 %) Graphic Design 7 2 (1.274 %) Investment Banking 7 2 (1.274 %) Legal 7 2 (1.274 %) Front Office 8 1 (0.637 %) Construction 8 1 (0.637 %) Government 8 1 (0.637 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.637 %) Multimedia 8 1 (0.637 %) Animation	Job Titles 1 121 (77.07 %) Developer 2 34 (21.66 %) Web Developer 3 24 (15.29 %) JavaScript Developer 4 16 (10.19 %) Senior Developer 5 11 (7.006 %) Java Developer 6 10 (6.369 %) Team Leader 7 9 (5.732 %) Web Manager 8 7 (4.459 %) Web Team Leader 9 6 (3.822 %) Senior Web Developer 9 6 (3.822 %) PHP Developer 10 5 (3.185 %) HTML Developer 10 5 (3.185 %) .NET Developer 10 5 (3.185 %) Development Manager 11 4 (2.548 %) Interactive Developer 11 4 (2.548 %) Senior Interactive Developer 11 4 (2.548 %) UI Developer 11 4 (2.548 %) Web Development Manager 12 3 (1.911 %) Development Team Leader 12 3 (1.911 %) Applications Developer 12 3 (1.911 %) Senior UI Developer
Miscellaneous 1 71 (45.22 %) W3C 2 13 (8.280 %) Web 2.0 3 3 (1.911 %) Client/Server 3 3 (1.911 %) Social Network 4 2 (1.274 %) Credit Risk 4 2 (1.274 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 2 (1.274 %) Handset 4 2 (1.274 %) Interactive TV 5 1 (0.637 %) RIA 5 1 (0.637 %) Multithreading 5 1 (0.637 %) Derivative	Operating Systems 1 14 (8.917 %) Linux 2 7 (4.459 %) Windows 3 6 (3.822 %) UNIX 4 2 (1.274 %) Mac OS X 4 2 (1.274 %) Solaris 5 1 (0.637 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.637 %) Windows XP 5 1 (0.637 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 54 (34.39 %) OO 2 20 (12.74 %) E-Commerce 3 18 (11.46 %) Web Development 4 14 (8.917 %) Scrum 5 11 (7.006 %) Change Management 6 9 (5.732 %) UML 6 9 (5.732 %) Agile Software Development 7 7 (4.459 %) Web Design 7 7 (4.459 %) SEO 8 6 (3.822 %) OOP 8 6 (3.822 %) RAD 9 5 (3.185 %) Internet Marketing 10 4 (2.548 %) Usability Testing 10 4 (2.548 %) Content Management 10 4 (2.548 %) Project Management 10 4 (2.548 %) Validation 10 4 (2.548 %) TDD 11 3 (1.911 %) OOD 11 3 (1.911 %) Security Cleared 12 2 (1.274 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 119 (75.80 %) JavaScript 2 27 (17.20 %) Java 3 22 (14.01 %) PHP 4 21 (13.38 %) SQL 5 20 (12.74 %) DHTML 6 16 (10.19 %) XPath 7 14 (8.917 %) ActionScript 8 11 (7.006 %) Perl 8 11 (7.006 %) C 9 9 (5.732 %) C# 10 8 (5.096 %) PHP5 11 7 (4.459 %) C++ 12 4 (2.548 %) Python 13 3 (1.911 %) Ruby 14 2 (1.274 %) Tcl 14 2 (1.274 %) VBScript 14 2 (1.274 %) VB.NET 15 1 (0.637 %) VC++ 15 1 (0.637 %) Transact-SQL 15 1 (0.637 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 6 (3.822 %) Degree 2 4 (2.548 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (10.83 %) WAI 2 12 (7.643 %) WCAG
System Software 1 1 (0.637 %) MSMQ 1 1 (0.637 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 13 (8.280 %) Oracle 2 8 (5.096 %) Microsoft 3 4 (2.548 %) Sun 4 3 (1.911 %) Adobe 4 3 (1.911 %) BEA 4 3 (1.911 %) Mercator 4 3 (1.911 %) FatWire 5 2 (1.274 %) Interwoven 5 2 (1.274 %) Vignette 5 2 (1.274 %) Cisco 6 1 (0.637 %) IBM 6 1 (0.637 %) telerik 6 1 (0.637 %) Google 6 1 (0.637 %) Zend 6 1 (0.637 %) Infragistics 6 1 (0.637 %) Red Hat 6 1 (0.637 %) webMethods