The first table below looks at the demand for Semantic HTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Semantic HTML 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 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
Semantic HTML (Semantic Markup)
Rank 490 546 561
Rank change year-on-year
+56 +15
Contract jobs citing Semantic HTML 23 13 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.055% 0.024% 0.018%
As % of the Application Development category 0.203% 0.093% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 6
Average daily rate £350 £263 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -13.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £244 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £327 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate - £245 £310
% change year-on-year
- -20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11342 13944 15844
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.28% 26.14% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7269 8358 9412
Average daily rate £375 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 366 550
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Semantic HTML
UK

Semantic HTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Semantic HTML Jobs Demand Trend

Semantic HTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Semantic HTML Daily Rate Trend

Semantic HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Semantic HTML Daily Rate Histogram

Semantic HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Semantic HTML Hourly Rate Trend

Semantic HTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic HTML within the 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
London +51 22 £350 +21.73%
East of England +17 1 - -
Semantic HTML
UK

Semantic HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Semantic HTML 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 Semantic HTML.

1 49 (100.00%) CSS
2 48 (97.96%) JavaScript
3 44 (89.80%) HTML
4 33 (67.35%) jQuery
5 29 (59.18%) CSS3
6 28 (57.14%) HTML5
7 21 (42.86%) Java
8 17 (34.69%) Progressive Enhancement
8 17 (34.69%) Graceful Degradation
9 16 (32.65%) SQL
9 16 (32.65%) OO
10 15 (30.61%) MVC
11 13 (26.53%) W3C
11 13 (26.53%) Finance
11 13 (26.53%) Git (software)
12 12 (24.49%) MySQL
13 11 (22.45%) E-Commerce
13 11 (22.45%) Agile Software Development
14 10 (20.41%) Adobe
14 10 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
14 10 (20.41%) OOP
14 10 (20.41%) XHTML
14 10 (20.41%) JSP
14 10 (20.41%) JSTL
15 9 (18.37%) Facebook
15 9 (18.37%) Twitter
15 9 (18.37%) PHP
15 9 (18.37%) Subversion
16 8 (16.33%) Ajax
16 8 (16.33%) Retail

Semantic HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Semantic HTML 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 Semantic HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 49 (100.00%) CSS
2 44 (89.80%) HTML
3 33 (67.35%) jQuery
4 29 (59.18%) CSS3
5 28 (57.14%) HTML5
6 10 (20.41%) XHTML
6 10 (20.41%) JSP
6 10 (20.41%) JSTL
7 8 (16.33%) Ajax
8 7 (14.29%) JSON
9 6 (12.24%) CodeIgniter
9 6 (12.24%) CakePHP
9 6 (12.24%) Google Maps API
9 6 (12.24%) iOS SDK
10 5 (10.20%) XML
11 4 (8.163%) RESTful
11 4 (8.163%) Spring MVC
11 4 (8.163%) Sass
11 4 (8.163%) Node.js
11 4 (8.163%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.163%) CMS
2 3 (6.122%) Drupal
2 3 (6.122%) WordPress
3 1 (2.041%) Apache
3 1 (2.041%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (16.33%) Photoshop
2 4 (8.163%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (4.082%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 2 (4.082%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.041%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) MySQL
2 10 (20.41%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.082%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Git (software)
2 9 (18.37%) Subversion
3 7 (14.29%) Jasmine
4 4 (8.163%) Selenium
5 3 (6.122%) Firebug
5 3 (6.122%) Mercurial
6 1 (2.041%) QUnit
6 1 (2.041%) JIRA
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 8 (16.33%) Retail
2 8 (16.33%) Games
3 5 (10.20%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.122%) Publishing
4 3 (6.122%) Marketing
5 2 (4.082%) Electronics
5 2 (4.082%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (97.96%) Developer
2 33 (67.35%) Front-End Developer
3 15 (30.61%) Senior Developer
4 10 (20.41%) Web Developer
5 9 (18.37%) Front-End Web Developer
5 9 (18.37%) JavaScript Developer
6 7 (14.29%) PHP Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 6 (12.24%) UI Developer
7 6 (12.24%) UI Programmer
8 5 (10.20%) Senior PHP Developer
9 3 (6.122%) Senior UI Developer
10 1 (2.041%) Web Designer
10 1 (2.041%) Senior Web Developer
10 1 (2.041%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) W3C
2 3 (6.122%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.122%) Computer Science
3 2 (4.082%) Mathematics
3 2 (4.082%) Open Source
3 2 (4.082%) DTV
4 1 (2.041%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.041%) Smartphone
4 1 (2.041%) Social Media
4 1 (2.041%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Apple iOS
1 7 (14.29%) Android
2 5 (10.20%) UNIX
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) Progressive Enhancement
1 17 (34.69%) Graceful Degradation
2 16 (32.65%) OO
3 15 (30.61%) MVC
4 11 (22.45%) E-Commerce
4 11 (22.45%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (20.41%) OOP
6 7 (14.29%) Test Scripting
7 6 (12.24%) Analytics
8 5 (10.20%) SEO
8 5 (10.20%) Unit Testing
8 5 (10.20%) Web Accessibility
9 4 (8.163%) TDD
9 4 (8.163%) Scrum
10 3 (6.122%) Web Analytics
10 3 (6.122%) Mobile Application Development
11 2 (4.082%) Digital Marketing
11 2 (4.082%) Validation
11 2 (4.082%) Programme Management
11 2 (4.082%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (97.96%) JavaScript
2 21 (42.86%) Java
3 16 (32.65%) SQL
4 9 (18.37%) PHP
5 6 (12.24%) Objective-C
6 5 (10.20%) Ruby
7 2 (4.082%) Scala
8 1 (2.041%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (6.122%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Adobe
2 9 (18.37%) Facebook
2 9 (18.37%) Twitter
3 7 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (4.082%) SAP
5 1 (2.041%) JBoss
5 1 (2.041%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.041%) Zend
London
Technical Requirements" HTML" CSS" JavaScript, including frameworks (JQuery, Backbone, YUI, Dojo, etc)Additional Requirements" Must understand and be prepared to discuss semantic markup, advanced CSS concepts, accessibility, etc.".....
Premier Group
Rate: £200.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Technical Requirements " HTML " CSS " JavaScript, including frameworks (JQuery, Backbone, YUI, Dojo, etc) Additional Requirements " Must understand and be prepared to discuss semantic markup, advanced CSS concepts, accessibility, etc... "...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Havant, South East
You must be passionate about semantic HTML and CSS and be able to hand code JavaScript and understand the DOM and UX... Required Skills HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX &...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Must have experience within HTML5, CSSs and OO JavaScript... HTML (incl. HTML5) CSS (incl. CSS3) JavaScript (incl. OOP), jQuery. Solid understanding of web standards and semantic markup. Understanding...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day (Neg)
Posted: 24 May 2013