The first table below looks at the demand for WAI 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 WAI 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Rank 502 545 552
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +7
Contract jobs citing WAI 11 14 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.026% 0.026% 0.034%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.372% 0.350% 0.473%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
Average daily rate £338 £305 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.65% -14.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £243 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £438 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £285 £325
% change year-on-year
+18.42% -12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £13.50 -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
2959 4001 4017
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 7.117% 7.501% 7.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 1801 2107 2228
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £624
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 215 229
Average hourly rate £20.00 £17.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -41.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.75 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
WAI
UK

WAI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WAI across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

England WAI Jobs Demand Trend

WAI
Daily Rate Trend

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

England WAI Daily Rate Trend

WAI
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England WAI Daily Rate Histogram

WAI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England WAI Hourly Rate Trend

WAI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAI 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 +42 7 £338 -3.57%
South East +18 4 - -
WAI
UK

WAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (70.00%) CSS
2 20 (66.67%) W3C
3 19 (63.33%) HTML
4 13 (43.33%) HTML5
5 12 (40.00%) Photoshop
6 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
7 10 (33.33%) Content Management
7 10 (33.33%) jQuery
8 9 (30.00%) CSS3
8 9 (30.00%) SEO
9 8 (26.67%) Publishing
9 8 (26.67%) PHP
9 8 (26.67%) Java
9 8 (26.67%) JSP
9 8 (26.67%) JUnit
9 8 (26.67%) XML
9 8 (26.67%) Multithreading
9 8 (26.67%) JSF
9 8 (26.67%) Banking
10 7 (23.33%) Maven
10 7 (23.33%) Unit Testing
10 7 (23.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (23.33%) Selenium
10 7 (23.33%) JIRA
10 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
10 7 (23.33%) Dreamweaver
10 7 (23.33%) Ant
11 6 (20.00%) IBM
11 6 (20.00%) Management Information System

WAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 21 (70.00%) CSS
2 19 (63.33%) HTML
3 13 (43.33%) HTML5
4 10 (33.33%) jQuery
5 9 (30.00%) CSS3
6 8 (26.67%) JSP
6 8 (26.67%) XML
6 8 (26.67%) JSF
7 6 (20.00%) XHTML
8 3 (10.00%) .NET
9 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET
9 2 (6.667%) .NET Framework
10 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (3.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 1 (3.333%) JSON
10 1 (3.333%) WCF
10 1 (3.333%) Silverlight
10 1 (3.333%) LINQ
10 1 (3.333%) NHibernate
10 1 (3.333%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 6 (20.00%) Apache
2 4 (13.33%) Drupal
3 3 (10.00%) CMS
4 2 (6.667%) IIS
4 2 (6.667%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.333%) WordPress
5 1 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (13.33%) Acrobat
2 4 (13.33%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Internet
2 2 (6.667%) Intranet
3 1 (3.333%) SMS
3 1 (3.333%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.333%) FTP
3 1 (3.333%) HTTP
3 1 (3.333%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) JUnit
2 7 (23.33%) Maven
2 7 (23.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 7 (23.33%) Selenium
2 7 (23.33%) JIRA
2 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (23.33%) Dreamweaver
2 7 (23.33%) Ant
3 6 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 6 (20.00%) VisualAge
4 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (26.67%) Publishing
1 8 (26.67%) Banking
2 5 (16.67%) Retail
3 4 (13.33%) Local Government
4 1 (3.333%) Interactive Media
4 1 (3.333%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.333%) Marketing
4 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.333%) Finance
4 1 (3.333%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Front-End Developer
2 7 (23.33%) Web Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Web Editor
4 2 (6.667%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.667%) Lead Developer
4 2 (6.667%) Lead Web Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Digital Designer
5 1 (3.333%) User Experience Manager
5 1 (3.333%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (3.333%) Designer
5 1 (3.333%) Mobile Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Website Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Website Editor
5 1 (3.333%) Quality Manager
5 1 (3.333%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Architect
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (66.67%) W3C
2 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.00%) Social Media
4 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.333%) Visualisation
5 1 (3.333%) Digital Media
5 1 (3.333%) Graphic Design
5 1 (3.333%) Copywriting
5 1 (3.333%) Web 2.0
5 1 (3.333%) Online Banking
5 1 (3.333%) BBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Content Management
2 9 (30.00%) SEO
3 8 (26.67%) Multithreading
4 7 (23.33%) Unit Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (20.00%) Information Architecture
5 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (13.33%) Project Management
6 4 (13.33%) Web Development
7 3 (10.00%) Analytics
7 3 (10.00%) Web Analytics
8 2 (6.667%) UML
8 2 (6.667%) E-Commerce
8 2 (6.667%) Scrum
9 1 (3.333%) ISMS
9 1 (3.333%) User Experience Design
9 1 (3.333%) Web Accessibility
9 1 (3.333%) Product Management
9 1 (3.333%) Customer Engagement
9 1 (3.333%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
2 8 (26.67%) PHP
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 2 (6.667%) C#
4 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.333%) Ada
4 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) WCAG
2 1 (3.333%) SLA
2 1 (3.333%) ISO 9000
2 1 (3.333%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) IBM
1 6 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (16.67%) Adobe
3 1 (3.333%) SAP