Essex XHTML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glamorgan Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tring Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	65
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	3.448 %	0.926 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£400
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£256	£267
% change on same period last year	-3.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.55	£32.23
% change on same period last year	-20.74 %
Application Development Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	116	216
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.167 %	0.220 %
Daily rates quoted	41	63
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£373
Average daily rate	£316	£404
% change on same period last year	-21.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£435
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.81	£30.12
Average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.64
% change on same period last year	+5.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.04	£31.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.88	£32.08
% change on same period last year	-3.74 %
XHTML East of England

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.

XHTML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XHTML across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the Essex region over the 3 months to 14 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
Harlow	-	2	-	-

XHTML East of England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 7 (87.50 %) HTML 1 7 (87.50 %) JavaScript 1 7 (87.50 %) CSS 2 6 (75.00 %) .NET 3 4 (50.00 %) AJAX 4 3 (37.50 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (37.50 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (37.50 %) QA 4 3 (37.50 %) Selenium 4 3 (37.50 %) FitNesse 4 3 (37.50 %) Web Testing 4 3 (37.50 %) JMeter 4 3 (37.50 %) Scrum 4 3 (37.50 %) Extreme Programming 4 3 (37.50 %) WinRunner

4 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector 4 3 (37.50 %) QuickTest Pro 4 3 (37.50 %) LoadRunner 4 3 (37.50 %) PHP 4 3 (37.50 %) Java 4 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 5 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 5 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 5 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 5 2 (25.00 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (12.50 %) Subversion 6 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (12.50 %) CakePHP 6 1 (12.50 %) PHP5

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 7 (87.50 %) HTML 1 7 (87.50 %) CSS 2 6 (75.00 %) .NET 3 4 (50.00 %) AJAX 4 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 5 2 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (12.50 %) SOAP 6 1 (12.50 %) XML 6 1 (12.50 %) MVC 6 1 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (12.50 %) CakePHP	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) WinRunner 1 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector 1 3 (37.50 %) QuickTest Pro 1 3 (37.50 %) LoadRunner 1 3 (37.50 %) JMeter 1 3 (37.50 %) Selenium 1 3 (37.50 %) FitNesse 2 1 (12.50 %) Subversion
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (12.50 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) Tester 3 2 (25.00 %) PHP Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (25.00 %) Systems Tester 4 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) HTML Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Web Tester
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 1 (12.50 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Scrum 1 3 (37.50 %) Extreme Programming 1 3 (37.50 %) Agile Software Development 1 3 (37.50 %) Automated Testing 1 3 (37.50 %) Web Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) OO 2 1 (12.50 %) Performance Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 7 (87.50 %) JavaScript 2 3 (37.50 %) Java 2 3 (37.50 %) PHP 3 1 (12.50 %) VB 3 1 (12.50 %) Python 3 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP5 3 1 (12.50 %) PHP4 3 1 (12.50 %) DHTML 3 1 (12.50 %) Perl	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (37.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Quark 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle