Hertfordshire HTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HTML over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Romford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	18
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	104	124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.139 %	0.125 %
As % of the category below	21.10 %	26.61 %
Daily rates quoted	54	54
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£262
Average daily rate	£332	£277
% change on same period last year	+19.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£297
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.50	£24.40
Average hourly rate	£26.20	£27.43
% change on same period last year	-4.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.90	£30.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.49	£27.22
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	493	466
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.657 %	0.471 %
Daily rates quoted	213	179
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£311
Average daily rate	£394	£333
% change on same period last year	+18.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£430	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.90	£29.91
Average hourly rate	£31.25	£31.73
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.59	£33.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
HTML 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.

HTML
Demand Trend

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

HTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Watford	-4	16	£265	+1.58 %
St Albans	-2	6	-	-
Rickmansworth	-	2	-	-
Stevenage	-10	2	£275	-31.25 %
Bishop's Stortford	-	1	-	-
Ware	0	1	-	-

HTML East of England

HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing 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 HTML.

1 143 (66.20 %) CSS 2 106 (49.07 %) JavaScript 3 97 (44.91 %) XML 4 96 (44.44 %) XHTML 5 68 (31.48 %) AJAX 6 66 (30.56 %) E-Commerce 7 58 (26.85 %) W3C 8 50 (23.15 %) Retail 9 43 (19.91 %) Internet 10 41 (18.98 %) .NET 11 40 (18.52 %) SQL 12 39 (18.06 %) Java 12 39 (18.06 %) Flash 13 35 (16.20 %) DHTML 14 34 (15.74 %) ASP.NET

15 31 (14.35 %) JSP 16 29 (13.43 %) Photoshop 16 29 (13.43 %) OO 17 26 (12.04 %) XSL 17 26 (12.04 %) J2EE 17 26 (12.04 %) WCAG 18 25 (11.57 %) CMS 18 25 (11.57 %) DOM 19 24 (11.11 %) SQL Server 19 24 (11.11 %) iDTV 20 23 (10.65 %) TeamSite 20 23 (10.65 %) Content Management 21 22 (10.19 %) Web Development 21 22 (10.19 %) Interwoven 21 22 (10.19 %) XSLT

HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing 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 HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 143 (66.20 %) CSS 2 97 (44.91 %) XML 3 96 (44.44 %) XHTML 4 68 (31.48 %) AJAX 5 41 (18.98 %) .NET 6 34 (15.74 %) ASP.NET 7 31 (14.35 %) JSP 8 26 (12.04 %) J2EE 8 26 (12.04 %) XSL 9 25 (11.57 %) DOM 10 22 (10.19 %) XSLT 11 21 (9.722 %) ASP 12 18 (8.333 %) WebServices 13 17 (7.870 %) Struts 13 17 (7.870 %) Servlets 14 16 (7.407 %) WebSphere 15 12 (5.556 %) JDBC 15 12 (5.556 %) EJB 16 10 (4.630 %) JSF 16 10 (4.630 %) LAMP	Application Platforms 1 25 (11.57 %) CMS 2 23 (10.65 %) TeamSite 3 20 (9.259 %) IIS 4 8 (3.704 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 8 (3.704 %) BizTalk Server 4 8 (3.704 %) MQSeries 5 7 (3.241 %) WebLogic 6 6 (2.778 %) JBoss 7 4 (1.852 %) Tomcat 8 3 (1.389 %) Apache 9 1 (0.463 %) Tuxedo 9 1 (0.463 %) Commerce Server 9 1 (0.463 %) Joomla! 9 1 (0.463 %) Mambo
Applications 1 29 (13.43 %) Photoshop 2 6 (2.778 %) FreeHand 2 6 (2.778 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 5 (2.315 %) Fireworks 4 4 (1.852 %) RoboDemo 4 4 (1.852 %) Adobe Captivate 4 4 (1.852 %) MS Office 4 4 (1.852 %) Acrobat 4 4 (1.852 %) RoboHelp 5 3 (1.389 %) Spreadsheet 6 2 (0.926 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 43 (19.91 %) Internet 2 14 (6.481 %) HTTP 3 4 (1.852 %) TCP/IP 3 4 (1.852 %) SMTP 3 4 (1.852 %) FTP 3 4 (1.852 %) SSH 4 3 (1.389 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2 11 (5.093 %) DB2 3 8 (3.704 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 7 (3.241 %) SQL Server 2005 5 5 (2.315 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (1.852 %) RDBMS 6 4 (1.852 %) MS Access 7 3 (1.389 %) MySQL 7 3 (1.389 %) DTS 8 1 (0.463 %) Datawarehouse 8 1 (0.463 %) OLAP 8 1 (0.463 %) Oracle Reports 8 1 (0.463 %) SQL Server 7 8 1 (0.463 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (0.463 %) JasperReports	Development Applications 1 39 (18.06 %) Flash 2 14 (6.481 %) Dreamweaver 3 12 (5.556 %) OpenDeploy 4 8 (3.704 %) JUnit 5 5 (2.315 %) Eclipse 6 2 (0.926 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 1 (0.463 %) JDeveloper 7 1 (0.463 %) Visual Studio 7 1 (0.463 %) ClearCase 7 1 (0.463 %) JBuilder 7 1 (0.463 %) WinRunner 7 1 (0.463 %) TestDirector 7 1 (0.463 %) QuickTest Pro 7 1 (0.463 %) LoadRunner 7 1 (0.463 %) ClearQuest 7 1 (0.463 %) JMeter 7 1 (0.463 %) NUnit 7 1 (0.463 %) Selenium 7 1 (0.463 %) FitNesse
General 1 50 (23.15 %) Retail 2 14 (6.481 %) Marketing 3 12 (5.556 %) Telecoms 4 7 (3.241 %) Animation 5 6 (2.778 %) Graphic Design 5 6 (2.778 %) Publishing 6 5 (2.315 %) Pharmaceutical 7 4 (1.852 %) Multimedia 8 3 (1.389 %) Games 8 3 (1.389 %) Finance 8 3 (1.389 %) Education 9 2 (0.926 %) Legal 10 1 (0.463 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (0.463 %) Electric 10 1 (0.463 %) Health 10 1 (0.463 %) Billing 10 1 (0.463 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 146 (67.59 %) Developer 2 38 (17.59 %) Web Developer 3 22 (10.19 %) Team Leader 4 21 (9.722 %) Java Developer 5 17 (7.870 %) UI Developer 6 13 (6.019 %) Architect 7 10 (4.630 %) Web Team Leader 7 10 (4.630 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 9 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 8 9 (4.167 %) Web Designer 9 8 (3.704 %) ASP Developer 10 6 (2.778 %) Junior Developer 10 6 (2.778 %) JavaScript Developer 10 6 (2.778 %) Solutions Architect 10 6 (2.778 %) Junior 10 6 (2.778 %) Software Engineer 10 6 (2.778 %) Flash Designer 11 5 (2.315 %) Lead Developer 11 5 (2.315 %) Development Team Leader 12 4 (1.852 %) Photoshop Designer
Miscellaneous 1 58 (26.85 %) W3C 2 24 (11.11 %) iDTV 3 4 (1.852 %) Web 2.0 4 2 (0.926 %) Computer Science 4 2 (0.926 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.463 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 17 (7.870 %) Windows 2 12 (5.556 %) Solaris 3 11 (5.093 %) Windows NT 4 5 (2.315 %) Windows XP 5 4 (1.852 %) UNIX 6 2 (0.926 %) Linux 6 2 (0.926 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (0.463 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 66 (30.56 %) E-Commerce 2 29 (13.43 %) OO 3 23 (10.65 %) Content Management 4 22 (10.19 %) Web Development 5 16 (7.407 %) Scrum 5 16 (7.407 %) Change Management 6 14 (6.481 %) UML 7 13 (6.019 %) Web Design 8 9 (4.167 %) SEO 8 9 (4.167 %) RAD 9 8 (3.704 %) Continuous Integration 10 7 (3.241 %) Use Case 11 6 (2.778 %) Agile Software Development 12 5 (2.315 %) B2B 13 3 (1.389 %) Configuration Management 13 3 (1.389 %) Project Management 13 3 (1.389 %) SOA 13 3 (1.389 %) Release Management 14 2 (0.926 %) Internet Marketing 14 2 (0.926 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 106 (49.07 %) JavaScript 2 40 (18.52 %) SQL 3 39 (18.06 %) Java 4 35 (16.20 %) DHTML 5 20 (9.259 %) VBScript 6 19 (8.796 %) C# 7 17 (7.870 %) ActionScript 8 14 (6.481 %) C 9 11 (5.093 %) Perl 10 10 (4.630 %) VB.NET 11 9 (4.167 %) VB 12 8 (3.704 %) PHP 13 5 (2.315 %) VB6 13 5 (2.315 %) XPath 14 2 (0.926 %) Transact-SQL 14 2 (0.926 %) C++ 15 1 (0.463 %) Delphi
Qualifications 1 10 (4.630 %) Degree 2 6 (2.778 %) HND 2 6 (2.778 %) Microsoft Certification 3 5 (2.315 %) MCAD 4 4 (1.852 %) MCP 5 3 (1.389 %) MCSD 6 1 (0.463 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (0.463 %) Sun Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (12.04 %) WCAG 2 4 (1.852 %) WAI 3 2 (0.926 %) QA
Vendors 1 22 (10.19 %) Interwoven 2 15 (6.944 %) IBM 3 14 (6.481 %) Microsoft 3 14 (6.481 %) Adobe 3 14 (6.481 %) Oracle 4 8 (3.704 %) Macromedia 5 4 (1.852 %) BEA 6 3 (1.389 %) Borland 7 2 (0.926 %) Tridion 7 2 (0.926 %) Symbian 8 1 (0.463 %) Sun