Kent XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the Kent 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	47
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	9.709 %	5.921 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£167	£238
Average daily rate	£182	£238
% change on same period last year	-23.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£198	£238
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£297
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£23.33	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-22.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.67	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.54	£31.34
% change on same period last year	-18.51 %
Application Development Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	103	152
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	20	33
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£236
Average daily rate	£310	£245
% change on same period last year	+26.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£254
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.60	£41.50
Average hourly rate	£30.50	£48.40
% change on same period last year	-36.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.39	£55.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XHTML South East

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 Kent 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 Kent region.

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

XHTML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the Kent 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
Tunbridge Wells	-	4	-	-
Sevenoaks	-	1	-	-

XHTML South East

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 25 (96.15 %) CSS 2 17 (65.38 %) JavaScript 3 14 (53.85 %) .NET 4 12 (46.15 %) HTML 5 11 (42.31 %) AJAX 6 10 (38.46 %) PHP 6 10 (38.46 %) SQL Server 6 10 (38.46 %) ASP 6 10 (38.46 %) ASP.NET 7 9 (34.62 %) MySQL 8 8 (30.77 %) SQL 8 8 (30.77 %) XML 9 6 (23.08 %) C# 9 6 (23.08 %) DHTML 9 6 (23.08 %) IIS

10 5 (19.23 %) Web Development 11 4 (15.38 %) W3C 11 4 (15.38 %) Photoshop 11 4 (15.38 %) E-Commerce 11 4 (15.38 %) VB 12 3 (11.54 %) OO 12 3 (11.54 %) Apache 12 3 (11.54 %) Flash 12 3 (11.54 %) ADSI 12 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft 12 3 (11.54 %) PHP5 12 3 (11.54 %) Marketing 13 2 (7.692 %) jQuery 13 2 (7.692 %) Requirements Analysis 13 2 (7.692 %) OOP

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 25 (96.15 %) CSS 2 14 (53.85 %) .NET 3 12 (46.15 %) HTML 4 11 (42.31 %) AJAX 5 10 (38.46 %) ASP 5 10 (38.46 %) ASP.NET 6 8 (30.77 %) XML 7 3 (11.54 %) ADSI 8 2 (7.692 %) ADO 8 2 (7.692 %) WebServices 8 2 (7.692 %) jQuery 9 1 (3.846 %) JSP 9 1 (3.846 %) MVC 9 1 (3.846 %) XSL 9 1 (3.846 %) XSLT 9 1 (3.846 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (3.846 %) Dojo 9 1 (3.846 %) Silverlight 9 1 (3.846 %) LINQ 9 1 (3.846 %) GWT	Application Platforms 1 6 (23.08 %) IIS 2 3 (11.54 %) Apache 3 2 (7.692 %) CMS 4 1 (3.846 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 4 (15.38 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (38.46 %) SQL Server 2 9 (34.62 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) Flash 2 1 (3.846 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 3 (11.54 %) Marketing 2 2 (7.692 %) Finance 3 1 (3.846 %) Publishing 3 1 (3.846 %) Graphic Design	Job Titles 1 21 (80.77 %) Developer 2 10 (38.46 %) Web Developer 3 8 (30.77 %) PHP Developer 4 5 (19.23 %) .NET Developer 5 4 (15.38 %) PHP Web Developer 6 3 (11.54 %) Web Designer 6 3 (11.54 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) C# Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) Programmer 8 1 (3.846 %) Analyst 8 1 (3.846 %) C# Web Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) Systems Programmer 8 1 (3.846 %) Web Programmer 8 1 (3.846 %) Photoshop Designer 8 1 (3.846 %) Website Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (15.38 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 2 (7.692 %) UNIX 1 2 (7.692 %) Windows 1 2 (7.692 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (19.23 %) Web Development 2 4 (15.38 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (11.54 %) OO 4 2 (7.692 %) Requirements Analysis 4 2 (7.692 %) OOP 5 1 (3.846 %) UML 5 1 (3.846 %) ERP 5 1 (3.846 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (3.846 %) OOD 5 1 (3.846 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.846 %) Migration 5 1 (3.846 %) Web Design 5 1 (3.846 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 17 (65.38 %) JavaScript 2 10 (38.46 %) PHP 3 8 (30.77 %) SQL 4 6 (23.08 %) C# 4 6 (23.08 %) DHTML 5 4 (15.38 %) VB 6 3 (11.54 %) PHP5 7 2 (7.692 %) Java 8 1 (3.846 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (3.846 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) Degree	Systems Management 1 2 (7.692 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 3 (11.54 %) Microsoft