Lancashire HTML Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) skills within the Lancashire 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Amersham Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dundee East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Romford Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Asaph Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton-in-Ashfield Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	22	25
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	11	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	19.30 %	15.57 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£330
Average daily rate	£425	£353
% change on same period last year	+20.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£293
% change on same period last year	-7.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.50	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£31.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-22.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.58
% change on same period last year	-6.78 %
Application Development Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	57	122
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.114 %	0.153 %
Daily rates quoted	8	25
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£287
Average daily rate	£298	£308
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£334
% change on same period last year	-5.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.70	£24.86
Average hourly rate	£22.38	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-17.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.06	£29.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.48	£31.45
% change on same period last year	-9.45 %
HTML North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

HTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

HTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009. 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	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
Preston	+4	2	-	-
Lancaster	-	1	£425	-
Morecambe	-	1	-	-

HTML North West

HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 22 (55.00 %) JavaScript 2 20 (50.00 %) CSS 3 14 (35.00 %) XHTML 4 11 (27.50 %) C# 4 11 (27.50 %) .NET 4 11 (27.50 %) Dreamweaver 5 10 (25.00 %) ASP 5 10 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 6 9 (22.50 %) ASP.NET 6 9 (22.50 %) SQL Server 6 9 (22.50 %) Java 7 8 (20.00 %) FTP 7 8 (20.00 %) Flash 7 8 (20.00 %) Construction 8 7 (17.50 %) Photoshop

8 7 (17.50 %) Oracle 8 7 (17.50 %) Web Development 9 6 (15.00 %) XML 10 5 (12.50 %) XSLT 10 5 (12.50 %) UNIX 10 5 (12.50 %) Linux 10 5 (12.50 %) C 10 5 (12.50 %) C++ 10 5 (12.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 5 (12.50 %) Adobe 11 4 (10.00 %) 3ds Max 11 4 (10.00 %) Multimedia 11 4 (10.00 %) VB6 11 4 (10.00 %) Video Editing 11 4 (10.00 %) Autodesk

HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 20 (50.00 %) CSS 2 14 (35.00 %) XHTML 3 11 (27.50 %) .NET 4 10 (25.00 %) ASP 5 9 (22.50 %) ASP.NET 6 8 (20.00 %) Flash 7 6 (15.00 %) XML 8 5 (12.50 %) XSLT 9 3 (7.500 %) ADO 9 3 (7.500 %) AJAX 9 3 (7.500 %) JSP 10 2 (5.000 %) Servlets 10 2 (5.000 %) JDBC 10 2 (5.000 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (2.500 %) JSON 11 1 (2.500 %) Zend Framework 11 1 (2.500 %) WebServices 11 1 (2.500 %) J2EE 11 1 (2.500 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.500 %) SharePoint 1 1 (2.500 %) ColdFusion 1 1 (2.500 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (17.50 %) Photoshop 2 5 (12.50 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 4 (10.00 %) Adobe Premiere 3 4 (10.00 %) 3ds Max 4 1 (2.500 %) ImageReady	Communications & Networking 1 8 (20.00 %) FTP 2 2 (5.000 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (22.50 %) SQL Server 2 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.500 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 11 (27.50 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (2.500 %) Visual Studio
General 1 8 (20.00 %) Construction 2 4 (10.00 %) Multimedia 2 4 (10.00 %) Video Editing 3 2 (5.000 %) Marketing 3 2 (5.000 %) Military 3 2 (5.000 %) Aerospace 4 1 (2.500 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 24 (60.00 %) Developer 2 15 (37.50 %) Web Developer 3 8 (20.00 %) .NET Developer 4 5 (12.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 5 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) C# Developer 5 4 (10.00 %) C# ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) .NET Web Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) VB6 Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) C# Web Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) VB.NET Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) VB Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) Lead Developer 7 2 (5.000 %) Project Manager 7 2 (5.000 %) Web Designer 8 1 (2.500 %) ASP Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) SQL Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) PHP Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) Coordinator
Miscellaneous 1 3 (7.500 %) SCORM 2 2 (5.000 %) W3C 3 1 (2.500 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 5 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 5 (12.50 %) Linux 2 2 (5.000 %) Windows NT 2 2 (5.000 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (17.50 %) Web Development 2 4 (10.00 %) UML 2 4 (10.00 %) Project Management 2 4 (10.00 %) SEO 3 3 (7.500 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (5.000 %) Web Design 4 2 (5.000 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (5.000 %) Business Analysis 4 2 (5.000 %) Internet Marketing 4 2 (5.000 %) Project Planning 5 1 (2.500 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.500 %) Knowledge Management 5 1 (2.500 %) SOA 5 1 (2.500 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 22 (55.00 %) JavaScript 2 11 (27.50 %) C# 3 9 (22.50 %) Java 4 5 (12.50 %) C 4 5 (12.50 %) C++ 5 4 (10.00 %) PHP 5 4 (10.00 %) SQL 5 4 (10.00 %) VB 5 4 (10.00 %) VB.NET 5 4 (10.00 %) VB6 6 1 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.500 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 10 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (7.500 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (2.500 %) MBA 3 1 (2.500 %) Degree	Vendors 1 7 (17.50 %) Oracle 2 5 (12.50 %) Adobe 3 4 (10.00 %) Autodesk 4 1 (2.500 %) Zend