Lancashire XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) 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 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	24	44
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	11	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	12.79 %	1.613 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£297
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+14.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.54	£31.34
% change on same period last year	-18.51 %
Application Development Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	86	124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.115 %	0.125 %
Daily rates quoted	5	22
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£322
Average daily rate	£291	£352
% change on same period last year	-17.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.23	£22.47
Average hourly rate	£29.14	£26.84
% change on same period last year	+8.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.04	£31.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XHTML 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.

XHTML
Demand Trend

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Lancashire 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
Preston	+5	3	-	-
Burnley	-	1	-	-

XHTML North West

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 11 (91.67 %) CSS 2 8 (66.67 %) HTML 3 6 (50.00 %) JavaScript 4 5 (41.67 %) .NET 4 5 (41.67 %) C# 4 5 (41.67 %) E-Commerce 5 4 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (33.33 %) Flash 5 4 (33.33 %) SQL Server 5 4 (33.33 %) XML 6 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 6 3 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver 7 2 (16.67 %) SharePoint 7 2 (16.67 %) Photoshop 7 2 (16.67 %) MySQL

7 2 (16.67 %) PHP 7 2 (16.67 %) SQL 7 2 (16.67 %) Web Design 7 2 (16.67 %) AJAX 7 2 (16.67 %) Construction 7 2 (16.67 %) CMS 7 2 (16.67 %) Multimedia 8 1 (8.333 %) Subversion 8 1 (8.333 %) Content Management 8 1 (8.333 %) Spring 8 1 (8.333 %) Hibernate 8 1 (8.333 %) Scrum 8 1 (8.333 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 1 (8.333 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (8.333 %) SEO

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 11 (91.67 %) CSS 2 8 (66.67 %) HTML 3 5 (41.67 %) .NET 4 4 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (33.33 %) XML 5 2 (16.67 %) AJAX 6 1 (8.333 %) Silverlight 6 1 (8.333 %) XSLT 6 1 (8.333 %) Java RMI 6 1 (8.333 %) Hibernate 6 1 (8.333 %) Spring 6 1 (8.333 %) JSP 6 1 (8.333 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 2 (16.67 %) SharePoint 1 2 (16.67 %) CMS 2 1 (8.333 %) Apache 2 1 (8.333 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) Photoshop 2 1 (8.333 %) MS Excel 2 1 (8.333 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 1 (8.333 %) FTP 1 1 (8.333 %) Intranet 1 1 (8.333 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 3 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (16.67 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 4 (33.33 %) Flash 2 3 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (8.333 %) Subversion 3 1 (8.333 %) Ant
General 1 2 (16.67 %) Construction 1 2 (16.67 %) Multimedia 2 1 (8.333 %) Marketing 2 1 (8.333 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 10 (83.33 %) Developer 2 4 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 2 4 (33.33 %) C# Developer 3 3 (25.00 %) Web Developer 3 3 (25.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (16.67 %) PHP Developer 4 2 (16.67 %) MySQL Developer 4 2 (16.67 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) Coordinator 5 1 (8.333 %) PHP Web Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) HTML Developer 5 1 (8.333 %) Web Designer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) EPoS 1 1 (8.333 %) W3C	Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (41.67 %) E-Commerce 2 2 (16.67 %) Web Design 3 1 (8.333 %) Content Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Web Development 3 1 (8.333 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (8.333 %) SEO 3 1 (8.333 %) Scrum 3 1 (8.333 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 6 (50.00 %) JavaScript 2 5 (41.67 %) C# 3 2 (16.67 %) PHP 3 2 (16.67 %) SQL 4 1 (8.333 %) VBScript 4 1 (8.333 %) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (8.333 %) WAI	Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft