The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Lancashire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 29 39 27
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Contract jobs citing XHTML 2 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.905% 0.711% 1.674%
As % of the Application Development category 2.817% 2.308% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £350 £275 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -4.34%
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £285 £280
% change year-on-year
+3.07% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +37.93%
All Application Development
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
71 130 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 32.13% 30.81% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 70 25
Average daily rate £300 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £288 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £550 £464
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XHTML
North West

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire XHTML Jobs Demand Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Blackburn - 1 - -
Burnley - - - - 1
Chorley - - - -
Colne - - - -
Lancaster - - - - 1
XHTML
North West

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (50.00%) .NET
4 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
5 2 (33.33%) HTML5
5 2 (33.33%) CSS3
5 2 (33.33%) Graphic Design
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (33.33%) Adobe
5 2 (33.33%) Ajax
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Photoshop
5 2 (33.33%) XML
5 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (33.33%) MVC
6 1 (16.67%) CMS
6 1 (16.67%) Retail
6 1 (16.67%) Billing
6 1 (16.67%) Subversion
6 1 (16.67%) Content Management
6 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
6 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (16.67%) IBM
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (16.67%) Windows
6 1 (16.67%) UML

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
3 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) JDBC
5 1 (16.67%) JSP
5 1 (16.67%) Servlets
5 1 (16.67%) J2EE
5 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (16.67%) EJB
5 1 (16.67%) WCF
5 1 (16.67%) Backbone.js
5 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Mercurial
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) WebSphere Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Graphic Design
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Content Management
2 1 (16.67%) UML
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) RAD
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 1 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft