Leeds XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the Leeds 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	73	63
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	5	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	1.597 %	2.676 %
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	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£28.50	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+26.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.54	£31.34
% change on same period last year	-18.51 %
Application Development Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	313	299
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.417 %	0.303 %
Daily rates quoted	54	44
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£331
Average daily rate	£297	£354
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.55	£23.78
Average hourly rate	£32.51	£25.08
% change on same period last year	+29.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.47	£26.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XHTML West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 35 (100.00 %) CSS 2 23 (65.71 %) JavaScript 3 22 (62.86 %) .NET 4 17 (48.57 %) ASP.NET 5 16 (45.71 %) HTML 6 14 (40.00 %) C# 7 12 (34.29 %) AJAX 7 12 (34.29 %) SQL Server 7 12 (34.29 %) Photoshop 7 12 (34.29 %) XML 8 10 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 9 9 (25.71 %) E-Commerce 10 8 (22.86 %) Dreamweaver 10 8 (22.86 %) W3C 10 8 (22.86 %) PHP

11 6 (17.14 %) Web Development 11 6 (17.14 %) SQL Server 2005 11 6 (17.14 %) SQL 12 5 (14.29 %) ASP 12 5 (14.29 %) Flash 12 5 (14.29 %) CMS 12 5 (14.29 %) Adobe Illustrator 13 4 (11.43 %) Fireworks 13 4 (11.43 %) Web 2.0 13 4 (11.43 %) RSS 13 4 (11.43 %) Apache 13 4 (11.43 %) DOM 13 4 (11.43 %) Linux 13 4 (11.43 %) Adobe 13 4 (11.43 %) ActionScript

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 35 (100.00 %) CSS 2 22 (62.86 %) .NET 3 17 (48.57 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (45.71 %) HTML 5 12 (34.29 %) XML 5 12 (34.29 %) AJAX 6 5 (14.29 %) ASP 7 4 (11.43 %) DOM 7 4 (11.43 %) RSS 7 4 (11.43 %) JSON 8 2 (5.714 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (5.714 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (2.857 %) KML 9 1 (2.857 %) MonoRail 9 1 (2.857 %) Google Maps API 9 1 (2.857 %) NHibernate 9 1 (2.857 %) WebServices 9 1 (2.857 %) MVC 9 1 (2.857 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 5 (14.29 %) CMS 2 4 (11.43 %) Apache 3 3 (8.571 %) IIS 4 2 (5.714 %) ColdFusion 5 1 (2.857 %) SharePoint 5 1 (2.857 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 12 (34.29 %) Photoshop 2 5 (14.29 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 4 (11.43 %) Fireworks 4 3 (8.571 %) FreeHand 5 1 (2.857 %) Acrobat	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.714 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (34.29 %) SQL Server 2 6 (17.14 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (5.714 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (5.714 %) MySQL 4 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 10 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (22.86 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (14.29 %) Flash 4 1 (2.857 %) Subversion 4 1 (2.857 %) FrontPage
General 1 2 (5.714 %) Telecoms 2 1 (2.857 %) Publishing 2 1 (2.857 %) Retail 2 1 (2.857 %) Marketing 2 1 (2.857 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 31 (88.57 %) Developer 2 13 (37.14 %) Web Developer 3 12 (34.29 %) .NET Developer 4 7 (20.00 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 4 (11.43 %) Web Designer 5 4 (11.43 %) PHP Developer 6 2 (5.714 %) C# Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) Software Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) ColdFusion Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) .NET Web Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) HTML Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) .NET Designer 7 1 (2.857 %) JavaScript Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) Website Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (22.86 %) W3C 2 4 (11.43 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (2.857 %) Mathematics 3 1 (2.857 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 4 (11.43 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (25.71 %) E-Commerce 2 6 (17.14 %) Web Development 3 1 (2.857 %) OOP 3 1 (2.857 %) OO 3 1 (2.857 %) B2B 3 1 (2.857 %) SEO 3 1 (2.857 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 23 (65.71 %) JavaScript 2 14 (40.00 %) C# 3 8 (22.86 %) PHP 4 6 (17.14 %) SQL 5 4 (11.43 %) ActionScript 6 1 (2.857 %) VBScript 6 1 (2.857 %) VB.NET 6 1 (2.857 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (2.857 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 1 (2.857 %) Degree	Vendors 1 4 (11.43 %) Adobe 2 1 (2.857 %) Google 2 1 (2.857 %) Oracle 2 1 (2.857 %) Microsoft