The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Liverpool 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank - 27 23
Contract jobs citing XHTML 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool - 1.622% 1.220%
As % of the Application Development category - 5.455% 7.407%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £243
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
37 55 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 26.24% 29.73% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 31 15
Average daily rate £375 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £275 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £375 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.79 £11.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.58% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
Merseyside

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool XHTML Hourly Rate Trend