The first table below looks at the demand for Semantic HTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Semantic HTML 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 London 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
Semantic HTML (Semantic Markup)
Rank 356 401 429
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +28
Contract jobs citing Semantic HTML 21 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.097% 0.033% 0.019%
As % of the Application Development category 0.333% 0.119% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 2
Average daily rate £350 £288 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £245 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £328 £298
UK excluding London average daily rate - £245 £310
% change year-on-year
- -20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 106 137
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Semantic HTML
England

Semantic HTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Semantic HTML Jobs Demand Trend

Semantic HTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Semantic HTML Daily Rate Trend

Semantic HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Semantic HTML across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Semantic HTML Daily Rate Histogram

Semantic HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Semantic HTML Hourly Rate Trend

Semantic HTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic HTML within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
City of London +23 5 £300 -9.09%
Semantic HTML
England

Semantic HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Semantic 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 Semantic HTML.

1 33 (100.00%) CSS
2 32 (96.97%) JavaScript
3 30 (90.91%) HTML
3 30 (90.91%) jQuery
4 27 (81.82%) CSS3
5 26 (78.79%) HTML5
6 15 (45.45%) Progressive Enhancement
6 15 (45.45%) Graceful Degradation
6 15 (45.45%) SQL
6 15 (45.45%) OO
7 14 (42.42%) MVC
8 13 (39.39%) Java
8 13 (39.39%) Git (software)
9 11 (33.33%) MySQL
10 10 (30.30%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (27.27%) Subversion
11 9 (27.27%) PHP
11 9 (27.27%) OOP
11 9 (27.27%) Adobe
11 9 (27.27%) Facebook
11 9 (27.27%) Twitter
12 8 (24.24%) Photoshop
13 7 (21.21%) Ajax
13 7 (21.21%) Google
13 7 (21.21%) JSON
13 7 (21.21%) Jasmine
13 7 (21.21%) Apple iOS
13 7 (21.21%) Android
14 6 (18.18%) Google Maps API

Semantic HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Semantic 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 Semantic HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (100.00%) CSS
2 30 (90.91%) HTML
2 30 (90.91%) jQuery
3 27 (81.82%) CSS3
4 26 (78.79%) HTML5
5 7 (21.21%) Ajax
5 7 (21.21%) JSON
6 6 (18.18%) Google Maps API
6 6 (18.18%) CodeIgniter
6 6 (18.18%) CakePHP
6 6 (18.18%) iOS SDK
7 5 (15.15%) XML
8 4 (12.12%) Node.js
8 4 (12.12%) Spring MVC
8 4 (12.12%) RESTful
8 4 (12.12%) Spring
9 3 (9.091%) Ruby on Rails
9 3 (9.091%) FreeMarker
9 3 (9.091%) Sinatra
9 3 (9.091%) Mustache
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.12%) CMS
2 3 (9.091%) WordPress
2 3 (9.091%) Drupal
3 1 (3.030%) Apache
3 1 (3.030%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (24.24%) Photoshop
2 4 (12.12%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (6.061%) GIMP
Business Applications
1 2 (6.061%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (3.030%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) MySQL
2 9 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.061%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Git (software)
2 9 (27.27%) Subversion
3 7 (21.21%) Jasmine
4 4 (12.12%) Selenium
5 3 (9.091%) Mercurial
5 3 (9.091%) Firebug
6 1 (3.030%) JIRA
6 1 (3.030%) QUnit
General
1 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 3 (9.091%) Publishing
2 3 (9.091%) Marketing
3 2 (6.061%) Games
3 2 (6.061%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.061%) Electronics
3 2 (6.061%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (100.00%) Developer
2 19 (57.58%) Front-End Developer
3 14 (42.42%) Senior Developer
4 7 (21.21%) PHP Developer
5 6 (18.18%) UI Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 6 (18.18%) UI Programmer
6 5 (15.15%) Web Developer
6 5 (15.15%) Senior PHP Developer
7 4 (12.12%) Front-End Web Developer
8 3 (9.091%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (9.091%) Senior UI Developer
9 1 (3.030%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) W3C
2 3 (9.091%) Computer Science
2 3 (9.091%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.061%) Open Source
3 2 (6.061%) Mathematics
3 2 (6.061%) DTV
4 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.030%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.030%) iPhone
4 1 (3.030%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Apple iOS
1 7 (21.21%) Android
2 5 (15.15%) UNIX
2 5 (15.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Progressive Enhancement
1 15 (45.45%) Graceful Degradation
1 15 (45.45%) OO
2 14 (42.42%) MVC
3 10 (30.30%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (27.27%) OOP
5 6 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 5 (15.15%) SEO
6 5 (15.15%) Analytics
7 4 (12.12%) Unit Testing
7 4 (12.12%) Scrum
7 4 (12.12%) TDD
8 3 (9.091%) E-Commerce
8 3 (9.091%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (6.061%) Digital Marketing
9 2 (6.061%) Web Analytics
9 2 (6.061%) Validation
9 2 (6.061%) Programme Management
9 2 (6.061%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (6.061%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (96.97%) JavaScript
2 15 (45.45%) SQL
3 13 (39.39%) Java
4 9 (27.27%) PHP
5 6 (18.18%) Objective-C
6 5 (15.15%) Ruby
7 2 (6.061%) Scala
8 1 (3.030%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Adobe
1 9 (27.27%) Facebook
1 9 (27.27%) Twitter
2 7 (21.21%) Google
3 2 (6.061%) SAP
4 1 (3.030%) JBoss
4 1 (3.030%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.030%) Zend
London
Technical Requirements" HTML" CSS" JavaScript, including frameworks (JQuery, Backbone, YUI, Dojo, etc)Additional Requirements" Must understand and be prepared to discuss semantic markup, advanced CSS concepts, accessibility, etc.".....
Premier Group
Rate: £200.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Technical Requirements " HTML " CSS " JavaScript, including frameworks (JQuery, Backbone, YUI, Dojo, etc) Additional Requirements " Must understand and be prepared to discuss semantic markup, advanced CSS concepts, accessibility, etc... "...
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £200.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013