The first table below looks at the demand for WAI 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 WAI over the 3 months to 20 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Rank 373 400 432
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +32
Contract jobs citing WAI 8 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.495% 0.095% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
Average daily rate £338 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +3.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £243 £325
% change year-on-year
+39.17% -25.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year
-3.70% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1617 2111 2349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.454% 7.862% 7.656%
Number of daily rates quoted 1109 1319 1523
Average daily rate £450 £464 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.96% -2.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £650 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 63 53
Average hourly rate £33.75 £17.87 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.91% -0.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £11.65 £11.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.90 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%
WAI
England

WAI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WAI across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

London WAI Jobs Demand Trend

WAI
Daily Rate Trend

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

London WAI Daily Rate Trend

WAI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAI across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London WAI Daily Rate Histogram

WAI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London WAI Hourly Rate Trend

WAI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAI within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 - 2 £338 -
Canary Wharf - 1 £500 -
WAI
England

WAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing WAI 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 WAI.

1 15 (68.18%) CSS
2 14 (63.64%) HTML
2 14 (63.64%) W3C
3 12 (54.55%) Photoshop
4 9 (40.91%) HTML5
4 9 (40.91%) CSS3
5 8 (36.36%) Multithreading
5 8 (36.36%) Java
5 8 (36.36%) JUnit
5 8 (36.36%) JSP
5 8 (36.36%) JSF
5 8 (36.36%) Banking
6 7 (31.82%) Maven
6 7 (31.82%) Dreamweaver
6 7 (31.82%) Ant
6 7 (31.82%) Selenium
6 7 (31.82%) JIRA
6 7 (31.82%) Unit Testing
6 7 (31.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
7 6 (27.27%) Information Architecture
7 6 (27.27%) Content Management
7 6 (27.27%) Atlassian
7 6 (27.27%) VisualAge
7 6 (27.27%) Apache
7 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 6 (27.27%) IBM
7 6 (27.27%) Eclipse
7 6 (27.27%) SEO

WAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (68.18%) CSS
2 14 (63.64%) HTML
3 9 (40.91%) HTML5
3 9 (40.91%) CSS3
4 8 (36.36%) JSP
4 8 (36.36%) JSF
5 5 (22.73%) jQuery
6 4 (18.18%) XHTML
7 3 (13.64%) XML
8 2 (9.091%) .NET
8 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET
8 2 (9.091%) .NET Framework
9 1 (4.545%) WCF
9 1 (4.545%) Silverlight
9 1 (4.545%) LINQ
9 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (4.545%) Web Services
9 1 (4.545%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) Apache
2 3 (13.64%) Drupal
3 2 (9.091%) IIS
3 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.545%) CMS
4 1 (4.545%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (4.545%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Photoshop
2 4 (18.18%) Acrobat
2 4 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) Internet
2 2 (9.091%) Intranet
3 1 (4.545%) SMS
3 1 (4.545%) FTP
3 1 (4.545%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) MySQL
1 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JUnit
2 7 (31.82%) Dreamweaver
2 7 (31.82%) Maven
2 7 (31.82%) JIRA
2 7 (31.82%) Selenium
2 7 (31.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) Ant
3 6 (27.27%) VisualAge
3 6 (27.27%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (36.36%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Retail
2 5 (22.73%) Publishing
3 4 (18.18%) Local Government
4 1 (4.545%) Marketing
4 1 (4.545%) Interactive Media
4 1 (4.545%) Finance
4 1 (4.545%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Front-End Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Web Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Web Editor
4 1 (4.545%) Website Editor
4 1 (4.545%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Web Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Product Manager
4 1 (4.545%) HTML Developer
4 1 (4.545%) User Experience Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Designer
4 1 (4.545%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) W3C
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.545%) BBC
3 1 (4.545%) Online Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Graphic Design
3 1 (4.545%) Copywriting
3 1 (4.545%) Visualisation
3 1 (4.545%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Multithreading
2 7 (31.82%) Unit Testing
2 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (27.27%) Content Management
3 6 (27.27%) SEO
3 6 (27.27%) Information Architecture
4 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (9.091%) Web Development
6 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (4.545%) BDD
6 1 (4.545%) TDD
6 1 (4.545%) MVC
6 1 (4.545%) Workflow
6 1 (4.545%) Validation
6 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.545%) Scrum
6 1 (4.545%) Supplier Management
6 1 (4.545%) User Experience Design
6 1 (4.545%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.091%) PHP
3 2 (9.091%) C#
4 1 (4.545%) Ada
4 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) IBM
1 6 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 5 (22.73%) Adobe
3 1 (4.545%) SAP