The first table below looks at the demand for XHR 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 XHR 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XMLHttpRequest (XHR)
Rank 380 400 -
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -
Contract jobs citing XHR 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.007% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.016% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £310 £333 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.76% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 - £400
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
6292 7507 9363
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.00% 27.96% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4553 4947 6282
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 £285 £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 90 103 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.20 £17.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHR
England

XHR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London XHR Jobs Demand Trend

XHR
Daily Rate Trend

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

London XHR Daily Rate Trend

XHR
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SVG
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Omniture
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) RIA
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Google App Engine

XHR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) SVG
1 1 (100.00%) OpenGL
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Django
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) WebGL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) JSLint
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) OpenGL ES
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Google App Engine
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) HTML Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (100.00%) RIA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) GLSL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Omniture
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Facebook
1 1 (100.00%) Twitter