The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML 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 XHTML over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 253 178 163
Rank change year-on-year
-75 -15
Contract jobs citing XHTML 130 280 371
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.600% 1.039% 1.194%
As % of the Application Development category 2.054% 3.711% 3.908%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 197 265
Average daily rate £338 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £500 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
Average hourly rate £27.67 £15.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.46% -57.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+11.06% -0.96%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6329 7546 9494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.22% 28.01% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4552 4974 6394
Average daily rate £401 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.12% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £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 91 107 136
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 £15.95 £17.65
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%
XHTML
England

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London XHTML Daily Rate Histogram

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London XHTML Hourly Rate Histogram

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 -22 31 £350 +7.69%
Surbiton - 3 £275 -
Hackney - 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Croydon - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £275 -
XHTML
England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 258 (90.21%) CSS
2 237 (82.87%) JavaScript
3 197 (68.88%) HTML
4 142 (49.65%) jQuery
5 102 (35.66%) XML
6 82 (28.67%) HTML5
7 75 (26.22%) PHP
8 73 (25.52%) .NET
9 68 (23.78%) Ajax
10 65 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
10 65 (22.73%) CSS3
11 58 (20.28%) C#
12 57 (19.93%) SQL Server
13 56 (19.58%) OO
13 56 (19.58%) MVC
14 53 (18.53%) MySQL
15 52 (18.18%) SQL
16 50 (17.48%) W3C
17 48 (16.78%) ASP.NET
17 48 (16.78%) CMS
18 47 (16.43%) Java
19 46 (16.08%) TDD
20 43 (15.03%) Web Services
21 42 (14.69%) XSLT
21 42 (14.69%) E-Commerce
22 41 (14.34%) Scrum
23 38 (13.29%) Content Management
23 38 (13.29%) Web Development
24 36 (12.59%) Photoshop
25 30 (10.49%) JSON

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 258 (90.21%) CSS
2 197 (68.88%) HTML
3 142 (49.65%) jQuery
4 102 (35.66%) XML
5 82 (28.67%) HTML5
6 73 (25.52%) .NET
7 68 (23.78%) Ajax
8 65 (22.73%) CSS3
9 48 (16.78%) ASP.NET
10 43 (15.03%) Web Services
11 42 (14.69%) XSLT
12 30 (10.49%) JSON
13 29 (10.14%) .NET Framework
14 27 (9.441%) JSP
15 26 (9.091%) SOAP
16 23 (8.042%) ASP.NET MVC
17 19 (6.643%) Backbone.js
17 19 (6.643%) Servlets
18 18 (6.294%) J2EE
18 18 (6.294%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 48 (16.78%) CMS
2 24 (8.392%) Apache
3 21 (7.343%) Drupal
4 11 (3.846%) IIS
5 10 (3.497%) Oracle Workflow
5 10 (3.497%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.497%) Tomcat
6 9 (3.147%) SharePoint
7 8 (2.797%) WordPress
8 6 (2.098%) Magento
8 6 (2.098%) Lotus Domino
9 4 (1.399%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (1.399%) Kentico
10 3 (1.049%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (1.049%) EPiServer CMS
11 2 (0.699%) Windows Azure
11 2 (0.699%) Confluence
11 2 (0.699%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.699%) Lotus Notes
12 1 (0.350%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 36 (12.59%) Photoshop
2 12 (4.196%) Adobe Illustrator
3 8 (2.797%) GIMP
4 6 (2.098%) MS Excel
5 3 (1.049%) Fireworks
5 3 (1.049%) XMetaL
6 2 (0.699%) OmniGraffle
6 2 (0.699%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.350%) MS Office
7 1 (0.350%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.350%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.049%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.699%) RMDS
3 1 (0.350%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.350%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.350%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.294%) HTTP
2 16 (5.594%) Internet
3 13 (4.545%) Intranet
4 2 (0.699%) NFC
4 2 (0.699%) LAN
4 2 (0.699%) FTP
4 2 (0.699%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.350%) SMS
5 1 (0.350%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.350%) LDAP
5 1 (0.350%) Extranet
5 1 (0.350%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.93%) SQL Server
2 53 (18.53%) MySQL
3 30 (10.49%) SQL Server 2008
4 14 (4.895%) SQL Server 2005
5 10 (3.497%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.497%) RDBMS
6 8 (2.797%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.448%) SQL Server 2012
8 5 (1.748%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.748%) SQLite
8 5 (1.748%) SSDT
9 3 (1.049%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (1.049%) MarkLogic
10 2 (0.699%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.699%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.699%) CouchDB
10 2 (0.699%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.699%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.699%) OLAP
11 1 (0.350%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 29 (10.14%) Git (software)
2 26 (9.091%) Subversion
3 18 (6.294%) Maven
4 15 (5.245%) Visual Studio
5 14 (4.895%) Dreamweaver
6 9 (3.147%) Jenkins
7 8 (2.797%) RSpec
7 8 (2.797%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.797%) Mercurial
7 8 (2.797%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (2.448%) Ant
9 6 (2.098%) Hudson
9 6 (2.098%) Selenium
9 6 (2.098%) Eclipse
10 5 (1.748%) JUnit
10 5 (1.748%) Jasmine
11 4 (1.399%) Redmine
11 4 (1.399%) FogBugz
11 4 (1.399%) Trac
11 4 (1.399%) Capistrano
General
1 22 (7.692%) Publishing
2 20 (6.993%) Marketing
3 15 (5.245%) Finance
4 11 (3.846%) Banking
5 9 (3.147%) Multimedia
6 7 (2.448%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.098%) Retail
8 4 (1.399%) Automotive
8 4 (1.399%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.399%) Front Office
9 3 (1.049%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.699%) Back Office
11 1 (0.350%) Games
Job Titles
1 252 (88.11%) Developer
2 69 (24.13%) Web Developer
3 59 (20.63%) Front-End Developer
4 28 (9.790%) PHP Developer
5 23 (8.042%) Senior Developer
6 18 (6.294%) .NET Developer
7 15 (5.245%) Front-End Web Developer
8 14 (4.895%) HTML Developer
9 13 (4.545%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 11 (3.846%) UI Developer
10 11 (3.846%) UI Programmer
11 10 (3.497%) Drupal Developer
11 10 (3.497%) Designer
11 10 (3.497%) Lead Developer
12 9 (3.147%) Java Developer
13 8 (2.797%) Senior Web Developer
14 6 (2.098%) Django Developer
14 6 (2.098%) Lead Web Developer
14 6 (2.098%) Python Developer
14 6 (2.098%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.48%) W3C
2 16 (5.594%) Blackberry
3 14 (4.895%) iPhone
4 13 (4.545%) Computer Science
4 13 (4.545%) Open Source
5 11 (3.846%) Digital Media
6 9 (3.147%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.797%) Social Media
8 6 (2.098%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.748%) Social Network
10 4 (1.399%) Ontologies
10 4 (1.399%) Graphic Design
10 4 (1.399%) Semantic Web
11 3 (1.049%) N-Tier
11 3 (1.049%) iDTV
11 3 (1.049%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (1.049%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.049%) FMCG
11 3 (1.049%) Animation
11 3 (1.049%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.091%) Linux
2 15 (5.245%) Windows
3 10 (3.497%) Android
4 6 (2.098%) Apple iOS
4 6 (2.098%) UNIX
5 5 (1.748%) Windows Mobile
6 3 (1.049%) Solaris
6 3 (1.049%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.699%) Windows XP
8 1 (0.350%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.350%) HPUX
8 1 (0.350%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.350%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.350%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.350%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (22.73%) Agile Software Development
2 56 (19.58%) OO
2 56 (19.58%) MVC
3 46 (16.08%) TDD
4 42 (14.69%) E-Commerce
5 41 (14.34%) Scrum
6 38 (13.29%) Content Management
6 38 (13.29%) Web Development
7 22 (7.692%) OOP
8 20 (6.993%) Unit Testing
8 20 (6.993%) BDD
9 13 (4.545%) SEO
9 13 (4.545%) Workflow
9 13 (4.545%) Web Design
10 8 (2.797%) Analytics
10 8 (2.797%) Digital Marketing
10 8 (2.797%) CRM
11 6 (2.098%) Web Application Development
11 6 (2.098%) Test Scripting
11 6 (2.098%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 237 (82.87%) JavaScript
2 75 (26.22%) PHP
3 58 (20.28%) C#
4 52 (18.18%) SQL
5 47 (16.43%) Java
6 23 (8.042%) T-SQL
7 16 (5.594%) PHP5
8 14 (4.895%) Ruby
9 12 (4.196%) Python
10 8 (2.797%) XAML
10 8 (2.797%) C++
11 7 (2.448%) Perl
11 7 (2.448%) ActionScript
11 7 (2.448%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.098%) Erlang
13 5 (1.748%) C
13 5 (1.748%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.748%) XPath
14 4 (1.399%) Bash shell
14 4 (1.399%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 11 (3.846%) Degree
2 2 (0.699%) MCTS
2 2 (0.699%) PMP
2 2 (0.699%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.350%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.497%) WCAG
2 4 (1.399%) WAI
3 3 (1.049%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.350%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (7.692%) Oracle
2 18 (6.294%) Zend
3 15 (5.245%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.545%) Adobe
5 10 (3.497%) FatWire
6 9 (3.147%) Salesforce.com
7 6 (2.098%) Facebook
7 6 (2.098%) EPiServer
7 6 (2.098%) Lotus
8 5 (1.748%) Google
8 5 (1.748%) Twitter
9 4 (1.399%) Sun
10 3 (1.049%) Sybase
10 3 (1.049%) ION Trading
10 3 (1.049%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.699%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.699%) Telerik
11 2 (0.699%) Apple
11 2 (0.699%) HP
11 2 (0.699%) Progress
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