The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 17 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 Luton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XHTML 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 4.000% - -
As % of the Application Development category 12.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
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
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
25 13 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 33.33% 19.40% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 12
Average daily rate £325 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £310 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £375 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
Bedfordshire

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
4 1 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) Apache
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) LAMP
4 1 (25.00%) PHP5
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Media

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal Developer
3 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) PHP5