Manchester HTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HTML over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Alderley Edge Altrincham Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Faringdon Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Greenhithe Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rickmansworth Romford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shoreham-by-Sea Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	13
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	84	83
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.112 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	18.79 %	32.05 %
Daily rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£173
Average daily rate	£297	£197
% change on same period last year	+50.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£222
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£297
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.29	£22.64
Average hourly rate	£23.29	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.29	£25.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.49	£27.22
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	447	259
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.596 %	0.262 %
Daily rates quoted	62	37
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£221
Average daily rate	£314	£245
% change on same period last year	+28.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£269
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.86	£25.63
Average hourly rate	£29.86	£27.50
% change on same period last year	+8.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.86	£29.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
HTML North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HTML across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	0	5	£265	-
Altrincham	-	2	-	-
Cheadle	-	1	£190	-

HTML North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing 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 HTML.

1 74 (46.25 %) CSS 2 70 (43.75 %) JavaScript 3 67 (41.88 %) .NET 4 59 (36.88 %) XML 5 54 (33.75 %) ASP.NET 6 48 (30.00 %) SQL 7 47 (29.38 %) C# 8 43 (26.88 %) SQL Server 9 35 (21.88 %) Oracle 10 31 (19.38 %) Java 11 27 (16.88 %) XHTML 11 27 (16.88 %) AJAX 12 26 (16.25 %) PL/SQL 13 25 (15.63 %) Photoshop 13 25 (15.63 %) WebServices

14 23 (14.38 %) Flash 14 23 (14.38 %) SQL Server 2005 15 21 (13.13 %) Visual Studio 15 21 (13.13 %) VB.NET 16 20 (12.50 %) PHP 16 20 (12.50 %) ASP 16 20 (12.50 %) JSP 17 19 (11.88 %) J2EE 18 15 (9.375 %) Web Design 19 14 (8.750 %) E-Commerce 19 14 (8.750 %) Dreamweaver 19 14 (8.750 %) XSLT 20 12 (7.500 %) OO 20 12 (7.500 %) W3C 20 12 (7.500 %) Content Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing 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 HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 74 (46.25 %) CSS 2 67 (41.88 %) .NET 3 59 (36.88 %) XML 4 54 (33.75 %) ASP.NET 5 27 (16.88 %) XHTML 5 27 (16.88 %) AJAX 6 25 (15.63 %) WebServices 7 20 (12.50 %) ASP 7 20 (12.50 %) JSP 8 19 (11.88 %) J2EE 9 14 (8.750 %) XSLT 10 11 (6.875 %) XSL 11 5 (3.125 %) Adobe Flex 11 5 (3.125 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 4 (2.500 %) .NET Framework 12 4 (2.500 %) Struts 13 3 (1.875 %) ADO.NET 13 3 (1.875 %) EJB 13 3 (1.875 %) Servlets 14 2 (1.250 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library	Application Platforms 1 11 (6.875 %) SharePoint 2 8 (5.000 %) CMS 3 5 (3.125 %) Oracle Workflow 4 3 (1.875 %) Tomcat 5 2 (1.250 %) Jetty 5 2 (1.250 %) MS Exchange 5 2 (1.250 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (1.250 %) IIS 6 1 (0.625 %) JBoss
Applications 1 25 (15.63 %) Photoshop 2 7 (4.375 %) Fireworks 2 7 (4.375 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 5 (3.125 %) MS Excel 4 3 (1.875 %) Acrobat 4 3 (1.875 %) RoboHelp 4 3 (1.875 %) FrameMaker 4 3 (1.875 %) CorelDRAW 5 2 (1.250 %) MS Office 6 1 (0.625 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 7 (4.375 %) Oracle iRecruitment 2 6 (3.750 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 4 (2.500 %) Internet 2 2 (1.250 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.625 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (26.88 %) SQL Server 2 23 (14.38 %) SQL Server 2005 3 11 (6.875 %) MySQL 4 9 (5.625 %) Oracle Reports 5 8 (5.000 %) RDBMS 6 4 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (1.250 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (1.250 %) OLAP 7 2 (1.250 %) Oracle 9i 7 2 (1.250 %) MS Access 8 1 (0.625 %) ETL 8 1 (0.625 %) SQL Server 7 8 1 (0.625 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (0.625 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 23 (14.38 %) Flash 2 21 (13.13 %) Visual Studio 3 14 (8.750 %) Dreamweaver 4 10 (6.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 4 (2.500 %) Eclipse 6 3 (1.875 %) Oracle Forms 7 2 (1.250 %) Ant 7 2 (1.250 %) ClearQuest 7 2 (1.250 %) ClearCase 7 2 (1.250 %) FrontPage 7 2 (1.250 %) Oracle APEX 8 1 (0.625 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.625 %) JUnit	General 1 6 (3.750 %) Telecoms 1 6 (3.750 %) Finance 1 6 (3.750 %) Marketing 2 4 (2.500 %) Graphic Design 3 3 (1.875 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (1.875 %) Insurance 4 2 (1.250 %) Banking 5 1 (0.625 %) Retail 5 1 (0.625 %) Animation 5 1 (0.625 %) Education 5 1 (0.625 %) Government 5 1 (0.625 %) Health 5 1 (0.625 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 122 (76.25 %) Developer 2 36 (22.50 %) Web Developer 2 36 (22.50 %) .NET Developer 3 30 (18.75 %) C# Developer 4 18 (11.25 %) Java Developer 5 15 (9.375 %) Web Designer 6 12 (7.500 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 12 (7.500 %) VB.NET Developer 7 8 (5.000 %) J2EE Developer 8 7 (4.375 %) Oracle Developer 8 7 (4.375 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 7 (4.375 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 6 (3.750 %) Author 9 6 (3.750 %) .NET Web Developer 9 6 (3.750 %) HTML Developer 10 5 (3.125 %) PHP Developer 10 5 (3.125 %) SharePoint Developer 11 4 (2.500 %) Software Engineer 11 4 (2.500 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 11 4 (2.500 %) Software Development Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (7.500 %) W3C 2 10 (6.250 %) N-Tier 3 4 (2.500 %) NHS 4 3 (1.875 %) Social Network 5 2 (1.250 %) RIA 5 2 (1.250 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.625 %) Photography 6 1 (0.625 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 10 (6.250 %) Windows 2 6 (3.750 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (9.375 %) Web Design 2 14 (8.750 %) E-Commerce 3 12 (7.500 %) OO 3 12 (7.500 %) Content Management 4 10 (6.250 %) Web Development 4 10 (6.250 %) SEO 5 7 (4.375 %) Workflow 5 7 (4.375 %) UML 6 4 (2.500 %) OOP 7 3 (1.875 %) OOD 7 3 (1.875 %) Change Management 7 3 (1.875 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (1.250 %) SC Cleared 8 2 (1.250 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (1.250 %) Migration 8 2 (1.250 %) Internet Marketing 8 2 (1.250 %) SOA 8 2 (1.250 %) Project Management 9 1 (0.625 %) CRM 9 1 (0.625 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 70 (43.75 %) JavaScript 2 48 (30.00 %) SQL 3 47 (29.38 %) C# 4 31 (19.38 %) Java 5 26 (16.25 %) PL/SQL 6 21 (13.13 %) VB.NET 7 20 (12.50 %) PHP 8 9 (5.625 %) ActionScript 9 8 (5.000 %) VB 10 5 (3.125 %) Perl 11 4 (2.500 %) PHP5 11 4 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL 12 2 (1.250 %) VB6 12 2 (1.250 %) PHP4 12 2 (1.250 %) DHTML 13 1 (0.625 %) C++ 13 1 (0.625 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 3 (1.875 %) Degree 2 1 (0.625 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (3.750 %) QA 2 2 (1.250 %) PAS 78 3 1 (0.625 %) WCAG 3 1 (0.625 %) ISO9001	Vendors 1 35 (21.88 %) Oracle 2 10 (6.250 %) Microsoft 3 7 (4.375 %) Adobe 4 2 (1.250 %) VMware 5 1 (0.625 %) IBM