The first table below looks at the demand for HTML5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML5 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 Manchester 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
HTML5
Rank 47 66 66
Rank change year-on-year
+19 0
Contract jobs citing HTML5 26 18 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 2.845% 1.384% 0.482%
As % of the Application Development category 9.286% 4.592% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 0
Average daily rate £275 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
280 392 290
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.63% 30.13% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 234 158
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 14
Average hourly rate £33.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
HTML5
North West

HTML5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester HTML5 Jobs Demand Trend

HTML5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTML5 across the Manchester region.

Manchester HTML5 Daily Rate Trend

HTML5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 across the Manchester region.

Manchester HTML5 Hourly Rate Trend

HTML5
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML5 within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bolton - 1 - -
HTML5
North West

HTML5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing HTML5 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 HTML5.

1 63 (95.45%) CSS
2 51 (77.27%) JavaScript
3 40 (60.61%) jQuery
3 40 (60.61%) CSS3
4 22 (33.33%) Java
5 21 (31.82%) HTML
5 21 (31.82%) JSON
6 20 (30.30%) Web Services
7 19 (28.79%) XML
7 19 (28.79%) MVC
8 18 (27.27%) PHP
9 17 (25.76%) Mobile App
10 16 (24.24%) Apple iOS
10 16 (24.24%) Android
11 15 (22.73%) .NET
11 15 (22.73%) Ajax
12 14 (21.21%) LAMP
13 13 (19.70%) Photoshop
13 13 (19.70%) MySQL
14 12 (18.18%) Apple
15 11 (16.67%) Spring
15 11 (16.67%) Subversion
15 11 (16.67%) Objective-C
16 10 (15.15%) Web Design
16 10 (15.15%) ASP.NET
16 10 (15.15%) SQL
17 9 (13.64%) XSL
17 9 (13.64%) OOP
17 9 (13.64%) Hibernate
17 9 (13.64%) TDD

HTML5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing HTML5 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 HTML5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 63 (95.45%) CSS
2 40 (60.61%) jQuery
2 40 (60.61%) CSS3
3 21 (31.82%) JSON
3 21 (31.82%) HTML
4 20 (30.30%) Web Services
5 19 (28.79%) XML
6 15 (22.73%) .NET
6 15 (22.73%) Ajax
7 14 (21.21%) LAMP
8 11 (16.67%) Spring
9 10 (15.15%) ASP.NET
10 9 (13.64%) Hibernate
10 9 (13.64%) XSL
11 8 (12.12%) Cocoa
11 8 (12.12%) iOS SDK
11 8 (12.12%) REST
12 7 (10.61%) J2EE
12 7 (10.61%) JSP
12 7 (10.61%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 7 (10.61%) CMS
2 6 (9.091%) Apache
3 5 (7.576%) ESB
4 4 (6.061%) Drupal
5 3 (4.545%) SharePoint
6 2 (3.030%) WordPress
6 2 (3.030%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (1.515%) Adobe CQ
7 1 (1.515%) Umbraco
7 1 (1.515%) MS Exchange
7 1 (1.515%) Joomla!
7 1 (1.515%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (19.70%) Photoshop
2 7 (10.61%) Fireworks
2 7 (10.61%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.515%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.515%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.091%) HTTP
2 3 (4.545%) Intranet
3 1 (1.515%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.70%) MySQL
2 6 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.030%) CouchDB
3 2 (3.030%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.030%) RavenDB
4 1 (1.515%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.515%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) Subversion
2 7 (10.61%) Git (software)
3 5 (7.576%) Eclipse
3 5 (7.576%) NetBeans
3 5 (7.576%) PhoneGap
4 3 (4.545%) QUnit
4 3 (4.545%) JIRA
5 2 (3.030%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.030%) Ant
5 2 (3.030%) PHPUnit
5 2 (3.030%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 2 (3.030%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.515%) Mercurial
General
1 3 (4.545%) Games
2 2 (3.030%) Marketing
2 2 (3.030%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.030%) Finance
3 1 (1.515%) Automotive
3 1 (1.515%) Publishing
3 1 (1.515%) Banking
3 1 (1.515%) Retail
Job Titles
1 60 (90.91%) Developer
2 22 (33.33%) Web Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Front-End Developer
4 9 (13.64%) Mobile Developer
5 8 (12.12%) Designer
6 7 (10.61%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 6 (9.091%) iOS Developer
8 5 (7.576%) Android Developer
8 5 (7.576%) Web Designer
8 5 (7.576%) Applications Developer
8 5 (7.576%) PHP Developer
9 4 (6.061%) Web Applications Developer
9 4 (6.061%) Java Web Developer
9 4 (6.061%) Drupal Developer
10 3 (4.545%) PHP Drupal Developer
10 3 (4.545%) UI Designer
10 3 (4.545%) Java Applications Developer
10 3 (4.545%) .NET Developer
11 2 (3.030%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Mobile App
2 9 (13.64%) iPhone
2 9 (13.64%) iPad
3 2 (3.030%) Linked Data
3 2 (3.030%) Semantic Web
3 2 (3.030%) BBC
3 2 (3.030%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.515%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.515%) Physics
4 1 (1.515%) Social Network
4 1 (1.515%) Handset
4 1 (1.515%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (1.515%) Streaming Video
4 1 (1.515%) Open Source
4 1 (1.515%) Social Media
4 1 (1.515%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.515%) NHS
4 1 (1.515%) W3C
4 1 (1.515%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 16 (24.24%) Android
1 16 (24.24%) Apple iOS
2 5 (7.576%) Windows
3 2 (3.030%) Linux
4 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.79%) MVC
2 10 (15.15%) Web Design
3 9 (13.64%) TDD
3 9 (13.64%) OOP
4 8 (12.12%) Content Management
5 5 (7.576%) Web Development
5 5 (7.576%) BDD
6 4 (6.061%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (6.061%) Scrum
6 4 (6.061%) OO
7 3 (4.545%) ITIL
7 3 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (4.545%) Kanban
8 2 (3.030%) Release Management
8 2 (3.030%) Unit Testing
8 2 (3.030%) Progressive Enhancement
8 2 (3.030%) Web Accessibility
8 2 (3.030%) Responsive Web Design
8 2 (3.030%) Mobile Application Development
8 2 (3.030%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (77.27%) JavaScript
2 22 (33.33%) Java
3 18 (27.27%) PHP
4 11 (16.67%) Objective-C
5 10 (15.15%) SQL
6 8 (12.12%) C#
7 6 (9.091%) PHP5
8 3 (4.545%) Ruby
9 2 (3.030%) CoffeeScript
10 1 (1.515%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.515%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (6.061%) Degree
2 3 (4.545%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.515%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.515%) Plesk
Vendors
1 12 (18.18%) Apple
2 6 (9.091%) JBoss
3 5 (7.576%) Adobe
3 5 (7.576%) Zend
4 3 (4.545%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.545%) Orchard
5 2 (3.030%) Facebook
6 1 (1.515%) Twitter
6 1 (1.515%) Alterian
6 1 (1.515%) Oracle
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