The first table below looks at the demand for Semantic HTML 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 Semantic HTML over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Semantic HTML (Semantic Markup)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Semantic HTML 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £245 £310
% change year-on-year
- -20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
290 389 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.72% 29.92% 27.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 232 153
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 £175
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 20 14 13
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
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%
Semantic HTML
North West

Semantic HTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Semantic HTML Jobs Demand Trend

Semantic HTML
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Semantic 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 Semantic HTML.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery

Semantic HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Semantic 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 Semantic HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Web Designer
1 1 (100.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe