Manchester XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) 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 XHTML over the last 3 months to 22 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Colchester Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sleaford Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 22 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	31
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	39	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	9.353 %	14.43 %
Daily rates quoted	4	10
Average minimum daily rate	£219	£252
Average daily rate	£228	£271
% change on same period last year	-15.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£238	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£285
% change on same period last year	+2.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.50	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£26.08	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-19.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.13	£27.41
% change on same period last year	-11.98 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	417	291
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.541 %	0.327 %
Daily rates quoted	74	48
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£238
Average daily rate	£350	£259
% change on same period last year	+34.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£281
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£334
% change on same period last year	+4.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.22	£32.16
Average hourly rate	£30.25	£34.32
% change on same period last year	-11.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.27	£36.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.36	£32.22
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
XHTML 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.

XHTML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing XHTML across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

XHTML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the Manchester region over the past 3 months.

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	-	2	-	-
Ashton-under-Lyne	-	1	-	-

XHTML North West

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing XHTML also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing XHTML.

1 41 (63.08 %) CSS 2 39 (60.00 %) JavaScript 3 25 (38.46 %) C# 3 25 (38.46 %) ASP.NET 4 24 (36.92 %) XML 5 22 (33.85 %) .NET 6 20 (30.77 %) SQL 7 19 (29.23 %) HTML 8 17 (26.15 %) W3C 8 17 (26.15 %) AJAX 9 14 (21.54 %) Photoshop 10 12 (18.46 %) WebServices 11 9 (13.85 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 9 (13.85 %) Web Design 11 9 (13.85 %) jQuery

12 8 (12.31 %) Umbraco 12 8 (12.31 %) Flash 12 8 (12.31 %) Adobe 13 7 (10.77 %) E-Commerce 13 7 (10.77 %) Internet 13 7 (10.77 %) ASP 13 7 (10.77 %) SQL Server 13 7 (10.77 %) PHP 13 7 (10.77 %) Web Development 14 6 (9.231 %) MySQL 14 6 (9.231 %) XSLT 15 5 (7.692 %) Dreamweaver 15 5 (7.692 %) SharePoint 15 5 (7.692 %) E-Learning 16 3 (4.615 %) ASP.NET 2.0

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Manchester region citing XHTML also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing XHTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 41 (63.08 %) CSS 2 25 (38.46 %) ASP.NET 3 24 (36.92 %) XML 4 22 (33.85 %) .NET 5 19 (29.23 %) HTML 6 17 (26.15 %) AJAX 7 12 (18.46 %) WebServices 8 9 (13.85 %) jQuery 9 7 (10.77 %) ASP 10 6 (9.231 %) XSLT 11 3 (4.615 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 3 (4.615 %) Adobe Flex 11 3 (4.615 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (4.615 %) JSP 12 1 (1.538 %) Drupal 12 1 (1.538 %) Ruby on Rails 12 1 (1.538 %) LAMP 12 1 (1.538 %) Swing 12 1 (1.538 %) SOAP 12 1 (1.538 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 8 (12.31 %) Umbraco 2 5 (7.692 %) SharePoint 3 3 (4.615 %) CMS 3 3 (4.615 %) ColdFusion 4 2 (3.077 %) IIS 4 2 (3.077 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.538 %) Apache 5 1 (1.538 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 14 (21.54 %) Photoshop 2 9 (13.85 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 3 (4.615 %) Fireworks 4 1 (1.538 %) MS Excel 4 1 (1.538 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (10.77 %) Internet 2 1 (1.538 %) LDAP 2 1 (1.538 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.538 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (10.77 %) SQL Server 2 6 (9.231 %) MySQL 3 3 (4.615 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 8 (12.31 %) Flash 2 5 (7.692 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (1.538 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (3.077 %) Finance 1 2 (3.077 %) Insurance 1 2 (3.077 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (1.538 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.538 %) Publishing 2 1 (1.538 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 52 (80.00 %) Developer 2 27 (41.54 %) Web Developer 3 9 (13.85 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (13.85 %) C# Developer 4 8 (12.31 %) Web Designer 5 6 (9.231 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 5 (7.692 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (4.615 %) PHP Developer 8 2 (3.077 %) Programmer 8 2 (3.077 %) Author 8 2 (3.077 %) Junior 8 2 (3.077 %) Flash Developer 8 2 (3.077 %) .NET Web Developer 8 2 (3.077 %) ColdFusion Developer 9 1 (1.538 %) Junior Analyst 9 1 (1.538 %) Graduate Web Developer 9 1 (1.538 %) MySQL Developer 9 1 (1.538 %) C# Web Developer 9 1 (1.538 %) ActionScript Developer 9 1 (1.538 %) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous 1 17 (26.15 %) W3C 2 5 (7.692 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.538 %) Psychology 3 1 (1.538 %) Ergonomics 3 1 (1.538 %) Human Factors 3 1 (1.538 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.538 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (1.538 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (1.538 %) Windows 1 1 (1.538 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (13.85 %) Web Design 2 7 (10.77 %) E-Commerce 2 7 (10.77 %) Web Development 3 3 (4.615 %) OO 3 3 (4.615 %) SEO 4 1 (1.538 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (1.538 %) Software Testing 4 1 (1.538 %) Content Management 4 1 (1.538 %) B2B 4 1 (1.538 %) OOD 4 1 (1.538 %) CRM 4 1 (1.538 %) Workflow 4 1 (1.538 %) UML 4 1 (1.538 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 39 (60.00 %) JavaScript 2 25 (38.46 %) C# 3 20 (30.77 %) SQL 4 7 (10.77 %) PHP 5 3 (4.615 %) Java 6 2 (3.077 %) VB.NET 6 2 (3.077 %) ActionScript 7 1 (1.538 %) PHP5 7 1 (1.538 %) Ruby 7 1 (1.538 %) XPath 7 1 (1.538 %) VBA 7 1 (1.538 %) DHTML 7 1 (1.538 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.538 %) VBScript 7 1 (1.538 %) VB
Qualifications 1 1 (1.538 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (1.538 %) MCSD	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.077 %) QA 2 1 (1.538 %) PAS 78
System Software 1 1 (1.538 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (12.31 %) Adobe 2 2 (3.077 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.538 %) RedDot