The first table below looks at the demand for HTML5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML5 over the 3 months to 20 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 Merseyside 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HTML5
Rank 24 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing HTML5 9 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 4.186% 0.386% -
As % of the Application Development category 14.75% 1.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
61 75 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 28.37% 28.96% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 39 16
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 2
Average hourly rate £14.79 £25.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.85% +85.18%
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside HTML5 Daily 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 20 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
Liverpool +12 8 - -
Wirral - 1 - -
HTML5
North West

HTML5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 21 (87.50%) JavaScript
1 21 (87.50%) CSS
2 20 (83.33%) CSS3
3 16 (66.67%) jQuery
4 15 (62.50%) PHP
5 14 (58.33%) MVC
6 12 (50.00%) .NET
7 11 (45.83%) MySQL
7 11 (45.83%) Git (software)
8 10 (41.67%) C#
8 10 (41.67%) OO
8 10 (41.67%) Zend
8 10 (41.67%) CodeIgniter
9 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
10 8 (33.33%) SEO
10 8 (33.33%) Mobile App
11 7 (29.17%) Twitter
11 7 (29.17%) CMS
11 7 (29.17%) Visual Studio
11 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET
11 7 (29.17%) Umbraco
11 7 (29.17%) Web Development
12 6 (25.00%) XML
12 6 (25.00%) HTML
12 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (25.00%) Facebook
13 5 (20.83%) WordPress
13 5 (20.83%) Razor View Engine
13 5 (20.83%) OOD
13 5 (20.83%) Windows

HTML5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 21 (87.50%) CSS
2 20 (83.33%) CSS3
3 16 (66.67%) jQuery
4 12 (50.00%) .NET
5 10 (41.67%) CodeIgniter
6 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET
7 6 (25.00%) XML
7 6 (25.00%) HTML
7 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (20.83%) Google Maps API
8 5 (20.83%) WCF
8 5 (20.83%) CakePHP
8 5 (20.83%) XSD
8 5 (20.83%) XSLT
8 5 (20.83%) Razor View Engine
9 4 (16.67%) Backbone.js
9 4 (16.67%) Ajax
10 3 (12.50%) JSON
10 3 (12.50%) OpenGL
10 3 (12.50%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) CMS
1 7 (29.17%) Umbraco
2 5 (20.83%) WordPress
3 1 (4.167%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.167%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) MySQL
2 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.333%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Git (software)
2 7 (29.17%) Visual Studio
3 5 (20.83%) NetBeans
4 3 (12.50%) NUnit
5 2 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (20.83%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Front-End Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 5 (20.83%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (20.83%) .NET Developer
5 4 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Gameplay Developer
6 3 (12.50%) C++ Games Developer
6 3 (12.50%) C++/C# Developer
6 3 (12.50%) C++ Developer
6 3 (12.50%) C# Developer
6 3 (12.50%) Games Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Software Developer
7 2 (8.333%) PHP Developer
8 1 (4.167%) PHP Web Developer
8 1 (4.167%) PHP Programmer
8 1 (4.167%) Web Programmer
8 1 (4.167%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.67%) Social Media
3 3 (12.50%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 2 (8.333%) Mobile Games
5 1 (4.167%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) MVC
2 10 (41.67%) OO
3 8 (33.33%) SEO
4 7 (29.17%) Web Development
5 5 (20.83%) Business Development
5 5 (20.83%) OOD
6 4 (16.67%) Game Development
7 3 (12.50%) Kanban
7 3 (12.50%) 3D Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) Web Application Development
7 3 (12.50%) Scrum
8 2 (8.333%) Web Design
8 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (8.333%) Mobile Application Development
8 2 (8.333%) OOP
8 2 (8.333%) Responsive Web Design
9 1 (4.167%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 21 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 15 (62.50%) PHP
3 10 (41.67%) C#
4 5 (20.83%) Java
4 5 (20.83%) XPath
5 3 (12.50%) C
5 3 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) MCP
2 3 (12.50%) MCAD
2 3 (12.50%) MCSD
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.50%) MCTS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) Plesk
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Zend
2 7 (29.17%) Twitter
3 6 (25.00%) Facebook
4 5 (20.83%) Oracle
4 5 (20.83%) Google
5 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.333%) Adobe