Midlands HTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) skills within the Midlands 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 last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llandudno Llanelli London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	38
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	70	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.090 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	21.34 %	12.01 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£550
Average daily rate	£293	£550
% change on same period last year	-46.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£293
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£31.50	£21.50
% change on same period last year	+46.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.69	£27.28
% change on same period last year	+1.51 %
Application Development Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	328	308
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.421 %	0.346 %
Daily rates quoted	46	24
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£390
Average daily rate	£376	£420
% change on same period last year	-10.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£449
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.19	£31.05
Average hourly rate	£32.94	£34.07
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.70	£37.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
HTML England

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing HTML across the Midlands 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 contract IT jobs ads citing HTML across the Midlands 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 Midlands region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Midlands region citing HTML 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 HTML.

1 71 (73.96 %) JavaScript 2 49 (51.04 %) SQL 3 48 (50.00 %) Oracle 4 44 (45.83 %) Java 5 33 (34.38 %) Oracle 10g 5 33 (34.38 %) .NET 5 33 (34.38 %) CSS 6 28 (29.17 %) ASP.NET 7 26 (27.08 %) XML 8 25 (26.04 %) Oracle Designer 10g 9 23 (23.96 %) SQL Server 10 18 (18.75 %) C# 11 13 (13.54 %) Visual Studio 11 13 (13.54 %) ASP 12 12 (12.50 %) VB

13 11 (11.46 %) VB.NET 14 10 (10.42 %) PL/SQL 14 10 (10.42 %) AJAX 15 9 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2005 15 9 (9.375 %) IIS 15 9 (9.375 %) Windows 16 8 (8.333 %) WebServices 16 8 (8.333 %) Web Development 17 7 (7.292 %) XSLT 18 6 (6.250 %) OO 18 6 (6.250 %) XHTML 18 6 (6.250 %) Unix 18 6 (6.250 %) Dreamweaver 18 6 (6.250 %) DHTML 18 6 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Midlands region citing HTML 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 HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 33 (34.38 %) .NET 1 33 (34.38 %) CSS 2 28 (29.17 %) ASP.NET 3 26 (27.08 %) XML 4 13 (13.54 %) ASP 5 10 (10.42 %) AJAX 6 8 (8.333 %) WebServices 7 7 (7.292 %) XSLT 8 6 (6.250 %) XHTML 9 5 (5.208 %) J2EE 9 5 (5.208 %) WinForms 10 4 (4.167 %) Hibernate 10 4 (4.167 %) WCF 10 4 (4.167 %) JSP 10 4 (4.167 %) Servlets 10 4 (4.167 %) Struts 11 3 (3.125 %) EJB 11 3 (3.125 %) Silverlight 11 3 (3.125 %) Spring 11 3 (3.125 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 9 (9.375 %) IIS 2 5 (5.208 %) CMS 3 4 (4.167 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 4 (4.167 %) SharePoint 3 4 (4.167 %) BizTalk Server 4 3 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (3.125 %) Lotus Domino 5 2 (2.083 %) Apache 5 2 (2.083 %) WebLogic 6 1 (1.042 %) SAS 6 1 (1.042 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (2.083 %) Photoshop 1 2 (2.083 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.042 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (1.042 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.125 %) Internet 2 1 (1.042 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (1.042 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (34.38 %) Oracle 10g 2 23 (23.96 %) SQL Server 3 9 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (3.125 %) SQL Server 7 6 2 (2.083 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (2.083 %) Oracle Reports 6 2 (2.083 %) MySQL 7 1 (1.042 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (1.042 %) MS Access 7 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 25 (26.04 %) Oracle Designer 10g 2 13 (13.54 %) Visual Studio 3 6 (6.250 %) Dreamweaver 4 5 (5.208 %) Flash 4 5 (5.208 %) Subversion 5 4 (4.167 %) Oracle Forms 5 4 (4.167 %) NUnit 6 3 (3.125 %) Eclipse 6 3 (3.125 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (2.083 %) JUnit 7 2 (2.083 %) Log4j 8 1 (1.042 %) Ant 8 1 (1.042 %) Zend Studio
General 1 5 (5.208 %) Finance 2 3 (3.125 %) Graphic Design 3 2 (2.083 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (2.083 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.042 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.042 %) Law 4 1 (1.042 %) Retail 4 1 (1.042 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 83 (86.46 %) Developer 2 34 (35.42 %) Web Developer 3 27 (28.13 %) Oracle Developer 4 26 (27.08 %) SQL Developer 5 25 (26.04 %) .NET Developer 6 12 (12.50 %) Java Developer 7 11 (11.46 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 8 (8.333 %) HTML Developer 8 8 (8.333 %) C# Developer 9 6 (6.250 %) Web Designer 10 5 (5.208 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 11 4 (4.167 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 4 (4.167 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 11 4 (4.167 %) J2EE Developer 11 4 (4.167 %) VB.NET Developer 12 3 (3.125 %) Senior Developer 12 3 (3.125 %) .NET Web Developer 13 2 (2.083 %) C# Web Developer 13 2 (2.083 %) Senior Web Developer 13 2 (2.083 %) ASP Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.208 %) W3C 2 2 (2.083 %) Asset Management 3 1 (1.042 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (1.042 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.042 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.042 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 9 (9.375 %) Windows 2 6 (6.250 %) Unix 3 2 (2.083 %) Linux 4 1 (1.042 %) Windows NT 4 1 (1.042 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (8.333 %) Web Development 2 6 (6.250 %) OO 3 5 (5.208 %) UML 3 5 (5.208 %) Content Management 4 4 (4.167 %) Incident Management 4 4 (4.167 %) Problem Management 4 4 (4.167 %) Migration 5 3 (3.125 %) OOA/OOD 5 3 (3.125 %) RAD 6 2 (2.083 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (2.083 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (2.083 %) Logistics 7 1 (1.042 %) Usability Testing 7 1 (1.042 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.042 %) OOD 7 1 (1.042 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.042 %) SEO 7 1 (1.042 %) Web Design	Programming Languages 1 71 (73.96 %) JavaScript 2 49 (51.04 %) SQL 3 44 (45.83 %) Java 4 18 (18.75 %) C# 5 12 (12.50 %) VB 6 11 (11.46 %) VB.NET 7 10 (10.42 %) PL/SQL 8 6 (6.250 %) DHTML 9 5 (5.208 %) VB6 10 3 (3.125 %) Perl 11 2 (2.083 %) PHP 11 2 (2.083 %) C++ 11 2 (2.083 %) ActionScript 12 1 (1.042 %) LotusScript 12 1 (1.042 %) PHP5 12 1 (1.042 %) VBScript 12 1 (1.042 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (3.125 %) Degree 2 1 (1.042 %) HNC 2 1 (1.042 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (4.167 %) SLA 2 3 (3.125 %) QA 3 1 (1.042 %) WAI
Vendors 1 48 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (4.167 %) Microsoft 3 3 (3.125 %) Lotus 4 2 (2.083 %) BEA 5 1 (1.042 %) Zend 5 1 (1.042 %) SAP 5 1 (1.042 %) Adobe 5 1 (1.042 %) Sun 5 1 (1.042 %) Interwoven