The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 56 59 53
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -6
Contract jobs citing XHTML 2 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.333% 0.147% 0.949%
As % of the Application Development category 1.408% 0.800% 6.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
Average daily rate £213 - £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £283 £280
% change year-on-year
+6.19% +0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +42.85%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
142 125 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 23.67% 18.44% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 51 49
Average daily rate £365 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.06% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £347 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +141.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
XHTML
Buckinghamshire

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes XHTML Jobs Demand Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing XHTML 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 XHTML.

1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) XML
4 4 (50.00%) PHP
4 4 (50.00%) HTML5
5 3 (37.50%) SilverStripe
5 3 (37.50%) Internet
5 3 (37.50%) MySQL
5 3 (37.50%) XSLT
5 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
5 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
5 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (37.50%) Web Development
6 2 (25.00%) B2C
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (25.00%) OO
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (25.00%) C#
6 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) CSS3
6 2 (25.00%) Web Design
7 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (12.50%) Open Source
7 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (12.50%) Regular Expression

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing XHTML 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 XHTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) XML
4 4 (50.00%) HTML5
5 3 (37.50%) XSLT
6 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (25.00%) .NET
6 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (25.00%) CSS3
7 1 (12.50%) Regular Expression
7 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (12.50%) Web Services
7 1 (12.50%) Flash
7 1 (12.50%) Ajax
7 1 (12.50%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SilverStripe
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Developer
3 2 (25.00%) UI Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
1 1 (12.50%) RIA
1 1 (12.50%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (37.50%) Web Development
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) B2C
2 2 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) OOD
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) PHP
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) ActionScript
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft