The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 22 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 North East 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 30 46 42
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -4
Contract jobs citing XHTML 6 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 2.247% 0.805% 0.471%
As % of the Application Development category 10.00% 3.030% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
Average daily rate £223 £331 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.83% -33.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
60 132 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 22.47% 26.56% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 73 57
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £245 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
Average hourly rate £13.11 £35.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.54% +250.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
England

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the North East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Tyne and Wear +11 4 £215 -35.09%
Teesside - 1 - -
Durham - 1 £250 -
XHTML
England

XHTML
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) Ajax
3 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (50.00%) CMS
4 3 (50.00%) ASP
4 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (50.00%) VB
5 1 (16.67%) jQuery
5 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
5 1 (16.67%) CSLA
5 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (16.67%) Fireworks
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) CRM

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) Ajax
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) ASP
4 1 (16.67%) jQuery
4 1 (16.67%) CSLA
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (16.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 1 (16.67%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Web Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) OO
1 1 (16.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft