The first table below looks at the demand for DHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHTML over the 3 months to 17 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 West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
Rank 114 130 123
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -7
Contract jobs citing DHTML 3 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.131% 0.063% 0.292%
As % of the Application Development category 0.478% 0.213% 1.203%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £285 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £250
% change year-on-year
- +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -27.05%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
627 940 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.68% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 521 431
Average daily rate £302 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -29.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £145.42 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
DHTML
England

DHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West DHTML Jobs Demand Trend

DHTML
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DHTML across the North West region.

North West DHTML Daily Rate Trend

DHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DHTML across the North West region.

North West DHTML Hourly Rate Trend

DHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHTML within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +13 3 - -
DHTML
England

DHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing DHTML 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 DHTML.

1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) HTML
3 6 (75.00%) .NET
3 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
4 5 (62.50%) CSS
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
5 4 (50.00%) C#
5 4 (50.00%) MVC
5 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (50.00%) Ajax
5 4 (50.00%) jQuery
6 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (37.50%) WCF
6 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (37.50%) XHTML
6 3 (37.50%) XML
6 3 (37.50%) OO
7 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
7 2 (25.00%) CRM
7 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
7 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
7 2 (25.00%) JUnit
7 2 (25.00%) J2EE
7 2 (25.00%) Oracle
7 2 (25.00%) Java
7 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
7 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
7 2 (25.00%) RDBMS

DHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing DHTML 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 DHTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) HTML
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (62.50%) CSS
3 4 (50.00%) Ajax
3 4 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (37.50%) WCF
4 3 (37.50%) XML
4 3 (37.50%) XHTML
5 2 (25.00%) J2EE
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
6 1 (12.50%) Java EE 5
6 1 (12.50%) JPA
6 1 (12.50%) Guice
6 1 (12.50%) REST
6 1 (12.50%) JBoss Seam
6 1 (12.50%) Apache Wicket
6 1 (12.50%) EJB
6 1 (12.50%) JDBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint Foundation
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Solr
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Intranet
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (12.50%) DB2
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (25.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) TestNG
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (25.00%) CRM Developer
4 2 (25.00%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 1 (12.50%) J2EE Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (37.50%) OO
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) RAD
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Wealth Management
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (12.50%) VBA
5 1 (12.50%) Bash shell
5 1 (12.50%) VBScript
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Sun