The first table below looks at the demand for HTML5 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 HTML5 over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HTML5
Rank 62 97 123
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +26
Contract jobs citing HTML5 57 38 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.414% 1.205% 0.233%
As % of the Application Development category 8.948% 4.139% 0.956%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 0
Average daily rate £280 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £313
% change year-on-year
- -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
637 918 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.98% 29.11% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 504 424
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 22
Average hourly rate £29.96 £18.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.90% -32.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.37 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
HTML5
England

HTML5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West HTML5 Daily Rate Trend

HTML5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML5 across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West HTML5 Daily Rate Histogram

HTML5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 across the North West region.

North West HTML5 Hourly 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 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 +26 28 £275 -21.42%
Cheshire +3 12 £319 -37.03%
Merseyside +9 9 £225 -
Lancashire +14 6 £313 +132.16%
HTML5
England

HTML5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 122 (89.71%) CSS
2 108 (79.41%) JavaScript
3 87 (63.97%) jQuery
4 86 (63.24%) CSS3
5 48 (35.29%) HTML
6 44 (32.35%) MVC
7 41 (30.15%) .NET
8 36 (26.47%) Java
8 36 (26.47%) PHP
9 30 (22.06%) C#
9 30 (22.06%) ASP.NET
9 30 (22.06%) Ajax
9 30 (22.06%) JSON
10 27 (19.85%) Mobile App
10 27 (19.85%) Web Services
10 27 (19.85%) MySQL
11 26 (19.12%) XML
11 26 (19.12%) Apple iOS
12 25 (18.38%) Android
13 21 (15.44%) Git (software)
14 20 (14.71%) SQL Server
15 19 (13.97%) Photoshop
16 18 (13.24%) Windows
16 18 (13.24%) OO
16 18 (13.24%) Agile Software Development
16 18 (13.24%) Web Design
17 17 (12.50%) Web Development
18 16 (11.76%) CMS
19 15 (11.03%) LAMP
19 15 (11.03%) TDD

HTML5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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
1 122 (89.71%) CSS
2 87 (63.97%) jQuery
3 86 (63.24%) CSS3
4 48 (35.29%) HTML
5 41 (30.15%) .NET
6 30 (22.06%) ASP.NET
6 30 (22.06%) Ajax
6 30 (22.06%) JSON
7 27 (19.85%) Web Services
8 26 (19.12%) XML
9 15 (11.03%) LAMP
10 14 (10.29%) XHTML
11 13 (9.559%) XSL
11 13 (9.559%) WCF
12 11 (8.088%) Spring
12 11 (8.088%) XSLT
12 11 (8.088%) CodeIgniter
13 10 (7.353%) RESTful
13 10 (7.353%) ASP.NET MVC
13 10 (7.353%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 16 (11.76%) CMS
2 9 (6.618%) WordPress
3 8 (5.882%) Umbraco
4 6 (4.412%) Apache
5 5 (3.676%) Drupal
5 5 (3.676%) ESB
6 4 (2.941%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.471%) Joomla!
7 2 (1.471%) Orchard CMS
8 1 (0.735%) MS Exchange
8 1 (0.735%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.735%) IIS
8 1 (0.735%) Adobe CQ
8 1 (0.735%) Magento
Applications
1 19 (13.97%) Photoshop
2 10 (7.353%) Fireworks
3 9 (6.618%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.735%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.735%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.147%) HTTP
2 4 (2.941%) Intranet
3 1 (0.735%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.85%) MySQL
2 20 (14.71%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.412%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.676%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.941%) SQLite
6 3 (2.206%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (1.471%) CouchDB
7 2 (1.471%) RavenDB
8 1 (0.735%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 21 (15.44%) Git (software)
2 12 (8.824%) Subversion
3 10 (7.353%) NetBeans
4 8 (5.882%) Visual Studio
5 5 (3.676%) Eclipse
5 5 (3.676%) PhoneGap
6 3 (2.206%) NUnit
6 3 (2.206%) Dreamweaver
6 3 (2.206%) QUnit
6 3 (2.206%) JIRA
7 2 (1.471%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.471%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.471%) PHPUnit
7 2 (1.471%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.471%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 2 (1.471%) Ant
General
1 11 (8.088%) Games
2 5 (3.676%) Finance
3 3 (2.206%) Banking
3 3 (2.206%) Marketing
4 2 (1.471%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.471%) Retail
5 1 (0.735%) Local Government
5 1 (0.735%) Automotive
5 1 (0.735%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 124 (91.18%) Developer
2 43 (31.62%) Web Developer
3 26 (19.12%) Front-End Developer
4 14 (10.29%) Mobile Developer
5 12 (8.824%) Designer
5 12 (8.824%) Java Developer
6 11 (8.088%) .NET Developer
7 10 (7.353%) JavaScript Developer
8 9 (6.618%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.882%) Front-End Web Developer
9 8 (5.882%) Web Designer
10 7 (5.147%) PHP Developer
10 7 (5.147%) Web Applications Developer
10 7 (5.147%) iOS Developer
10 7 (5.147%) Mobile Applications Developer
11 6 (4.412%) ASP.NET Developer
12 5 (3.676%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.676%) Android Developer
12 5 (3.676%) Drupal Developer
13 4 (2.941%) UI Designer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.85%) Mobile App
2 10 (7.353%) iPad
3 9 (6.618%) iPhone
4 5 (3.676%) 3D Graphics
4 5 (3.676%) Social Media
5 3 (2.206%) Mathematics
5 3 (2.206%) Smartphone
6 2 (1.471%) Physics
6 2 (1.471%) Semantic Web
6 2 (1.471%) Linked Data
6 2 (1.471%) NHS
6 2 (1.471%) W3C
6 2 (1.471%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.471%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.471%) BBC
7 1 (0.735%) Handset
7 1 (0.735%) Streaming Video
7 1 (0.735%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.735%) Open Source
7 1 (0.735%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 26 (19.12%) Apple iOS
2 25 (18.38%) Android
3 18 (13.24%) Windows
4 12 (8.824%) Linux
5 3 (2.206%) Windows CE
5 3 (2.206%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.735%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.35%) MVC
2 18 (13.24%) OO
2 18 (13.24%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (13.24%) Web Design
3 17 (12.50%) Web Development
4 15 (11.03%) TDD
5 12 (8.824%) OOP
5 12 (8.824%) SEO
6 10 (7.353%) Web Application Development
6 10 (7.353%) Scrum
6 10 (7.353%) Content Management
7 8 (5.882%) E-Commerce
8 6 (4.412%) Kanban
8 6 (4.412%) BDD
8 6 (4.412%) Responsive Web Design
9 5 (3.676%) OOD
9 5 (3.676%) Unit Testing
9 5 (3.676%) Business Development
10 4 (2.941%) Game Development
10 4 (2.941%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 108 (79.41%) JavaScript
2 36 (26.47%) Java
2 36 (26.47%) PHP
3 30 (22.06%) C#
4 15 (11.03%) SQL
5 14 (10.29%) Objective-C
6 11 (8.088%) C++
7 9 (6.618%) XPath
8 7 (5.147%) C
8 7 (5.147%) PHP5
9 3 (2.206%) Ruby
10 2 (1.471%) CoffeeScript
11 1 (0.735%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.735%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (7.353%) Degree
2 4 (2.941%) PhD
3 3 (2.206%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.206%) Sun Certification
3 3 (2.206%) MCP
3 3 (2.206%) MCAD
3 3 (2.206%) MCSD
3 3 (2.206%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.735%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.735%) Plesk
Vendors
1 15 (11.03%) Zend
2 12 (8.824%) Apple
3 9 (6.618%) Adobe
4 8 (5.882%) Twitter
5 7 (5.147%) Facebook
6 6 (4.412%) Oracle
6 6 (4.412%) JBoss
7 5 (3.676%) Microsoft
7 5 (3.676%) Google
8 4 (2.941%) Orchard
9 1 (0.735%) Alterian
9 1 (0.735%) Interwoven
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