North West XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited XHTML over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Barnet Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chichester City of London Colchester Coventry Crewe Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Gateshead Glasgow Glossop Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Ringwood Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sleaford Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	65
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	64	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.070 %
As % of the category below	5.689 %	6.958 %
Daily rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£252
Average daily rate	£269	£271
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.40	£21.89
Average hourly rate	£26.25	£23.83
% change on same period last year	+10.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.10	£25.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.23	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-6.44 %
Application Development North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1125	891
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.443 %	1.001 %
Daily rates quoted	243	138
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£264
Average daily rate	£362	£281
% change on same period last year	+28.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£297
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	127	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.64	£29.35
Average hourly rate	£31.11	£31.33
% change on same period last year	-0.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.58	£33.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.42	£31.87
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
XHTML 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.

XHTML
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing XHTML across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the North West region over the past 3 months.

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the North West region over the past 3 months.

XHTML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the North West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Manchester	-16	37	£228	-15.82 %
2	Cheshire	-19	11	-	-
3	Lancashire	+3	4	-	-
3	Merseyside	-9	4	-	-

XHTML England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the North West region citing XHTML 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 XHTML.

1 70 (72.92 %) CSS 2 52 (54.17 %) JavaScript 3 47 (48.96 %) XML 4 40 (41.67 %) HTML 5 31 (32.29 %) SQL 6 30 (31.25 %) .NET 6 30 (31.25 %) ASP.NET 7 29 (30.21 %) AJAX 8 28 (29.17 %) C# 9 18 (18.75 %) PHP 9 18 (18.75 %) Photoshop 10 16 (16.67 %) SQL Server 11 15 (15.63 %) WebServices 11 15 (15.63 %) Flash 11 15 (15.63 %) W3C

11 15 (15.63 %) Web Design 12 14 (14.58 %) Java 13 13 (13.54 %) ASP 13 13 (13.54 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 12 (12.50 %) JSP 14 12 (12.50 %) Adobe 14 12 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 14 12 (12.50 %) XSLT 15 11 (11.46 %) MySQL 16 10 (10.42 %) Dreamweaver 17 9 (9.375 %) Web Development 17 9 (9.375 %) jQuery 18 8 (8.333 %) Umbraco 18 8 (8.333 %) E-Learning 19 7 (7.292 %) Internet

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 70 (72.92 %) CSS 2 47 (48.96 %) XML 3 40 (41.67 %) HTML 4 30 (31.25 %) .NET 4 30 (31.25 %) ASP.NET 5 29 (30.21 %) AJAX 6 15 (15.63 %) WebServices 7 13 (13.54 %) ASP 8 12 (12.50 %) XSLT 8 12 (12.50 %) JSP 9 9 (9.375 %) jQuery 10 6 (6.250 %) Spring 10 6 (6.250 %) Hibernate 10 6 (6.250 %) Struts 11 4 (4.167 %) SiteMesh 11 4 (4.167 %) J2EE 11 4 (4.167 %) Velocity 11 4 (4.167 %) FreeMarker 11 4 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 3 (3.125 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 8 (8.333 %) Umbraco 2 6 (6.250 %) CMS 2 6 (6.250 %) SharePoint 3 4 (4.167 %) IIS 3 4 (4.167 %) Apache 4 3 (3.125 %) ColdFusion 4 3 (3.125 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.042 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (1.042 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 18 (18.75 %) Photoshop 2 13 (13.54 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 4 (4.167 %) Fireworks 4 3 (3.125 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (1.042 %) PageMaker 5 1 (1.042 %) CorelDRAW 5 1 (1.042 %) MS Office 5 1 (1.042 %) MS Excel 5 1 (1.042 %) Acrobat 5 1 (1.042 %) QuarkXPress	Communications & Networking 1 7 (7.292 %) Internet 2 1 (1.042 %) Extranet 2 1 (1.042 %) LDAP 2 1 (1.042 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2 11 (11.46 %) MySQL 3 5 (5.208 %) SQL Server 2005 4 3 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (2.083 %) SQL Server 7 6 1 (1.042 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (1.042 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 15 (15.63 %) Flash 2 10 (10.42 %) Dreamweaver 3 4 (4.167 %) Ant 4 1 (1.042 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.042 %) Subversion
General 1 4 (4.167 %) Finance 1 4 (4.167 %) Graphic Design 2 3 (3.125 %) Insurance 3 2 (2.083 %) Animation 3 2 (2.083 %) Education 3 2 (2.083 %) Government 3 2 (2.083 %) Health 3 2 (2.083 %) Publishing 3 2 (2.083 %) Retail 3 2 (2.083 %) Multimedia 4 1 (1.042 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 76 (79.17 %) Developer 2 40 (41.67 %) Web Developer 3 19 (19.79 %) Web Designer 4 12 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 5 11 (11.46 %) C# Developer 6 7 (7.292 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (6.250 %) PHP Developer 7 6 (6.250 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (4.167 %) MySQL Developer 8 4 (4.167 %) Programmer 9 3 (3.125 %) Analyst 9 3 (3.125 %) Flash Developer 9 3 (3.125 %) .NET Web Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) HTML Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) Analyst Programmer 10 2 (2.083 %) ColdFusion Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) SharePoint Developer 10 2 (2.083 %) Photoshop Designer 10 2 (2.083 %) Graduate 10 2 (2.083 %) Author
Miscellaneous 1 15 (15.63 %) W3C 2 8 (8.333 %) E-Learning 3 2 (2.083 %) SCORM 3 2 (2.083 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.042 %) Psychology 4 1 (1.042 %) Ergonomics 4 1 (1.042 %) Human Factors 4 1 (1.042 %) EPoS 4 1 (1.042 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 3 (3.125 %) Linux 2 1 (1.042 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.042 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (15.63 %) Web Design 2 12 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 3 9 (9.375 %) Web Development 4 6 (6.250 %) OO 5 4 (4.167 %) Content Management 6 2 (2.083 %) OOD 6 2 (2.083 %) Migration 6 2 (2.083 %) CRM 6 2 (2.083 %) OOP 6 2 (2.083 %) B2B 7 1 (1.042 %) e-GIF 7 1 (1.042 %) SEO 7 1 (1.042 %) Workflow 7 1 (1.042 %) UML 7 1 (1.042 %) Performance Testing 7 1 (1.042 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (1.042 %) SOA 7 1 (1.042 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 52 (54.17 %) JavaScript 2 31 (32.29 %) SQL 3 28 (29.17 %) C# 4 18 (18.75 %) PHP 5 14 (14.58 %) Java 6 6 (6.250 %) VB 7 5 (5.208 %) ActionScript 8 3 (3.125 %) VB.NET 8 3 (3.125 %) VBScript 8 3 (3.125 %) DHTML 9 2 (2.083 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (2.083 %) Python 9 2 (2.083 %) Ruby 9 2 (2.083 %) PHP5 10 1 (1.042 %) XPath 10 1 (1.042 %) Jython 10 1 (1.042 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 1 (1.042 %) MCSD 1 1 (1.042 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.083 %) QA 2 1 (1.042 %) PAS 78
System Software 1 1 (1.042 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 12 (12.50 %) Adobe 2 6 (6.250 %) Oracle 3 3 (3.125 %) Microsoft 4 1 (1.042 %) Macromedia