North Yorkshire XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) skills within the North Yorkshire 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	35
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	5	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	5.682 %	9.804 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£275
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£297
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.67	-
Average hourly rate	£26.17	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.54	£31.34
% change on same period last year	-18.51 %
Application Development North Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	88	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.117 %	0.103 %
Daily rates quoted	17	12
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£278
Average daily rate	£344	£293
% change on same period last year	+17.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.73	£23.64
Average hourly rate	£31.23	£27.21
% change on same period last year	+14.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.73	£30.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XHTML Yorkshire

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 beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing XHTML across the North Yorkshire 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 IT contract jobs citing XHTML across the North Yorkshire region.

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

XHTML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Harrogate	-9	3	-	-
York	0	1	-	-

XHTML Yorkshire

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 (88.89 %) CSS 2 7 (77.78 %) .NET 2 7 (77.78 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (66.67 %) SQL Server 4 5 (55.56 %) Flash 5 4 (44.44 %) C# 5 4 (44.44 %) SQL 5 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2000 6 3 (33.33 %) Web Design 6 3 (33.33 %) ColdFusion 6 3 (33.33 %) HTML 6 3 (33.33 %) XML 6 3 (33.33 %) ColdFusion MX 6 3 (33.33 %) AJAX 6 3 (33.33 %) Adobe Flex

6 3 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (22.22 %) Retail 7 2 (22.22 %) Graphic Design 7 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 7 7 2 (22.22 %) Photoshop 7 2 (22.22 %) VB.NET 7 2 (22.22 %) ActionScript 7 2 (22.22 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (22.22 %) Commerce Server 8 1 (11.11 %) NUnit 8 1 (11.11 %) Banking 8 1 (11.11 %) Finance 8 1 (11.11 %) Content Management Server 8 1 (11.11 %) Intranet

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 (88.89 %) CSS 2 7 (77.78 %) .NET 2 7 (77.78 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (33.33 %) XML 3 3 (33.33 %) AJAX 3 3 (33.33 %) Adobe Flex 3 3 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 3 (33.33 %) HTML 4 1 (11.11 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 3 (33.33 %) ColdFusion 1 3 (33.33 %) ColdFusion MX 2 2 (22.22 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (11.11 %) Content Management Server 3 1 (11.11 %) Commerce Server 2007 3 1 (11.11 %) IIS 3 1 (11.11 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) Intranet 1 1 (11.11 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (22.22 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 5 (55.56 %) Flash 2 1 (11.11 %) NUnit
General 1 2 (22.22 %) Retail 1 2 (22.22 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (11.11 %) Finance 2 1 (11.11 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 6 (66.67 %) Developer 2 3 (33.33 %) Web Developer 2 3 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) C# Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) Photoshop Designer 3 2 (22.22 %) Flash Designer 4 1 (11.11 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Tester 4 1 (11.11 %) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) W3C	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (33.33 %) Web Design 2 2 (22.22 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (11.11 %) ITIL 3 1 (11.11 %) Web Development 3 1 (11.11 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (11.11 %) Web Testing
Programming Languages 1 4 (44.44 %) C# 1 4 (44.44 %) SQL 2 2 (22.22 %) VB.NET 2 2 (22.22 %) ActionScript 3 1 (11.11 %) Transact-SQL