The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Oxford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 29 28 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -15
Contract jobs citing XHTML 4 9 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.852% 2.813% 7.263%
As % of the Application Development category 10.53% 11.11% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
Average daily rate £325 - £191
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £283 £280
% change year-on-year
+6.19% +0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +42.85%
All Application Development
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
38 81 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 17.59% 25.31% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 50
Average daily rate £325 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.04% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £218 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £17.55
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +70.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
XHTML
Oxfordshire

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Sencha
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Alfresco
2 2 (50.00%) Content Management
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) PHP4
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) Interwoven
2 2 (50.00%) TeamSite

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) Alfresco
2 2 (50.00%) TeamSite
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Content Management
1 2 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) PHP4
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Interwoven
1 2 (50.00%) Sencha