The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML 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 Oxfordshire 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
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 43 48 34
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -14
Contract jobs citing XHTML 6 10 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.389% 1.563% 4.054%
As % of the Application Development category 6.383% 4.831% 9.231%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
Average daily rate £325 £280 £183
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +53.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
94 207 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 21.76% 32.34% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 111 116
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
South East

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford 0 4 £325 -7.14%
XHTML
South East

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (100.00%) jQuery
2 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 9 (81.82%) CSS
3 8 (72.73%) HTML
4 6 (54.55%) CMS
4 6 (54.55%) HTML5
5 5 (45.45%) Web Development
5 5 (45.45%) CSS3
5 5 (45.45%) SQL
5 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
6 4 (36.36%) MySQL
6 4 (36.36%) PHP
6 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
6 4 (36.36%) PHP4
6 4 (36.36%) Ajax
7 3 (27.27%) Alfresco
7 3 (27.27%) Content Management
7 3 (27.27%) Sencha
7 3 (27.27%) C#
7 3 (27.27%) .NET
7 3 (27.27%) Photoshop
7 3 (27.27%) JSP
7 3 (27.27%) Interwoven
7 3 (27.27%) TeamSite
8 2 (18.18%) MVC
8 2 (18.18%) Finance
8 2 (18.18%) W3C
8 2 (18.18%) PRINCE
8 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
8 2 (18.18%) RDBMS

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (100.00%) jQuery
2 9 (81.82%) CSS
3 8 (72.73%) HTML
4 6 (54.55%) HTML5
5 5 (45.45%) CSS3
6 4 (36.36%) Ajax
7 3 (27.27%) .NET
7 3 (27.27%) JSP
8 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
8 2 (18.18%) Razor View Engine
9 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
9 1 (9.091%) Web Services
9 1 (9.091%) XML
9 1 (9.091%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) CMS
2 3 (27.27%) TeamSite
2 3 (27.27%) Alfresco
3 2 (18.18%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) MySQL
3 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Front-End Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (18.18%) Programmer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst Programmer
4 2 (18.18%) PHP Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Programmer
4 2 (18.18%) Drupal Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) W3C
2 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Web Development
2 3 (27.27%) Content Management
3 2 (18.18%) Web Application Development
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE
3 2 (18.18%) MVC
4 1 (9.091%) Scrum
4 1 (9.091%) TDD
4 1 (9.091%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) PHP
3 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
3 4 (36.36%) PHP4
4 3 (27.27%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) PHP5
5 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
6 1 (9.091%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Interwoven
1 3 (27.27%) Sencha