The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth 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 14 19 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing XHTML 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 7.921% 1.064% -
As % of the Application Development category 19.51% 7.143% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £283 £280
% change year-on-year
+6.19% +0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +42.85%
All Application Development
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41 14 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 40.59% 14.89% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 5 5
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £350 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £416
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 17
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
XHTML
Hampshire

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (50.00%) Photoshop
4 3 (37.50%) CMS
4 3 (37.50%) PMI
4 3 (37.50%) PMI Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (37.50%) C#
4 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Drupal
4 3 (37.50%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 1 (12.50%) OOP
6 1 (12.50%) OO
6 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
6 1 (12.50%) Adobe
6 1 (12.50%) Pay per click
6 1 (12.50%) Marketing
6 1 (12.50%) Web Development
6 1 (12.50%) Retail

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (12.50%) 3ds Max
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Development Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Software Development Manager
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Drupal Developer
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PMI
2 1 (12.50%) W3C
2 1 (12.50%) Social Media
2 1 (12.50%) Kindle
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
1 3 (37.50%) Scrum
1 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
1 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) SEO
2 1 (12.50%) Pay per click
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) OOP
2 1 (12.50%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 3 (37.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
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