The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 59 75 71
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -4
Contract jobs citing XHTML 11 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.325% 0.564% 0.851%
As % of the Application Development category 5.238% 3.797% 3.689%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £280 £250 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
210 158 244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.30% 14.85% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 60 116
Average daily rate £363 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £470 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -43.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
Berkshire

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 21 (95.45%) JavaScript
2 20 (90.91%) HTML
3 17 (77.27%) CSS
4 16 (72.73%) jQuery
5 10 (45.45%) HTML5
6 9 (40.91%) .NET
7 8 (36.36%) Digital Media
8 7 (31.82%) CSS3
8 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
9 6 (27.27%) PHP
9 6 (27.27%) Photoshop
9 6 (27.27%) XML
9 6 (27.27%) XSLT
9 6 (27.27%) Windows
9 6 (27.27%) HTTP
9 6 (27.27%) Adobe
9 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (27.27%) Android
9 6 (27.27%) iPad
9 6 (27.27%) MVC
10 5 (22.73%) JSP
10 5 (22.73%) MySQL
10 5 (22.73%) Java
11 4 (18.18%) Perl
11 4 (18.18%) Oracle
11 4 (18.18%) WebLogic
11 4 (18.18%) Ericsson
11 4 (18.18%) Internet
11 4 (18.18%) WebLogic Portal
11 4 (18.18%) 3G

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 20 (90.91%) HTML
2 17 (77.27%) CSS
3 16 (72.73%) jQuery
4 10 (45.45%) HTML5
5 9 (40.91%) .NET
6 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
6 7 (31.82%) CSS3
7 6 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (27.27%) XML
7 6 (27.27%) XSLT
8 5 (22.73%) JSP
9 4 (18.18%) Ajax
9 4 (18.18%) JSON
9 4 (18.18%) Dojo
10 2 (9.091%) ActiveX
11 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
11 1 (4.545%) FreeMarker
11 1 (4.545%) Velocity
11 1 (4.545%) SOAP
11 1 (4.545%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) WebLogic
1 4 (18.18%) Apache
1 4 (18.18%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (4.545%) CMS
2 1 (4.545%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) HTTP
2 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 4 (18.18%) Internet
2 4 (18.18%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MySQL
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) PhoneGap
2 1 (4.545%) NuGet
General
1 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (81.82%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (9.091%) HTML Developer
3 2 (9.091%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (9.091%) UI Developer
3 2 (9.091%) CSS Developer
3 2 (9.091%) UI Programmer
4 1 (4.545%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (4.545%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Digital Media
2 6 (27.27%) iPad
3 1 (4.545%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
1 6 (27.27%) Android
2 4 (18.18%) UNIX
3 2 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) MVC
2 2 (9.091%) Scrum
2 2 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (4.545%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) JavaScript
2 6 (27.27%) PHP
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Perl
5 2 (9.091%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Adobe
2 4 (18.18%) Ericsson
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle