The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 105 101 98
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -3
Contract jobs citing XHTML 16 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.646% 0.149% 0.438%
As % of the Application Development category 1.954% 0.941% 2.170%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 8
Average daily rate £325 £210 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.76% -26.95%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
819 425 553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.05% 15.88% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 181 289
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £214 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
UK

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland XHTML Daily Rate Histogram

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Edinburgh +13 13 £350 +66.66%
Glasgow - 3 £298 -
XHTML
UK

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 30 (100.00%) CSS
2 26 (86.67%) JavaScript
3 21 (70.00%) HTML
4 15 (50.00%) HTML5
5 14 (46.67%) jQuery
6 13 (43.33%) .NET
6 13 (43.33%) XML
7 10 (33.33%) CMS
8 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
8 9 (30.00%) XSLT
8 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
8 9 (30.00%) C#
8 9 (30.00%) Ajax
9 7 (23.33%) SQL
9 7 (23.33%) Web Services
9 7 (23.33%) OO
9 7 (23.33%) Content Management
10 6 (20.00%) Adobe
10 6 (20.00%) ASP
10 6 (20.00%) XPath
11 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (16.67%) Degree
11 5 (16.67%) Web Development
11 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
11 5 (16.67%) TDD
11 5 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 5 (16.67%) LINQ
11 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
11 5 (16.67%) Flash
11 5 (16.67%) OOD

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 30 (100.00%) CSS
2 21 (70.00%) HTML
3 15 (50.00%) HTML5
4 14 (46.67%) jQuery
5 13 (43.33%) .NET
5 13 (43.33%) XML
6 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
6 9 (30.00%) XSLT
6 9 (30.00%) Ajax
7 7 (23.33%) Web Services
8 6 (20.00%) ASP
9 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
9 5 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 5 (16.67%) LINQ
9 5 (16.67%) Flash
10 4 (13.33%) XSL
11 3 (10.00%) CSS3
12 2 (6.667%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) CMS
2 4 (13.33%) Umbraco
3 2 (6.667%) Apache
4 1 (3.333%) IIS
4 1 (3.333%) TeamSite
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Photoshop
2 1 (3.333%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Intranet
2 1 (3.333%) HTTP
2 1 (3.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) RDBMS
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.333%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (6.667%) Finance
1 2 (6.667%) Multimedia
2 1 (3.333%) Marketing
2 1 (3.333%) Electronics
2 1 (3.333%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (80.00%) Developer
2 10 (33.33%) Web Developer
3 6 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Designer
4 5 (16.67%) Lead Designer
5 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Web Developer
7 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (6.667%) Front-End Web Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Digital Designer
8 1 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (3.333%) PHP MySQL Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Lead Architect
8 1 (3.333%) Web Content Editor
8 1 (3.333%) Content Editor
8 1 (3.333%) Architect
8 1 (3.333%) Programmer
8 1 (3.333%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) W3C
2 3 (10.00%) Social Network
2 3 (10.00%) Web 2.0
3 2 (6.667%) NHS
3 2 (6.667%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.333%) Telematics
4 1 (3.333%) Open Source
4 1 (3.333%) Social Media
4 1 (3.333%) Semantic Web
4 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) OO
1 7 (23.33%) Content Management
2 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (16.67%) Web Development
2 5 (16.67%) TDD
2 5 (16.67%) OOD
3 2 (6.667%) Web Design
3 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.333%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (3.333%) Time Management
4 1 (3.333%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (3.333%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2
4 1 (3.333%) UML
4 1 (3.333%) OOP
4 1 (3.333%) SEO
4 1 (3.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (3.333%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) JavaScript
2 9 (30.00%) C#
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 6 (20.00%) XPath
5 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 4 (13.33%) VB
6 4 (13.33%) Java
6 4 (13.33%) Ruby
7 3 (10.00%) PHP
8 1 (3.333%) C
8 1 (3.333%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.333%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) WAI
2 2 (6.667%) WCAG
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (3.333%) Microsoft
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