The first table below looks at the demand for WAI skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAI 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the South East 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
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Rank 219 246 249
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +3
Contract jobs citing WAI 4 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.051% 0.010% 0.029%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.786% 0.115% 0.404%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £243 £325
% change year-on-year
+39.17% -25.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year
-3.70% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
509 869 742
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 6.514% 8.555% 7.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 334 298
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £213 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £525 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 67 56
Average hourly rate £13.00 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.21% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £32.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
WAI
England

WAI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WAI across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

South East WAI Jobs Demand Trend

WAI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WAI across the South East region.

South East WAI Daily Rate Trend

WAI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East WAI Hourly Rate Trend

WAI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAI within the South East 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
Surrey - 3 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
WAI
England

WAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing WAI 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 WAI.

1 7 (100.00%) W3C
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) PHP
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) Content Management
2 4 (57.14%) jQuery
2 4 (57.14%) HTML5
3 3 (42.86%) Social Media
3 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) WCAG
3 3 (42.86%) Web Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) SEO
3 3 (42.86%) Publishing
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (42.86%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (28.57%) SAP BW
4 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (28.57%) MS Office
4 2 (28.57%) SAP
5 1 (14.29%) ISMS
5 1 (14.29%) CMS
5 1 (14.29%) InfoPath
5 1 (14.29%) Web Development
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) XHTML
5 1 (14.29%) Intranet

WAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing WAI 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 WAI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) XML
1 4 (57.14%) jQuery
1 4 (57.14%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 1 (14.29%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SAP BW
General
1 3 (42.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Web Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) W3C
2 3 (42.86%) Social Media
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Content Management
2 3 (42.86%) Web Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) SEO
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) ISMS
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
1 4 (57.14%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Salesforce.com
2 2 (28.57%) SAP