The first table below looks at the demand for XHR 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 XHR 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 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
XMLHttpRequest (XHR)
Rank 214 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing XHR 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.115% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.463% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £175 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £175 - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1945 2328 2759
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.89% 22.92% 26.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1021 1162 1249
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £239 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 106 194
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -10.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.65 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHR
England

XHR
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East XHR Jobs Demand Trend

XHR
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East XHR Daily Rate Trend

XHR
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHR 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
East Sussex - 9 £175 -
XHR
England

XHR
Top 13 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (100.00%) CSS
1 15 (100.00%) XML
1 15 (100.00%) OO
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 15 (100.00%) JSON
2 12 (80.00%) HTML5
2 12 (80.00%) HTML
2 12 (80.00%) XHTML
3 6 (40.00%) PHP
3 6 (40.00%) MySQL
4 3 (20.00%) LAMP
4 3 (20.00%) Digital Media
4 3 (20.00%) Moodle

XHR
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) CSS
1 15 (100.00%) XML
1 15 (100.00%) JSON
2 12 (80.00%) HTML5
2 12 (80.00%) HTML
2 12 (80.00%) XHTML
3 3 (20.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Moodle
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) HTML Developer
2 9 (60.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 6 (40.00%) PHP Developer
4 3 (20.00%) LAMP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) PHP
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Posted: 17 May 2013