The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML 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 XHTML over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 141 177 113
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -64
Contract jobs citing XHTML 76 65 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.934% 0.662% 1.353%
As % of the Application Development category 3.829% 2.991% 5.172%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 72
Average daily rate £300 £288 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £170 £158
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £343 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £296 £283 £285
% change year-on-year
+4.86% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +37.93%
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1985 2173 2765
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.39% 22.11% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1044 1079 1313
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 105 182
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £19.00 £28.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
XHTML
England

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +24 28 £325 +18.18% 3
Hampshire +7 18 £310 -11.42% 15
East Sussex +11 10 - - 1
Oxfordshire -10 5 £325 +54.76%
Surrey +6 4 £313 +13.63% 6
Buckinghamshire -4 4 £213 -15.00% 2
Middlesex +7 3 £260 +55.22%
West Sussex +11 2 £294 -2.08% 1
Kent - 1 - - 2
XHTML
England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 146 (92.41%) CSS
2 143 (90.51%) JavaScript
3 103 (65.19%) jQuery
4 96 (60.76%) HTML
5 64 (40.51%) XML
6 56 (35.44%) .NET
7 52 (32.91%) HTML5
8 47 (29.75%) ASP.NET
9 39 (24.68%) MVC
10 38 (24.05%) SQL
11 35 (22.15%) XSLT
12 34 (21.52%) C#
12 34 (21.52%) PHP
12 34 (21.52%) Photoshop
12 34 (21.52%) CMS
13 33 (20.89%) SQL Server
14 32 (20.25%) Java
14 32 (20.25%) Microsoft
15 29 (18.35%) CSS3
15 29 (18.35%) Ajax
16 28 (17.72%) Web Development
17 27 (17.09%) OO
18 24 (15.19%) JSP
18 24 (15.19%) JSON
19 23 (14.56%) ASP.NET MVC
19 23 (14.56%) E-Commerce
19 23 (14.56%) Scrum
20 22 (13.92%) MySQL
20 22 (13.92%) Continuous Integration
21 20 (12.66%) W3C

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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
1 146 (92.41%) CSS
2 103 (65.19%) jQuery
3 96 (60.76%) HTML
4 64 (40.51%) XML
5 56 (35.44%) .NET
6 52 (32.91%) HTML5
7 47 (29.75%) ASP.NET
8 35 (22.15%) XSLT
9 29 (18.35%) CSS3
9 29 (18.35%) Ajax
10 24 (15.19%) JSP
10 24 (15.19%) JSON
11 23 (14.56%) ASP.NET MVC
12 15 (9.494%) .NET Framework
13 14 (8.861%) Google Maps API
14 13 (8.228%) Web Services
15 12 (7.595%) Bing Maps
16 11 (6.962%) Flash
17 10 (6.329%) Velocity
17 10 (6.329%) XHR
Application Platforms
1 34 (21.52%) CMS
2 15 (9.494%) Umbraco
3 11 (6.962%) Drupal
4 10 (6.329%) WebLogic
5 9 (5.696%) Apache
6 8 (5.063%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (5.063%) SharePoint
7 6 (3.797%) SharePoint 2010
7 6 (3.797%) WebLogic Portal
7 6 (3.797%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (2.532%) Adobe CQ
9 3 (1.899%) TeamSite
9 3 (1.899%) IBM Notes
9 3 (1.899%) WordPress
9 3 (1.899%) SilverStripe
9 3 (1.899%) Alfresco
10 2 (1.266%) IIS
11 1 (0.633%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.633%) Moodle
11 1 (0.633%) Liferay
Applications
1 34 (21.52%) Photoshop
2 13 (8.228%) MS Excel
3 8 (5.063%) Fireworks
4 6 (3.797%) InfoPath
5 2 (1.266%) OmniGraffle
5 2 (1.266%) MS Office
5 2 (1.266%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.633%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 1 (0.633%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.962%) Internet
2 7 (4.430%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.797%) HTTP
3 6 (3.797%) 3G
4 1 (0.633%) SSL
4 1 (0.633%) Intranet
4 1 (0.633%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.89%) SQL Server
2 22 (13.92%) MySQL
3 10 (6.329%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (2.532%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.266%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.633%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.633%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (0.633%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.633%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.633%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.13%) Subversion
2 14 (8.861%) NUnit
3 9 (5.696%) Visual Studio
4 6 (3.797%) Git (software)
5 3 (1.899%) Dreamweaver
5 3 (1.899%) PhoneGap
6 2 (1.266%) Axure RP
6 2 (1.266%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.633%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.633%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.633%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.633%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (0.633%) RSpec
7 1 (0.633%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.633%) GitHub
7 1 (0.633%) NuGet
7 1 (0.633%) Capistrano
7 1 (0.633%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.633%) Hudson
General
1 17 (10.76%) Back Office
2 16 (10.13%) Marketing
3 6 (3.797%) Automotive
4 5 (3.165%) Finance
5 4 (2.532%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.266%) Retail
7 1 (0.633%) Billing
7 1 (0.633%) Arabic Language
Job Titles
1 137 (86.71%) Developer
2 38 (24.05%) Front-End Developer
3 29 (18.35%) Web Developer
4 20 (12.66%) .NET Developer
5 15 (9.494%) JavaScript Developer
6 13 (8.228%) PHP Developer
7 12 (7.595%) HTML Developer
8 10 (6.329%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.696%) Front-End Web Developer
10 8 (5.063%) UI Developer
10 8 (5.063%) UI Programmer
10 8 (5.063%) ASP.NET Developer
11 7 (4.430%) Drupal Developer
12 6 (3.797%) SharePoint Developer
12 6 (3.797%) .NET Web Developer
12 6 (3.797%) C# Developer
13 5 (3.165%) Senior Web Developer
13 5 (3.165%) Senior .NET Developer
13 5 (3.165%) Project Manager
13 5 (3.165%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.66%) W3C
2 6 (3.797%) Digital Media
3 3 (1.899%) PMI
3 3 (1.899%) iPad
3 3 (1.899%) Web 2.0
4 2 (1.266%) Smartphone
4 2 (1.266%) Open Source
4 2 (1.266%) iDTV
5 1 (0.633%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.633%) E-Learning
5 1 (0.633%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.633%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.633%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.633%) Social Media
5 1 (0.633%) Kindle
5 1 (0.633%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.633%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.595%) Windows
2 7 (4.430%) Android
3 6 (3.797%) UNIX
4 3 (1.899%) Linux
5 1 (0.633%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (24.68%) MVC
2 28 (17.72%) Web Development
3 27 (17.09%) OO
4 23 (14.56%) E-Commerce
4 23 (14.56%) Scrum
5 22 (13.92%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (11.39%) TDD
7 17 (10.76%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (6.962%) OOD
9 10 (6.329%) PRINCE2
9 10 (6.329%) Project Management
10 9 (5.696%) Systems Analysis
11 7 (4.430%) Content Management
12 6 (3.797%) Online Marketing
12 6 (3.797%) Migration
13 5 (3.165%) Workflow
14 4 (2.532%) Information Architecture
14 4 (2.532%) UML
14 4 (2.532%) OOP
14 4 (2.532%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 143 (90.51%) JavaScript
2 38 (24.05%) SQL
3 34 (21.52%) C#
3 34 (21.52%) PHP
4 32 (20.25%) Java
5 8 (5.063%) Perl
6 6 (3.797%) Ruby
6 6 (3.797%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.165%) VB.NET
8 4 (2.532%) PHP4
8 4 (2.532%) ActionScript
8 4 (2.532%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.266%) PHP5
9 2 (1.266%) XPath
9 2 (1.266%) C
10 1 (0.633%) VB
10 1 (0.633%) Scala
10 1 (0.633%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.633%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (9.494%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (5.696%) Degree
3 3 (1.899%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.76%) QA
2 1 (0.633%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.633%) WCAG
2 1 (0.633%) WAI
Systems Management
1 1 (0.633%) Plesk
Vendors
1 32 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.494%) Google
3 10 (6.329%) Oracle
4 9 (5.696%) Adobe
5 8 (5.063%) Sitecore
6 4 (2.532%) Ericsson
7 3 (1.899%) Twitter
7 3 (1.899%) Interwoven
7 3 (1.899%) Lotus
8 2 (1.266%) Sencha
8 2 (1.266%) SAP
9 1 (0.633%) VMware
9 1 (0.633%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.633%) GigaSpaces
9 1 (0.633%) Zend
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The chosen Developer will be the key development lead providing front end technology steers to the team and assisting and mentoring other developers.The ideal Candidate will be...
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Rate: £250.00 - £320 per day + Please quote
Posted: 24 May 2013
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Posted: 5 June 2013
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