The first table below looks at the demand for HTML5 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML5 over the 3 months to 23 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HTML5
Rank 10 14 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing HTML5 6 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 18.75% 14.71% -
As % of the Application Development category 37.50% 27.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 0
Average daily rate £330 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £318
% change year-on-year
- -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Application Development
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 37 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 50.00% 54.41% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 11
Average daily rate £325 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
HTML5
Staffordshire

HTML5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 across the Stoke-on-Trent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Stoke-on-Trent HTML5 Jobs Demand Trend

HTML5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTML5 across the Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent HTML5 Daily Rate Trend

HTML5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing HTML5 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 HTML5.

1 20 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 20 (100.00%) CSS
2 17 (85.00%) SOA
2 17 (85.00%) SEO
2 17 (85.00%) C#
2 17 (85.00%) VB.NET
2 17 (85.00%) .NET
2 17 (85.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (85.00%) XML
2 17 (85.00%) XSLT
2 17 (85.00%) XHTML
2 17 (85.00%) E-Commerce
2 17 (85.00%) N-Tier
2 17 (85.00%) Ajax
2 17 (85.00%) ASP.NET
2 17 (85.00%) Unit Testing
2 17 (85.00%) CSS3
3 15 (75.00%) SQL
3 15 (75.00%) Degree
3 15 (75.00%) jQuery
3 15 (75.00%) Web Application Development
4 8 (40.00%) TDD
5 6 (30.00%) Document Management
5 6 (30.00%) AccuRev
5 6 (30.00%) JIRA
6 4 (20.00%) Games
7 3 (15.00%) Adobe
7 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
7 3 (15.00%) Web Services
7 3 (15.00%) HTML

HTML5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing HTML5 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 HTML5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (100.00%) CSS
2 17 (85.00%) .NET
2 17 (85.00%) XML
2 17 (85.00%) XSLT
2 17 (85.00%) XHTML
2 17 (85.00%) Ajax
2 17 (85.00%) ASP.NET
2 17 (85.00%) CSS3
3 15 (75.00%) jQuery
4 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 3 (15.00%) Flash
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) Flash Builder
General
1 4 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
1 17 (85.00%) .NET Developer
2 16 (80.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 16 (80.00%) VB.NET Developer
2 16 (80.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 14 (70.00%) SQL Developer
3 14 (70.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 14 (70.00%) Web Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Flash Designer
4 3 (15.00%) Flash Programmer
4 3 (15.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Designer
4 3 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Website Developer
6 1 (5.000%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (85.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (15.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (15.00%) Graphic Design
2 3 (15.00%) WURFL
3 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (15.00%) BlackBerry OS
1 3 (15.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) SOA
1 17 (85.00%) SEO
1 17 (85.00%) E-Commerce
1 17 (85.00%) Unit Testing
2 15 (75.00%) Web Application Development
3 8 (40.00%) TDD
4 6 (30.00%) Document Management
5 3 (15.00%) OOD
5 3 (15.00%) OO
5 3 (15.00%) Web Development
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (85.00%) C#
2 17 (85.00%) VB.NET
3 15 (75.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) ActionScript
4 3 (15.00%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) AccuRev
2 3 (15.00%) Adobe