The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 20 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 Tyne and Wear 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 25 38 31
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -7
Contract jobs citing XHTML 4 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.260% 0.917% 0.763%
As % of the Application Development category 8.889% 2.941% 2.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £215 £363 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.68% -27.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
45 102 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 25.42% 31.19% 28.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 58 48
Average daily rate £275 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £238 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
Average hourly rate £13.11 £35.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.54% +250.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
North East

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +9 2 - -
Sunderland - 2 £215 -
XHTML
North East

XHTML
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) ASP
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) VB
2 3 (75.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
4 1 (25.00%) Fireworks

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) ASP
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (25.00%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft