Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table looks at the demand for HTML skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkHypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank3024
Rank change on the same period last yearDown-6
Matching contract IT job ads14303780
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK4.163 %4.910 %
As % of the Application Development category17.55 %20.47 %
Daily rates quoted5551275
Average daily rate£260£300
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-13.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£155£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£300
% change on same period last year-20.83 %
Hourly rates quoted132263
Average hourly rate£19.50£27.50
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year-29.09 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£30.00
% change on same period last year-33.33 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
814618463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK23.71 %23.98 %
Daily rates quoted32236002
Average daily rate£338£350
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-3.570 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£345
% change on same period last year-13.04 %
Hourly rates quoted4421034
Average hourly rate£25.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year-23.07 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£18.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00£33.00
% change on same period last year-24.24 %

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.

HTML
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing HTML within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

HTML Demand Trend

HTML
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTML within the UK.

HTML Daily Rate Trend

HTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

HTML Daily Rate Histogram

HTML
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTML within the UK.

HTML Hourly Rate Trend

HTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

HTML Hourly Rate Histogram

HTML
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-71347£263-12.50 %
LondonDown-11637£300-
South EastDown-2255£250-16.66 %
City of LondonDown-5163£350+6.06 %
North WestUp+9113£230-29.23 %
South WestUp+299£200-33.33 %
BerkshireUp+491£250-13.04 %
East of EnglandDown-887£244-25.00 %
West MidlandsUp+1161£204-24.44 %
HampshireUp+2657£255+6.25 %
CambridgeshireUp+1253£238-33.56 %
ScotlandUp+1452£200-16.66 %
SurreyUp+750£200-21.56 %
ManchesterUp+348£178-43.49 %
YorkshireDown-148£225-24.36 %
CambridgeUp+1446£238-32.14 %
ReadingUp+340£300-
West YorkshireUp+336£225-6.25 %
BristolUp+233£198-50.62 %
LeedsUp+829£254+11.53 %
East MidlandsNo change029£260-13.33 %
EdinburghUp+420£150-6.25 %
BirminghamUp+1119£240-11.11 %
OxfordshireDown-819£231+5.11 %
WiltshireUp+3418--
MerseysideUp+2218£245+11.36 %
LiverpoolUp+1917£245+11.36 %
WalesUp+1217£205-43.05 %
GlasgowUp+1716£217+1.34 %
North EastUp+1516£293+11.42 %

HTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HTML 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 HTML.

11977 (61.04 %)CSS
21770 (54.65 %)JavaScript
31078 (33.28 %)XML
4938 (28.96 %).NET
5856 (26.43 %)SQL
6725 (22.38 %)AJAX
7703 (21.70 %)PHP
8639 (19.73 %)ASP.NET
9618 (19.08 %)Java
10582 (17.97 %)C#
11581 (17.94 %)SQL Server
12561 (17.32 %)XHTML
13521 (16.09 %)MySQL
14482 (14.88 %)Flash
15394 (12.16 %)Web Development
16362 (11.18 %)Oracle
17359 (11.08 %)Photoshop
18330 (10.19 %)CMS
19285 (8.799 %)Linux
20284 (8.768 %)OO
21279 (8.614 %)Microsoft
22275 (8.490 %)JSP
23274 (8.459 %)ASP
24273 (8.429 %)Content Management
25256 (7.904 %)WebServices
26253 (7.811 %)XSLT
27244 (7.533 %)J2EE
28241 (7.441 %)UNIX
29236 (7.286 %)Windows
30211 (6.514 %)E-Commerce

HTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HTML 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 HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11977 (61.04 %)CSS
21078 (33.28 %)XML
3938 (28.96 %).NET
4725 (22.38 %)AJAX
5639 (19.73 %)ASP.NET
6561 (17.32 %)XHTML
7482 (14.88 %)Flash
8275 (8.490 %)JSP
9274 (8.459 %)ASP
10256 (7.904 %)WebServices
11253 (7.811 %)XSLT
12244 (7.533 %)J2EE
13195 (6.020 %)Spring
14162 (5.002 %)jQuery
15151 (4.662 %)Hibernate
16139 (4.291 %)DHTML
17129 (3.983 %)LAMP
18117 (3.612 %)Struts
19112 (3.458 %)WebSphere
20109 (3.365 %)Adobe Flex
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1330 (10.19 %)CMS
2188 (5.804 %)Apache
3134 (4.137 %)IIS
4120 (3.705 %)SharePoint
5112 (3.458 %)Drupal
686 (2.655 %)Tomcat
774 (2.285 %)Joomla!
857 (1.760 %)SharePoint Server 2007
947 (1.451 %)WebLogic
1030 (0.926 %)WordPress
1129 (0.895 %)ColdFusion
1228 (0.864 %)TeamSite
1318 (0.556 %)BizTalk Server
1417 (0.525 %)LiveLink
1417 (0.525 %)Lotus Notes
1417 (0.525 %)Lotus Domino
1515 (0.463 %)Zope
1515 (0.463 %)EPiServer
1515 (0.463 %)WebSphere Portal
1614 (0.432 %)MQSeries
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1359 (11.08 %)Photoshop
2119 (3.674 %)MS Excel
3111 (3.427 %)Adobe Illustrator
477 (2.377 %)MS Office
541 (1.266 %)MS Visio
639 (1.204 %)Fireworks
726 (0.803 %)MS PowerPoint
813 (0.401 %)MS Project
911 (0.340 %)ImageReady
109 (0.278 %)FreeHand
118 (0.247 %)3ds Max
127 (0.216 %)CorelDRAW
136 (0.185 %)Paint Shop Pro
136 (0.185 %)Spreadsheet
144 (0.123 %)InDesign
144 (0.123 %)RoboHelp
144 (0.123 %)Acrobat
153 (0.093 %)FrameMaker
153 (0.093 %)Adobe Premiere
162 (0.062 %)Shockwave
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
114 (0.432 %)WebTrends
212 (0.370 %)Google Analytics
311 (0.340 %)Microsoft CRM
48 (0.247 %)Dynamics CRM
56 (0.185 %)BusinessWorks
56 (0.185 %)TIBCO iProcess
65 (0.154 %)Global One
74 (0.123 %)SunGard GMI
83 (0.093 %)Navision
83 (0.093 %)Oracle Applications
92 (0.062 %)Oracle 11i
92 (0.062 %)Summit
92 (0.062 %)Oracle EBS
92 (0.062 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
92 (0.062 %)SAP ERP
101 (0.031 %)SAP IS-U
101 (0.031 %)Cognos Planning
101 (0.031 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
101 (0.031 %)Pivotal CRM
101 (0.031 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1207 (6.391 %)Internet
2142 (4.384 %)Intranet
349 (1.513 %)HTTP
433 (1.019 %)RNC
532 (0.988 %)Extranet
630 (0.926 %)DNS
729 (0.895 %)TCP/IP
822 (0.679 %)SSL
822 (0.679 %)Firewall
918 (0.556 %)LDAP
1017 (0.525 %)FTP
1116 (0.494 %)LAN
1214 (0.432 %)Wireless
1313 (0.401 %)WAN
1411 (0.340 %)SMTP
1411 (0.340 %)Broadband
158 (0.247 %)SSH
166 (0.185 %)BSS
166 (0.185 %)SAN
175 (0.154 %)POP3
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1581 (17.94 %)SQL Server
2521 (16.09 %)MySQL
3188 (5.804 %)SQL Server 2005
490 (2.779 %)SQL Server 2000
569 (2.130 %)Oracle 10g
652 (1.605 %)GIS
750 (1.544 %)RDBMS
837 (1.142 %)MS Access
933 (1.019 %)Datawarehouse
933 (1.019 %)SQL Server 2008
1026 (0.803 %)Oracle Reports
1026 (0.803 %)Crystal Reports
1120 (0.617 %)DB2
1120 (0.617 %)DTS
1120 (0.617 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1217 (0.525 %)Oracle 8/8i
1314 (0.432 %)Oracle 9i
1314 (0.432 %)SQLPlus
1314 (0.432 %)Oracle 11g
1413 (0.401 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1184 (5.681 %)Dreamweaver
2173 (5.341 %)Visual Studio
3116 (3.581 %)Subversion
493 (2.871 %)Eclipse
553 (1.636 %)JUnit
652 (1.605 %)Ant
738 (1.173 %)VSS/SourceSafe
832 (0.988 %)ClearCase
832 (0.988 %)Selenium
922 (0.679 %)Oracle Forms
1020 (0.617 %)FrontPage
1119 (0.587 %)NUnit
1218 (0.556 %)Team Foundation Server
1315 (0.463 %)ClearQuest
1413 (0.401 %)LoadRunner
1413 (0.401 %)CruiseControl
1512 (0.370 %)JDeveloper
1512 (0.370 %)Git (software)
1610 (0.309 %)Visual Studio Team System
178 (0.247 %)OpenDeploy
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1202 (6.236 %)Finance
2160 (4.940 %)Banking
3141 (4.353 %)Marketing
4132 (4.075 %)Government
5103 (3.180 %)Telecoms
5103 (3.180 %)Publishing
696 (2.964 %)Investment Banking
794 (2.902 %)Games
866 (2.038 %)Retail
963 (1.945 %)Education
1061 (1.883 %)Graphic Design
1147 (1.451 %)Advertising
1241 (1.266 %)Insurance
1331 (0.957 %)Multimedia
1331 (0.957 %)Animation
1428 (0.864 %)Health
1519 (0.587 %)Construction
1519 (0.587 %)Financial Institution
1618 (0.556 %)Back Office
1618 (0.556 %)Music
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12209 (68.20 %)Developer
2613 (18.93 %)Web Developer
3350 (10.81 %).NET Developer
4314 (9.694 %)PHP Developer
5195 (6.020 %)Analyst
6186 (5.743 %)Java Developer
7173 (5.341 %)Web Designer
8157 (4.847 %)C# Developer
9136 (4.199 %)ASP.NET Developer
9136 (4.199 %)Front-End Developer
1098 (3.026 %)HTML Developer
1195 (2.933 %)Programmer
1291 (2.810 %)Flash Developer
1385 (2.624 %)Senior Developer
1482 (2.532 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1565 (2.007 %)Analyst Programmer
1658 (1.791 %)Project Manager
1754 (1.667 %)Consultant
1754 (1.667 %)Applications Developer
1852 (1.605 %)PHP Web Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1156 (4.816 %)W3C
266 (2.038 %)Web 2.0
346 (1.420 %)N-Tier
441 (1.266 %)E-Learning
538 (1.173 %)NHS
637 (1.142 %)Derivative
729 (0.895 %)Computer Science
825 (0.772 %)Social Network
924 (0.741 %)RIA
1023 (0.710 %)Equities
1120 (0.617 %)Client/Server
1120 (0.617 %)Streaming Video
1218 (0.556 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1317 (0.525 %)Management Information System
1317 (0.525 %)iSeries
1416 (0.494 %)Blog
1514 (0.432 %)IPTV
1514 (0.432 %)SCORM
1514 (0.432 %)iPhone
1613 (0.401 %)Equity Derivative
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1285 (8.799 %)Linux
2241 (7.441 %)UNIX
3236 (7.286 %)Windows
457 (1.760 %)Solaris
544 (1.358 %)Red Hat Linux
640 (1.235 %)Windows Server 2003
739 (1.204 %)Windows XP
835 (1.081 %)Windows 2000
915 (0.463 %)Windows NT
1014 (0.432 %)Windows Vista
119 (0.278 %)AIX
128 (0.247 %)Mac OS X
137 (0.216 %)Windows 2000 Server
146 (0.185 %)Windows Server 2008
155 (0.154 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
155 (0.154 %)Windows Mobile
155 (0.154 %)HPUX
164 (0.123 %)Debian
173 (0.093 %)Ubuntu
173 (0.093 %)Mac OS X Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1394 (12.16 %)Web Development
2284 (8.768 %)OO
3273 (8.429 %)Content Management
4211 (6.514 %)E-Commerce
5169 (5.218 %)Agile Software Development
6155 (4.785 %)Web Design
7113 (3.489 %)SEO
8104 (3.211 %)OOP
996 (2.964 %)Project Management
1092 (2.840 %)UML
1182 (2.532 %)TDD
1271 (2.192 %)Scrum
1361 (1.883 %)Workflow
1361 (1.883 %)Unit Testing
1457 (1.760 %)SOA
1549 (1.513 %)CRM
1647 (1.451 %)Web Accessibility
1746 (1.420 %)Migration
1845 (1.389 %)RUP
1937 (1.142 %)OOD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11770 (54.65 %)JavaScript
2856 (26.43 %)SQL
3703 (21.70 %)PHP
4618 (19.08 %)Java
5582 (17.97 %)C#
6206 (6.360 %)ActionScript
7188 (5.804 %)VB
8158 (4.878 %)VB.NET
9156 (4.816 %)Perl
9156 (4.816 %)PHP5
10125 (3.859 %)PL/SQL
11106 (3.273 %)T-SQL
1288 (2.717 %)VBA
1380 (2.470 %)C++
1479 (2.439 %)Python
1576 (2.346 %)C
1673 (2.254 %)VBScript
1763 (1.945 %)VB6
1858 (1.791 %)Ruby
1858 (1.791 %)Shell Script
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1138 (4.261 %)Security Cleared
2136 (4.199 %)Degree
381 (2.501 %)SC Cleared
415 (0.463 %)ISEB
512 (0.370 %)CTC Cleared
512 (0.370 %)MCTS
611 (0.340 %)Microsoft Certification
78 (0.247 %)BC Cleared
87 (0.216 %)DV Cleared
87 (0.216 %)Cisco Certification
87 (0.216 %)Sun Certification
96 (0.185 %)MCSE
96 (0.185 %)CCNA
105 (0.154 %)Oracle Certification
113 (0.093 %)HND
122 (0.062 %)MCP
122 (0.062 %)MCSA
122 (0.062 %)PMI Certification
122 (0.062 %)ISEB Practitioner
122 (0.062 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
137 (1.142 %)QA
214 (0.432 %)WAI
38 (0.247 %)WCAG
47 (0.216 %)SLA
52 (0.062 %)ISO9001
52 (0.062 %)HL7
61 (0.031 %)ISO27001
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
137 (1.142 %)Active Directory
211 (0.340 %)ISA Server
37 (0.216 %)AquaLogic
37 (0.216 %)VMware Infrastructure
44 (0.123 %)MSMQ
52 (0.062 %)Oracle RAC
52 (0.062 %)RACF
52 (0.062 %)VMware ESX
61 (0.031 %)Squid
61 (0.031 %)OpenLDAP
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
110 (0.309 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
26 (0.185 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
35 (0.154 %)CONTROL-M
35 (0.154 %)MIIS
35 (0.154 %)CA SiteMinder
44 (0.123 %)Tivoli
53 (0.093 %)TIBCO Hawk
53 (0.093 %)ZENworks
53 (0.093 %)SCCM
62 (0.062 %)AutoSys
71 (0.031 %)Netcool/Proviso
71 (0.031 %)EMC NetWorker
71 (0.031 %)ServiceCenter
71 (0.031 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
71 (0.031 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
71 (0.031 %)Legato
71 (0.031 %)Nagios
71 (0.031 %)Netcool
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1362 (11.18 %)Oracle
2279 (8.614 %)Microsoft
3143 (4.415 %)Adobe
447 (1.451 %)Sybase
544 (1.358 %)Zend
642 (1.297 %)JBoss
741 (1.266 %)Mapinfo
839 (1.204 %)Red Hat
931 (0.957 %)RedDot
1030 (0.926 %)Google
1125 (0.772 %)Interwoven
1223 (0.710 %)Open Text
1321 (0.648 %)IBM
1321 (0.648 %)Siebel
1420 (0.617 %)Lotus
1519 (0.587 %)Nokia
1618 (0.556 %)Mercator
1716 (0.494 %)Sophis
1716 (0.494 %)BEA
1716 (0.494 %)Cisco