The first table below looks at the demand for HTML5 Canvas skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HTML5 Canvas 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.

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
HTML5 Canvas Element
Rank 511 560 586
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +26
Contract jobs citing HTML5 Canvas 19 18 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.031% 0.003%
As % of the Application Development category 0.149% 0.121% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -0.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £310 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £460 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £125 - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

HTML5 Canvas
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 Canvas within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

HTML5 Canvas Jobs Demand Trend

HTML5 Canvas
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HTML5 Canvas within the UK.

HTML5 Canvas Daily Rate Trend

HTML5 Canvas
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML5 Canvas within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

HTML5 Canvas Daily Rate Histogram

HTML5 Canvas
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HTML5 Canvas within the UK.

HTML5 Canvas Hourly Rate Trend

HTML5 Canvas
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML5 Canvas within the UK 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
England +50 19 £350 +7.69%
London +21 13 £500 +53.84%
City of London +16 6 £350 +12.90%
Yorkshire - 3 £125 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £125 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 - -
Nottingham - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £200 -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 £125 -
Doncaster - 1 - -
Bradford - 1 £125 -
Birmingham - 1 £200 -

HTML5 Canvas
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HTML5 Canvas 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 Canvas.

1 44 (97.78%) JavaScript
2 37 (82.22%) CSS
2 37 (82.22%) HTML5
3 33 (73.33%) jQuery
4 31 (68.89%) HTML
5 29 (64.44%) Ajax
6 28 (62.22%) CSS3
7 27 (60.00%) OO
8 18 (40.00%) WebGL
9 17 (37.78%) Agile Software Development
10 16 (35.56%) TDD
10 16 (35.56%) Backbone.js
11 13 (28.89%) Finance
12 11 (24.44%) JSON
13 10 (22.22%) MVC
13 10 (22.22%) Banking
14 9 (20.00%) SVG
15 7 (15.56%) OOP
15 7 (15.56%) Flash
15 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
15 7 (15.56%) Apache Flex
16 6 (13.33%) BDD
16 6 (13.33%) Degree
17 5 (11.11%) Front Office
17 5 (11.11%) Photoshop
17 5 (11.11%) Ext JS
18 4 (8.889%) Facebook
18 4 (8.889%) Twitter
18 4 (8.889%) PHP
18 4 (8.889%) Investment Banking

HTML5 Canvas
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing HTML5 Canvas 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 Canvas. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (82.22%) CSS
1 37 (82.22%) HTML5
2 33 (73.33%) jQuery
3 31 (68.89%) HTML
4 29 (64.44%) Ajax
5 28 (62.22%) CSS3
6 18 (40.00%) WebGL
7 16 (35.56%) Backbone.js
8 11 (24.44%) JSON
9 9 (20.00%) SVG
10 7 (15.56%) Apache Flex
10 7 (15.56%) Flash
11 5 (11.11%) Ext JS
12 3 (6.667%) SproutCore
12 3 (6.667%) Modernizr
12 3 (6.667%) XHTML
12 3 (6.667%) YUI
12 3 (6.667%) Dojo
12 3 (6.667%) Web Services
12 3 (6.667%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.667%) Apache
1 3 (6.667%) Tomcat
1 3 (6.667%) ColdFusion
2 2 (4.444%) CMS
3 1 (2.222%) Drupal
3 1 (2.222%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Photoshop
2 3 (6.667%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.444%) MySQL
2 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.667%) Jasmine
2 2 (4.444%) Selenium
2 2 (4.444%) JSUnit
2 2 (4.444%) Git (software)
2 2 (4.444%) Balsamiq Mockups
3 1 (2.222%) QUnit
3 1 (2.222%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.222%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.222%) Subversion
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
2 10 (22.22%) Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Front Office
4 4 (8.889%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.667%) Games
6 2 (4.444%) Marketing
7 1 (2.222%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 44 (97.78%) Developer
2 19 (42.22%) Front-End Developer
3 13 (28.89%) Web Developer
4 12 (26.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 8 (17.78%) HTML Developer
6 1 (2.222%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.222%) UI Developer
6 1 (2.222%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.222%) Consultant
6 1 (2.222%) Programmer
6 1 (2.222%) Front-End Web Developer
6 1 (2.222%) Mobile Developer
6 1 (2.222%) Graphics Developer
6 1 (2.222%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.667%) E-Learning
1 3 (6.667%) RIA
1 3 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.444%) Mobile Games
2 2 (4.444%) SaaS
2 2 (4.444%) Visualisation
2 2 (4.444%) Animation
3 1 (2.222%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.222%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.222%) W3C
3 1 (2.222%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.222%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (2.222%) Semantic Web
3 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.667%) Android
1 3 (6.667%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.222%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) OO
2 17 (37.78%) Agile Software Development
3 16 (35.56%) TDD
4 10 (22.22%) MVC
5 7 (15.56%) OOP
5 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
6 6 (13.33%) BDD
7 3 (6.667%) Progressive Enhancement
7 3 (6.667%) Web Development
8 2 (4.444%) Graceful Degradation
8 2 (4.444%) Performance Improvement
8 2 (4.444%) Responsive Web Design
8 2 (4.444%) Web Design
8 2 (4.444%) SEO
9 1 (2.222%) Validation
9 1 (2.222%) B2C
9 1 (2.222%) Project Management
9 1 (2.222%) Content Management
9 1 (2.222%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (97.78%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.889%) PHP
3 3 (6.667%) Java
4 2 (4.444%) ActionScript
4 2 (4.444%) Python
4 2 (4.444%) ActionScript 3.0
4 2 (4.444%) Perl
5 1 (2.222%) C
5 1 (2.222%) C#
5 1 (2.222%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.222%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (8.889%) Facebook
1 4 (8.889%) Twitter
2 3 (6.667%) Google
3 2 (4.444%) Sencha
4 1 (2.222%) Eloqua
4 1 (2.222%) Salesforce.com