The first table below looks at the demand for Progressive Enhancement skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Progressive Enhancement 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 Processes & Methodologies 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
Progressive Enhancement
Rank 505 556 580
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +24
Contract jobs citing Progressive Enhancement 25 22 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.038% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.056% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 6
Average daily rate £350 £375 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +16.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.11 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.11 -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32885 39492 41512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19655 22706 23594
Average daily rate £413 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 1268 1474
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%

Progressive Enhancement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Progressive Enhancement within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Progressive Enhancement Jobs Demand Trend

Progressive Enhancement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Progressive Enhancement Daily Rate Trend

Progressive Enhancement
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Progressive Enhancement Daily Rate Histogram

Progressive Enhancement
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Progressive Enhancement Hourly Rate Trend

Progressive Enhancement
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progressive Enhancement 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 +51 25 £350 -6.66%
London +29 24 £350 -15.15%
City of London +10 2 £369 -23.37%
North East - 1 - -
Durham - 1 - -

Progressive Enhancement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 40 (95.24%) CSS
2 38 (90.48%) JavaScript
3 37 (88.10%) HTML5
4 36 (85.71%) CSS3
5 35 (83.33%) jQuery
6 23 (54.76%) Graceful Degradation
7 21 (50.00%) HTML
8 18 (42.86%) Java
9 17 (40.48%) Semantic HTML
10 14 (33.33%) Sass
10 14 (33.33%) LESS
10 14 (33.33%) OOP
10 14 (33.33%) Scrum
10 14 (33.33%) Android
10 14 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (30.95%) OO
12 12 (28.57%) Ajax
12 12 (28.57%) Apple iOS
13 10 (23.81%) Web Development
13 10 (23.81%) SQL
14 9 (21.43%) MySQL
14 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (21.43%) MVC
14 9 (21.43%) Java EE
14 9 (21.43%) Subversion
15 8 (19.05%) Unit Testing
16 7 (16.67%) XML
17 6 (14.29%) PHP
17 6 (14.29%) Photoshop
17 6 (14.29%) Games

Progressive Enhancement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 40 (95.24%) CSS
2 37 (88.10%) HTML5
3 36 (85.71%) CSS3
4 35 (83.33%) jQuery
5 21 (50.00%) HTML
6 17 (40.48%) Semantic HTML
7 14 (33.33%) Sass
7 14 (33.33%) LESS
8 12 (28.57%) Ajax
9 9 (21.43%) Java EE
10 7 (16.67%) XML
11 6 (14.29%) JSON
12 5 (11.90%) Web Services
12 5 (11.90%) RESTful
13 3 (7.143%) Backbone.js
13 3 (7.143%) Sinatra
13 3 (7.143%) Ruby on Rails
13 3 (7.143%) XHTML
13 3 (7.143%) HTML5 Canvas
14 2 (4.762%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) CMS
2 3 (7.143%) Apache
2 3 (7.143%) WordPress
3 2 (4.762%) Drupal
4 1 (2.381%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Photoshop
2 3 (7.143%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (4.762%) GIMP
4 1 (2.381%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (4.762%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.381%) Google Analytics
2 1 (2.381%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) HTTP
2 1 (2.381%) Intranet
2 1 (2.381%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) MySQL
1 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.762%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.381%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Subversion
2 6 (14.29%) Git (software)
3 3 (7.143%) Selenium
3 3 (7.143%) Firebug
3 3 (7.143%) Mercurial
3 3 (7.143%) QUnit
4 2 (4.762%) PHPUnit
4 2 (4.762%) Ant
5 1 (2.381%) JUnit
5 1 (2.381%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.381%) Dreamweaver
5 1 (2.381%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.381%) Jasmine
General
1 6 (14.29%) Games
2 4 (9.524%) Marketing
3 2 (4.762%) Electronics
3 2 (4.762%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.762%) Finance
3 2 (4.762%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.381%) Banking
4 1 (2.381%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (92.86%) Developer
2 21 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
3 14 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 9 (21.43%) Mobile Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 4 (9.524%) Front-End Web Developer
6 4 (9.524%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (7.143%) Android Developer
8 2 (4.762%) Designer
9 1 (2.381%) Java Developer
9 1 (2.381%) Web Designer
9 1 (2.381%) Team Leader
9 1 (2.381%) HTML Developer
9 1 (2.381%) Coordinator
9 1 (2.381%) CSS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 5 (11.90%) Semantic Web
3 3 (7.143%) Smartphone
4 2 (4.762%) Linked Data
4 2 (4.762%) DTV
4 2 (4.762%) BBC
5 1 (2.381%) Graphic Design
5 1 (2.381%) Animation
5 1 (2.381%) iPhone
5 1 (2.381%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (33.33%) Android
2 12 (28.57%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.381%) Windows Phone
3 1 (2.381%) Windows Phone 7
3 1 (2.381%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Graceful Degradation
2 14 (33.33%) OOP
2 14 (33.33%) Scrum
2 14 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (30.95%) OO
4 10 (23.81%) Web Development
5 9 (21.43%) MVC
6 8 (19.05%) Unit Testing
7 6 (14.29%) Test Scripting
8 5 (11.90%) Analytics
9 4 (9.524%) SEO
9 4 (9.524%) Web Analytics
9 4 (9.524%) TDD
10 3 (7.143%) Content Management
10 3 (7.143%) Mobile Application Development
10 3 (7.143%) BDD
11 2 (4.762%) Responsive Web Design
11 2 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (4.762%) Kanban
11 2 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (90.48%) JavaScript
2 18 (42.86%) Java
3 10 (23.81%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) PHP
5 3 (7.143%) Objective-C
5 3 (7.143%) Ruby
6 1 (2.381%) Python
6 1 (2.381%) Perl
6 1 (2.381%) C
6 1 (2.381%) C#
6 1 (2.381%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (7.143%) Degree
2 2 (4.762%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) WCAG
Vendors
1 4 (9.524%) Adobe
2 3 (7.143%) Apple
2 3 (7.143%) Facebook
2 3 (7.143%) Twitter
3 2 (4.762%) SAP
3 2 (4.762%) JBoss
3 2 (4.762%) Zend
4 1 (2.381%) Oracle
4 1 (2.381%) FatWire
4 1 (2.381%) RedDot
4 1 (2.381%) Omniture
4 1 (2.381%) Google
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