Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited W3C over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 689 783
Rank change year-on-year +95 +94 -166
Contract jobs citing W3C 4 23 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.039% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.030% 0.12% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 54
10th Percentile £410 £345 £286
25th Percentile £425 £448 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £475 £750 £588
90th Percentile £490 - £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £463
% change year-on-year +14.29% -5.41% -2.63%

All Generic Skills
UK

W3C is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,220 19,810 29,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.39% 33.29% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,485 13,626 20,449
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 637 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +10.00% -16.67%

W3C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing W3C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for W3C in the UK

W3C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing W3C.

Daily rate trend for W3C in the UK

W3C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing W3C.

Hourly rate trend for W3C in the UK

W3C
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing W3C within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +116 4 £450 -21.74% 1
Work from Home +123 3 £500 +66.67% 1
London +86 2 £400 -40.74%
UK excluding London +45 1 £500 +14.29% 1
South East - 1 £500 - 1

W3C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) npm
2 1 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Grunt
2 1 (25.00%) Moq
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) rollup.js
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) webpack
2 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) Redux
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) Vue
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Application Security
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) CQRS
3 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Perfecto Mobile