WAI Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WAI skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WAI 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Rank 515 563 571
Rank change year-on-year
+48 +8
Contract jobs citing WAI 18 10 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.039% 0.017% 0.028%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.555% 0.234% 0.401%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 4
Average daily rate £338 £305 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.65% -6.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £226 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £343 £369
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £243 £325
% change year-on-year
+39.17% -25.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £13.50 -
% change year-on-year
-3.70% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 3241 4282 4242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.965% 7.340% 7.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1934 2248 2310
Average daily rate £400 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 226 224
Average hourly rate £19.00 £16.72 £27.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -38.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%

WAI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WAI within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

WAI Jobs Demand Trend

WAI
Daily Rate Trend

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

WAI Daily Rate Trend

WAI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WAI within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

WAI Daily Rate Histogram

WAI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WAI Hourly Rate Trend

WAI
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WAI within the UK 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
England +66 13 £338 +10.65%
London +27 8 £338 -
Edinburgh - 5 £338 -
Scotland - 5 £338 -
South East +25 4 - -
Surrey - 3 - -
City of London - 2 £338 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Guildford - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Wokingham - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Canary Wharf - 1 £500 -

WAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WAI 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 WAI.

1 33 (73.33%) W3C
2 32 (71.11%) CSS
3 29 (64.44%) HTML
4 22 (48.89%) JavaScript
5 20 (44.44%) jQuery
6 19 (42.22%) HTML5
7 17 (37.78%) CSS3
7 17 (37.78%) Photoshop
8 15 (33.33%) SEO
9 13 (28.89%) XHTML
10 12 (26.67%) PHP
11 11 (24.44%) Content Management
12 10 (22.22%) XML
13 9 (20.00%) Java
13 9 (20.00%) Publishing
13 9 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
13 9 (20.00%) Information Architecture
14 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (17.78%) Multithreading
14 8 (17.78%) Banking
14 8 (17.78%) JSF
14 8 (17.78%) JIRA
14 8 (17.78%) MySQL
14 8 (17.78%) JUnit
14 8 (17.78%) JSP
15 7 (15.56%) .NET
15 7 (15.56%) Ant
15 7 (15.56%) Dreamweaver
15 7 (15.56%) Adobe
15 7 (15.56%) WCAG

WAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 32 (71.11%) CSS
2 29 (64.44%) HTML
3 20 (44.44%) jQuery
4 19 (42.22%) HTML5
5 17 (37.78%) CSS3
6 13 (28.89%) XHTML
7 10 (22.22%) XML
8 8 (17.78%) JSP
8 8 (17.78%) JSF
9 7 (15.56%) .NET
10 5 (11.11%) ASP.NET
11 3 (6.667%) Zend Framework
11 3 (6.667%) Google Maps API
11 3 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (6.667%) Semantic HTML
12 2 (4.444%) Ajax
12 2 (4.444%) Web Services
12 2 (4.444%) DOM
12 2 (4.444%) .NET Framework
12 2 (4.444%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.56%) Drupal
2 6 (13.33%) Apache
2 6 (13.33%) CMS
3 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
4 4 (8.889%) IIS
4 4 (8.889%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (4.444%) Umbraco
6 1 (2.222%) WordPress
6 1 (2.222%) TeamSite
6 1 (2.222%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 17 (37.78%) Photoshop
2 4 (8.889%) Acrobat
2 4 (8.889%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (4.444%) Fireworks
3 2 (4.444%) MS Office
4 1 (2.222%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.889%) Intranet
1 4 (8.889%) Internet
2 3 (6.667%) FTP
3 1 (2.222%) HTTP
3 1 (2.222%) SMS
3 1 (2.222%) Ethernet
3 1 (2.222%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) MySQL
2 2 (4.444%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.444%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) JUnit
1 8 (17.78%) JIRA
2 7 (15.56%) Selenium
2 7 (15.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (15.56%) Dreamweaver
2 7 (15.56%) Ant
2 7 (15.56%) Maven
3 6 (13.33%) VisualAge
3 6 (13.33%) Eclipse
4 3 (6.667%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.667%) Subversion
5 2 (4.444%) Git (software)
6 1 (2.222%) FogBugz
General
1 9 (20.00%) Publishing
2 8 (17.78%) Banking
3 5 (11.11%) Retail
4 4 (8.889%) Local Government
5 3 (6.667%) Finance
6 2 (4.444%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.222%) Legal
7 1 (2.222%) Electronics
7 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.222%) Marketing
7 1 (2.222%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Developer
2 11 (24.44%) Front-End Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 4 (8.889%) Web Editor
5 3 (6.667%) Drupal Developer
5 3 (6.667%) Analyst
5 3 (6.667%) Support Analyst
5 3 (6.667%) Lead Developer
5 3 (6.667%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.444%) Lead Web Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Front-End Web Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Agile Project Manager
6 2 (4.444%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.444%) PHP Drupal Developer
7 1 (2.222%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.222%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.222%) Website Developer
7 1 (2.222%) Website Editor
7 1 (2.222%) UI Developer
7 1 (2.222%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 33 (73.33%) W3C
2 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 5 (11.11%) Social Media
4 4 (8.889%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.444%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.222%) Visualisation
6 1 (2.222%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.222%) BBC
6 1 (2.222%) Web 2.0
6 1 (2.222%) Online Banking
6 1 (2.222%) Graphic Design
6 1 (2.222%) Copywriting
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.667%) UNIX
2 2 (4.444%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.222%) VMS
3 1 (2.222%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (33.33%) SEO
2 11 (24.44%) Content Management
3 9 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (20.00%) Information Architecture
4 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (17.78%) Multithreading
5 7 (15.56%) Unit Testing
6 6 (13.33%) Web Development
6 6 (13.33%) MVC
7 4 (8.889%) Web Design
7 4 (8.889%) Scrum
7 4 (8.889%) OOP
7 4 (8.889%) Project Management
8 3 (6.667%) Migration
8 3 (6.667%) Web Analytics
8 3 (6.667%) Analytics
9 2 (4.444%) BDD
9 2 (4.444%) Web Accessibility
9 2 (4.444%) E-Commerce
9 2 (4.444%) e-GIF
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) JavaScript
2 12 (26.67%) PHP
3 9 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) C#
5 3 (6.667%) Python
5 3 (6.667%) Ruby
5 3 (6.667%) PHP5
6 1 (2.222%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.222%) XPath
6 1 (2.222%) Ada
6 1 (2.222%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (2.222%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) WCAG
2 1 (2.222%) Section 508
2 1 (2.222%) ISO 9000
2 1 (2.222%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.222%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Adobe
2 6 (13.33%) IBM
2 6 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.667%) Twitter
3 3 (6.667%) SAP
3 3 (6.667%) Salesforce.com
3 3 (6.667%) Google
3 3 (6.667%) Zend
4 2 (4.444%) Open Text
4 2 (4.444%) EPiServer
5 1 (2.222%) HP
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