The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML 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 for the Watford region.

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
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 13 18 14
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Contract jobs citing XHTML 2 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 2.985% 3.670% 5.263%
As % of the Application Development category 10.53% 13.79% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £280 £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
All Application Development
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
19 29 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 28.36% 26.61% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 8
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £378 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 - £11.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
Hertfordshire

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing XHTML across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Watford XHTML Jobs Demand Trend

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing XHTML across the Watford region.

Watford XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing XHTML 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 XHTML.

1 15 (100.00%) HTML
1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 15 (100.00%) JSP
1 15 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 15 (100.00%) Retail
1 15 (100.00%) Finance
1 15 (100.00%) JSTL
2 10 (66.67%) Games
3 9 (60.00%) CSS
3 9 (60.00%) W3C
3 9 (60.00%) Semantic HTML
4 6 (40.00%) ATG
4 6 (40.00%) Bash shell
4 6 (40.00%) Elastic Path
4 6 (40.00%) Subversion
4 6 (40.00%) Content Management
4 6 (40.00%) XMLBeans
4 6 (40.00%) Ajax
4 6 (40.00%) Blue Martini
4 6 (40.00%) Web 2.0
4 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 6 (40.00%) XPath
4 6 (40.00%) Internet
4 6 (40.00%) JDBC
4 6 (40.00%) Log4j
4 6 (40.00%) JMS
4 6 (40.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 6 (40.00%) Eclipse
4 6 (40.00%) RDBMS

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region citing XHTML 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 XHTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) JSP
1 15 (100.00%) HTML
1 15 (100.00%) JSTL
2 9 (60.00%) Semantic HTML
2 9 (60.00%) CSS
3 6 (40.00%) JDBC
3 6 (40.00%) J2EE
3 6 (40.00%) EJB
3 6 (40.00%) Servlets
3 6 (40.00%) Struts
3 6 (40.00%) XML
3 6 (40.00%) XSLT
3 6 (40.00%) JMS
3 6 (40.00%) XMLBeans
3 6 (40.00%) Ajax
3 6 (40.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (40.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) DB2
1 6 (40.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Ant
1 6 (40.00%) JUnit
1 6 (40.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (40.00%) Log4j
1 6 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 15 (100.00%) Finance
1 15 (100.00%) Retail
2 10 (66.67%) Games
3 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) Front-End Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (40.00%) J2EE Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) W3C
2 6 (40.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) UNIX
1 6 (40.00%) HPUX
1 6 (40.00%) Solaris
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (40.00%) Content Management
2 6 (40.00%) UML
2 6 (40.00%) OO
2 6 (40.00%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) Perl
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) XPath
2 6 (40.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) IBM
1 6 (40.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (40.00%) ATG
1 6 (40.00%) Blue Martini
1 6 (40.00%) Elastic Path