West Midlands HTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited HTML over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Cobham Colchester Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Glossop Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Peak High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llandudno Llanelli London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newport Pagnell Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Torquay Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	47
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	164	75
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.210 %	0.084 %
As % of the category below	24.77 %	15.09 %
Daily rates quoted	39	9
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£212
Average daily rate	£277	£231
% change on same period last year	+19.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£292	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£293
% change on same period last year	+4.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.54	£22.84
Average hourly rate	£23.44	£26.11
% change on same period last year	-10.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.35	£29.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.69	£27.28
% change on same period last year	+1.51 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	662	497
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.558 %
Daily rates quoted	122	84
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£306
Average daily rate	£315	£327
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£334
% change on same period last year	+5.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£26.97
Average hourly rate	£27.95	£29.72
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.86	£32.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.40	£31.83
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
HTML England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing HTML across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing HTML across the West Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing HTML across the West Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HTML across the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HTML within the West Midlands region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Birmingham	+8	54	£264	+91.87 %
2	Coventry	+9	26	£375	+66.82 %
3	Warwickshire	+20	24	£263	-
4	Staffordshire	-	8	-	-
5	Worcestershire	+3	7	£171	-31.50 %
6	Herefordshire	+5	6	£300	-7.69 %
7	Shropshire	0	3	£275	-8.33 %
8	Solihull	+2	2	£108	+116.00 %

HTML England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing HTML also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing HTML.

1 168 (56.00 %) CSS 2 165 (55.00 %) JavaScript 3 128 (42.67 %) SQL 4 110 (36.67 %) XML 5 91 (30.33 %) .NET 6 89 (29.67 %) Java 7 69 (23.00 %) SQL Server 8 58 (19.33 %) ASP.NET 9 55 (18.33 %) Oracle 10 54 (18.00 %) ASP 11 50 (16.67 %) JSP 12 46 (15.33 %) J2EE 13 44 (14.67 %) XHTML 14 40 (13.33 %) OO 15 39 (13.00 %) Flash

16 38 (12.67 %) Windows 17 37 (12.33 %) W3C 18 34 (11.33 %) Apache 18 34 (11.33 %) C# 19 31 (10.33 %) MySQL 20 30 (10.00 %) Internet 21 29 (9.667 %) PHP 21 29 (9.667 %) AJAX 22 27 (9.000 %) VB 22 27 (9.000 %) Photoshop 22 27 (9.000 %) Visual Studio 23 25 (8.333 %) Servlets 23 25 (8.333 %) Web Development 24 24 (8.000 %) SQL Server 2005 24 24 (8.000 %) WebServices

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing HTML also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing HTML. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 168 (56.00 %) CSS 2 110 (36.67 %) XML 3 91 (30.33 %) .NET 4 58 (19.33 %) ASP.NET 5 54 (18.00 %) ASP 6 50 (16.67 %) JSP 7 46 (15.33 %) J2EE 8 44 (14.67 %) XHTML 9 29 (9.667 %) AJAX 10 25 (8.333 %) Servlets 11 24 (8.000 %) WebServices 12 23 (7.667 %) XSLT 12 23 (7.667 %) Struts 13 19 (6.333 %) Spring 14 14 (4.667 %) .NET Framework 15 13 (4.333 %) WF 15 13 (4.333 %) XSL 15 13 (4.333 %) Swing 16 12 (4.000 %) Hibernate 17 10 (3.333 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 34 (11.33 %) Apache 2 20 (6.667 %) IIS 3 18 (6.000 %) CMS 4 15 (5.000 %) ColdFusion 4 15 (5.000 %) SharePoint 5 8 (2.667 %) Oracle HTTP Server 6 5 (1.667 %) Lotus Notes 6 5 (1.667 %) Lotus Domino 6 5 (1.667 %) Tomcat 6 5 (1.667 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 4 (1.333 %) Office Project Server 8 3 (1.000 %) SAS 9 2 (0.667 %) NetWeaver 10 1 (0.333 %) Content Management Server 10 1 (0.333 %) Documentum
Applications 1 27 (9.000 %) Photoshop 2 11 (3.667 %) MS Office 3 8 (2.667 %) Fireworks 4 5 (1.667 %) 3ds Max 5 3 (1.000 %) RoboHelp 5 3 (1.000 %) InfoPath 6 1 (0.333 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 1 (0.333 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.333 %) FrameMaker 6 1 (0.333 %) MS Excel 6 1 (0.333 %) ImageReady 6 1 (0.333 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 1 (0.333 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 30 (10.00 %) Internet 2 21 (7.000 %) Intranet 3 14 (4.667 %) FTP 4 8 (2.667 %) HTTP 4 8 (2.667 %) HTTPS 4 8 (2.667 %) SSL 5 6 (2.000 %) X.509 6 4 (1.333 %) VoIP 6 4 (1.333 %) SNMP 7 3 (1.000 %) Firewall 8 2 (0.667 %) Extranet 9 1 (0.333 %) TCP/IP 9 1 (0.333 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 69 (23.00 %) SQL Server 2 31 (10.33 %) MySQL 3 24 (8.000 %) SQL Server 2005 4 19 (6.333 %) SQL Server 2000 5 11 (3.667 %) RDBMS 6 9 (3.000 %) Oracle 10g 7 8 (2.667 %) SQLPlus 7 8 (2.667 %) Oracle 11g 8 7 (2.333 %) SQL Server 7 8 7 (2.333 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 5 (1.667 %) Oracle 9i 9 5 (1.667 %) MS Access 9 5 (1.667 %) DTS 9 5 (1.667 %) Crystal Reports 10 4 (1.333 %) ObjectStore 10 4 (1.333 %) TOAD 10 4 (1.333 %) EDRMS 11 3 (1.000 %) Oracle Reports 11 3 (1.000 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 1 (0.333 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 39 (13.00 %) Flash 2 27 (9.000 %) Visual Studio 3 22 (7.333 %) Dreamweaver 4 12 (4.000 %) JUnit 5 9 (3.000 %) Subversion 6 8 (2.667 %) JDeveloper 7 2 (0.667 %) XMLSpy 7 2 (0.667 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.667 %) Oracle Forms 7 2 (0.667 %) Zend Studio 8 1 (0.333 %) FrontPage 8 1 (0.333 %) StarTeam 8 1 (0.333 %) Eclipse 8 1 (0.333 %) PVCS 8 1 (0.333 %) NetAdvantage 8 1 (0.333 %) C++Builder 8 1 (0.333 %) NUnit	General 1 15 (5.000 %) Graphic Design 2 14 (4.667 %) Government 3 13 (4.333 %) Back Office 4 11 (3.667 %) Marketing 5 8 (2.667 %) Telecoms 6 7 (2.333 %) Finance 6 7 (2.333 %) Publishing 6 7 (2.333 %) Retail 7 5 (1.667 %) Education 8 4 (1.333 %) Automotive 8 4 (1.333 %) Construction 9 2 (0.667 %) Pensions 9 2 (0.667 %) Health 9 2 (0.667 %) Video Editing 10 1 (0.333 %) Law 10 1 (0.333 %) Multimedia 10 1 (0.333 %) Insurance 10 1 (0.333 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 217 (72.33 %) Developer 2 61 (20.33 %) Web Developer 3 50 (16.67 %) Java Developer 4 31 (10.33 %) .NET Developer 5 24 (8.000 %) Analyst 6 20 (6.667 %) Web Designer 7 19 (6.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 13 (4.333 %) Applications Developer 8 13 (4.333 %) Programmer 9 12 (4.000 %) Analyst Programmer 10 11 (3.667 %) C# Developer 10 11 (3.667 %) ASP Developer 10 11 (3.667 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 10 (3.333 %) Graphic Designer 12 9 (3.000 %) HTML Developer 12 9 (3.000 %) PHP Developer 13 8 (2.667 %) ColdFusion Developer 14 7 (2.333 %) VB.NET Developer 14 7 (2.333 %) Software Engineer 14 7 (2.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 37 (12.33 %) W3C 2 7 (2.333 %) NHS 3 5 (1.667 %) Replication 4 3 (1.000 %) AS400 5 2 (0.667 %) N-Tier 6 1 (0.333 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.333 %) Client/Server 6 1 (0.333 %) Mainframe 6 1 (0.333 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.333 %) SCORM 6 1 (0.333 %) Streaming Media 6 1 (0.333 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (0.333 %) PDA 6 1 (0.333 %) Taxonomies 6 1 (0.333 %) Wiki
Operating Systems 1 38 (12.67 %) Windows 2 14 (4.667 %) Unix 3 8 (2.667 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (2.000 %) Linux 5 4 (1.333 %) Solaris 6 3 (1.000 %) Windows NT 7 2 (0.667 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (13.33 %) OO 2 25 (8.333 %) Web Development 3 21 (7.000 %) UML 3 21 (7.000 %) E-Commerce 4 19 (6.333 %) Web Design 5 16 (5.333 %) Agile Software Development 6 14 (4.667 %) Content Management 7 11 (3.667 %) Workflow 8 9 (3.000 %) OOA/OOD 9 8 (2.667 %) Unit Testing 10 7 (2.333 %) SOA 10 7 (2.333 %) Project Management 11 6 (2.000 %) e-GIF 11 6 (2.000 %) OOD 11 6 (2.000 %) RAD 11 6 (2.000 %) Enterprise Architecture 11 6 (2.000 %) Usability Testing 12 5 (1.667 %) System Testing 13 4 (1.333 %) Migration 14 3 (1.000 %) MVC
Programming Languages 1 165 (55.00 %) JavaScript 2 128 (42.67 %) SQL 3 89 (29.67 %) Java 4 34 (11.33 %) C# 5 29 (9.667 %) PHP 6 27 (9.000 %) VB 7 24 (8.000 %) PL/SQL 8 18 (6.000 %) VB.NET 9 16 (5.333 %) ActionScript 9 16 (5.333 %) VBScript 10 15 (5.000 %) Transact-SQL 11 13 (4.333 %) C++ 12 8 (2.667 %) C 13 7 (2.333 %) ABAP 14 6 (2.000 %) Perl 15 5 (1.667 %) LotusScript 16 4 (1.333 %) VB6 16 4 (1.333 %) PHP5 16 4 (1.333 %) DHTML 17 3 (1.000 %) Lingo	Qualifications 1 18 (6.000 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (0.667 %) Degree 3 1 (0.333 %) PMP 3 1 (0.333 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (3.667 %) WAI 2 2 (0.667 %) WCAG	System Software 1 8 (2.667 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 55 (18.33 %) Oracle 2 21 (7.000 %) Microsoft 3 18 (6.000 %) Sun 4 12 (4.000 %) SAP 5 8 (2.667 %) Borland 6 7 (2.333 %) Sybase 6 7 (2.333 %) Adobe 7 6 (2.000 %) Interwoven 8 5 (1.667 %) Lotus 8 5 (1.667 %) Stellent 9 4 (1.333 %) Cognos 9 4 (1.333 %) Open Text 10 3 (1.000 %) RedDot 10 3 (1.000 %) FatWire 11 2 (0.667 %) Macromedia 11 2 (0.667 %) Citrix 11 2 (0.667 %) Zend 12 1 (0.333 %) Northgate 12 1 (0.333 %) Business Objects 12 1 (0.333 %) TIBCO