West Midlands XHTML Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) 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 XHTML over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bootle Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Romford Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	107
Rank change on same period last year	+46
Matching contract IT job ads	64	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.085 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	8.579 %	3.084 %
Daily rates quoted	15	0
Average minimum daily rate	£248	-
Average daily rate	£263	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£278	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£302
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.40	-
Average hourly rate	£23.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.60	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.33	£31.42
% change on same period last year	-19.40 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	746	681
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.993 %	0.690 %
Daily rates quoted	161	124
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£292
Average daily rate	£316	£308
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.19	£31.18
Average hourly rate	£30.07	£33.56
% change on same period last year	-10.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.94	£35.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.66	£33.10
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
XHTML 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.

XHTML
Demand Trend

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

XHTML
Daily Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

XHTML
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing XHTML across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

XHTML
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XHTML within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Coventry	-	29	£292	-
Warwickshire	+18	11	£360	-
Worcestershire	-	8	£182	-
Herefordshire	-	1	-	-
Birmingham	0	1	£250	-

XHTML England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 111 (90.24 %) CSS 2 93 (75.61 %) JavaScript 3 64 (52.03 %) .NET 4 63 (51.22 %) W3C 5 57 (46.34 %) HTML 6 51 (41.46 %) XML 7 41 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 8 39 (31.71 %) SQL Server 9 36 (29.27 %) Agile Software Development 9 36 (29.27 %) AJAX 9 36 (29.27 %) Web Development 10 35 (28.46 %) C# 11 28 (22.76 %) Microsoft 11 28 (22.76 %) Web Design 12 27 (21.95 %) Content Management

13 26 (21.14 %) WebServices 14 25 (20.33 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 22 (17.89 %) Flash 16 21 (17.07 %) OO 17 19 (15.45 %) XSL 17 19 (15.45 %) SQL 17 19 (15.45 %) MySQL 17 19 (15.45 %) MS Excel 17 19 (15.45 %) NHS 18 17 (13.82 %) E-Commerce 18 17 (13.82 %) SOAP 18 17 (13.82 %) CMS 19 16 (13.01 %) Dreamweaver 20 15 (12.20 %) XSLT 21 13 (10.57 %) OOP

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 111 (90.24 %) CSS 2 64 (52.03 %) .NET 3 57 (46.34 %) HTML 4 51 (41.46 %) XML 5 41 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 6 36 (29.27 %) AJAX 7 26 (21.14 %) WebServices 8 25 (20.33 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 19 (15.45 %) XSL 10 17 (13.82 %) SOAP 11 15 (12.20 %) XSLT 12 8 (6.504 %) DOM 13 6 (4.878 %) JSP 13 6 (4.878 %) ASP 14 5 (4.065 %) .NET Framework 15 3 (2.439 %) Servlets 16 2 (1.626 %) Adobe Flex 17 1 (0.813 %) Drupal	Application Platforms 1 17 (13.82 %) CMS 2 8 (6.504 %) ColdFusion 3 6 (4.878 %) SharePoint 4 5 (4.065 %) IIS 5 1 (0.813 %) Apache 5 1 (0.813 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 19 (15.45 %) MS Excel 2 13 (10.57 %) Photoshop 3 6 (4.878 %) Fireworks 4 2 (1.626 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (0.813 %) MS Project 5 1 (0.813 %) ImageReady	Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.065 %) FTP 2 4 (3.252 %) Intranet 3 2 (1.626 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (31.71 %) SQL Server 2 19 (15.45 %) MySQL 3 8 (6.504 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (1.626 %) GIS 5 1 (0.813 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (0.813 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 22 (17.89 %) Flash 2 16 (13.01 %) Dreamweaver 3 4 (3.252 %) Subversion
General 1 11 (8.943 %) Health 2 10 (8.130 %) Graphic Design 3 6 (4.878 %) Marketing 4 4 (3.252 %) Government 5 3 (2.439 %) Finance 6 2 (1.626 %) Construction 6 2 (1.626 %) Education 6 2 (1.626 %) Pensions 6 2 (1.626 %) Publishing 6 2 (1.626 %) Video Editing 7 1 (0.813 %) Retail 7 1 (0.813 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 95 (77.24 %) Developer 2 53 (43.09 %) Web Developer 3 16 (13.01 %) Web Designer 4 11 (8.943 %) .NET Developer 5 8 (6.504 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (4.878 %) Graphic Designer 6 6 (4.878 %) SharePoint Developer 7 5 (4.065 %) JSP Developer 7 5 (4.065 %) PHP Developer 7 5 (4.065 %) C# Developer 8 4 (3.252 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (2.439 %) Website Developer 9 3 (2.439 %) Consultant 9 3 (2.439 %) HTML Developer 9 3 (2.439 %) Web Manager 10 2 (1.626 %) Web Editor 10 2 (1.626 %) VB.NET Developer 10 2 (1.626 %) Team Leader 10 2 (1.626 %) Java Developer 11 1 (0.813 %) UI Developer
Miscellaneous 1 63 (51.22 %) W3C 2 19 (15.45 %) NHS 3 13 (10.57 %) Web 2.0 4 2 (1.626 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 1 (0.813 %) Windows 1 1 (0.813 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (29.27 %) Agile Software Development 1 36 (29.27 %) Web Development 2 28 (22.76 %) Web Design 3 27 (21.95 %) Content Management 4 21 (17.07 %) OO 5 17 (13.82 %) E-Commerce 6 13 (10.57 %) OOP 7 10 (8.130 %) UML 8 9 (7.317 %) RAD 9 7 (5.691 %) Project Management 10 6 (4.878 %) Scrum 10 6 (4.878 %) CAD 10 6 (4.878 %) Usability Testing 11 5 (4.065 %) TDD 12 3 (2.439 %) Enterprise Architecture 13 1 (0.813 %) Internet Marketing 13 1 (0.813 %) Digital Marketing 13 1 (0.813 %) Systems Analysis 13 1 (0.813 %) SEO 13 1 (0.813 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 93 (75.61 %) JavaScript 2 35 (28.46 %) C# 3 19 (15.45 %) SQL 4 12 (9.756 %) PHP 5 11 (8.943 %) ActionScript 6 6 (4.878 %) VB.NET 7 5 (4.065 %) VB 7 5 (4.065 %) DHTML 8 4 (3.252 %) Java 9 3 (2.439 %) Lingo 10 2 (1.626 %) PHP5 10 2 (1.626 %) PHP4
Qualifications 1 5 (4.065 %) Degree 2 2 (1.626 %) MCSD 2 2 (1.626 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.252 %) WAI 2 1 (0.813 %) WCAG
Vendors 1 28 (22.76 %) Microsoft 2 7 (5.691 %) Adobe 3 4 (3.252 %) Stellent