The first table below looks at the demand for XHTML skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited XHTML over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Rank 73 61 85
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +24
Contract jobs citing XHTML 22 43 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.347% 1.918% 0.899%
As % of the Application Development category 5.699% 7.993% 3.609%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 8
Average daily rate £325 £300 £256
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +17.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £250 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £373 £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £13.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £24.76 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+11.06% -0.96%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
386 538 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.64% 24.00% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 293 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £17.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.85% -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £40.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
XHTML
England

XHTML
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands XHTML Daily Rate Trend

XHTML
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands XHTML Hourly Rate Trend

XHTML
Contract Locations

The table below 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 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
Staffordshire +12 8 £330 +1.53%
Worcestershire -10 7 £290 -
Solihull - 2 - -
Birmingham 0 1 £300 +9.09%
XHTML
England

XHTML
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 54 (100.00%) CSS
2 50 (92.59%) JavaScript
3 36 (66.67%) .NET
4 34 (62.96%) ASP.NET
5 33 (61.11%) jQuery
6 31 (57.41%) C#
7 29 (53.70%) CSS3
8 28 (51.85%) HTML5
8 28 (51.85%) SQL
9 27 (50.00%) SEO
10 26 (48.15%) VB.NET
10 26 (48.15%) E-Commerce
11 25 (46.30%) XML
12 24 (44.44%) SQL Server
13 23 (42.59%) Ajax
14 19 (35.19%) Unit Testing
14 19 (35.19%) XSLT
14 19 (35.19%) N-Tier
15 18 (33.33%) SOA
15 18 (33.33%) Degree
16 17 (31.48%) Web Application Development
17 16 (29.63%) HTML
18 14 (25.93%) Web Development
18 14 (25.93%) Photoshop
19 9 (16.67%) CMS
19 9 (16.67%) .NET Framework
20 8 (14.81%) TDD
21 7 (12.96%) Adobe Illustrator
21 7 (12.96%) Games
22 6 (11.11%) W3C

XHTML
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 54 (100.00%) CSS
2 36 (66.67%) .NET
3 34 (62.96%) ASP.NET
4 33 (61.11%) jQuery
5 29 (53.70%) CSS3
6 28 (51.85%) HTML5
7 25 (46.30%) XML
8 23 (42.59%) Ajax
9 19 (35.19%) XSLT
10 16 (29.63%) HTML
11 9 (16.67%) .NET Framework
12 6 (11.11%) Flash
12 6 (11.11%) JSON
13 5 (9.259%) Web Services
14 4 (7.407%) Dojo
15 3 (5.556%) YUI
16 2 (3.704%) WinForms
16 2 (3.704%) Razor View Engine
17 1 (1.852%) JSF
17 1 (1.852%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 9 (16.67%) CMS
2 5 (9.259%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.852%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 14 (25.93%) Photoshop
2 7 (12.96%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (1.852%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.556%) FTP
2 2 (3.704%) Internet
3 1 (1.852%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.704%) OLTP
2 2 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.852%) MySQL
3 1 (1.852%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (3.704%) Subversion
3 1 (1.852%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 1 (1.852%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (1.852%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (12.96%) Games
2 6 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (3.704%) Finance
4 1 (1.852%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (100.00%) Developer
2 28 (51.85%) .NET Developer
3 26 (48.15%) Web Developer
3 26 (48.15%) ASP.NET Developer
4 18 (33.33%) VB.NET Developer
4 18 (33.33%) Front-End Developer
4 18 (33.33%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 15 (27.78%) SQL Developer
6 14 (25.93%) .NET Web Developer
7 7 (12.96%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 7 (12.96%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (12.96%) C# Developer
8 6 (11.11%) Front-End Web Developer
9 5 (9.259%) JavaScript Developer
10 3 (5.556%) Programmer
11 2 (3.704%) Analyst Developer
11 2 (3.704%) Senior Analyst Programmer
11 2 (3.704%) Senior Developer
11 2 (3.704%) Analyst Programmer
11 2 (3.704%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) N-Tier
2 6 (11.11%) W3C
3 3 (5.556%) WURFL
3 3 (5.556%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.852%) Web 2.0
4 1 (1.852%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (1.852%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.852%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.407%) Apple iOS
2 3 (5.556%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (5.556%) Android
2 3 (5.556%) BlackBerry OS
2 3 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) SEO
2 26 (48.15%) E-Commerce
3 19 (35.19%) Unit Testing
4 18 (33.33%) SOA
5 17 (31.48%) Web Application Development
6 14 (25.93%) Web Development
7 8 (14.81%) TDD
8 6 (11.11%) Document Management
9 4 (7.407%) Enterprise Content Management
9 4 (7.407%) Content Management
10 3 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (5.556%) Graceful Degradation
11 2 (3.704%) MVC
11 2 (3.704%) PRINCE
11 2 (3.704%) PRINCE2
11 2 (3.704%) OO
11 2 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
12 1 (1.852%) Industrial Design
12 1 (1.852%) Performance Testing
12 1 (1.852%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 50 (92.59%) JavaScript
2 31 (57.41%) C#
3 28 (51.85%) SQL
4 26 (48.15%) VB.NET
5 3 (5.556%) PHP
5 3 (5.556%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.704%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.704%) VB
7 1 (1.852%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.852%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.852%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Adobe
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle
1 6 (11.11%) AccuRev
2 5 (9.259%) Sitecore
3 4 (7.407%) Facebook
4 3 (5.556%) Stellent
5 1 (1.852%) Cordys
5 1 (1.852%) Appcelerator
5 1 (1.852%) JBoss
5 1 (1.852%) VMware