Cheshire W3C Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited W3C over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Location Barnsley Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carnforth Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Neston Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Rochester Salford Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	129
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	10
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.158 %	1.842 %
Salaries quoted	20	10
Average minimum salary	£28,882	£21,700
Average salary	£29,485	£23,500
% change on same period last year	+25.46 %
Average maximum salary	£30,088	£25,300
UK excluding London average salary	£30,615	£28,781
% change on same period last year	+6.37 %
Miscellaneous Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	665	543
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.368 %	0.228 %
Salaries quoted	615	457
Average minimum salary	£35,383	£30,854
Average salary	£39,052	£33,532
% change on same period last year	+16.46 %
Average maximum salary	£42,721	£36,210
UK excluding London average salary	£37,737	£39,061
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
W3C North West

W3C
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing W3C across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

W3C
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing W3C across the Cheshire region.

W3C
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing W3C across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

W3C
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing W3C within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	+13	12	£31,125	+50.60 %
Warrington	-	12	£29,455	-
Knutsford	-	6	£32,000	-
Neston	-	1	£19,000	-
Macclesfield	-	1	£33,000	-

W3C North West

W3C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing W3C 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 IT job ads sampled that cited W3C.

1 31 (93.94 %) CSS 2 26 (78.79 %) JavaScript 2 26 (78.79 %) XHTML 3 23 (69.70 %) HTML 4 20 (60.61 %) XML 5 17 (51.52 %) .NET 5 17 (51.52 %) Web Development 6 15 (45.45 %) ASP.NET 7 14 (42.42 %) C# 8 13 (39.39 %) MySQL 9 11 (33.33 %) Microsoft 9 11 (33.33 %) OO 9 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server 9 11 (33.33 %) PHP 10 10 (30.30 %) AJAX

10 10 (30.30 %) Advertising 11 9 (27.27 %) CMS 11 9 (27.27 %) Content Management 12 8 (24.24 %) WebServices 12 8 (24.24 %) ASP 12 8 (24.24 %) Python 12 8 (24.24 %) Django 12 8 (24.24 %) PHP5 12 8 (24.24 %) PHP4 13 7 (21.21 %) Flash 13 7 (21.21 %) Photoshop 13 7 (21.21 %) C++ 13 7 (21.21 %) Java 13 7 (21.21 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 5 (15.15 %) Marketing

W3C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing W3C also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited W3C. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 31 (93.94 %) CSS 2 26 (78.79 %) XHTML 3 23 (69.70 %) HTML 4 20 (60.61 %) XML 5 17 (51.52 %) .NET 6 15 (45.45 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (30.30 %) AJAX 8 8 (24.24 %) ASP 8 8 (24.24 %) WebServices 8 8 (24.24 %) Django 9 3 (9.091 %) Adobe Flex 10 2 (6.061 %) XSL 10 2 (6.061 %) XSLT 11 1 (3.030 %) script.aculo.us 11 1 (3.030 %) MooTools 11 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 9 (27.27 %) CMS
Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) Photoshop 1 7 (21.21 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 3 (9.091 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.030 %) MS Visio 3 1 (3.030 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) WEP 2 1 (3.030 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (39.39 %) MySQL 2 11 (33.33 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 7 (21.21 %) Flash 2 3 (9.091 %) Dreamweaver 2 3 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (3.030 %) Synon
General 1 10 (30.30 %) Advertising 2 5 (15.15 %) Marketing 3 1 (3.030 %) Government 3 1 (3.030 %) Local Government 3 1 (3.030 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 13 (39.39 %) Developer 2 7 (21.21 %) Web Developer 2 7 (21.21 %) .NET Developer 3 6 (18.18 %) C# Developer 4 5 (15.15 %) Web Designer 4 5 (15.15 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 5 (15.15 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) C# Web Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) GUI Designer 6 2 (6.061 %) .NET Web Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Graphic Designer 6 2 (6.061 %) Website Designer 7 1 (3.030 %) Programmer 7 1 (3.030 %) Website Manager 7 1 (3.030 %) Consultant 7 1 (3.030 %) Analyst 7 1 (3.030 %) Graduate 7 1 (3.030 %) Junior 7 1 (3.030 %) .NET Consultant 7 1 (3.030 %) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) E-Learning 1 2 (6.061 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.030 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (51.52 %) Web Development 2 11 (33.33 %) OO 3 9 (27.27 %) Content Management 4 4 (12.12 %) Web Design 5 1 (3.030 %) OOP 5 1 (3.030 %) SEO 5 1 (3.030 %) Internet Marketing 5 1 (3.030 %) Digital Marketing	Programming Languages 1 26 (78.79 %) JavaScript 2 14 (42.42 %) C# 3 11 (33.33 %) PHP 4 8 (24.24 %) Python 4 8 (24.24 %) PHP5 4 8 (24.24 %) PHP4 5 7 (21.21 %) C++ 5 7 (21.21 %) Java 6 3 (9.091 %) ActionScript 7 2 (6.061 %) SQL 8 1 (3.030 %) VB 8 1 (3.030 %) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.061 %) WCAG	Vendors 1 11 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 4 (12.12 %) Adobe