West Midlands W3C Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) skills within the West Midlands 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
Location Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Carnforth Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Derby Derbyshire Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Hull Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Neston Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Redditch Rochester Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skegness Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Sunderland Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	166	213
Rank change on same period last year	+47
Matching permanent IT job ads	69	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	4.957 %	1.036 %
Salaries quoted	67	13
Average minimum salary	£27,257	£25,231
Average salary	£30,074	£26,308
% change on same period last year	+14.31 %
Average maximum salary	£32,892	£27,385
UK excluding London average salary	£29,868	£30,232
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Miscellaneous West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1392	1255
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.735 %	0.514 %
Salaries quoted	1215	1066
Average minimum salary	£31,360	£31,959
Average salary	£34,444	£34,505
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Average maximum salary	£37,528	£37,051
UK excluding London average salary	£38,014	£39,235
% change on same period last year	-3.11 %
W3C England

W3C
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing W3C across the West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

W3C
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing W3C across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

W3C
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing W3C within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Coventry	-	24	£27,958	-
Birmingham	+7	23	£29,696	+20.59 %
Worcestershire	-	9	£35,300	-
Herefordshire	-5	7	£31,643	-9.59 %
Warwickshire	+2	5	£29,600	+7.63 %
Staffordshire	-	3	£28,667	-
Shropshire	-	2	£31,500	-
Wolverhampton	-	2	-	-

W3C England

W3C
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 116 (95.08 %) CSS 2 90 (73.77 %) XHTML 3 68 (55.74 %) HTML 4 59 (48.36 %) MySQL 5 57 (46.72 %) JavaScript 6 55 (45.08 %) PHP 7 37 (30.33 %) Photoshop 8 33 (27.05 %) Pensions 9 32 (26.23 %) Dreamweaver 9 32 (26.23 %) .NET 10 30 (24.59 %) Flash 11 29 (23.77 %) XML 12 28 (22.95 %) ASP.NET 13 27 (22.13 %) Web Design 14 26 (21.31 %) SEO

15 23 (18.85 %) Adobe Illustrator 15 23 (18.85 %) Adobe 15 23 (18.85 %) VB.NET 16 18 (14.75 %) Visual Studio 16 18 (14.75 %) E-Commerce 16 18 (14.75 %) Advertising 16 18 (14.75 %) Pay per click 17 17 (13.93 %) Multimedia 17 17 (13.93 %) InDesign 17 17 (13.93 %) ASP 18 16 (13.11 %) SQL Server 19 15 (12.30 %) Internet 20 14 (11.48 %) AJAX 21 12 (9.836 %) WAI 22 11 (9.016 %) CMS

W3C
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 1 116 (95.08 %) CSS 2 90 (73.77 %) XHTML 3 68 (55.74 %) HTML 4 32 (26.23 %) .NET 5 29 (23.77 %) XML 6 28 (22.95 %) ASP.NET 7 17 (13.93 %) ASP 8 14 (11.48 %) AJAX 9 11 (9.016 %) SOAP 10 6 (4.918 %) WebServices 10 6 (4.918 %) XSL 11 4 (3.279 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 3 (2.459 %) RSS 12 3 (2.459 %) .NET Framework 13 2 (1.639 %) XSLT 14 1 (0.820 %) DOM 14 1 (0.820 %) jQuery 14 1 (0.820 %) Google Maps API	Application Platforms 1 11 (9.016 %) CMS 2 7 (5.738 %) ColdFusion 3 6 (4.918 %) Content Management Server 3 6 (4.918 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 6 (4.918 %) SharePoint 4 4 (3.279 %) IIS 5 1 (0.820 %) Apache
Applications 1 37 (30.33 %) Photoshop 2 23 (18.85 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 17 (13.93 %) InDesign 4 6 (4.918 %) MS Office 4 6 (4.918 %) MS Visio 4 6 (4.918 %) Acrobat 4 6 (4.918 %) FreeHand 4 6 (4.918 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 15 (12.30 %) Internet 2 5 (4.098 %) Broadband 2 5 (4.098 %) SMTP 2 5 (4.098 %) HTTP 2 5 (4.098 %) DNS 3 3 (2.459 %) Intranet 4 2 (1.639 %) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 59 (48.36 %) MySQL 2 16 (13.11 %) SQL Server 3 8 (6.557 %) SQL Server 2000 4 6 (4.918 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (2.459 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 32 (26.23 %) Dreamweaver 2 30 (24.59 %) Flash 3 18 (14.75 %) Visual Studio 4 9 (7.377 %) FrontPage
General 1 33 (27.05 %) Pensions 2 18 (14.75 %) Advertising 3 17 (13.93 %) Multimedia 4 7 (5.738 %) Health 5 6 (4.918 %) Animation 6 5 (4.098 %) Marketing 7 4 (3.279 %) Graphic Design 8 1 (0.820 %) Games	Job Titles 1 60 (49.18 %) Web Designer 2 56 (45.90 %) Developer 3 36 (29.51 %) Web Developer 4 23 (18.85 %) Senior Developer 5 16 (13.11 %) Senior Web Developer 6 12 (9.836 %) PHP Developer 7 11 (9.016 %) Senior Web Designer 8 9 (7.377 %) .NET Developer 9 6 (4.918 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 6 (4.918 %) UI Designer 9 6 (4.918 %) Interactive Designer 10 5 (4.098 %) MySQL Developer 11 3 (2.459 %) Web Team Leader 11 3 (2.459 %) Team Leader 11 3 (2.459 %) .NET Web Developer 11 3 (2.459 %) Programmer 12 2 (1.639 %) Senior .NET Developer 12 2 (1.639 %) Web Specialist 12 2 (1.639 %) Graphic Designer 12 2 (1.639 %) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.459 %) N-Tier 1 3 (2.459 %) E-Learning 2 2 (1.639 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (1.639 %) Wiki 2 2 (1.639 %) Blog 2 2 (1.639 %) Social Network 3 1 (0.820 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (0.820 %) Statistics 3 1 (0.820 %) VLE	Operating Systems 1 6 (4.918 %) Mac OS X 2 4 (3.279 %) Linux 3 2 (1.639 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (22.13 %) Web Design 2 26 (21.31 %) SEO 3 18 (14.75 %) E-Commerce 3 18 (14.75 %) Pay per click 4 9 (7.377 %) Content Management 5 6 (4.918 %) Web Development 6 3 (2.459 %) OO 7 1 (0.820 %) OOP 7 1 (0.820 %) Project Management 7 1 (0.820 %) Email Marketing 7 1 (0.820 %) Internet Marketing 7 1 (0.820 %) Digital Marketing 7 1 (0.820 %) Web Analytics	Programming Languages 1 57 (46.72 %) JavaScript 2 55 (45.08 %) PHP 3 23 (18.85 %) VB.NET 4 11 (9.016 %) VBScript 5 10 (8.197 %) SQL 6 9 (7.377 %) DHTML 6 9 (7.377 %) PHP5 7 8 (6.557 %) VB 8 7 (5.738 %) PHP4 9 5 (4.098 %) C# 10 4 (3.279 %) Java 10 4 (3.279 %) Transact-SQL 11 3 (2.459 %) C++ 11 3 (2.459 %) VB6 12 1 (0.820 %) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (9.836 %) WAI 2 4 (3.279 %) WCAG	Vendors 1 23 (18.85 %) Adobe 2 6 (4.918 %) Macromedia 3 2 (1.639 %) Microsoft