Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term W3C in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited W3C over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 662 784
Rank change year-on-year +89 +122 -161
Contract jobs citing W3C 3 22 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.039% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.12% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 50
10th Percentile £410 £345 £278
25th Percentile £425 £448 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £475 £750 £600
90th Percentile £490 - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £481
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.09% +1.32%

All Generic Skills
UK

W3C is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,877 18,959 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.28% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,295 13,044 20,250
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £668 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 627 718
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%

W3C
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing W3C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for W3C in the UK

W3C
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing W3C.

Daily rate trend for W3C in the UK

W3C
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing W3C.

Hourly rate trend for W3C in the UK

W3C
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing W3C within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 3 £450 -21.74% 3
Work from Home +119 2 £500 +66.67% 2
London +90 2 £400 -40.74%
UK excluding London +53 1 £500 +14.29% 3
South East - 1 £500 - 3

W3C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
1 1 (33.33%) npm
1 1 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Grunt
2 1 (33.33%) rollup.js
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) webpack
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) UI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Enzyme
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Next.js
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Redux
2 1 (33.33%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Perfecto Mobile