W3C Contracts

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 cited W3C over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 676 782
Rank change year-on-year +93 +106 -120
Contract jobs citing W3C 1 21 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.038% 0.076%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.008% 0.11% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 15 50
10th Percentile - £345 £278
25th Percentile - £448 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £750 £598
90th Percentile - - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - £438 £463
% change year-on-year - -5.41% -2.63%

All Generic Skills
UK

W3C falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

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 3 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 13 June 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
Work from Home +112 1 - - 2
England +69 1 - - 3
London +69 1 - - 1

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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Perfecto Mobile