The first table below looks at the demand for Web Application Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Application Development over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Development
Rank 62 62 64
Rank change year-on-year
0 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 5 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.679% 0.756% 0.870%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.887% 1.237% 1.274%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
Average daily rate £250 £313 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -8.08%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+0.80% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £39.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +22.83%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
564 485 628
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.63% 61.08% 68.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 249 348
Average daily rate £370 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £275 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 27
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% -18.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Web Application Development
North West

Web Application Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web Application Development across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Web Application Development Jobs Demand Trend

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Application Development across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Web Application Development Daily Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Application Development across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Web Application Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Application Development within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Chester -3 1 - -
Crewe - - - - 1
Ellesmere Port - - - - 3
Warrington - - - - 2
Wilmslow - - - -
Web Application Development
North West

Web Application Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Web Application Development 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 Web Application Development.

1 8 (72.73%) MVC
2 7 (63.64%) jQuery
3 6 (54.55%) CSS
4 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (45.45%) PHP
4 5 (45.45%) XSL
5 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) XPath
5 4 (36.36%) WCF
5 4 (36.36%) HTML5
5 4 (36.36%) XSLT
5 4 (36.36%) OO
5 4 (36.36%) PhD
5 4 (36.36%) SQL
5 4 (36.36%) .NET
5 4 (36.36%) C
5 4 (36.36%) C#
5 4 (36.36%) C++
5 4 (36.36%) Servlets
5 4 (36.36%) Web Services
5 4 (36.36%) MFC
5 4 (36.36%) Java
5 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
6 3 (27.27%) HTML
6 3 (27.27%) Windows CE
6 3 (27.27%) Windows
6 3 (27.27%) OOP
6 3 (27.27%) Web Development
6 3 (27.27%) SQLite
6 3 (27.27%) Zend

Web Application Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Web Application Development 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 Web Application Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (63.64%) jQuery
2 6 (54.55%) CSS
3 5 (45.45%) XSL
4 4 (36.36%) WCF
4 4 (36.36%) HTML5
4 4 (36.36%) XSLT
4 4 (36.36%) .NET
4 4 (36.36%) Servlets
4 4 (36.36%) Web Services
4 4 (36.36%) MFC
4 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET
5 3 (27.27%) HTML
5 3 (27.27%) JSON
6 2 (18.18%) Ajax
6 2 (18.18%) XML
7 1 (9.091%) JDBC
7 1 (9.091%) J2EE
7 1 (9.091%) LAMP
7 1 (9.091%) REST
7 1 (9.091%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Joomla!
1 2 (18.18%) Drupal
1 2 (18.18%) WordPress
1 2 (18.18%) Magento
1 2 (18.18%) CMS
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQLite
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Web Developer
2 5 (45.45%) PHP Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Web Applications Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Applications Developer
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Applications Developer
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
4 3 (27.27%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
5 1 (9.091%) C++/C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C++ Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (9.091%) C Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows CE
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
2 4 (36.36%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) OOP
3 3 (27.27%) Web Development
3 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) SOA
4 1 (9.091%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
1 5 (45.45%) PHP
2 4 (36.36%) XPath
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) C
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) C++
2 4 (36.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) PhD
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Zend