The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web 2.0 in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web 2.0 over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web 2.0
Rank 201 206 213
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +7
Contract jobs citing Web 2.0 4 9 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.062% 0.113% 0.290%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.198% 0.344% 0.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 27
Average daily rate £375 £400 £700
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -42.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2024 2615 3886
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.48% 32.77% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1505 2020 3007
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 68 53
Average hourly rate £25.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.27% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.44 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £44.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Web 2.0
London

Web 2.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London Web 2.0 Jobs Demand Trend

Web 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web 2.0 across the City of London region.

City of London Web 2.0 Daily Rate Trend

Web 2.0
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the City of London region.

City of London Web 2.0 Hourly Rate Trend

Web 2.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Web 2.0 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 2.0.

1 3 (37.50%) J2EE
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) WCF
2 2 (25.00%) WPF
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (25.00%) RIA
2 2 (25.00%) PowerPivot
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) PerformancePoint
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (12.50%) Open Source
3 1 (12.50%) Social Media

Web 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Web 2.0 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 2.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (37.50%) J2EE
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) WCF
2 2 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) JSF
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Dojo
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
3 1 (12.50%) Swing
3 1 (12.50%) Flash
3 1 (12.50%) XHTML
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) Servlets
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (25.00%) PowerPivot
2 1 (12.50%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) PerformancePoint
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Rational Application Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Portal Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) RIA
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Social Media
2 1 (12.50%) Graphic Design
2 1 (12.50%) Spread Betting
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Media
2 1 (12.50%) Hedge funds
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) Content Management
2 1 (12.50%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) IBM