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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

 Web Developer
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank14796104
Rank change year-on-year
Down-51Up+8
Matching contract IT job ads7154111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London0.828 %1.335 %1.378 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.904 %1.423 %1.472 %
Daily rates quoted402553
Average daily rate£300£290£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.360 %-3.330 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£261£205£182
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£417£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£263£275
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %-4.540 %
Hourly rates quoted1211
Average hourly rate£22.00£27.50£37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00 %-26.66 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
--27.27 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
785737957539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London91.61 %93.84 %93.57 %
Daily rates quoted495820093524
Average daily rate£500£450£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-5.260 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£275£295
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£600£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted131117292
Average hourly rate£21.00£19.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.52 %-9.520 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£12.00£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£49.25£35.00£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %-9.090 %
Web Developer LondonWeb Developer
London

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.

Web Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Web Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Web Developer Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London Web Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Web Developer in their job title 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 with Web Developer in their job title.

179 (61.72 %)CSS
275 (58.59 %)JavaScript
364 (50.00 %)HTML
459 (46.09 %).NET
543 (33.59 %)AJAX
641 (32.03 %)XML
740 (31.25 %)ASP.NET
834 (26.56 %)SQL Server
933 (25.78 %)C#
1032 (25.00 %)XHTML
1127 (21.09 %)Java
1225 (19.53 %)Web Services
1324 (18.75 %)jQuery
1423 (17.97 %)Web Development
1521 (16.41 %)Banking
1521 (16.41 %)SQL
1619 (14.84 %)Finance
1718 (14.06 %)PHP
1817 (13.28 %)Photoshop
1817 (13.28 %)E-Commerce
1916 (12.50 %)Flash
1916 (12.50 %)OO
1916 (12.50 %)Microsoft
2014 (10.94 %)ASP
2014 (10.94 %).NET Framework
2113 (10.16 %)Continuous Integration
2113 (10.16 %)MySQL
2113 (10.16 %)W3C
2212 (9.375 %)MVC
2212 (9.375 %)Games

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Web Developer in their job title 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 with Web Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
179 (61.72 %)CSS
264 (50.00 %)HTML
359 (46.09 %).NET
443 (33.59 %)AJAX
541 (32.03 %)XML
640 (31.25 %)ASP.NET
732 (25.00 %)XHTML
825 (19.53 %)Web Services
924 (18.75 %)jQuery
1016 (12.50 %)Flash
1114 (10.94 %)ASP
1114 (10.94 %).NET Framework
1212 (9.375 %)DHTML
1212 (9.375 %)XSLT
1212 (9.375 %)JSP
1310 (7.813 %)Spring
149 (7.031 %)DOM
158 (6.250 %)NHibernate
158 (6.250 %)ASP.NET MVC
166 (4.688 %)CGI
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (8.594 %)CMS
27 (5.469 %)IIS
35 (3.906 %)Apache
44 (3.125 %)Tomcat
53 (2.344 %)TeamSite
62 (1.563 %)SharePoint
62 (1.563 %)Lotus Domino
62 (1.563 %)Confluence
62 (1.563 %)Drupal
62 (1.563 %)WordPress
71 (0.781 %)MindAlign
71 (0.781 %)Sitecore CMS
71 (0.781 %)EPiServer
71 (0.781 %)ColdFusion
71 (0.781 %)WebLogic
71 (0.781 %)Documentum
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
117 (13.28 %)Photoshop
25 (3.906 %)Adobe Illustrator
32 (1.563 %)MS Excel
32 (1.563 %)Fireworks
41 (0.781 %)MS Office
41 (0.781 %)MS Visio
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (2.344 %)Oracle iStore
21 (0.781 %)Dynamics CRM
21 (0.781 %)Microsoft CRM
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (7.813 %)Internet
29 (7.031 %)HTTP
34 (3.125 %)FTP
34 (3.125 %)Intranet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
134 (26.56 %)SQL Server
213 (10.16 %)MySQL
312 (9.375 %)SQL Server 2005
44 (3.125 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
53 (2.344 %)SQL Server Integration Services
53 (2.344 %)SQL Server 2008
62 (1.563 %)Oracle 10g
71 (0.781 %)Reference Data
71 (0.781 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
71 (0.781 %)EDRMS
71 (0.781 %)SQL Server 2000
71 (0.781 %)RDBMS
71 (0.781 %)DB2
71 (0.781 %)DTS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
17 (5.469 %)Dreamweaver
26 (4.688 %)NUnit
34 (3.125 %)Eclipse
34 (3.125 %)Visual Studio
43 (2.344 %)Subversion
52 (1.563 %)Ant
52 (1.563 %)TeamCity
61 (0.781 %)ReSharper
61 (0.781 %)Maven
61 (0.781 %)JMeter
61 (0.781 %)Log4Net
61 (0.781 %)VSS/SourceSafe
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
121 (16.41 %)Banking
219 (14.84 %)Finance
312 (9.375 %)Games
49 (7.031 %)Investment Banking
58 (6.250 %)Government
67 (5.469 %)Telecoms
76 (4.688 %)Marketing
84 (3.125 %)Education
93 (2.344 %)Advertising
93 (2.344 %)Publishing
93 (2.344 %)Front Office
102 (1.563 %)Financial Institution
102 (1.563 %)Music
102 (1.563 %)Insurance
111 (0.781 %)Online Games
111 (0.781 %)Back Office
111 (0.781 %)Health
111 (0.781 %)Legal
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
113 (10.16 %)W3C
28 (6.250 %)Web 2.0
36 (4.688 %)Derivative
45 (3.906 %)Fixed Income
54 (3.125 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
63 (2.344 %)N-Tier
72 (1.563 %)Amazon EC2
72 (1.563 %)Open Source
72 (1.563 %)RIA
72 (1.563 %)Social Network
72 (1.563 %)Blog
72 (1.563 %)Streaming Media
81 (0.781 %)Interest Rate Derivative
81 (0.781 %)Equity Derivative
81 (0.781 %)Podcast
81 (0.781 %)Multithreading
81 (0.781 %)Dependency Injection
81 (0.781 %)Amazon S3
81 (0.781 %)Amazon AWS
81 (0.781 %)Handset
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18 (6.250 %)Linux
24 (3.125 %)Windows
33 (2.344 %)UNIX
41 (0.781 %)Red Hat Linux
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
123 (17.97 %)Web Development
217 (13.28 %)E-Commerce
316 (12.50 %)OO
413 (10.16 %)Continuous Integration
512 (9.375 %)MVC
611 (8.594 %)Agile Software Development
611 (8.594 %)Configuration Management
79 (7.031 %)Content Management
88 (6.250 %)TDD
97 (5.469 %)Unit Testing
105 (3.906 %)Information Architecture
114 (3.125 %)CRM
123 (2.344 %)Asset Management
123 (2.344 %)Data Protection
123 (2.344 %)OpenUP
123 (2.344 %)Scrum
123 (2.344 %)UML
123 (2.344 %)OOD
132 (1.563 %)Web Design
132 (1.563 %)SEO
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
175 (58.59 %)JavaScript
233 (25.78 %)C#
327 (21.09 %)Java
421 (16.41 %)SQL
518 (14.06 %)PHP
610 (7.813 %)Python
79 (7.031 %)Perl
88 (6.250 %)ActionScript
95 (3.906 %)PL/SQL
104 (3.125 %)T-SQL
113 (2.344 %)XPath
113 (2.344 %)Ruby
113 (2.344 %)VB
113 (2.344 %)VB.NET
113 (2.344 %)C++
122 (1.563 %)C
122 (1.563 %)VBA
122 (1.563 %)Shell Script
122 (1.563 %)VB6
122 (1.563 %)Korn
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
17 (5.469 %)Security Cleared
23 (2.344 %)Degree
31 (0.781 %)SC Cleared
31 (0.781 %)CTC Cleared
31 (0.781 %)Sun Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (5.469 %)WAI
23 (2.344 %)WCAG
31 (0.781 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (0.781 %)Squid
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.781 %)SCCM
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
116 (12.50 %)Microsoft
211 (8.594 %)Oracle
310 (7.813 %)Adobe
45 (3.906 %)RedDot
54 (3.125 %)Sybase
63 (2.344 %)Google
63 (2.344 %)Caplin
63 (2.344 %)Interwoven
72 (1.563 %)Tridion
72 (1.563 %)Atlassian
81 (0.781 %)Zend
81 (0.781 %)Endeca
81 (0.781 %)Alterian
81 (0.781 %)Wall Street Systems
81 (0.781 %)Sitecore
81 (0.781 %)Sun
81 (0.781 %)IBM
81 (0.781 %)Red Hat
81 (0.781 %)Apple
81 (0.781 %)Lotus