East of England Web Designer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Web Designer role in IT contracts within the East of England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Web Designer in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bootle Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crewe Devon Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Epsom Essex Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Perth and Kinross Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	112	126
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	39	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	1.033 %	0.432 %
Daily rates quoted	15	8
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£231
Average daily rate	£279	£243
% change on same period last year	+14.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£255
UK excluding London average daily rate	£253	£222
% change on same period last year	+13.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£21.25
Average hourly rate	£13.50	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-40.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.19	£21.27
% change on same period last year	-23.86 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3775	4164
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.978 %	4.417 %
Daily rates quoted	1208	1257
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£331
Average daily rate	£361	£350
% change on same period last year	+3.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	513	534
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.45	£23.65
Average hourly rate	£23.94	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-4.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.42	£26.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Web Designer England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web Designer across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Designer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web Designer across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Web Designer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+11	22	£286	-1.43 %
Cambridgeshire	+1	15	£250	+51.51 %
Essex	-3	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Web Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 46 (57.50 %) Photoshop 2 35 (43.75 %) CSS 3 33 (41.25 %) Web Design 4 28 (35.00 %) HTML 5 24 (30.00 %) Flash 6 23 (28.75 %) E-Commerce 7 20 (25.00 %) SEO 7 20 (25.00 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 15 (18.75 %) XHTML 9 13 (16.25 %) AJAX 10 10 (12.50 %) Dreamweaver 11 9 (11.25 %) Content Management 12 8 (10.00 %) CMS 12 8 (10.00 %) Finance 13 6 (7.500 %) Retail

13 6 (7.500 %) Web Development 13 6 (7.500 %) WAI 13 6 (7.500 %) Graphic Design 13 6 (7.500 %) Adobe 13 6 (7.500 %) Telecoms 13 6 (7.500 %) JavaScript 14 5 (6.250 %) XML 14 5 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 14 5 (6.250 %) .NET 14 5 (6.250 %) Macromedia 14 5 (6.250 %) W3C 14 5 (6.250 %) Animation 14 5 (6.250 %) Web 2.0 15 4 (5.000 %) Pensions 15 4 (5.000 %) Multimedia

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited Web Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 35 (43.75 %) CSS 2 28 (35.00 %) HTML 3 15 (18.75 %) XHTML 4 13 (16.25 %) AJAX 5 5 (6.250 %) .NET 5 5 (6.250 %) XML 6 2 (2.500 %) ASP.NET 6 2 (2.500 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (2.500 %) jQuery 6 2 (2.500 %) MooTools 7 1 (1.250 %) SOAP 7 1 (1.250 %) XSL 7 1 (1.250 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 8 (10.00 %) CMS
Applications 1 46 (57.50 %) Photoshop 2 20 (25.00 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 3 (3.750 %) Fireworks 4 1 (1.250 %) CA Clarity	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.250 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 24 (30.00 %) Flash 2 10 (12.50 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.250 %) StarTeam	General 1 8 (10.00 %) Finance 2 6 (7.500 %) Retail 2 6 (7.500 %) Graphic Design 2 6 (7.500 %) Telecoms 3 5 (6.250 %) Animation 4 4 (5.000 %) Multimedia 4 4 (5.000 %) Pensions 5 2 (2.500 %) Marketing 5 2 (2.500 %) Advertising 5 2 (2.500 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.250 %) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.250 %) W3C 1 5 (6.250 %) Web 2.0 2 2 (2.500 %) Social Network	Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (41.25 %) Web Design 2 23 (28.75 %) E-Commerce 3 20 (25.00 %) SEO 4 9 (11.25 %) Content Management 5 6 (7.500 %) Web Development 6 3 (3.750 %) Information Management 7 1 (1.250 %) Document Management 7 1 (1.250 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (1.250 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (7.500 %) JavaScript 2 2 (2.500 %) ActionScript 3 1 (1.250 %) C 3 1 (1.250 %) C# 3 1 (1.250 %) Java 3 1 (1.250 %) SQL 3 1 (1.250 %) VB 3 1 (1.250 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (1.250 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (7.500 %) WAI	Vendors 1 6 (7.500 %) Adobe 2 5 (6.250 %) Macromedia 3 1 (1.250 %) Citrix 3 1 (1.250 %) Oracle