The first table below looks at the demand for Web Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Development over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the East of England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Development
Rank 62 59 80
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +21
Contract jobs citing Web Development 54 77 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.507% 2.613% 1.979%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.753% 4.031% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 31 20
Average daily rate £325 £325 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £260 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £393 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 9
Average hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +36.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £20.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+65.00% -42.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1439 1910 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.81% 64.81% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 936 772
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 152 192
Average hourly rate £35.03 £30.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.83% -5.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.04 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Web Development
England

Web Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Web Development Jobs Demand Trend

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Web Development Daily Rate Trend

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Development across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England Web Development Daily Rate Histogram

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Web Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web 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 Development within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Hertfordshire -19 18 £375 +15.38%
Norfolk +10 9 £363 +66.66%
Bedfordshire +12 8 £350 +1.81%
Cambridgeshire +3 8 £284 +1.33%
Essex +2 8 £265 -32.48%
Suffolk +9 3 £250 -
Web Development
England

Web Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Web 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 Development.

1 44 (42.31%) JavaScript
1 44 (42.31%) CSS
2 42 (40.38%) HTML
3 29 (27.88%) SQL
4 27 (25.96%) jQuery
5 25 (24.04%) .NET
5 25 (24.04%) SQL Server
6 23 (22.12%) XML
6 23 (22.12%) ASP.NET
7 21 (20.19%) PHP
8 18 (17.31%) C#
9 16 (15.38%) MySQL
9 16 (15.38%) OO
9 16 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
10 15 (14.42%) XHTML
10 15 (14.42%) Java
11 14 (13.46%) HTML5
12 13 (12.50%) E-Commerce
13 12 (11.54%) Photoshop
13 12 (11.54%) Drupal
13 12 (11.54%) Ajax
14 11 (10.58%) Ruby
14 11 (10.58%) XSLT
14 11 (10.58%) Windows
14 11 (10.58%) MVC
14 11 (10.58%) Telecoms
15 10 (9.615%) Scrum
15 10 (9.615%) Web Services
15 10 (9.615%) CSS3
16 9 (8.654%) Ruby on Rails

Web Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Web 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 Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (42.31%) CSS
2 42 (40.38%) HTML
3 27 (25.96%) jQuery
4 25 (24.04%) .NET
5 23 (22.12%) ASP.NET
5 23 (22.12%) XML
6 15 (14.42%) XHTML
7 14 (13.46%) HTML5
8 12 (11.54%) Ajax
9 11 (10.58%) XSLT
10 10 (9.615%) Web Services
10 10 (9.615%) CSS3
11 9 (8.654%) Ruby on Rails
12 8 (7.692%) .NET Framework
13 6 (5.769%) LAMP
13 6 (5.769%) WCF
14 4 (3.846%) ASP.NET MVC
14 4 (3.846%) JSP
15 3 (2.885%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 2 (1.923%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 12 (11.54%) Drupal
2 9 (8.654%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.731%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (4.808%) Apache
4 5 (4.808%) CMS
5 3 (2.885%) Moodle
6 2 (1.923%) IIS
6 2 (1.923%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.962%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.962%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.962%) WordPress
7 1 (0.962%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Photoshop
2 7 (6.731%) Fireworks
3 2 (1.923%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.962%) MS Project
4 1 (0.962%) MS Office
4 1 (0.962%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.808%) Intranet
2 4 (3.846%) 2G
2 4 (3.846%) LTE
3 2 (1.923%) Internet
4 1 (0.962%) 3G
4 1 (0.962%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.04%) SQL Server
2 16 (15.38%) MySQL
3 6 (5.769%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.885%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.885%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.923%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.923%) JasperReports
5 2 (1.923%) GIS
6 1 (0.962%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.962%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.962%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.962%) QlikView
6 1 (0.962%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 5 (4.808%) Axure RP
2 4 (3.846%) Git (software)
2 4 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.885%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.923%) WATIR
4 2 (1.923%) Selenium
4 2 (1.923%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.923%) WebDriver
4 2 (1.923%) Ant
4 2 (1.923%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.923%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.962%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.962%) NUnit
5 1 (0.962%) CruiseControl
5 1 (0.962%) Subversion
5 1 (0.962%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General
1 11 (10.58%) Telecoms
2 9 (8.654%) Games
3 7 (6.731%) Marketing
4 6 (5.769%) Retail
5 5 (4.808%) Finance
6 4 (3.846%) Publishing
7 2 (1.923%) Automotive
7 2 (1.923%) Banking
8 1 (0.962%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.962%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.962%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (72.12%) Developer
2 16 (15.38%) PHP Developer
3 14 (13.46%) Analyst
4 13 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 9 (8.654%) .NET Developer
5 9 (8.654%) Ruby on Rails Developer
6 8 (7.692%) UI Developer
6 8 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
6 8 (7.692%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.731%) UI Programmer
8 6 (5.769%) PHP Web Developer
8 6 (5.769%) SQL Developer
9 5 (4.808%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.808%) SharePoint Developer
9 5 (4.808%) JavaScript Developer
9 5 (4.808%) Drupal Developer
9 5 (4.808%) PHP Drupal Developer
10 4 (3.846%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.846%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.885%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.846%) Semantic Web
2 3 (2.885%) Wiki
2 3 (2.885%) VLE
2 3 (2.885%) Video on Demand
2 3 (2.885%) SaaS
3 2 (1.923%) N-Tier
4 1 (0.962%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.962%) IVR
4 1 (0.962%) iPhone
4 1 (0.962%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (0.962%) Social Media
4 1 (0.962%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.58%) Windows
2 8 (7.692%) UNIX
3 6 (5.769%) Linux
4 3 (2.885%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (2.885%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.923%) Android
6 1 (0.962%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (15.38%) OO
1 16 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 11 (10.58%) MVC
4 10 (9.615%) Scrum
5 9 (8.654%) TDD
6 8 (7.692%) Data Analysis
6 8 (7.692%) Business Analysis
6 8 (7.692%) Waterfall
7 7 (6.731%) Data Management
7 7 (6.731%) Project Management
8 6 (5.769%) BDD
9 5 (4.808%) UML
9 5 (4.808%) Content Management
10 3 (2.885%) Pair Programming
10 3 (2.885%) Web Design
10 3 (2.885%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (2.885%) RDF
10 3 (2.885%) Web Accessibility
10 3 (2.885%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (42.31%) JavaScript
2 29 (27.88%) SQL
3 21 (20.19%) PHP
4 18 (17.31%) C#
5 15 (14.42%) Java
6 11 (10.58%) Ruby
7 9 (8.654%) PL/SQL
8 8 (7.692%) XPath
9 7 (6.731%) C++
10 6 (5.769%) T-SQL
11 5 (4.808%) VB.NET
12 3 (2.885%) SPARQL
12 3 (2.885%) VB
13 2 (1.923%) Python
13 2 (1.923%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.962%) VB6
14 1 (0.962%) VBA
14 1 (0.962%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (6.731%) Degree
2 6 (5.769%) Sun Certification
3 1 (0.962%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (0.962%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.692%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.962%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (8.654%) Oracle
2 7 (6.731%) Adobe
3 6 (5.769%) Sun
3 6 (5.769%) Apple
3 6 (5.769%) Zend
4 5 (4.808%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.923%) ATG
6 1 (0.962%) Telerik
6 1 (0.962%) Mercator
6 1 (0.962%) HP
6 1 (0.962%) AccuRev
Witham, Essex
Job Title: Contract Front End Web Developer Location: Witham, Essex Rate £230 to £250 per day Duration: 6 months with possible extensions Skills: XHTML, JavaScript, jQuery, XSLT, XML,...
Coburg Banks IT
Rate: £230 - £250 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Suffolk
Hibernate, Spring, JAVA, Web services... * Sharing knowledge and outcomes with project managers * Estimating time of completion on your direct area of expertise Skills the JAVA Developer will need: *...
TRG
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
I am currently looking for a Functional Business Analyst/Delivery Manager with a strong Web Development back ground for my Cambridge based client... You may be called upon...
Sand Resources
Rate: £240 - £340 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
Basildon, Essex
SEO Business Analyst, Requirements Gathering, Use Case, UML... Required Skills: - SEO - Must have a previous background as Business analyst in J2EE/Web development teams - Must have extensive exposure...
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £30 - £32 per hour
Posted: 14 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
I am currently looking for a Functional Business Analyst/Delivery Manager with a strong Web Development back ground for my Cambridge based client... You may be called upon...
Sand Resources
Rate: £240 - £270 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
Saffron Walden, Essex
Part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community, with expertise in...
EMBL-EBI
Rate: Highly competitive plus benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013