The first table below looks at the demand for Web Design skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Design 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh 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 Design
Rank 46 48 70
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +22
Contract jobs citing Web Design 9 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.090% 0.906% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.604% 1.357% 0.117%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £344 £225
% change year-on-year
-12.72% +52.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £77.19 £8.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+808.05% -62.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
561 737 855
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.92% 66.76% 66.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 367 468
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.26 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £38.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Web Design
Scotland

Web Design
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Web Design Jobs Demand Trend

Web Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Web Design Daily Rate Trend

Web Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Web Design Hourly Rate Trend

Web Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Web Design 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 Design.

1 8 (80.00%) CSS
1 8 (80.00%) Photoshop
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (60.00%) Content Management
3 5 (50.00%) jQuery
4 4 (40.00%) HTML
5 3 (30.00%) Java
5 3 (30.00%) J2EE
5 3 (30.00%) JSP
5 3 (30.00%) Servlets
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) Intranet
5 3 (30.00%) Publishing
5 3 (30.00%) CMS
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
5 3 (30.00%) MS Office
5 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
5 3 (30.00%) IBM
5 3 (30.00%) Adobe
5 3 (30.00%) IBM Certification
5 3 (30.00%) Acrobat
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (30.00%) Open Source
5 3 (30.00%) Rational Application Developer
5 3 (30.00%) Spring
5 3 (30.00%) JSF
5 3 (30.00%) Web 2.0
5 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
5 3 (30.00%) Graphic Design
5 3 (30.00%) Joomla!

Web Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (80.00%) CSS
2 5 (50.00%) jQuery
3 4 (40.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) J2EE
4 3 (30.00%) JSP
4 3 (30.00%) Servlets
4 3 (30.00%) Spring
4 3 (30.00%) JSF
4 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
4 3 (30.00%) Dojo
5 2 (20.00%) CSS3
5 2 (20.00%) XHTML
6 1 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (10.00%) JAXB
6 1 (10.00%) JSON
6 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Portal
1 3 (30.00%) Joomla!
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (30.00%) MS Office
2 3 (30.00%) Acrobat
3 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (30.00%) Rational Application Developer
General
1 3 (30.00%) Publishing
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Portal Developer
2 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Developer
2 3 (30.00%) WebSphere Portal Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Open Source
1 3 (30.00%) Web 2.0
1 3 (30.00%) Graphic Design
2 2 (20.00%) W3C
3 1 (10.00%) Copywriting
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Content Management
2 3 (30.00%) OO
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (10.00%) User Experience Design
3 1 (10.00%) Web Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) IBM Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) IBM
1 3 (30.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
Edinburgh, Midlothian
JSF 1.2... JSP... Experience of JavaScript frameworks such as DOJO and jQuery. Knowledge of WebSphere Portal Administration (preferably candidates will be IBM certified). Experience of IBM Web...
Sanderson
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013