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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 Edinburgh 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 18 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 Edinburgh region.

 Web Developer
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank423236
Rank change year-on-year
Down-10Up+4
Matching contract IT job ads151018
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh1.680 %1.908 %2.206 %
As % of the Job Titles category1.786 %2.079 %2.305 %
Daily rates quoted309
Average daily rate£185-£315
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£137-£280
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£189-£355
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£266£275
% change year-on-year
-10.79 %-3.180 %
Hourly rates quoted200
Average hourly rate£25.00--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£27.50
% change year-on-year
--27.27 %
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
840481781
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh94.06 %91.79 %95.71 %
Daily rates quoted238102162
Average daily rate£325£375£305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33 %+22.95 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£190£200£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£455£500£491
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£338£350
% change year-on-year
-3.700 %-3.570 %
Hourly rates quoted262029
Average hourly rate£15.00£18.64£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.52 %-17.15 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£13.50£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.10£30.00£63.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£20.00£22.00
% change year-on-year
-12.50 %-9.090 %
Web Developer ScotlandWeb Developer
Scotland

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 Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

131 (83.78 %)JavaScript
219 (51.35 %)CMS
318 (48.65 %)Web Development
318 (48.65 %)SQL
415 (40.54 %)HTML
415 (40.54 %)Oracle
415 (40.54 %)CSS
514 (37.84 %)jQuery
612 (32.43 %)Dojo
612 (32.43 %)MySQL
78 (21.62 %)XML
78 (21.62 %)FrontPage
87 (18.92 %)Finance
87 (18.92 %)WebSphere
96 (16.22 %)Content Management
96 (16.22 %)Photoshop
96 (16.22 %).NET
105 (13.51 %)PHP
114 (10.81 %)C
114 (10.81 %)ASP.NET
114 (10.81 %)XSLT
114 (10.81 %)Government
114 (10.81 %)Intranet
114 (10.81 %)AJAX
114 (10.81 %)Joomla!
123 (8.108 %)Web Design
123 (8.108 %)Flash
123 (8.108 %)Dreamweaver
123 (8.108 %)MS Office
123 (8.108 %)Java

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
115 (40.54 %)HTML
115 (40.54 %)CSS
214 (37.84 %)jQuery
312 (32.43 %)Dojo
48 (21.62 %)XML
57 (18.92 %)WebSphere
66 (16.22 %).NET
74 (10.81 %)ASP.NET
74 (10.81 %)XSLT
74 (10.81 %)AJAX
83 (8.108 %)Flash
92 (5.405 %)ASP
92 (5.405 %)JSP
92 (5.405 %)Servlets
92 (5.405 %)MooTools
101 (2.703 %)XHTML
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
119 (51.35 %)CMS
24 (10.81 %)Joomla!
32 (5.405 %)Apache
32 (5.405 %)Tomcat
32 (5.405 %)Drupal
32 (5.405 %)WebSphere Portal
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (16.22 %)Photoshop
23 (8.108 %)MS Office
31 (2.703 %)MS Excel
31 (2.703 %)MS Visio
31 (2.703 %)MS Project
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (10.81 %)Intranet
22 (5.405 %)Internet
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
112 (32.43 %)MySQL
22 (5.405 %)TOAD
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (21.62 %)FrontPage
23 (8.108 %)Dreamweaver
32 (5.405 %)Ant
32 (5.405 %)Eclipse
41 (2.703 %)JMeter
41 (2.703 %)JUnit
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17 (18.92 %)Finance
24 (10.81 %)Government
32 (5.405 %)Banking
41 (2.703 %)Retail Banking
41 (2.703 %)Retail
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (5.405 %)W3C
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (2.703 %)UNIX
11 (2.703 %)Windows
11 (2.703 %)Solaris
11 (2.703 %)Linux
11 (2.703 %)Windows XP
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
118 (48.65 %)Web Development
26 (16.22 %)Content Management
33 (8.108 %)Web Design
42 (5.405 %)Service Delivery
51 (2.703 %)Migration
51 (2.703 %)E-Commerce
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
131 (83.78 %)JavaScript
218 (48.65 %)SQL
35 (13.51 %)PHP
44 (10.81 %)C
53 (8.108 %)Java
61 (2.703 %)C#
Edinburgh IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
115 (40.54 %)Oracle
22 (5.405 %)IBM
22 (5.405 %)Microsoft
31 (2.703 %)Ektron
31 (2.703 %)Tridion