The first 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 23 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Developer
Rank 44 57 65
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 12 8 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.462% 0.736% 0.682%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.552% 0.785% 0.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
Average daily rate £260 £265 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.88% +0.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £176 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £316 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -37.00%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
773 1019 1249
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.15% 93.74% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 504 609
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £237 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 36
Average hourly rate £13.93 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.43% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.60 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Web Developer
Scotland

Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 Jobs Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This 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 23 May 2013, 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.

1 12 (70.59%) HTML
1 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
1 12 (70.59%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) jQuery
3 6 (35.29%) HTML5
3 6 (35.29%) .NET
3 6 (35.29%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) PHP
4 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
4 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
4 4 (23.53%) Web Development
4 4 (23.53%) CSS3
5 3 (17.65%) CMS
5 3 (17.65%) MySQL
5 3 (17.65%) MVC
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
6 2 (11.76%) XML
6 2 (11.76%) OO
6 2 (11.76%) XHTML
6 2 (11.76%) ASP
6 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 2 (11.76%) Jadu
6 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Drupal
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (11.76%) Web Application Development
7 1 (5.882%) CoffeeScript
7 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
7 1 (5.882%) Retail

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 12 (70.59%) HTML
1 12 (70.59%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) jQuery
3 6 (35.29%) HTML5
3 6 (35.29%) .NET
4 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
4 4 (23.53%) CSS3
5 2 (11.76%) XML
5 2 (11.76%) XHTML
5 2 (11.76%) ASP
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (5.882%) Spring
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.882%) WCF
6 1 (5.882%) WPF
6 1 (5.882%) Symfony
6 1 (5.882%) CodeIgniter
6 1 (5.882%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (5.882%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Jadu
2 2 (11.76%) Drupal
3 1 (5.882%) Sitefinity
3 1 (5.882%) MTS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
1 1 (5.882%) Intranet
1 1 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) RSpec
1 1 (5.882%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Retail
3 1 (5.882%) Marketing
3 1 (5.882%) Financial Institution
3 1 (5.882%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
1 1 (5.882%) Open Source
1 1 (5.882%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Web Development
2 3 (17.65%) MVC
3 2 (11.76%) OO
3 2 (11.76%) TDD
3 2 (11.76%) Web Application Development
4 1 (5.882%) Content Management
4 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Time Management
4 1 (5.882%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) JavaScript
2 6 (35.29%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) PHP
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.882%) CoffeeScript
5 1 (5.882%) VB6
5 1 (5.882%) Ruby
5 1 (5.882%) VB
5 1 (5.882%) C++
5 1 (5.882%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (5.882%) Telerik
1 1 (5.882%) Zend
1 1 (5.882%) Adobe
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