The first table below looks at the demand for Web Development 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 Development over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Development
Rank 42 59 61
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +2
Contract jobs citing Web Development 15 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.801% 0.368% 0.541%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.627% 0.550% 0.817%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 5
Average daily rate £265 £270 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £206 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £364 £334 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -47.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 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 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Web Development
Scotland

Web Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Web Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (50.00%) HTML
3 9 (45.00%) CSS
4 5 (25.00%) Java
4 5 (25.00%) CMS
4 5 (25.00%) HTML5
5 4 (20.00%) jQuery
5 4 (20.00%) XML
5 4 (20.00%) XHTML
6 3 (15.00%) XSLT
6 3 (15.00%) Windows
6 3 (15.00%) C#
6 3 (15.00%) C++
6 3 (15.00%) PHP
6 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
6 3 (15.00%) MVC
6 3 (15.00%) Finance
6 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 3 (15.00%) Content Management
6 3 (15.00%) CSS3
7 2 (10.00%) Digital Media
7 2 (10.00%) Drupal
7 2 (10.00%) Web Application Development
7 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (10.00%) Social Media
7 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Spring
7 2 (10.00%) Android

Web Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (50.00%) HTML
2 9 (45.00%) CSS
3 5 (25.00%) HTML5
4 4 (20.00%) jQuery
4 4 (20.00%) XML
4 4 (20.00%) XHTML
5 3 (15.00%) XSLT
5 3 (15.00%) CSS3
6 2 (10.00%) Spring
6 2 (10.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 2 (10.00%) .NET
6 2 (10.00%) Struts
6 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (10.00%) Flash
7 1 (5.000%) DOM
7 1 (5.000%) SAX
7 1 (5.000%) Web Services
7 1 (5.000%) Symfony
7 1 (5.000%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (5.000%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) CMS
2 2 (10.00%) Drupal
2 2 (10.00%) TeamSite
3 1 (5.000%) Apache
3 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (5.000%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) PaintShop Pro
2 1 (5.000%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) SMS
1 1 (5.000%) Intranet
1 1 (5.000%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) FileMaker
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.000%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (5.000%) Subversion
2 1 (5.000%) JIRA
2 1 (5.000%) FogBugz
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Advertising
3 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.000%) Games
3 1 (5.000%) Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.000%) Marketing
3 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Programmer
4 2 (10.00%) Designer
4 2 (10.00%) C++ Programmer
4 2 (10.00%) C++ Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Lead Designer
5 1 (5.000%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.000%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Web Designer
5 1 (5.000%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Games Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.000%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.000%) IT Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Digital Media
1 2 (10.00%) Social Media
1 2 (10.00%) W3C
2 1 (5.000%) Mathematics
2 1 (5.000%) Blog
2 1 (5.000%) Smartphone
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
2 1 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) MVC
1 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (15.00%) TDD
1 3 (15.00%) Content Management
2 2 (10.00%) Web Application Development
2 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.000%) OO
3 1 (5.000%) Project Management
3 1 (5.000%) Migration
3 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.000%) Scrum
3 1 (5.000%) Fund Management
3 1 (5.000%) Supplier Management
3 1 (5.000%) Time Management
3 1 (5.000%) Kanban
3 1 (5.000%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.000%) BDD
3 1 (5.000%) Game Development
3 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Content Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) C++
3 3 (15.00%) PHP
4 2 (10.00%) Ruby
5 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.000%) SQL
5 1 (5.000%) ActionScript
5 1 (5.000%) XPath
5 1 (5.000%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) WAI
1 1 (5.000%) Section 508
Vendors
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.000%) Adobe
1 1 (5.000%) HP
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle
1 1 (5.000%) Zend