England Web 2.0 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Web 2.0 skills within the England region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Web 2.0 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Brighton Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnham Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leeds London Middlesex Newbury North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Otley Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southwark Staines Surrey Thames Valley UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	341	459
Rank change on same period last year	+118
Matching contract IT job ads	238	182
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.317 %	0.184 %
As % of the category below	1.619 %	0.905 %
Daily rates quoted	102	83
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£330
Average daily rate	£340	£363
% change on same period last year	-6.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£361
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.75	£29.32
Average hourly rate	£36.00	£33.36
% change on same period last year	+7.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.25	£37.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.00	£33.00
% change on same period last year	+9.09 %
Miscellaneous England
Matching contract IT job ads	14696	20118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	19.59 %	20.35 %
Daily rates quoted	5577	7447
Average minimum daily rate	£448	£473
Average daily rate	£483	£508
% change on same period last year	-4.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£517	£542
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	1261	1397
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.46	£26.59
Average hourly rate	£24.45	£28.35
% change on same period last year	-13.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.43	£30.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£29.20
% change on same period last year	-16.30 %
Web 2.0 UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Web 2.0
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Web 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web 2.0 across the England region.

Web 2.0
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web 2.0 across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the England region.

Web 2.0
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web 2.0 across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web 2.0 within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+103	139	£333	-8.43 %
South East	+81	45	£391	+84.07 %
West Midlands	+20	27	£328	-2.88 %
East of England	-17	8	£300	-15.45 %
East Midlands	+7	8	£450	+7.78 %
Yorkshire	-	8	£344	-
South West	+25	3	£275	-
North West	-13	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Web 2.0 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 2.0.

1 210 (39.62 %) CSS 2 203 (38.30 %) JavaScript 3 173 (32.64 %) AJAX 4 157 (29.62 %) HTML 5 124 (23.40 %) .NET 6 121 (22.83 %) XML 7 99 (18.68 %) PHP 7 99 (18.68 %) XHTML 8 89 (16.79 %) Agile Software Development 9 86 (16.23 %) ASP.NET 10 82 (15.47 %) WebServices 10 82 (15.47 %) Content Management 11 77 (14.53 %) Java 12 76 (14.34 %) Internet 13 69 (13.02 %) C#

14 67 (12.64 %) Flash 15 66 (12.45 %) SQL Server 16 65 (12.26 %) SQL 17 58 (10.94 %) Scrum 18 57 (10.75 %) OO 18 57 (10.75 %) Web Development 19 53 (10.00 %) Linux 19 53 (10.00 %) Ruby on Rails 20 52 (9.811 %) MySQL 21 49 (9.245 %) CMS 22 46 (8.679 %) SEO 23 44 (8.302 %) W3C 23 44 (8.302 %) Microsoft 23 44 (8.302 %) Social Network 24 43 (8.113 %) Photoshop

Web 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Web 2.0 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 2.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 210 (39.62 %) CSS 2 173 (32.64 %) AJAX 3 157 (29.62 %) HTML 4 124 (23.40 %) .NET 5 121 (22.83 %) XML 6 99 (18.68 %) XHTML 7 86 (16.23 %) ASP.NET 8 82 (15.47 %) WebServices 9 53 (10.00 %) Ruby on Rails 10 43 (8.113 %) J2EE 11 38 (7.170 %) JSP 12 33 (6.226 %) YUI 13 28 (5.283 %) JSON 14 27 (5.094 %) Spring 14 27 (5.094 %) SOAP 15 26 (4.906 %) XSLT 16 25 (4.717 %) XSL 17 23 (4.340 %) ASP 18 22 (4.151 %) DOM 19 19 (3.585 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 49 (9.245 %) CMS 2 36 (6.792 %) Apache 3 27 (5.094 %) IIS 4 19 (3.585 %) SharePoint 5 15 (2.830 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 14 (2.642 %) Lotus Domino 7 8 (1.509 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 8 (1.509 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 7 (1.321 %) Live Communications Server 8 7 (1.321 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 7 (1.321 %) Tomcat 9 5 (0.943 %) WebLogic 10 4 (0.755 %) WebLogic Portal 10 4 (0.755 %) BizTalk Server 10 4 (0.755 %) Mambo 11 3 (0.566 %) Movable Type 11 3 (0.566 %) EPiServer 11 3 (0.566 %) ColdFusion 12 2 (0.377 %) Content Management Server 12 2 (0.377 %) Resin
Applications 1 43 (8.113 %) Photoshop 2 19 (3.585 %) MS Visio 3 18 (3.396 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 15 (2.830 %) MS Project 5 14 (2.642 %) MS Excel 6 4 (0.755 %) Fireworks 7 3 (0.566 %) MS Office 8 2 (0.377 %) MS PowerPoint 9 1 (0.189 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 1 (0.189 %) GoldMine
Communications & Networking 1 76 (14.34 %) Internet 2 12 (2.264 %) Firewall 2 12 (2.264 %) DNS 3 9 (1.698 %) Intranet 4 7 (1.321 %) HTTP 4 7 (1.321 %) LDAP 5 5 (0.943 %) TCP/IP 5 5 (0.943 %) SSH 6 4 (0.755 %) Extranet 6 4 (0.755 %) FTP 6 4 (0.755 %) SMTP 7 1 (0.189 %) Ethernet 7 1 (0.189 %) Broadband 7 1 (0.189 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 66 (12.45 %) SQL Server 2 52 (9.811 %) MySQL 3 19 (3.585 %) SQL Server 2005 4 9 (1.698 %) PostgreSQL 5 7 (1.321 %) RDBMS 6 3 (0.566 %) SQL Server 7 6 3 (0.566 %) SQL Server 2000 6 3 (0.566 %) GIS 7 1 (0.189 %) DB2 7 1 (0.189 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.189 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.189 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 67 (12.64 %) Flash 2 27 (5.094 %) Firebug 3 9 (1.698 %) Ant 3 9 (1.698 %) Subversion 4 6 (1.132 %) Log4j 4 6 (1.132 %) JUnit 5 5 (0.943 %) Visual Studio 6 4 (0.755 %) Eclipse 6 4 (0.755 %) Dreamweaver 7 2 (0.377 %) QuickTest Pro 7 2 (0.377 %) XDoclet 7 2 (0.377 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 1 (0.189 %) ClearCase 8 1 (0.189 %) JBuilder 8 1 (0.189 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 1 (0.189 %) jMock 8 1 (0.189 %) JDeveloper 8 1 (0.189 %) WinRunner	General 1 18 (3.396 %) Government 2 15 (2.830 %) Retail 3 14 (2.642 %) Finance 3 14 (2.642 %) Publishing 3 14 (2.642 %) Marketing 4 12 (2.264 %) Graphic Design 5 9 (1.698 %) Construction 5 9 (1.698 %) Telecoms 6 8 (1.509 %) Front Office 6 8 (1.509 %) Health 6 8 (1.509 %) Education 7 7 (1.321 %) Games 7 7 (1.321 %) Music 8 6 (1.132 %) Banking 9 3 (0.566 %) Investment Banking 9 3 (0.566 %) Criminal Justice 9 3 (0.566 %) Law 9 3 (0.566 %) Back Office 9 3 (0.566 %) Advertising 9 3 (0.566 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 262 (49.43 %) Developer 2 98 (18.49 %) Web Developer 3 54 (10.19 %) Architect 4 49 (9.245 %) Web Designer 5 35 (6.604 %) Project Manager 6 33 (6.226 %) Java Developer 7 32 (6.038 %) Analyst 8 28 (5.283 %) Senior Developer 9 26 (4.906 %) .NET Developer 10 21 (3.962 %) Information Architect 11 20 (3.774 %) Business Analyst 12 16 (3.019 %) PHP Developer 13 15 (2.830 %) Technical Architect 13 15 (2.830 %) Web Manager 14 14 (2.642 %) Web Architect 14 14 (2.642 %) C# Developer 15 13 (2.453 %) Ruby On Rails Developer 16 12 (2.264 %) UI Developer 16 12 (2.264 %) Java/J2EE Developer 16 12 (2.264 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 44 (8.302 %) W3C 1 44 (8.302 %) Social Network 2 21 (3.962 %) Taxonomies 3 17 (3.208 %) Clustering 4 13 (2.453 %) E-Learning 5 9 (1.698 %) NHS 6 7 (1.321 %) Blackberry 7 6 (1.132 %) RIA 8 5 (0.943 %) Wiki 8 5 (0.943 %) Streaming Video 8 5 (0.943 %) Statistics 9 4 (0.755 %) N-Tier 9 4 (0.755 %) Blog 10 3 (0.566 %) Computer Science 11 2 (0.377 %) Mathematics 11 2 (0.377 %) Equities 11 2 (0.377 %) Interactive TV 11 2 (0.377 %) Freedom of Information 11 2 (0.377 %) Streaming Media 11 2 (0.377 %) iDTV
Operating Systems 1 53 (10.00 %) Linux 2 30 (5.660 %) Windows 3 18 (3.396 %) UNIX 4 10 (1.887 %) Windows Server 2003 5 8 (1.509 %) Mac OS X 6 7 (1.321 %) Solaris 7 2 (0.377 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (0.189 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.189 %) AIX 8 1 (0.189 %) Debian 8 1 (0.189 %) OpenBSD 8 1 (0.189 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 89 (16.79 %) Agile Software Development 2 82 (15.47 %) Content Management 3 58 (10.94 %) Scrum 4 57 (10.75 %) OO 4 57 (10.75 %) Web Development 5 46 (8.679 %) SEO 6 42 (7.925 %) Web Design 7 38 (7.170 %) E-Commerce 8 29 (5.472 %) UML 8 29 (5.472 %) Project Management 9 23 (4.340 %) PRINCE2 10 22 (4.151 %) OOP 11 20 (3.774 %) TDD 12 17 (3.208 %) Performance Testing 13 15 (2.830 %) OOD 13 15 (2.830 %) SOA 14 13 (2.453 %) Load Balancing 15 12 (2.264 %) Business Analysis 16 11 (2.075 %) Extreme Programming 17 10 (1.887 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 203 (38.30 %) JavaScript 2 99 (18.68 %) PHP 3 77 (14.53 %) Java 4 69 (13.02 %) C# 5 65 (12.26 %) SQL 6 35 (6.604 %) ActionScript 7 34 (6.415 %) Ruby 8 26 (4.906 %) DHTML 9 22 (4.151 %) Python 10 21 (3.962 %) Perl 11 12 (2.264 %) Shell Script 12 11 (2.075 %) PHP5 13 9 (1.698 %) XPath 14 8 (1.509 %) C++ 15 6 (1.132 %) PHP4 16 5 (0.943 %) C 17 4 (0.755 %) VB.NET 18 3 (0.566 %) VBScript 19 1 (0.189 %) VB 19 1 (0.189 %) PowerHouse	Qualifications 1 17 (3.208 %) Degree 2 2 (0.377 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.189 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 24 (4.528 %) WAI 2 5 (0.943 %) WCAG 3 4 (0.755 %) SLA 4 2 (0.377 %) QA	System Software 1 17 (3.208 %) Active Directory 2 6 (1.132 %) Xen 3 3 (0.566 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (0.566 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 1 (0.189 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 44 (8.302 %) Microsoft 2 29 (5.472 %) Adobe 3 15 (2.830 %) Oracle 3 15 (2.830 %) Lotus 4 9 (1.698 %) IBM 5 6 (1.132 %) BEA 5 6 (1.132 %) VMware 6 4 (0.755 %) Google 7 3 (0.566 %) RedDot 7 3 (0.566 %) FatWire 8 2 (0.377 %) BT 8 2 (0.377 %) ATG 8 2 (0.377 %) Siebel 8 2 (0.377 %) Zend 8 2 (0.377 %) ION Trading 8 2 (0.377 %) Yahoo! 9 1 (0.189 %) IronPort 9 1 (0.189 %) Cisco 9 1 (0.189 %) Vignette 9 1 (0.189 %) Tridion