The first table below looks at the demand for Web Application Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Application Development over the 3 months to 17 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 England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Development
Rank 402 417 409
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -8
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 108 141 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.260% 0.264% 0.292%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.364% 0.387% 0.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 75 107
Average daily rate £330 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £439 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £311 £338
% change year-on-year
-0.40% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 9
Average hourly rate £29.50 £39.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.35% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.10 £28.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.90 £46.00 £53.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.50 £39.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year
-24.35% +22.83%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36423 38448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.36% 68.27% 68.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18133 21396 22256
Average daily rate £425 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 1186 1394
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.99 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Web Application Development
UK

Web Application Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Web Application Development Jobs Demand Trend

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Web Application Development Daily Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Application Development across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Web Application Development Daily Rate Histogram

Web Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Web Application Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Application Development within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -11 45 £400 +14.28%
North West +24 19 £270 -16.92%
South East +18 19 £348 +12.09%
East of England +17 5 £425 +51.78%
East Midlands +6 5 £215 -4.44%
West Midlands -1 5 £330 -1.49%
South West +20 4 £301 +9.27%
Yorkshire -1 3 £293 -
North East - 3 - -
Web Application Development
UK

Web Application Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Web Application 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 Application Development.

1 134 (55.60%) .NET
2 119 (49.38%) C#
3 117 (48.55%) CSS
4 105 (43.57%) JavaScript
5 101 (41.91%) SQL Server
6 98 (40.66%) jQuery
7 91 (37.76%) ASP.NET
8 82 (34.02%) HTML
9 73 (30.29%) Java
9 73 (30.29%) MVC
10 68 (28.22%) SQL
11 64 (26.56%) Ajax
12 61 (25.31%) Agile Software Development
13 60 (24.90%) XML
14 57 (23.65%) HTML5
15 50 (20.75%) CSS3
15 50 (20.75%) TDD
16 46 (19.09%) OO
17 43 (17.84%) E-Commerce
17 43 (17.84%) Spring
18 39 (16.18%) Degree
19 36 (14.94%) Web Services
20 35 (14.52%) ASP.NET MVC
21 33 (13.69%) Web Development
21 33 (13.69%) Microsoft
21 33 (13.69%) Scrum
22 31 (12.86%) Windows
22 31 (12.86%) Unit Testing
23 29 (12.03%) XHTML
23 29 (12.03%) Oracle

Web Application Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Web Application 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 Application Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 134 (55.60%) .NET
2 117 (48.55%) CSS
3 98 (40.66%) jQuery
4 91 (37.76%) ASP.NET
5 82 (34.02%) HTML
6 64 (26.56%) Ajax
7 60 (24.90%) XML
8 57 (23.65%) HTML5
9 50 (20.75%) CSS3
10 43 (17.84%) Spring
11 36 (14.94%) Web Services
12 35 (14.52%) ASP.NET MVC
13 29 (12.03%) XHTML
14 28 (11.62%) WCF
15 26 (10.79%) XSLT
15 26 (10.79%) SOAP
16 25 (10.37%) JSON
17 22 (9.129%) Hibernate
18 21 (8.714%) NHibernate
19 18 (7.469%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 25 (10.37%) SharePoint
2 24 (9.959%) CMS
3 17 (7.054%) Apache
4 15 (6.224%) Tomcat
5 9 (3.734%) Sitecore CMS
6 8 (3.320%) IIS
7 6 (2.490%) WebLogic
8 5 (2.075%) ESB
8 5 (2.075%) Amazon AWS
9 4 (1.660%) Mule
9 4 (1.660%) Windows Azure
10 3 (1.245%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.245%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.245%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (1.245%) Drupal
10 3 (1.245%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (1.245%) WebSphere MQ
11 2 (0.830%) FileNet
11 2 (0.830%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.830%) Kentico
Applications
1 15 (6.224%) MS Excel
2 7 (2.905%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.660%) MS Office
4 3 (1.245%) MS Project
5 1 (0.415%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.245%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.830%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.884%) Intranet
2 12 (4.979%) Internet
3 5 (2.075%) LDAP
4 3 (1.245%) Extranet
4 3 (1.245%) HTTP
5 2 (0.830%) WAN
5 2 (0.830%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.415%) DNS
6 1 (0.415%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.415%) SSL
6 1 (0.415%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (41.91%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.79%) SQL Server 2008
3 24 (9.959%) MySQL
4 16 (6.639%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (3.734%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.320%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (2.905%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.075%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (1.660%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.245%) Oracle 10g
10 3 (1.245%) DataStage
10 3 (1.245%) TOAD
10 3 (1.245%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.245%) DB2
10 3 (1.245%) MS Access
10 3 (1.245%) CouchDB
10 3 (1.245%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.245%) Oracle 11g
10 3 (1.245%) SQLite
10 3 (1.245%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 17 (7.054%) Git (software)
2 14 (5.809%) Visual Studio
3 12 (4.979%) NUnit
4 11 (4.564%) JIRA
5 10 (4.149%) Subversion
5 10 (4.149%) JUnit
6 7 (2.905%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (2.490%) Rhino Mocks
7 6 (2.490%) Eclipse
7 6 (2.490%) Maven
8 5 (2.075%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.660%) WATIR
9 4 (1.660%) Selenium
9 4 (1.660%) JSUnit
9 4 (1.660%) ClearCase
10 3 (1.245%) ERwin
10 3 (1.245%) Ant
10 3 (1.245%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (1.245%) Hudson
10 3 (1.245%) Spring Roo
General
1 25 (10.37%) Finance
2 18 (7.469%) Games
3 10 (4.149%) Banking
4 9 (3.734%) Publishing
5 8 (3.320%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.490%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.660%) Retail
8 2 (0.830%) Multimedia
8 2 (0.830%) Automotive
8 2 (0.830%) Music
8 2 (0.830%) Marketing
8 2 (0.830%) German Language
9 1 (0.415%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 200 (82.99%) Developer
2 72 (29.88%) .NET Developer
3 50 (20.75%) Web Developer
4 30 (12.45%) Senior Developer
5 27 (11.20%) Java Developer
6 26 (10.79%) ASP.NET Developer
6 26 (10.79%) .NET Web Developer
7 22 (9.129%) C# Developer
8 18 (7.469%) SQL Developer
9 16 (6.639%) VB.NET Developer
9 16 (6.639%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
10 15 (6.224%) Applications Developer
11 12 (4.979%) Project Manager
12 11 (4.564%) Web Applications Developer
12 11 (4.564%) Senior .NET Developer
12 11 (4.564%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 11 (4.564%) C# .NET Developer
13 10 (4.149%) Front-End Developer
13 10 (4.149%) PHP Developer
14 7 (2.905%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.79%) N-Tier
2 11 (4.564%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.149%) Mobile App
3 10 (4.149%) Blackberry
4 8 (3.320%) W3C
5 7 (2.905%) NHS
5 7 (2.905%) iPhone
6 6 (2.490%) iPad
6 6 (2.490%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.245%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.245%) Equities
7 3 (1.245%) Tandem
7 3 (1.245%) Cryptography
7 3 (1.245%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.245%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.245%) WURFL
7 3 (1.245%) Mathematics
7 3 (1.245%) iSeries
7 3 (1.245%) RIA
8 2 (0.830%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.86%) Windows
2 19 (7.884%) Linux
3 16 (6.639%) Android
3 16 (6.639%) Apple iOS
4 11 (4.564%) UNIX
5 6 (2.490%) Windows Phone
6 5 (2.075%) Windows Phone 8
7 3 (1.245%) BlackBerry OS
7 3 (1.245%) Windows Mobile
7 3 (1.245%) Windows CE
8 2 (0.830%) MVS
8 2 (0.830%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.415%) Fedora
9 1 (0.415%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.415%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (30.29%) MVC
2 61 (25.31%) Agile Software Development
3 50 (20.75%) TDD
4 46 (19.09%) OO
5 43 (17.84%) E-Commerce
6 33 (13.69%) Scrum
6 33 (13.69%) Web Development
7 31 (12.86%) Unit Testing
8 25 (10.37%) Project Management
9 24 (9.959%) SOA
10 20 (8.299%) SEO
11 19 (7.884%) OOP
12 17 (7.054%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (7.054%) Content Management
13 14 (5.809%) PRINCE2
14 12 (4.979%) ITIL
15 9 (3.734%) Dependency Injection
16 8 (3.320%) Kanban
16 8 (3.320%) Automated Testing
17 7 (2.905%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (49.38%) C#
2 105 (43.57%) JavaScript
3 73 (30.29%) Java
4 68 (28.22%) SQL
5 21 (8.714%) PHP
6 20 (8.299%) VB.NET
7 18 (7.469%) Ruby
8 16 (6.639%) T-SQL
9 10 (4.149%) C++
10 8 (3.320%) C
11 5 (2.075%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.075%) Groovy
12 4 (1.660%) XPath
13 3 (1.245%) RPG IV
13 3 (1.245%) RPG
13 3 (1.245%) Perl
13 3 (1.245%) Python
13 3 (1.245%) Objective-C
14 2 (0.830%) PHP5
15 1 (0.415%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (16.18%) Degree
2 10 (4.149%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (4.149%) MCP
2 10 (4.149%) MCAD
2 10 (4.149%) MCSD
2 10 (4.149%) MCTS
3 6 (2.490%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.660%) PhD
4 4 (1.660%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (1.245%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.415%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.660%) QA
System Software
1 3 (1.245%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (0.830%) Varnish
3 1 (0.415%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 2 (0.830%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 33 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.03%) Oracle
3 10 (4.149%) Sitecore
4 8 (3.320%) Adobe
5 6 (2.490%) Zend
6 5 (2.075%) IBM
7 4 (1.660%) EPiServer
7 4 (1.660%) AccuRev
8 3 (1.245%) Facebook
8 3 (1.245%) Open Text
8 3 (1.245%) RedDot
9 2 (0.830%) Google
9 2 (0.830%) SAP
9 2 (0.830%) JBoss
9 2 (0.830%) Sencha
10 1 (0.415%) Twitter
10 1 (0.415%) Sybase
10 1 (0.415%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.415%) Salesforce.com
10 1 (0.415%) Perforce
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