The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Designer role 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 Designer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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 Designer
Rank 429 369 403
Rank change year-on-year
-60 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Web Designer 81 193 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.195% 0.362% 0.307%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.211% 0.390% 0.331%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 108 80
Average daily rate £250 £250 £250
90% offered a daily rate of more than £124 £157 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £375 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £225 £263
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £33.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.39% +76.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £14.83 £14.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £94.00 £35.00 £28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £35.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
-50.00% +48.93%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Web Designer
UK

Web Designer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web Designer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Web Designer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Designer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Web Designer Daily Rate Trend

Web Designer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Web Designer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Designer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Web Designer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Designer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Web Designer Hourly Rate Histogram

Web Designer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Designer 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
South East +9 27 £255 +22.89%
London -39 22 £244 -2.50%
South West +30 9 £200 -59.07%
North West +20 9 £263 +87.50%
Yorkshire -2 8 £250 +11.11%
East of England 0 4 £85 -71.66%
West Midlands +1 1 £238 -
Web Designer
UK

Web Designer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Web Designer 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 Designer in their job title.

1 109 (66.06%) CSS
2 104 (63.03%) HTML
3 102 (61.82%) Photoshop
4 66 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 61 (36.97%) JavaScript
6 49 (29.70%) Web Design
7 39 (23.64%) Adobe
8 34 (20.61%) HTML5
9 32 (19.39%) jQuery
10 29 (17.58%) Dreamweaver
11 26 (15.76%) Fireworks
12 24 (14.55%) E-Commerce
13 23 (13.94%) CSS3
14 22 (13.33%) Marketing
15 19 (11.52%) Flash
16 14 (8.485%) Web Development
16 14 (8.485%) SEO
17 13 (7.879%) CMS
17 13 (7.879%) Graphic Design
18 12 (7.273%) XHTML
18 12 (7.273%) Mobile App
19 11 (6.667%) Intranet
19 11 (6.667%) PHP
19 11 (6.667%) MS Office
20 9 (5.455%) .NET
20 9 (5.455%) Internet
20 9 (5.455%) W3C
20 9 (5.455%) Telecoms
20 9 (5.455%) Drupal
21 8 (4.848%) User Experience Design

Web Designer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Web Designer 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 Designer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 109 (66.06%) CSS
2 104 (63.03%) HTML
3 34 (20.61%) HTML5
4 32 (19.39%) jQuery
5 23 (13.94%) CSS3
6 19 (11.52%) Flash
7 12 (7.273%) XHTML
8 9 (5.455%) .NET
9 8 (4.848%) Ajax
10 7 (4.242%) XML
11 4 (2.424%) Apache Flex
12 3 (1.818%) LAMP
12 3 (1.818%) ASP
12 3 (1.818%) ASP.NET
13 2 (1.212%) Sass
13 2 (1.212%) LESS
14 1 (0.606%) Semantic HTML
14 1 (0.606%) WPF
14 1 (0.606%) YUI
14 1 (0.606%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 13 (7.879%) CMS
2 9 (5.455%) Drupal
3 4 (2.424%) Liferay
3 4 (2.424%) WordPress
4 3 (1.818%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.212%) Adobe CQ
6 1 (0.606%) Apache
6 1 (0.606%) Magento
6 1 (0.606%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.606%) Moodle
6 1 (0.606%) Elgg
6 1 (0.606%) concrete5
Applications
1 102 (61.82%) Photoshop
2 66 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
3 26 (15.76%) Fireworks
4 11 (6.667%) MS Office
5 8 (4.848%) MS PowerPoint
6 4 (2.424%) InDesign
7 1 (0.606%) MS Excel
7 1 (0.606%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.424%) Google Analytics
2 3 (1.818%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.667%) Intranet
2 9 (5.455%) Internet
3 4 (2.424%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.212%) HTTP
5 1 (0.606%) 3G
5 1 (0.606%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.030%) MySQL
2 1 (0.606%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.606%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.606%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.606%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (0.606%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 29 (17.58%) Dreamweaver
2 6 (3.636%) Subversion
3 2 (1.212%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.606%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.606%) Selenium
4 1 (0.606%) Flash Builder
General
1 22 (13.33%) Marketing
2 9 (5.455%) Telecoms
3 8 (4.848%) Advertising
3 8 (4.848%) Retail
4 6 (3.636%) Finance
5 4 (2.424%) Publishing
6 3 (1.818%) Games
6 3 (1.818%) Banking
6 3 (1.818%) Automotive
6 3 (1.818%) Multimedia
6 3 (1.818%) Interactive Media
7 2 (1.212%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.606%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.606%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.606%) Local Government
8 1 (0.606%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.879%) Graphic Design
2 12 (7.273%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.455%) W3C
4 7 (4.242%) Visualisation
5 5 (3.030%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.818%) Social Media
6 3 (1.818%) VLE
6 3 (1.818%) Social Network
7 2 (1.212%) Online Games
7 2 (1.212%) Interactive TV
7 2 (1.212%) SaaS
8 1 (0.606%) Open Source
8 1 (0.606%) PDA
8 1 (0.606%) E-Learning
8 1 (0.606%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.606%) Animation
8 1 (0.606%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.636%) Windows
2 2 (1.212%) Android
2 2 (1.212%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.212%) Windows 8
3 1 (0.606%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.606%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.70%) Web Design
2 24 (14.55%) E-Commerce
3 14 (8.485%) SEO
3 14 (8.485%) Web Development
4 8 (4.848%) User Experience Design
4 8 (4.848%) Scrum
4 8 (4.848%) Analytics
5 7 (4.242%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (3.636%) Content Management
6 6 (3.636%) Brand Management
6 6 (3.636%) Information Architecture
6 6 (3.636%) Usability Testing
7 5 (3.030%) Time Management
7 5 (3.030%) Migration
7 5 (3.030%) Responsive Web Design
8 4 (2.424%) Kanban
8 4 (2.424%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (2.424%) Web Accessibility
9 3 (1.818%) Web Analytics
9 3 (1.818%) OO
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.97%) JavaScript
2 11 (6.667%) PHP
3 5 (3.030%) SQL
3 5 (3.030%) T-SQL
3 5 (3.030%) VB.NET
4 2 (1.212%) Java
5 1 (0.606%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.606%) PHP5
5 1 (0.606%) VBScript
5 1 (0.606%) Perl
5 1 (0.606%) C#
5 1 (0.606%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (1.212%) Degree
1 2 (1.212%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.212%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.424%) WCAG
2 3 (1.818%) ISO 9001
2 3 (1.818%) ISO 14001
Vendors
1 39 (23.64%) Adobe
2 8 (4.848%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.636%) Orchard
4 5 (3.030%) Apple
5 4 (2.424%) Google
6 2 (1.212%) webMethods
6 2 (1.212%) Oracle
7 1 (0.606%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.606%) Omniture
East London
We are looking for a talented web designer with good understanding of information architecture to work on redesigning various news related webpages. You must be passionate about the...
IBTimes Company LTD
Posted: 26 April 2013
London
HTML Email designer - 3 Month contract - London - £175 a day My Client currently has a requirement for a HTML Email designer for a 3 month contract. The successful...
Computer Futures
Rate: £150 - £175 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
West London
You must also be able to demonstrate the following:- Good grounding in eCommerce- Solid experience and knowledge of CSS and HTML and Dreamweaver- Excellent working knowledge of photoshop...
Amoria Bond
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
My client are looking for a creative website and graphic designer with Telerik Sitefinity background required for 12-month fixed term position with in-house marketing team of...
RDF Resources
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
As a Web Designer for this leading women's wear brand your key responsibilities would be: Design, build and testing of email newsletters Accountable for building and sending...
Freedom Recruitment
Salary: £25 - £30 per hour
Posted: 17 May 2013
Derby, East Midlands
The skills and experience needed to fulfill the role, you must: Essentials: - PHP - HTML5 -CSS3 -Sql Desirables: - Version control systems such as SVN is an advantage - An understanding...
Computer Futures
Rate: £180 - £350 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
My client, a leading firm within its industry, are looking for a Creative Web Designer who's experienced working within a Scrum environment... Key skills and attributes: * Brand -...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013