England Web Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Beverley Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Corby Coventry Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	81
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	1345	1805
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.818 %	1.780 %
As % of the category below	2.181 %	2.079 %
Daily rates quoted	427	443
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£283
Average daily rate	£310	£304
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£286	£285
% change on same period last year	+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	157	236
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.78	£26.44
Average hourly rate	£26.61	£29.04
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.43	£31.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.47	£28.78
% change on same period last year	-11.51 %
Job Titles England
Matching contract IT job ads	61669	86841
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	83.36 %	85.64 %
Daily rates quoted	21055	27028
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£393
Average daily rate	£405	£418
% change on same period last year	-3.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	5379	7431
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.68	£24.27
Average hourly rate	£24.30	£25.83
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.91	£27.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Web Developer 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Developer across the England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 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	+18	662	£324	+2.69 %
South East	-28	191	£285	-2.54 %
North West	+14	109	£260	+6.12 %
Yorkshire	+19	97	£260	-5.61 %
West Midlands	0	84	£316	+12.45 %
South West	+18	78	£289	+12.31 %
East of England	-8	56	£263	+1.63 %
East Midlands	+5	42	£305	-22.29 %
North East	+15	21	£200	-18.36 %
Midlands	+2	14	£311	+7.32 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 1568 (52.87 %) CSS 2 1454 (49.02 %) HTML 3 1407 (47.44 %) JavaScript 4 1303 (43.93 %) .NET 5 924 (31.15 %) ASP.NET 6 876 (29.53 %) XML 7 843 (28.42 %) C# 8 801 (27.01 %) XHTML 9 752 (25.35 %) SQL Server 10 722 (24.34 %) SQL 11 662 (22.32 %) AJAX 12 510 (17.19 %) PHP 13 500 (16.86 %) Web Development 14 452 (15.24 %) ASP 15 414 (13.96 %) Java

16 373 (12.58 %) Photoshop 17 352 (11.87 %) Flash 18 344 (11.60 %) MySQL 19 321 (10.82 %) OO 20 304 (10.25 %) XSLT 21 301 (10.15 %) WebServices 22 297 (10.01 %) SQL Server 2005 23 282 (9.508 %) JSP 24 266 (8.968 %) VB.NET 25 238 (8.024 %) Content Management 26 226 (7.620 %) CMS 27 215 (7.249 %) Dreamweaver 28 214 (7.215 %) Oracle 29 213 (7.181 %) Visual Studio 30 208 (7.013 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 1568 (52.87 %) CSS 2 1454 (49.02 %) HTML 3 1303 (43.93 %) .NET 4 924 (31.15 %) ASP.NET 5 876 (29.53 %) XML 6 801 (27.01 %) XHTML 7 662 (22.32 %) AJAX 8 452 (15.24 %) ASP 9 304 (10.25 %) XSLT 10 301 (10.15 %) WebServices 11 282 (9.508 %) JSP 12 200 (6.743 %) J2EE 13 146 (4.922 %) XSL 14 118 (3.978 %) .NET Framework 15 113 (3.810 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 100 (3.372 %) SOAP 17 97 (3.270 %) LAMP 18 81 (2.731 %) Spring 18 81 (2.731 %) Struts 19 73 (2.461 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 226 (7.620 %) CMS 2 153 (5.158 %) Apache 3 110 (3.709 %) WebLogic 4 107 (3.608 %) IIS 5 94 (3.169 %) SharePoint 6 78 (2.630 %) Tomcat 7 62 (2.090 %) ColdFusion 8 46 (1.551 %) JBoss 9 42 (1.416 %) TeamSite 10 32 (1.079 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 17 (0.573 %) Lotus Domino 12 16 (0.539 %) Content Management Server 13 11 (0.371 %) LiveLink 13 11 (0.371 %) TIBCO EMS 13 11 (0.371 %) Joomla! 14 9 (0.303 %) EPiServer 14 9 (0.303 %) BizTalk Server 15 8 (0.270 %) ColdFusion MX 16 7 (0.236 %) WebLogic Portal 16 7 (0.236 %) ArcIMS
Applications 1 373 (12.58 %) Photoshop 2 57 (1.922 %) Fireworks 3 56 (1.888 %) MS Excel 4 52 (1.753 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 20 (0.674 %) MS Visio 6 19 (0.641 %) MS Office 7 13 (0.438 %) ImageReady 8 7 (0.236 %) Acrobat 8 7 (0.236 %) InDesign 8 7 (0.236 %) MS PowerPoint 9 4 (0.135 %) Spreadsheet 9 4 (0.135 %) MATLAB 10 3 (0.101 %) QuarkXPress 10 3 (0.101 %) FreeHand 11 2 (0.067 %) Paint Shop Pro 11 2 (0.067 %) MS Project 11 2 (0.067 %) CA Clarity 12 1 (0.034 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 6 (0.202 %) Summit 2 5 (0.169 %) SAP CRM 3 4 (0.135 %) SAP SRM 4 1 (0.034 %) GoldMine 4 1 (0.034 %) Microsoft CRM 4 1 (0.034 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 193 (6.507 %) Internet 2 156 (5.260 %) Intranet 3 23 (0.775 %) HTTP 4 21 (0.708 %) Extranet 5 19 (0.641 %) FTP 6 10 (0.337 %) SSL 7 8 (0.270 %) SMTP 8 5 (0.169 %) TCP/IP 9 4 (0.135 %) HTTPS 9 4 (0.135 %) SMS 10 3 (0.101 %) DNS 10 3 (0.101 %) SMPP 11 2 (0.067 %) SSH 11 2 (0.067 %) LDAP 11 2 (0.067 %) GPRS 12 1 (0.034 %) LAN 12 1 (0.034 %) 3GPP 12 1 (0.034 %) VoIP 12 1 (0.034 %) WAN 12 1 (0.034 %) RIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 752 (25.35 %) SQL Server 2 344 (11.60 %) MySQL 3 297 (10.01 %) SQL Server 2005 4 179 (6.035 %) SQL Server 2000 5 39 (1.315 %) Oracle 10g 6 26 (0.877 %) MS Access 7 20 (0.674 %) Oracle Reports 7 20 (0.674 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 19 (0.641 %) Crystal Reports 9 16 (0.539 %) GIS 10 15 (0.506 %) RDBMS 11 13 (0.438 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 8 (0.270 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 7 (0.236 %) OLTP 14 6 (0.202 %) DB2 14 6 (0.202 %) DB2 UDB 15 5 (0.169 %) SQL Server 2008 15 5 (0.169 %) DTS 16 4 (0.135 %) SAP BI 16 4 (0.135 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 352 (11.87 %) Flash 2 215 (7.249 %) Dreamweaver 3 213 (7.181 %) Visual Studio 4 93 (3.136 %) Subversion 5 54 (1.821 %) Ant 6 39 (1.315 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 35 (1.180 %) Oracle Designer 10g 8 27 (0.910 %) Eclipse 9 17 (0.573 %) NUnit 10 16 (0.539 %) JUnit 11 10 (0.337 %) FrontPage 12 9 (0.303 %) InterDev 13 8 (0.270 %) XMLSpy 14 7 (0.236 %) Fiddler 14 7 (0.236 %) Paros 15 6 (0.202 %) Selenium 16 5 (0.169 %) PowerBuilder 17 3 (0.101 %) CruiseControl 17 3 (0.101 %) JIRA 17 3 (0.101 %) Zend Studio	General 1 208 (7.013 %) Finance 2 129 (4.349 %) Marketing 3 83 (2.798 %) Banking 4 76 (2.562 %) Retail 5 63 (2.124 %) Government 6 45 (1.517 %) Graphic Design 7 44 (1.483 %) Games 7 44 (1.483 %) Publishing 8 41 (1.382 %) Investment Banking 9 32 (1.079 %) Insurance 10 30 (1.011 %) Health 11 27 (0.910 %) Education 12 26 (0.877 %) Construction 12 26 (0.877 %) Telecoms 13 21 (0.708 %) Multimedia 14 19 (0.641 %) Advertising 15 18 (0.607 %) Financial Institution 16 17 (0.573 %) Online Games 17 16 (0.539 %) Interactive Media 18 15 (0.506 %) Animation
Miscellaneous 1 206 (6.945 %) W3C 2 93 (3.136 %) Web 2.0 3 65 (2.192 %) N-Tier 4 46 (1.551 %) NHS 5 23 (0.775 %) Mathematics 6 19 (0.641 %) Computer Science 7 17 (0.573 %) Derivative 8 13 (0.438 %) E-Learning 9 9 (0.303 %) Credit Derivative 9 9 (0.303 %) Streaming Video 9 9 (0.303 %) Podcast 9 9 (0.303 %) Social Network 10 7 (0.236 %) German Language 10 7 (0.236 %) Blog 10 7 (0.236 %) Fixed Income 10 7 (0.236 %) IPTV 11 6 (0.202 %) PDA 11 6 (0.202 %) Blackberry 12 5 (0.169 %) Client/Server 12 5 (0.169 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)	Operating Systems 1 154 (5.192 %) Linux 2 116 (3.911 %) UNIX 3 108 (3.641 %) Windows 4 38 (1.281 %) Solaris 5 24 (0.809 %) Windows Server 2003 6 18 (0.607 %) Red Hat Linux 7 6 (0.202 %) Windows Mobile 7 6 (0.202 %) Windows 2000 8 5 (0.169 %) Windows XP 9 2 (0.067 %) Debian 9 2 (0.067 %) AIX 9 2 (0.067 %) Windows Server 2008 10 1 (0.034 %) Mac OS X Server 10 1 (0.034 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 1 (0.034 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 500 (16.86 %) Web Development 2 321 (10.82 %) OO 3 238 (8.024 %) Content Management 4 185 (6.237 %) E-Commerce 5 134 (4.518 %) Agile Software Development 6 128 (4.316 %) Web Design 7 105 (3.540 %) UML 8 84 (2.832 %) SEO 9 81 (2.731 %) OOP 10 63 (2.124 %) Security Cleared 11 54 (1.821 %) Scrum 12 48 (1.618 %) Migration 13 40 (1.349 %) OOD 14 37 (1.247 %) TDD 15 36 (1.214 %) CRM 16 34 (1.146 %) Unit Testing 17 33 (1.113 %) Time Management 18 31 (1.045 %) Project Management 19 30 (1.011 %) Software Engineering 20 28 (0.944 %) Investment Management	Programming Languages 1 1407 (47.44 %) JavaScript 2 843 (28.42 %) C# 3 722 (24.34 %) SQL 4 510 (17.19 %) PHP 5 414 (13.96 %) Java 6 266 (8.968 %) VB.NET 7 190 (6.406 %) DHTML 8 166 (5.597 %) ActionScript 9 128 (4.316 %) Perl 10 125 (4.214 %) VBScript 11 95 (3.203 %) Transact-SQL 12 94 (3.169 %) VB 13 89 (3.001 %) PHP5 14 42 (1.416 %) Ruby 15 41 (1.382 %) Python 16 40 (1.349 %) PL/SQL 16 40 (1.349 %) C 17 32 (1.079 %) Shell Script 18 31 (1.045 %) C++ 19 27 (0.910 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 75 (2.529 %) Degree 2 17 (0.573 %) Microsoft Certification 3 9 (0.303 %) MCSD 4 8 (0.270 %) MCP 4 8 (0.270 %) MCAD 5 5 (0.169 %) Sun Certification 6 3 (0.101 %) MySQL Certification 6 3 (0.101 %) ISEB 7 1 (0.034 %) MCTS 7 1 (0.034 %) MCPD 7 1 (0.034 %) HND 7 1 (0.034 %) Postgraduate	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 40 (1.349 %) WAI 2 27 (0.910 %) WCAG 3 15 (0.506 %) QA 4 2 (0.067 %) ISO9001 4 2 (0.067 %) SLA 5 1 (0.034 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 8 (0.270 %) Active Directory 2 3 (0.101 %) AquaLogic 3 2 (0.067 %) MSMQ	Systems Management 1 4 (0.135 %) Tivoli 1 4 (0.135 %) Tivoli Identity Manager 2 1 (0.034 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 214 (7.215 %) Oracle 2 201 (6.777 %) Microsoft 3 75 (2.529 %) Adobe 4 33 (1.113 %) Macromedia 5 32 (1.079 %) Sybase 5 32 (1.079 %) Zend 6 24 (0.809 %) Google 7 23 (0.775 %) Mediasurface 7 23 (0.775 %) BEA 8 19 (0.641 %) Lotus 8 19 (0.641 %) TIBCO 9 18 (0.607 %) Red Hat 9 18 (0.607 %) IBM 10 14 (0.472 %) RedDot 11 11 (0.371 %) Tridion 12 10 (0.337 %) Interwoven 13 8 (0.270 %) SAP 13 8 (0.270 %) Sun 14 7 (0.236 %) Sitecore 15 6 (0.202 %) Symbian