The first table below looks at the demand for Web Design skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Design 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 Essex 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 Design
Rank 43 43 49
Rank change year-on-year
0 +6
Contract jobs citing Web Design 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.737% 0.244% 0.253%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.056% 0.403% 0.415%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £200 £200
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £325 £225
% change year-on-year
-8.46% +44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £77.19 £8.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+808.05% -69.64%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
284 248 241
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 69.78% 60.49% 61.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 123 110
Average daily rate £325 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £137 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 35 44
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.94 £17.00 £23.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £39.69 £39.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Web Design
East of England

Web Design
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Web Design Jobs Demand Trend

Web Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Web Design Daily Rate Trend

Web Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Web Design Hourly Rate Trend

Web Design
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Design within the Essex 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
Harlow - 2 - -
Web Design
East of England

Web Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Web Design 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 Design.

1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) Advertising
3 3 (60.00%) Marketing
3 3 (60.00%) New Media
3 3 (60.00%) Fireworks
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (40.00%) Sass
4 2 (40.00%) LESS
4 2 (40.00%) CSS3
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) MooTools
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) SEO
4 2 (40.00%) CMS
4 2 (40.00%) FatWire
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) Content Management
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) Omniture
4 2 (40.00%) Google
4 2 (40.00%) Dojo
4 2 (40.00%) Google Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Image Processing

Web Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) ASP
3 2 (40.00%) Sass
3 2 (40.00%) LESS
3 2 (40.00%) MooTools
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) CSS3
3 2 (40.00%) JSP
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) XHTML
3 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 2 (40.00%) Dojo
4 1 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (60.00%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Google Analytics
General
1 3 (60.00%) Advertising
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) UI Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Senior UI Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (60.00%) UI Programmer
4 2 (40.00%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (20.00%) Designer
5 1 (20.00%) Senior Designer
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Designer
5 1 (20.00%) Senior Digital Designer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) New Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) SEO
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Content Management
1 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Image Processing
1 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Progressive Enhancement
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
1 2 (40.00%) FatWire
1 2 (40.00%) Omniture
1 2 (40.00%) Google