The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web 2.0 in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web 2.0 over the 3 months to 23 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web 2.0
Rank - 67 62
Contract jobs citing Web 2.0 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.309% 0.227%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 1.508% 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £375
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
134 199 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 21.04% 20.49% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 77 66
Average daily rate £388 £350 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% +1.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £246 £148
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £453 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 9
Average hourly rate £35.00 £23.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.93% -36.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £10.27 £25.49
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Web 2.0
East of England

Web 2.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Hertfordshire Web 2.0 Jobs Demand Trend

Web 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Web 2.0 Daily Rate Trend

Web 2.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse

Web 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE
1 6 (100.00%) EJB
1 6 (100.00%) JDBC
1 6 (100.00%) JSP
1 6 (100.00%) Servlets
1 6 (100.00%) Struts
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) XSLT
1 6 (100.00%) XHTML
1 6 (100.00%) JMS
1 6 (100.00%) XMLBeans
1 6 (100.00%) Ajax
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (100.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) JUnit
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (100.00%) Log4j
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Retail
2 5 (83.33%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 6 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) HPUX
1 6 (100.00%) Solaris
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) UML
1 6 (100.00%) OO
1 6 (100.00%) RAD
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) Perl
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) XPath
1 6 (100.00%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
1 6 (100.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (100.00%) Blue Martini
1 6 (100.00%) Elastic Path
1 6 (100.00%) ATG