The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Kent 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Developer
Rank - 34 34
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 0 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 1.119% 2.980%
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.230% 3.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -35.48%
All Job Titles
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
275 244 293
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 92.28% 91.04% 97.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 117 169
Average daily rate £300 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £138 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 23
Average hourly rate £16.00 £15.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% +3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £27.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Web Developer
South East

Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JSTL
2 1 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) CM System
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) JSTL
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) CM System
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Fireworks
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Dreamweaver
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe