The first table below looks at the demand for Web Application Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Application Development 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 London 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 Application Development
Rank 340 329 356
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +27
Contract jobs citing Web Application Development 45 77 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.208% 0.288% 0.259%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.280% 0.400% 0.363%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 39 49
Average daily rate £400 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £295 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £311 £338
% change year-on-year
-0.40% -7.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -36.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.50 £39.00 £31.75
% change year-on-year
-24.35% +22.83%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Web Application Development
England

Web Application Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Web Application Development Jobs Demand Trend

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Web Application Development Daily Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Web Application Development Daily Rate Histogram

Web Application Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Web Application Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web Application Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Application Development within the London 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
City of London +8 7 £300 -22.58%
Croydon - 1 - -
Web Application Development
England

Web Application Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Web Application Development 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 Application Development.

1 47 (46.53%) CSS
2 44 (43.56%) jQuery
3 40 (39.60%) .NET
4 39 (38.61%) JavaScript
5 36 (35.64%) HTML
6 34 (33.66%) C#
7 33 (32.67%) Java
7 33 (32.67%) MVC
8 32 (31.68%) SQL Server
9 27 (26.73%) ASP.NET
10 26 (25.74%) Agile Software Development
10 26 (25.74%) TDD
11 25 (24.75%) OO
12 21 (20.79%) XML
12 21 (20.79%) Spring
12 21 (20.79%) Ajax
13 20 (19.80%) Web Services
14 18 (17.82%) SQL
15 17 (16.83%) Scrum
15 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
16 16 (15.84%) E-Commerce
16 16 (15.84%) MySQL
16 16 (15.84%) HTML5
16 16 (15.84%) CSS3
17 15 (14.85%) ASP.NET MVC
17 15 (14.85%) JSON
18 13 (12.87%) SOAP
18 13 (12.87%) Apache
19 12 (11.88%) Linux
19 12 (11.88%) SharePoint

Web Application Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 47 (46.53%) CSS
2 44 (43.56%) jQuery
3 40 (39.60%) .NET
4 36 (35.64%) HTML
5 27 (26.73%) ASP.NET
6 21 (20.79%) XML
6 21 (20.79%) Spring
6 21 (20.79%) Ajax
7 20 (19.80%) Web Services
8 16 (15.84%) HTML5
8 16 (15.84%) CSS3
9 15 (14.85%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (14.85%) JSON
10 13 (12.87%) SOAP
11 12 (11.88%) REST
12 10 (9.901%) J2EE
12 10 (9.901%) WCF
13 9 (8.911%) Ruby on Rails
14 8 (7.921%) LAMP
14 8 (7.921%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 13 (12.87%) Apache
2 12 (11.88%) SharePoint
3 11 (10.89%) CMS
3 11 (10.89%) Tomcat
4 8 (7.921%) Sitecore CMS
5 5 (4.950%) Amazon AWS
6 4 (3.960%) Mule
6 4 (3.960%) ESB
7 3 (2.970%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.970%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.970%) Windows Azure
7 3 (2.970%) IIS
8 2 (1.980%) WebLogic
8 2 (1.980%) FileNet
8 2 (1.980%) Confluence
9 1 (0.990%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.990%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.990%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.990%) Drupal
9 1 (0.990%) Jetty
Applications
1 4 (3.960%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.970%) MS Office
3 1 (0.990%) MS Project
3 1 (0.990%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.980%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.980%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.88%) Intranet
2 10 (9.901%) Internet
3 5 (4.950%) LDAP
4 3 (2.970%) Extranet
5 2 (1.980%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.990%) Firewall
6 1 (0.990%) HTTP
6 1 (0.990%) DNS
6 1 (0.990%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (31.68%) SQL Server
2 16 (15.84%) MySQL
3 9 (8.911%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (8.911%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.931%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.970%) CouchDB
5 3 (2.970%) MS Access
5 3 (2.970%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.980%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (1.980%) Big Data
6 2 (1.980%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (1.980%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (0.990%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.990%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.990%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.990%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Git (software)
2 10 (9.901%) JUnit
3 7 (6.931%) NUnit
4 6 (5.941%) Subversion
4 6 (5.941%) Rhino Mocks
5 5 (4.950%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.950%) Maven
5 5 (4.950%) JIRA
5 5 (4.950%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.960%) WATIR
6 4 (3.960%) Selenium
6 4 (3.960%) JSUnit
7 3 (2.970%) Hudson
7 3 (2.970%) Spring Roo
7 3 (2.970%) Jasmine
8 2 (1.980%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.980%) Xcode
8 2 (1.980%) Mercurial
8 2 (1.980%) CruiseControl
9 1 (0.990%) JMeter
General
1 9 (8.911%) Banking
2 8 (7.921%) Finance
3 6 (5.941%) Investment Banking
4 5 (4.950%) Games
5 4 (3.960%) Publishing
6 3 (2.970%) Retail
7 2 (1.980%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.980%) Music
8 1 (0.990%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 79 (78.22%) Developer
2 18 (17.82%) .NET Developer
3 17 (16.83%) Java Developer
4 16 (15.84%) Senior Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Web Developer
6 7 (6.931%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.941%) Software Engineer
8 5 (4.950%) Architect
8 5 (4.950%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (4.950%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 5 (4.950%) Agile Project Manager
9 4 (3.960%) SharePoint Developer
9 4 (3.960%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
9 4 (3.960%) PHP Developer
9 4 (3.960%) C# Developer
10 3 (2.970%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (2.970%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (2.970%) Applications Developer
10 3 (2.970%) UI Developer
10 3 (2.970%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.931%) W3C
2 4 (3.960%) iPhone
3 3 (2.970%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.970%) N-Tier
3 3 (2.970%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.970%) Equities
4 2 (1.980%) Tandem
4 2 (1.980%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.980%) Streaming Video
4 2 (1.980%) iPad
5 1 (0.990%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.990%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.990%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.990%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.990%) Semantic Web
5 1 (0.990%) Telematics
5 1 (0.990%) Open Source
5 1 (0.990%) SaaS
5 1 (0.990%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.990%) Ergonomics
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.88%) Linux
2 9 (8.911%) Windows
3 6 (5.941%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.960%) Android
4 4 (3.960%) UNIX
5 3 (2.970%) Windows Phone
6 2 (1.980%) Windows Phone 8
7 1 (0.990%) Windows Phone 7
7 1 (0.990%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (32.67%) MVC
2 26 (25.74%) Agile Software Development
2 26 (25.74%) TDD
3 25 (24.75%) OO
4 17 (16.83%) Scrum
5 16 (15.84%) E-Commerce
6 11 (10.89%) Content Management
7 9 (8.911%) Web Development
8 8 (7.921%) ITIL
9 7 (6.931%) OOP
9 7 (6.931%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (5.941%) Unit Testing
11 5 (4.950%) Automated Testing
11 5 (4.950%) Kanban
11 5 (4.950%) Test Automation
11 5 (4.950%) BDD
11 5 (4.950%) PRINCE2
11 5 (4.950%) DSDM
11 5 (4.950%) Project Management
12 4 (3.960%) CMMI
Programming Languages
1 39 (38.61%) JavaScript
2 34 (33.66%) C#
3 33 (32.67%) Java
4 18 (17.82%) SQL
5 11 (10.89%) Ruby
6 10 (9.901%) PHP
7 6 (5.941%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.950%) Groovy
9 3 (2.970%) Python
9 3 (2.970%) Perl
10 2 (1.980%) PHP5
11 1 (0.990%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.990%) AWK
11 1 (0.990%) Scala
11 1 (0.990%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.990%) sed
11 1 (0.990%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.990%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.941%) Degree
2 5 (4.950%) MCTS
2 5 (4.950%) MCP
2 5 (4.950%) MCAD
2 5 (4.950%) MCSD
2 5 (4.950%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.960%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (0.990%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.970%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.980%) Varnish
2 1 (0.990%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 17 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.911%) Sitecore
3 8 (7.921%) Oracle
4 3 (2.970%) Open Text
4 3 (2.970%) RedDot
4 3 (2.970%) Facebook
5 2 (1.980%) Google
5 2 (1.980%) Zend
5 2 (1.980%) EPiServer
5 2 (1.980%) JBoss
5 2 (1.980%) IBM
6 1 (0.990%) Sybase
6 1 (0.990%) Capita
6 1 (0.990%) Omniture
6 1 (0.990%) Adobe
6 1 (0.990%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (0.990%) Twitter
London
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Rate: £0.00 per annum
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Central London
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Rate: 350 Per Day Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013
City, London
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