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The table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts within the London 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.

LinkWeb Developer
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank7896
Rank change on same period last yearUp+18
Matching contract IT job ads662838
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.895 %0.826 %
As % of the category below2.242 %1.895 %
Daily rates quoted275276
Average minimum daily rate£300£293
Average daily rate£324£316
% change on same period last year+2.69 %
Average maximum daily rate£349£339
UK excluding London average daily rate£286£285
% change on same period last year+0.27 %
Hourly rates quoted6276
Average minimum hourly rate£27.05£26.37
Average hourly rate£28.50£29.59
% change on same period last year-3.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate£29.95£32.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.47£28.78
% change on same period last year-11.51 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
London
Matching contract IT job ads2952544224
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled39.91 %43.61 %
Daily rates quoted1261716632
Average minimum daily rate£405£425
Average daily rate£435£453
% change on same period last year-4.06 %
Average maximum daily rate£464£482
UK excluding London average daily rate£355£355
% change on same period last year-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted16282304
Average minimum hourly rate£23.77£23.98
Average hourly rate£25.42£25.70
% change on same period last year-1.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.07£27.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.85£25.69
% change on same period last year-7.14 %
Web Developer EnglandWeb Developer
England

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.

Web Developer
Demand Trend

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

London Web Developer Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Web Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

London Web Developer Hourly Rate Histogram

Web Developer
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 London 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.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonUp+16142£347-4.05 %
LutonUp+216£277-20.74 %
Docklands, LondonNew entry-4£350-
SouthwarkNew entry-1£440-
PaddingtonNew entry-1--
CroydonUp+51£310-
WimbledonUp+21£345-
GreenwichNew entry-1--
Canary WharfUp+121£375-25.00 %
Web Developer EnglandWeb Developer
England

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1847 (59.02 %)CSS
2754 (52.54 %)HTML
3744 (51.85 %)JavaScript
4575 (40.07 %).NET
5459 (31.99 %)XML
6411 (28.64 %)XHTML
7381 (26.55 %)ASP.NET
8380 (26.48 %)C#
9356 (24.81 %)AJAX
10351 (24.46 %)SQL
11306 (21.32 %)SQL Server
12243 (16.93 %)Web Development
13233 (16.24 %)PHP
14221 (15.40 %)Photoshop
15220 (15.33 %)Java
15220 (15.33 %)ASP
16217 (15.12 %)OO
17204 (14.22 %)Flash
18193 (13.45 %)JSP
19163 (11.36 %)XSLT
20161 (11.22 %)MySQL
21156 (10.87 %)Finance
22142 (9.895 %)J2EE
23139 (9.686 %)WebServices
24132 (9.199 %)DHTML
25129 (8.990 %)Content Management
26111 (7.735 %)SQL Server 2005
27105 (7.317 %)CMS
28103 (7.178 %)UNIX
29100 (6.969 %)WebLogic

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1847 (59.02 %)CSS
2754 (52.54 %)HTML
3575 (40.07 %).NET
4459 (31.99 %)XML
5411 (28.64 %)XHTML
6381 (26.55 %)ASP.NET
7356 (24.81 %)AJAX
8220 (15.33 %)ASP
9193 (13.45 %)JSP
10163 (11.36 %)XSLT
11142 (9.895 %)J2EE
12139 (9.686 %)WebServices
1372 (5.017 %)XSL
1469 (4.808 %)Spring
1564 (4.460 %)Hibernate
1660 (4.181 %)Struts
1756 (3.902 %).NET Framework
1843 (2.997 %)jQuery
1940 (2.787 %)MVC
2039 (2.718 %)SOAP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1105 (7.317 %)CMS
2100 (6.969 %)WebLogic
363 (4.390 %)IIS
456 (3.902 %)Apache
548 (3.345 %)Tomcat
644 (3.066 %)JBoss
743 (2.997 %)SharePoint
835 (2.439 %)ColdFusion
933 (2.300 %)TeamSite
1015 (1.045 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1111 (0.767 %)TIBCO EMS
128 (0.557 %)Content Management Server
136 (0.418 %)WebLogic Portal
136 (0.418 %)Alfresco
136 (0.418 %)EPiServer
145 (0.348 %)WebSphere Application Server
145 (0.348 %)Lotus Notes
154 (0.279 %)Lotus Domino
154 (0.279 %)Documentum
163 (0.209 %)JRun
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1221 (15.40 %)Photoshop
223 (1.603 %)Fireworks
320 (1.394 %)Adobe Illustrator
419 (1.324 %)MS Excel
419 (1.324 %)MS Visio
513 (0.906 %)ImageReady
610 (0.697 %)MS Office
74 (0.279 %)InDesign
74 (0.279 %)MS PowerPoint
74 (0.279 %)MATLAB
83 (0.209 %)Acrobat
83 (0.209 %)Spreadsheet
92 (0.139 %)MS Project
101 (0.070 %)FreeHand
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
11 (0.070 %)WebTrends
11 (0.070 %)SAP CRM
11 (0.070 %)GoldMine
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
181 (5.645 %)Internet
273 (5.087 %)Intranet
36 (0.418 %)Extranet
36 (0.418 %)SSL
45 (0.348 %)HTTP
54 (0.279 %)SMS
54 (0.279 %)HTTPS
63 (0.209 %)SMTP
63 (0.209 %)FTP
72 (0.139 %)LDAP
72 (0.139 %)DNS
81 (0.070 %)SAN
81 (0.070 %)RIP
81 (0.070 %)TCP/IP
81 (0.070 %)IMAP
81 (0.070 %)Reverse Proxy
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1306 (21.32 %)SQL Server
2161 (11.22 %)MySQL
3111 (7.735 %)SQL Server 2005
476 (5.296 %)SQL Server 2000
516 (1.115 %)MS Access
67 (0.488 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
76 (0.418 %)RDBMS
84 (0.279 %)SQL Server 2008
92 (0.139 %)PostgreSQL
92 (0.139 %)dBASE
92 (0.139 %)Data Mining
92 (0.139 %)Oracle Reports
101 (0.070 %)Oracle 8/8i
101 (0.070 %)Oracle 9i
101 (0.070 %)Datawarehouse
101 (0.070 %)DTS
101 (0.070 %)SQL Server Integration Services
101 (0.070 %)Oracle 10g
101 (0.070 %)BusinessObjects
101 (0.070 %)GIS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1204 (14.22 %)Flash
293 (6.481 %)Visual Studio
391 (6.341 %)Dreamweaver
460 (4.181 %)Subversion
537 (2.578 %)Ant
620 (1.394 %)VSS/SourceSafe
711 (0.767 %)JUnit
87 (0.488 %)FrontPage
87 (0.488 %)NUnit
96 (0.418 %)Eclipse
105 (0.348 %)PowerBuilder
113 (0.209 %)CruiseControl
113 (0.209 %)JIRA
113 (0.209 %)Selenium
122 (0.139 %)jMock
131 (0.070 %)Aptana Studio
131 (0.070 %)Log4j
131 (0.070 %)IntelliJ
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1156 (10.87 %)Finance
277 (5.366 %)Banking
368 (4.739 %)Marketing
443 (2.997 %)Retail
541 (2.857 %)Investment Banking
638 (2.648 %)Government
736 (2.509 %)Games
828 (1.951 %)Publishing
916 (1.115 %)Interactive Media
1013 (0.906 %)Insurance
1112 (0.836 %)Graphic Design
1112 (0.836 %)Legal
1112 (0.836 %)Advertising
1112 (0.836 %)Online Games
1210 (0.697 %)Education
139 (0.627 %)Financial Institution
148 (0.557 %)Front Office
148 (0.557 %)Construction
148 (0.557 %)Law
148 (0.557 %)Multimedia
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
199 (6.899 %)W3C
252 (3.624 %)Web 2.0
342 (2.927 %)N-Tier
421 (1.463 %)Mathematics
517 (1.185 %)Derivative
616 (1.115 %)Computer Science
79 (0.627 %)Podcast
79 (0.627 %)Credit Derivative
88 (0.557 %)NHS
97 (0.488 %)Fixed Income
97 (0.488 %)IPTV
97 (0.488 %)Social Network
97 (0.488 %)Blog
105 (0.348 %)Streaming Video
105 (0.348 %)German Language
105 (0.348 %)Credit Risk
105 (0.348 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
114 (0.279 %)Equities
114 (0.279 %)Wiki
114 (0.279 %)Statistics
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1103 (7.178 %)UNIX
268 (4.739 %)Linux
339 (2.718 %)Windows
421 (1.463 %)Solaris
59 (0.627 %)Windows Server 2003
64 (0.279 %)Red Hat Linux
72 (0.139 %)Debian
81 (0.070 %)Mac OS X Server
81 (0.070 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
81 (0.070 %)Windows XP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1243 (16.93 %)Web Development
2217 (15.12 %)OO
3129 (8.990 %)Content Management
473 (5.087 %)Agile Software Development
566 (4.599 %)E-Commerce
656 (3.902 %)UML
745 (3.136 %)Web Design
841 (2.857 %)SEO
939 (2.718 %)OOP
1034 (2.369 %)Security Cleared
1131 (2.160 %)Scrum
1230 (2.091 %)OOD
1328 (1.951 %)Software Engineering
1328 (1.951 %)Investment Management
1426 (1.812 %)Time Management
1524 (1.672 %)Digital Marketing
1619 (1.324 %)SC Cleared
1619 (1.324 %)Unit Testing
1619 (1.324 %)Project Management
1619 (1.324 %)TDD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1744 (51.85 %)JavaScript
2380 (26.48 %)C#
3351 (24.46 %)SQL
4233 (16.24 %)PHP
5220 (15.33 %)Java
6132 (9.199 %)DHTML
791 (6.341 %)Perl
890 (6.272 %)ActionScript
985 (5.923 %)VB.NET
1073 (5.087 %)VBScript
1165 (4.530 %)Transact-SQL
1241 (2.857 %)VB
1329 (2.021 %)PHP5
1426 (1.812 %)Ruby
1426 (1.812 %)Shell Script
1523 (1.603 %)Python
1618 (1.254 %)C
1717 (1.185 %)C++
1811 (0.767 %)VB6
1910 (0.697 %)VBA
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
155 (3.833 %)Degree
24 (0.279 %)Microsoft Certification
33 (0.209 %)MySQL Certification
33 (0.209 %)MCSD
33 (0.209 %)ISEB
42 (0.139 %)MCP
42 (0.139 %)MCAD
42 (0.139 %)Sun Certification
51 (0.070 %)HND
51 (0.070 %)Postgraduate
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
130 (2.091 %)WAI
213 (0.906 %)WCAG
37 (0.488 %)QA
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
13 (0.209 %)AquaLogic
22 (0.139 %)Active Directory
31 (0.070 %)MSMQ
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
191 (6.341 %)Oracle
272 (5.017 %)Microsoft
342 (2.927 %)Adobe
432 (2.230 %)Sybase
522 (1.533 %)BEA
522 (1.533 %)Mediasurface
619 (1.324 %)TIBCO
619 (1.324 %)Google
716 (1.115 %)Zend
810 (0.697 %)Tridion
98 (0.557 %)RedDot
107 (0.488 %)Macromedia
116 (0.418 %)Lotus
125 (0.348 %)FatWire
125 (0.348 %)Vignette
125 (0.348 %)IBM
134 (0.279 %)Stellent
134 (0.279 %)Red Hat
134 (0.279 %)Interwoven
143 (0.209 %)Hummingbird