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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Web Design skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Design over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester region.

 Web Design
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank585659
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads6311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester0.677 %0.368 %0.919 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category1.253 %0.658 %2.087 %
Daily rates quoted301
Average daily rate£135-£250
UK excluding London average daily rate£225£200£400
% change year-on-year
+12.50 %-50.00 %
Hourly rates quoted011
Average hourly rate-£5.50£20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--73.17 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£11.50£25.00
% change year-on-year
+73.91 %-54.00 %
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
479456527
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester54.06 %55.95 %44.03 %
Daily rates quoted189115140
Average daily rate£275£355£330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.53 %+7.570 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£139£140£230
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£500£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£357£375
% change year-on-year
-1.960 %-4.800 %
Hourly rates quoted324237
Average hourly rate£26.50£21.50£18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.25 %+17.80 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.21£10.50£10.20
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.40£32.50£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.73£30.00
% change year-on-year
-11.63 %-7.580 %
Web Design North WestWeb Design
North West

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.

Web Design
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Web Design across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester Web Design Demand Trend

Web Design
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Web Design Daily Rate Trend

Web Design
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Web Design Hourly Rate Trend

Web Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

19 (45.00 %)Photoshop
28 (40.00 %)JavaScript
28 (40.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
37 (35.00 %)CSS
37 (35.00 %)XHTML
37 (35.00 %)Dreamweaver
37 (35.00 %)Adobe
46 (30.00 %)Flash
55 (25.00 %)Knowledge Management
55 (25.00 %)XPath
55 (25.00 %)XML
55 (25.00 %)XSLT
55 (25.00 %).NET
64 (20.00 %)SQL Server
64 (20.00 %)C#
64 (20.00 %)HTML
64 (20.00 %)SQL
64 (20.00 %)T-SQL
64 (20.00 %)VB.NET
64 (20.00 %)XQuery
64 (20.00 %)ASP.NET
64 (20.00 %)Web Development
64 (20.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
64 (20.00 %)Government
73 (15.00 %)PRINCE2
73 (15.00 %)E-Commerce
73 (15.00 %)Data Modelling
73 (15.00 %)Fireworks
73 (15.00 %)Web Accessibility
82 (10.00 %)Information Architecture

Web Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17 (35.00 %)CSS
17 (35.00 %)XHTML
26 (30.00 %)Flash
35 (25.00 %)XML
35 (25.00 %)XSLT
35 (25.00 %).NET
44 (20.00 %)HTML
44 (20.00 %)ASP.NET
52 (10.00 %)jQuery
52 (10.00 %)WAP
52 (10.00 %)AJAX
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (20.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
21 (5.000 %)Joomla!
21 (5.000 %)CMS
21 (5.000 %)Apache
21 (5.000 %)WordPress
21 (5.000 %)Drupal
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
19 (45.00 %)Photoshop
28 (40.00 %)Adobe Illustrator
33 (15.00 %)Fireworks
41 (5.000 %)MS Visio
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (20.00 %)SQL Server
21 (5.000 %)MySQL
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
17 (35.00 %)Dreamweaver
21 (5.000 %)JMeter
21 (5.000 %)LoadRunner
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (20.00 %)Government
22 (10.00 %)Health
22 (10.00 %)Marketing
31 (5.000 %)Graphic Design
31 (5.000 %)Education
31 (5.000 %)Advertising
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
117 (85.00 %)Designer
212 (60.00 %)Web Designer
34 (20.00 %)UI Designer
42 (10.00 %)Interface Designer
51 (5.000 %)Interactive Designer
51 (5.000 %)Functional Tester
51 (5.000 %)Non-Functional Tester
51 (5.000 %)Graphic Designer
51 (5.000 %)Performance Tester
51 (5.000 %)Business Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Tester
51 (5.000 %)Developer
51 (5.000 %)Analyst
51 (5.000 %)Web Developer
51 (5.000 %)User Experience Designer
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (10.00 %)Management Information System
12 (10.00 %)NHS
12 (10.00 %)Web 2.0
21 (5.000 %)W3C
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15 (25.00 %)Knowledge Management
24 (20.00 %)Web Development
33 (15.00 %)PRINCE2
33 (15.00 %)E-Commerce
33 (15.00 %)Data Modelling
33 (15.00 %)Web Accessibility
42 (10.00 %)Information Architecture
42 (10.00 %)Use Case
42 (10.00 %)ITIL
42 (10.00 %)Email Marketing
51 (5.000 %)Agile Software Development
51 (5.000 %)Content Management
51 (5.000 %)Business Analysis
51 (5.000 %)SEO
51 (5.000 %)Workflow
51 (5.000 %)UML
51 (5.000 %)GAP Analysis
51 (5.000 %)Performance Testing
51 (5.000 %)Time Management
51 (5.000 %)Business Process Improvement
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18 (40.00 %)JavaScript
25 (25.00 %)XPath
34 (20.00 %)C#
34 (20.00 %)SQL
34 (20.00 %)T-SQL
34 (20.00 %)VB.NET
34 (20.00 %)XQuery
41 (5.000 %)PHP5
41 (5.000 %)PHP4
41 (5.000 %)C
41 (5.000 %)ActionScript
41 (5.000 %)PHP
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (5.000 %)Degree
11 (5.000 %)ISEB
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
17 (35.00 %)Adobe
21 (5.000 %)Oracle
21 (5.000 %)HP