Manchester Web Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts within the Manchester 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Alderley Edge Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Corby Coventry Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tring Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	34
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	46	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	4.129 %	3.327 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£110
Average daily rate	£280	£123
% change on same period last year	+128.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£292	£135
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£286
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.57	£17.50
Average hourly rate	£20.64	£23.75
% change on same period last year	-13.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.71	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.77	£28.90
% change on same period last year	-10.85 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1114	1052
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.470 %	1.048 %
Daily rates quoted	204	209
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£325
Average daily rate	£330	£346
% change on same period last year	-4.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	148	129
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.43	£17.79
Average hourly rate	£21.21	£19.54
% change on same period last year	+8.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.99	£21.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.60	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Web Developer North West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Developer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Developer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 August 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.

Location	Rank 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
Stockport	+5	8	£225	-
Ashton-under-Lyne	-	1	-	-
Cheadle	-	1	£190	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 49 (55.06 %) .NET 2 40 (44.94 %) C# 2 40 (44.94 %) JavaScript 3 38 (42.70 %) ASP.NET 4 37 (41.57 %) SQL Server 5 33 (37.08 %) HTML 6 30 (33.71 %) CSS 7 27 (30.34 %) XHTML 8 23 (25.84 %) AJAX 9 20 (22.47 %) PHP 10 18 (20.22 %) SQL 11 17 (19.10 %) Photoshop 11 17 (19.10 %) XML 12 16 (17.98 %) VB.NET 12 16 (17.98 %) SQL Server 2005

13 15 (16.85 %) Web Development 14 13 (14.61 %) MySQL 15 10 (11.24 %) ASP 15 10 (11.24 %) WebServices 15 10 (11.24 %) E-Commerce 15 10 (11.24 %) W3C 16 9 (10.11 %) Flash 17 7 (7.865 %) SEO 17 7 (7.865 %) Retail 17 7 (7.865 %) Adobe 17 7 (7.865 %) ActionScript 18 6 (6.742 %) Visual Studio 18 6 (6.742 %) Adobe Illustrator 19 5 (5.618 %) ASP.NET 2.0 19 5 (5.618 %) CMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 49 (55.06 %) .NET 2 38 (42.70 %) ASP.NET 3 33 (37.08 %) HTML 4 30 (33.71 %) CSS 5 27 (30.34 %) XHTML 6 23 (25.84 %) AJAX 7 17 (19.10 %) XML 8 10 (11.24 %) ASP 8 10 (11.24 %) WebServices 9 5 (5.618 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 5 (5.618 %) XSL 9 5 (5.618 %) XSLT 10 3 (3.371 %) jQuery 11 2 (2.247 %) JSP 11 2 (2.247 %) EJB 11 2 (2.247 %) J2EE 11 2 (2.247 %) LAMP 12 1 (1.124 %) WinForms 12 1 (1.124 %) Spring 12 1 (1.124 %) Ruby on Rails	Application Platforms 1 5 (5.618 %) CMS 2 1 (1.124 %) Joomla! 2 1 (1.124 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (1.124 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.124 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (1.124 %) Apache
Applications 1 17 (19.10 %) Photoshop 2 6 (6.742 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (1.124 %) InDesign 3 1 (1.124 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.124 %) Acrobat 3 1 (1.124 %) QuarkXPress 3 1 (1.124 %) Fireworks 3 1 (1.124 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.124 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 37 (41.57 %) SQL Server 2 16 (17.98 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (14.61 %) MySQL 4 5 (5.618 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (3.371 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (3.371 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 9 (10.11 %) Flash 2 6 (6.742 %) Visual Studio 3 5 (5.618 %) Dreamweaver 4 3 (3.371 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 7 (7.865 %) Retail 2 3 (3.371 %) Marketing 2 3 (3.371 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (1.124 %) Health 3 1 (1.124 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 10 (11.24 %) W3C 2 5 (5.618 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.124 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.124 %) CMDB 3 1 (1.124 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 5 (5.618 %) Windows 2 3 (3.371 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (16.85 %) Web Development 2 10 (11.24 %) E-Commerce 3 7 (7.865 %) SEO 4 5 (5.618 %) Web Design 4 5 (5.618 %) Content Management 5 4 (4.494 %) B2B 5 4 (4.494 %) OO 6 3 (3.371 %) UML 6 3 (3.371 %) CRM 7 2 (2.247 %) Project Management 7 2 (2.247 %) OOP 7 2 (2.247 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (2.247 %) Migration 8 1 (1.124 %) TDD 8 1 (1.124 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (1.124 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (1.124 %) Time Management 8 1 (1.124 %) Internet Marketing 8 1 (1.124 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 40 (44.94 %) C# 1 40 (44.94 %) JavaScript 2 20 (22.47 %) PHP 3 18 (20.22 %) SQL 4 16 (17.98 %) VB.NET 5 7 (7.865 %) ActionScript 6 4 (4.494 %) Java 7 3 (3.371 %) PHP5 7 3 (3.371 %) PL/SQL 7 3 (3.371 %) VB 8 2 (2.247 %) VBScript 9 1 (1.124 %) VB6 9 1 (1.124 %) Ruby 9 1 (1.124 %) Groovy 9 1 (1.124 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (1.124 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (1.124 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.124 %) ISO9001	Vendors 1 7 (7.865 %) Adobe 2 5 (5.618 %) Microsoft 3 4 (4.494 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.124 %) Apple 4 1 (1.124 %) Quark