Midlands Web Developer Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts within the Midlands 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 25 July 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 Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Cheadle Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cleckheaton Colchester Conwy Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenhithe Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Moreton-in-Marsh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypridd Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhondda Cynon Taff Romford Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	60
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	37	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	2.965 %	1.455 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£250
Average daily rate	£323	£265
% change on same period last year	+21.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£284
% change on same period last year	+0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£33.07
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£33.07
% change on same period last year	-63.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£33.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.80	£27.76
% change on same period last year	-10.64 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1248	1718
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.663 %	1.738 %
Daily rates quoted	256	287
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£375
Average daily rate	£388	£398
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	109
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.01	£30.46
Average hourly rate	£24.03	£31.49
% change on same period last year	-23.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.06	£32.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Web 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.

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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 Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 47 (63.51 %) JavaScript 2 46 (62.16 %) SQL 3 45 (60.81 %) HTML 4 37 (50.00 %) Oracle 5 35 (47.30 %) Java 5 35 (47.30 %) Oracle 10g 5 35 (47.30 %) Oracle Designer 10g 6 27 (36.49 %) .NET 7 22 (29.73 %) SQL Server 8 18 (24.32 %) ASP.NET 9 16 (21.62 %) C# 10 13 (17.57 %) CSS 10 13 (17.57 %) SQL Server 2005 11 10 (13.51 %) XML 12 9 (12.16 %) VB.NET

13 8 (10.81 %) Internet 13 8 (10.81 %) Web Development 14 7 (9.459 %) AJAX 14 7 (9.459 %) SQL Server 2000 14 7 (9.459 %) VB 15 6 (8.108 %) PL/SQL 15 6 (8.108 %) ASP 15 6 (8.108 %) WebServices 16 5 (6.757 %) .NET Framework 16 5 (6.757 %) Agile Software Development 16 5 (6.757 %) VB6 16 5 (6.757 %) NHS 16 5 (6.757 %) OLTP 16 5 (6.757 %) OO 16 5 (6.757 %) SOAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 45 (60.81 %) HTML 2 27 (36.49 %) .NET 3 18 (24.32 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (17.57 %) CSS 5 10 (13.51 %) XML 6 7 (9.459 %) AJAX 7 6 (8.108 %) ASP 7 6 (8.108 %) WebServices 8 5 (6.757 %) SOAP 8 5 (6.757 %) .NET Framework 9 4 (5.405 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 4 (5.405 %) XHTML 10 3 (4.054 %) XSL 11 2 (2.703 %) XSLT 11 2 (2.703 %) WebSphere 12 1 (1.351 %) Cocoon 12 1 (1.351 %) Hibernate 12 1 (1.351 %) Spring 12 1 (1.351 %) Struts 12 1 (1.351 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.351 %) IIS 1 1 (1.351 %) Apache 1 1 (1.351 %) Tomcat 1 1 (1.351 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 2 (2.703 %) MS Excel 1 2 (2.703 %) Fireworks	Communications & Networking 1 8 (10.81 %) Internet 2 3 (4.054 %) Intranet 3 1 (1.351 %) HTTP 3 1 (1.351 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (47.30 %) Oracle 10g 2 22 (29.73 %) SQL Server 3 13 (17.57 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (9.459 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (6.757 %) OLTP 6 4 (5.405 %) SQL Server 7 7 1 (1.351 %) Crystal Reports 7 1 (1.351 %) IDOL 7 1 (1.351 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 35 (47.30 %) Oracle Designer 10g 2 3 (4.054 %) Flash 2 3 (4.054 %) Subversion 3 2 (2.703 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (1.351 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (2.703 %) Finance 1 2 (2.703 %) Retail 1 2 (2.703 %) Graphic Design 2 1 (1.351 %) Online Games 2 1 (1.351 %) Marketing 2 1 (1.351 %) Advertising 2 1 (1.351 %) Games	Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.757 %) NHS 2 3 (4.054 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 5 (6.757 %) Windows 2 1 (1.351 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.351 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (10.81 %) Web Development 2 5 (6.757 %) OO 2 5 (6.757 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (4.054 %) Scrum 3 3 (4.054 %) OOP 4 2 (2.703 %) UML 4 2 (2.703 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (2.703 %) OOD 4 2 (2.703 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.351 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 47 (63.51 %) JavaScript 2 46 (62.16 %) SQL 3 35 (47.30 %) Java 4 16 (21.62 %) C# 5 9 (12.16 %) VB.NET 6 7 (9.459 %) VB 7 6 (8.108 %) PL/SQL 8 5 (6.757 %) VB6 9 2 (2.703 %) DHTML 10 1 (1.351 %) Perl 10 1 (1.351 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 2 (2.703 %) Degree
Vendors 1 37 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 3 (4.054 %) Microsoft