The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Web 2.0 in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web 2.0 over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the North West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web 2.0
Rank 108 133 124
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -9
Contract jobs citing Web 2.0 9 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.377% 0.033% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.613% 0.175% 0.170%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
+11.53% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
- +42.85%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
558 572 588
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 23.38% 18.83% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 267 292
Average daily rate £325 £325 £321
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £212 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £471 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 54 76
Average hourly rate £17.21 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.74% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £13.10 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.63 £25.22 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Web 2.0
England

Web 2.0
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

North West Web 2.0 Jobs Demand Trend

Web 2.0
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Web 2.0 across the North West region.

North West Web 2.0 Daily Rate Trend

Web 2.0
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Web 2.0 across the North West region.

North West Web 2.0 Hourly Rate Trend

Web 2.0
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web 2.0 within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheshire - 8 £375 -
Manchester +6 1 £250 -33.33% 1
Web 2.0
England

Web 2.0
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Web 2.0 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 2.0.

1 13 (76.47%) Java
1 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
1 13 (76.47%) XHTML
1 13 (76.47%) Ajax
2 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 11 (64.71%) J2EE
3 10 (58.82%) JSP
3 10 (58.82%) Servlets
3 10 (58.82%) XSLT
3 10 (58.82%) XPath
4 9 (52.94%) WebSphere
4 9 (52.94%) CSS
4 9 (52.94%) Finance
5 8 (47.06%) IBM
5 8 (47.06%) JUnit
6 7 (41.18%) Oracle
6 7 (41.18%) Web Services
6 7 (41.18%) SOAP
6 7 (41.18%) DOM
6 7 (41.18%) Internet
6 7 (41.18%) Eclipse
6 7 (41.18%) WSDL
6 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
6 7 (41.18%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (41.18%) TDD
6 7 (41.18%) Subversion
6 7 (41.18%) Spring
7 6 (35.29%) JSF
7 6 (35.29%) jQuery
7 6 (35.29%) Integration Testing

Web 2.0
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Web 2.0 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 2.0. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (76.47%) XHTML
1 13 (76.47%) Ajax
2 11 (64.71%) J2EE
3 10 (58.82%) JSP
3 10 (58.82%) Servlets
3 10 (58.82%) XSLT
4 9 (52.94%) WebSphere
4 9 (52.94%) CSS
5 7 (41.18%) Web Services
5 7 (41.18%) SOAP
5 7 (41.18%) DOM
5 7 (41.18%) WSDL
5 7 (41.18%) Hibernate
5 7 (41.18%) Spring
6 6 (35.29%) JSF
6 6 (35.29%) jQuery
7 5 (29.41%) JAX-RPC
7 5 (29.41%) HTML
7 5 (29.41%) Apache Axis
8 4 (23.53%) ICEfaces
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Apache
2 4 (23.53%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (17.65%) MQSeries
4 1 (5.882%) Mule
4 1 (5.882%) Drupal
4 1 (5.882%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Internet
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
1 3 (17.65%) DB2
2 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) JUnit
2 7 (41.18%) Eclipse
2 7 (41.18%) Subversion
3 4 (23.53%) JIRA
4 3 (17.65%) Log4j
4 3 (17.65%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Ant
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Retail
3 3 (17.65%) Games
4 2 (11.76%) Legal
4 2 (11.76%) Publishing
5 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.882%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) J2EE Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Programmer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Social Network
1 2 (11.76%) Interactive TV
1 2 (11.76%) New Media
1 2 (11.76%) Streaming Video
2 1 (5.882%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) UNIX
1 4 (23.53%) HPUX
1 4 (23.53%) Solaris
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (41.18%) TDD
2 6 (35.29%) Integration Testing
2 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
3 5 (29.41%) UML
3 5 (29.41%) Waterfall
3 5 (29.41%) Content Management
4 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) OO
5 3 (17.65%) RAD
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Use Case
6 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Competitor Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (11.76%) Information Security
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (11.76%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Java
1 13 (76.47%) JavaScript
2 11 (64.71%) SQL
3 10 (58.82%) XPath
4 5 (29.41%) PL/SQL
5 4 (23.53%) Bash shell
5 4 (23.53%) Perl
6 3 (17.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CISSP
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) IBM
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) Blue Martini
3 4 (23.53%) Perforce
3 4 (23.53%) ATG
4 3 (17.65%) Interwoven
4 3 (17.65%) Elastic Path
5 2 (11.76%) SAP
Manchester, North West
You MUST be proficient in: HTML CSS AJAX JavaScript (JQuery, JSON)... - JavaScript & associated libraries (JQuery, JSON) EXTjs would be advantageous. - AJAX, CSS, HTML, XHTML - Strong web based user...
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Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
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