The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Applications Developer role 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 Applications Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Application Developer
Rank 108 129 121
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Web Applications Developer 10 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.429% 0.096% 0.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.460% 0.105% 0.177%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 2
Average daily rate £290 £200 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.00% -40.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £200 £347
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £255 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.12% -27.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year
- -19.64%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2173 2851 2817
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.22% 91.64% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1036 1402 1393
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £225 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 171 189
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.25% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.32 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Web Applications Developer
England

Web Applications Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Web Applications Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Applications Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Web Applications Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Applications Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Web Applications Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Applications 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 Applications Developer within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Manchester +13 6 £293 +46.25%
Cheshire +2 4 £250 -
Web Applications Developer
England

Web Applications Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Web Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title.

1 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
1 10 (71.43%) CSS
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) jQuery
3 8 (57.14%) HTML5
3 8 (57.14%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) Servlets
3 8 (57.14%) JSON
4 7 (50.00%) MVC
4 7 (50.00%) Web Services
5 6 (42.86%) Ajax
6 5 (35.71%) NetBeans
6 5 (35.71%) JSTL
6 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (35.71%) Spring
6 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
6 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
6 5 (35.71%) JSP
6 5 (35.71%) .NET
6 5 (35.71%) CSS3
7 4 (28.57%) JPA
7 4 (28.57%) JSR 286
7 4 (28.57%) Spring Web Flow
7 4 (28.57%) Web Application Development
7 4 (28.57%) C#
7 4 (28.57%) JSR 168
7 4 (28.57%) Web Design
7 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
7 4 (28.57%) Web Development
8 3 (21.43%) XPath

Web Applications Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Web Applications 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 Applications Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (71.43%) CSS
2 9 (64.29%) jQuery
3 8 (57.14%) HTML5
3 8 (57.14%) Servlets
3 8 (57.14%) JSON
4 7 (50.00%) Web Services
5 6 (42.86%) Ajax
6 5 (35.71%) JSTL
6 5 (35.71%) Spring
6 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
6 5 (35.71%) JSP
6 5 (35.71%) .NET
6 5 (35.71%) CSS3
7 4 (28.57%) JPA
7 4 (28.57%) JSR 286
7 4 (28.57%) Spring Web Flow
7 4 (28.57%) JSR 168
7 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
8 3 (21.43%) WCF
8 3 (21.43%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.143%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
1 3 (21.43%) SQLite
2 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) NetBeans
1 5 (35.71%) Eclipse
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
3 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows CE
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) MVC
2 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (28.57%) Web Application Development
3 4 (28.57%) Web Design
3 4 (28.57%) Web Development
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Release Management
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 1 (7.143%) Migration
6 1 (7.143%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
3 8 (57.14%) Java
4 4 (28.57%) C#
5 3 (21.43%) XPath
5 3 (21.43%) C++
5 3 (21.43%) C
6 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
6 1 (7.143%) PHP
6 1 (7.143%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Facebook
1 2 (14.29%) Twitter
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft