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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 North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Design over the 3 months to 19 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 North West region.

 Web Design
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank9592119
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+27
Matching contract IT job ads9819
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West0.397 %0.351 %0.480 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category0.714 %0.655 %1.081 %
Daily rates quoted422
Average daily rate£204£200£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.870 %-50.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£155£180£360
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£260£220£440
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£200£400
% change year-on-year
+18.75 %-50.00 %
Hourly rates quoted121
Average hourly rate£14.00£10.25£20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.58 %-50.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£12.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
+66.66 %-52.00 %
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
126112211757
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West55.60 %53.60 %44.41 %
Daily rates quoted591360457
Average daily rate£285£360£347
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.83 %+3.740 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£180£215£212
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£413£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted84106129
Average hourly rate£26.50£21.00£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.19 %-6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£10.50£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.50£32.65£41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
Web Design EnglandWeb Design
England

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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Web Design Daily Rate Trend

Web Design
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Design across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

North West Web Design Daily Rate Histogram

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 North West region.

North West Web Design Hourly Rate Trend

Web Design
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Design within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
ManchesterDown-35£168-
CheshireDown-113£245-
MerseysideUp+101--
Web Design EnglandWeb Design
England

Web Design
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

114 (41.18 %)CSS
212 (35.29 %)XHTML
212 (35.29 %)JavaScript
212 (35.29 %).NET
310 (29.41 %)HTML
310 (29.41 %)Photoshop
310 (29.41 %)ASP.NET
49 (26.47 %)SQL
58 (23.53 %)T-SQL
58 (23.53 %)SQL Server
58 (23.53 %)Adobe Illustrator
58 (23.53 %)Web Accessibility
67 (20.59 %)Knowledge Management
67 (20.59 %)XPath
67 (20.59 %)XML
67 (20.59 %)XSLT
76 (17.65 %)VB.NET
76 (17.65 %)C#
76 (17.65 %)Dreamweaver
76 (17.65 %)Adobe
76 (17.65 %)XQuery
76 (17.65 %)Web Development
76 (17.65 %)SharePoint Server 2007
85 (14.71 %)E-Commerce
85 (14.71 %)W3C
85 (14.71 %)Flash
85 (14.71 %)Government
94 (11.76 %)Health
94 (11.76 %)PRINCE2
94 (11.76 %)Data Modelling

Web Design
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

North West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
114 (41.18 %)CSS
212 (35.29 %)XHTML
212 (35.29 %).NET
310 (29.41 %)HTML
310 (29.41 %)ASP.NET
47 (20.59 %)XML
47 (20.59 %)XSLT
55 (14.71 %)Flash
64 (11.76 %)jQuery
73 (8.824 %)AJAX
81 (2.941 %).NET Framework
81 (2.941 %)Spring
81 (2.941 %)SOAP
81 (2.941 %)Web Services
81 (2.941 %)WAP
81 (2.941 %)WSDL
81 (2.941 %)Middleware
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (17.65 %)SharePoint Server 2007
23 (8.824 %)CMS
32 (5.882 %)SharePoint
32 (5.882 %)Drupal
32 (5.882 %)Joomla!
41 (2.941 %)WordPress
41 (2.941 %)Magento
41 (2.941 %)Moodle
41 (2.941 %)Apache
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
110 (29.41 %)Photoshop
28 (23.53 %)Adobe Illustrator
33 (8.824 %)Fireworks
41 (2.941 %)InfoPath
41 (2.941 %)MS Office
41 (2.941 %)MS Visio
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (2.941 %)Intranet
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
18 (23.53 %)SQL Server
22 (5.882 %)MySQL
22 (5.882 %)DTS
22 (5.882 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
22 (5.882 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
22 (5.882 %)SQL Server Integration Services
22 (5.882 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
31 (2.941 %)Crystal Reports
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (17.65 %)Dreamweaver
23 (8.824 %)Visual Studio
31 (2.941 %)JMeter
31 (2.941 %)LoadRunner
North West IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (14.71 %)Government
24 (11.76 %)Health
32 (5.882 %)Marketing
41 (2.941 %)Social Media
41 (2.941 %)Graphic Design
41 (2.941 %)Retail
41 (2.941 %)Advertising
41 (2.941 %)Publishing
41 (2.941 %)Education
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
122 (64.71 %)Designer
214 (41.18 %)Web Designer
311 (32.35 %)Developer
45 (14.71 %)UI Designer
54 (11.76 %)CSS Developer
62 (5.882 %)Business Analyst
62 (5.882 %)Analyst
62 (5.882 %)Web Developer
62 (5.882 %)Interface Designer
71 (2.941 %)Front-End Developer
71 (2.941 %)User Experience Designer
71 (2.941 %)Functional Tester
71 (2.941 %)Non-Functional Tester
71 (2.941 %)Interactive Designer
71 (2.941 %)Web Editor
71 (2.941 %)SharePoint Developer
71 (2.941 %)PHP Developer
71 (2.941 %)HTML Developer
71 (2.941 %)Graphic Designer
71 (2.941 %)Performance Tester
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (14.71 %)W3C
23 (8.824 %)Web 2.0
23 (8.824 %)Management Information System
32 (5.882 %)NHS
41 (2.941 %)Open Source
41 (2.941 %)Computer Science
41 (2.941 %)Blog
41 (2.941 %)Social Network
41 (2.941 %)E-Learning
41 (2.941 %)N-Tier
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
18 (23.53 %)Web Accessibility
27 (20.59 %)Knowledge Management
36 (17.65 %)Web Development
45 (14.71 %)E-Commerce
54 (11.76 %)PRINCE2
54 (11.76 %)Data Modelling
63 (8.824 %)Information Architecture
63 (8.824 %)Use Case
63 (8.824 %)Business Analysis
63 (8.824 %)Content Management
63 (8.824 %)Workflow
72 (5.882 %)GAP Analysis
72 (5.882 %)Migration
72 (5.882 %)OO
72 (5.882 %)ITIL
72 (5.882 %)Agile Software Development
72 (5.882 %)Business Process Improvement
81 (2.941 %)Time Management
81 (2.941 %)Performance Testing
81 (2.941 %)Email Marketing
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112 (35.29 %)JavaScript
29 (26.47 %)SQL
38 (23.53 %)T-SQL
47 (20.59 %)XPath
56 (17.65 %)VB.NET
56 (17.65 %)C#
56 (17.65 %)XQuery
63 (8.824 %)C
72 (5.882 %)PHP
81 (2.941 %)PHP5
81 (2.941 %)PHP4
81 (2.941 %)ActionScript
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (5.882 %)Degree
21 (2.941 %)ISEB
North West IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16 (17.65 %)Adobe
21 (2.941 %)Oracle
21 (2.941 %)Microsoft
21 (2.941 %)HP