The first table below looks at the demand for Web Development 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 Development over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Processes & Methodologies 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Development
Rank 86 89 96
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +7
Contract jobs citing Web Development 32 40 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.365% 1.281% 1.000%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.923% 2.078% 1.539%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 13
Average daily rate £250 £309 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.02% +2.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £263 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £372 £383 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £314 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.58% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
Average hourly rate £77.50 £20.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+287.50% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £20.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year
+62.50% -47.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1664 1925 2014
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.99% 61.66% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 991 1044
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 84 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.35 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.47 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Web Development
England

Web Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Web Development Jobs Demand Trend

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Web Development Daily Rate Trend

Web Development
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Development across the North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West Web Development Daily Rate Histogram

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Web Development Hourly Rate Trend

Web Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheshire +8 15 £250 -12.28%
Manchester +10 13 £275 -17.29%
Merseyside -3 2 - -
Lancashire +11 1 - -
Web Development
England

Web Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Web Development 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 Development.

1 36 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 35 (43.75%) PHP
3 32 (40.00%) CSS
4 27 (33.75%) .NET
4 27 (33.75%) jQuery
5 24 (30.00%) ASP.NET
6 23 (28.75%) C#
7 20 (25.00%) Telecoms
7 20 (25.00%) Drupal
8 19 (23.75%) Knowledge Management
8 19 (23.75%) SQL
9 17 (21.25%) HTML5
9 17 (21.25%) Java
10 16 (20.00%) SQL Server
10 16 (20.00%) XML
10 16 (20.00%) MVC
11 13 (16.25%) Web Services
11 13 (16.25%) Windows
11 13 (16.25%) E-Commerce
12 12 (15.00%) HTML
13 10 (12.50%) CMS
13 10 (12.50%) XSLT
13 10 (12.50%) Mobile App
14 9 (11.25%) CSS3
14 9 (11.25%) WordPress
14 9 (11.25%) Agile Software Development
15 8 (10.00%) OO
15 8 (10.00%) MySQL
15 8 (10.00%) VB.NET
15 8 (10.00%) XPath

Web Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Web Development 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 Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (40.00%) CSS
2 27 (33.75%) .NET
2 27 (33.75%) jQuery
3 24 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 17 (21.25%) HTML5
5 16 (20.00%) XML
6 13 (16.25%) Web Services
7 12 (15.00%) HTML
8 10 (12.50%) XSLT
9 9 (11.25%) CSS3
10 7 (8.750%) JSON
10 7 (8.750%) WCF
10 7 (8.750%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (8.750%) XSD
10 7 (8.750%) XHTML
11 6 (7.500%) Ajax
12 5 (6.250%) Razor View Engine
12 5 (6.250%) Google Maps API
12 5 (6.250%) CodeIgniter
12 5 (6.250%) CakePHP
Application Platforms
1 20 (25.00%) Drupal
2 10 (12.50%) CMS
3 9 (11.25%) WordPress
4 6 (7.500%) Umbraco
5 3 (3.750%) Jadu
6 2 (2.500%) Apache
6 2 (2.500%) Magento
6 2 (2.500%) ESB
7 1 (1.250%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (1.250%) Joomla!
7 1 (1.250%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.250%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.750%) MS Excel
1 3 (3.750%) InfoPath
2 1 (1.250%) Office 365
2 1 (1.250%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.500%) HTTP
2 1 (1.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.00%) MySQL
3 5 (6.250%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.750%) SQLite
4 3 (3.750%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.500%) DB2
5 2 (2.500%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (2.500%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (2.500%) CouchDB
5 2 (2.500%) QlikView
5 2 (2.500%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (2.500%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (8.750%) Git (software)
1 7 (8.750%) NetBeans
2 6 (7.500%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.750%) Subversion
4 2 (2.500%) Ant
4 2 (2.500%) JUnit
4 2 (2.500%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.500%) PHPUnit
4 2 (2.500%) QUnit
5 1 (1.250%) JIRA
5 1 (1.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 20 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.750%) Retail
2 3 (3.750%) Finance
3 2 (2.500%) Back Office
3 2 (2.500%) Banking
4 1 (1.250%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.250%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 67 (83.75%) Developer
2 22 (27.50%) .NET Developer
3 19 (23.75%) Drupal Developer
4 18 (22.50%) PHP Drupal Developer
5 15 (18.75%) Web Developer
6 12 (15.00%) ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (11.25%) Analyst
8 6 (7.500%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.000%) Applications Developer
9 4 (5.000%) Web Applications Developer
9 4 (5.000%) .NET Web Developer
9 4 (5.000%) Business Analyst
10 3 (3.750%) .NET Applications Developer
10 3 (3.750%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (3.750%) C# Developer
11 2 (2.500%) J2EE Developer
11 2 (2.500%) VB.NET Developer
11 2 (2.500%) Junior Developer
11 2 (2.500%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.500%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.500%) BBC
2 2 (2.500%) Smartphone
2 2 (2.500%) NHS
2 2 (2.500%) Open Source
2 2 (2.500%) iPhone
2 2 (2.500%) Semantic Web
2 2 (2.500%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.500%) Linked Data
3 1 (1.250%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.250%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.250%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.25%) Windows
2 6 (7.500%) Linux
3 5 (6.250%) Android
3 5 (6.250%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.750%) Windows CE
5 2 (2.500%) AIX
5 2 (2.500%) Solaris
5 2 (2.500%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.75%) Knowledge Management
2 16 (20.00%) MVC
3 13 (16.25%) E-Commerce
4 9 (11.25%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (10.00%) OO
6 7 (8.750%) Content Management
7 6 (7.500%) OOD
8 5 (6.250%) Business Development
8 5 (6.250%) SEO
9 4 (5.000%) TDD
9 4 (5.000%) Unit Testing
9 4 (5.000%) Web Application Development
10 3 (3.750%) CRM
10 3 (3.750%) Data Analysis
10 3 (3.750%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (2.500%) Web Design
11 2 (2.500%) Scrum
11 2 (2.500%) Regression Testing
11 2 (2.500%) Test-First Development
11 2 (2.500%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 36 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 35 (43.75%) PHP
3 23 (28.75%) C#
4 19 (23.75%) SQL
5 17 (21.25%) Java
6 8 (10.00%) VB.NET
6 8 (10.00%) XPath
7 3 (3.750%) C
7 3 (3.750%) C++
8 2 (2.500%) Objective-C
8 2 (2.500%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.250%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.250%) Degree
2 3 (3.750%) PhD
3 2 (2.500%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.500%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (8.750%) Zend
1 7 (8.750%) Oracle
2 6 (7.500%) Twitter
3 5 (6.250%) Facebook
3 5 (6.250%) Google
4 3 (3.750%) Adobe
4 3 (3.750%) Orchard
5 2 (2.500%) Endeca
5 2 (2.500%) HP
5 2 (2.500%) Apple
5 2 (2.500%) IBM
5 2 (2.500%) Microsoft
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