The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Developer
Rank 56 77 64
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Web Developer 14 4 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.687% 0.376% 1.514%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.835% 0.411% 1.717%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
Average daily rate £300 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +5.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £20.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+75.00% -28.57%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
763 974 932
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.93% 91.54% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 323 416
Average daily rate £375 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £215 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 55 39
Average hourly rate £17.50 £15.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.00 £10.34
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £20.40 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Web Developer
Berkshire

Web Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Web Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Web Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Web Developer Daily Rate Trend

Web Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Web Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Web Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 17 (85.00%) CSS
2 14 (70.00%) HTML
3 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (60.00%) jQuery
4 11 (55.00%) CMS
5 8 (40.00%) Content Management
5 8 (40.00%) .NET
6 7 (35.00%) Ajax
7 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
7 6 (30.00%) XML
7 6 (30.00%) HTML5
8 5 (25.00%) Web Development
8 5 (25.00%) CSS3
8 5 (25.00%) Web Services
8 5 (25.00%) Perl
8 5 (25.00%) PHP
8 5 (25.00%) C#
8 5 (25.00%) MVC
8 5 (25.00%) Scrum
9 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (20.00%) Photoshop
9 4 (20.00%) JSP
9 4 (20.00%) OO
9 4 (20.00%) W3C
9 4 (20.00%) Dreamweaver
9 4 (20.00%) Adobe
9 4 (20.00%) Marketing
9 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (20.00%) Japanese Language
9 4 (20.00%) Korean Language

Web Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 17 (85.00%) CSS
2 14 (70.00%) HTML
3 12 (60.00%) jQuery
4 8 (40.00%) .NET
5 7 (35.00%) Ajax
6 6 (30.00%) ASP.NET
6 6 (30.00%) XML
6 6 (30.00%) HTML5
7 5 (25.00%) Web Services
7 5 (25.00%) CSS3
8 4 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (20.00%) JSP
9 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
9 3 (15.00%) JSON
9 3 (15.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (15.00%) REST
10 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 2 (10.00%) Sencha Touch
10 2 (10.00%) KnockoutJS
10 2 (10.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 11 (55.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.000%) Joomla!
2 1 (5.000%) Drupal
2 1 (5.000%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) MySQL
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.000%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.000%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (10.00%) Subversion
2 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.000%) WatiN
3 1 (5.000%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (20.00%) Marketing
1 4 (20.00%) Japanese Language
1 4 (20.00%) Korean Language
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Advertising
3 2 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) W3C
2 2 (10.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (10.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.000%) Open Source
3 1 (5.000%) Digital Media
3 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.000%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Content Management
2 5 (25.00%) Web Development
2 5 (25.00%) MVC
2 5 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (15.00%) TDD
5 2 (10.00%) Web Application Development
6 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing
6 1 (5.000%) Time Management
6 1 (5.000%) Kanban
6 1 (5.000%) BDD
6 1 (5.000%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.000%) Web Design
6 1 (5.000%) CMMI
6 1 (5.000%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) Perl
2 5 (25.00%) PHP
2 5 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.000%) VB
5 1 (5.000%) Python
5 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.000%) Ruby
5 1 (5.000%) Scala
5 1 (5.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Adobe
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Sencha
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle
3 1 (5.000%) Mapinfo
3 1 (5.000%) ESRI
3 1 (5.000%) Greenplum